For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti shows that collective acts of patriotism strengthened communal bonds, while...
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- Author:Marti, SteveSummary:
- Author:Groot, TracySummary:
A retelling of the Old Testament tale of Rahab the harlot that takes place in Nazi-occupied France. After American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down and harbored by the French Resistance, he figures prominently in a plan to...
- Author:Marti, Steve, Pratt, William JohnSummary:
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to re-examine their relationship to Britain...
- Author:Teitel, Amy ShiraSummary:
This is the mostly unknown tale of Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb--two accomplished aviatrixes, one generation apart, who each dreamed of being the first woman in space, but along the way battled their egos, their expectations, and...
- Author:Barr, Marleen S.Summary:
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
Traces the life of the Canadian author, describing his atypical childhood, difficult Army life, two marriages, volatile relationship with his father, leftist political views, and efforts as a naturalist and activist.
- Author:Gómez-Peña, GuillermoSummary:
Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries...
- Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary:
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- Author:Macintyre, BenSummary:
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude...
- Author:Albo, Greg, Evans, Bryan M.Summary:
No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the...
- Author:Prophète, EmmelieSummary:
Emmelie Prophète fait partie des générations de femmes auteures haïtiennes contemporaines comme Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, Edwidge Danticat. Extrait de la préface: « J'ai rencontré les poèmes dans la...
- Author:Barnes, TrevorSummary:
Based on newly-released archival material and inside sources from around the world, this book follows the hunt for the highly damaging Portland Spy Ring. The narrative, layered with false identities, deceptions, and betrayal,...
- Author:Quaife, Darlene A.Summary:
When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.
- Author:Diamant, AnitaSummary:
Diamant pens the tale of four women who flee Nazi Europe. Landing in a postwar British camp in Palestine, the women make extraordinary discoveries about themselves, humanity, and each other.
- Author:Mazower, MarkSummary:
- Author:Sewell, BillSummary:
Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting...
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.
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- Author:Kang, ZhengguoSummary: