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During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life.

Translated from personal memoirs and diaries, this is a compelling story of Anthony Hlynka, the only sitting Member of Parliament of Ukrainian origin from 1940 to 1945.

Diane Payment has a long personal association with Batoche; her study is the culmination of thirty years of documentary and field research as a participant-observer within the community.

“My work as a scientist who studies bird parasites causes me to wonder about the hidden part of the drama unfolding before my eyes: the flying zoo that makes each bird what it is.

Translated from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southeastern Alberta.

This book fills a significant gap in the scholarship on the Mexican Revolution by providing a detailed history of the northeastern state of Coahuila from the late Portifirian era to 1920.

This well-paced narrative recounts the story of the great Sioux chief Sitting Bull's retreat into Canada after the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land.

Past, present or future--or somewhere beyond the reach of time... We grow older each day from the moment of birth to the moment of death.

Sam Steele, “the man who tamed the Gold Rush,” had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected.

On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.

Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico.

This collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy "re-inventing" itself.

Below the mist-shrouded mountains of the West Coast lie the stories of how we came to be.

Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves.