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All ebooks by U of R Press in PDF and EPUB


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After the Holocaust


Charlotte Schallié , Helga Thorson , Andrea Van Noord


After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust to tackle the changing face of Holocaust and human rights education in the 21st century. The collected voices draw on...

Publication date: 2020-10-17
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Publisher: U of R Press
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Arrows in a Quiver


James Frideres


In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people....

Publication date: 2019-11-23
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Publisher: U of R Press
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American Refugees


Rita Shelton Deverell


When it became clear that Donald Trump would become the new US president on election night in 2016, the website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada crashed. It was overwhelmed by Americans afraid that the United States would once again enter a period of intolerance...

Publication date: 2019-04-13
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Publisher: U of R Press
Collection: The Regina Collection
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Where Once They Stood


Melvin Baker , Raymond B. Blake


Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948...

Publication date: 2019-03-16
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Publisher: U of R Press
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No Surrender


Sheldon Krasowski


Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous...

Publication date: 2019-02-16
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Publisher: U of R Press
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The Prairie Populist


J.F. Conway


The populist who mobilized farmers to support a socialist platform, George Hara Williams was undermined by Tommy Douglas and M.J. Coldwell just as Saskatchewan’s CCF was on the threshold of power. “There are few people more attuned to the history of the populist...

Publication date: 2018-05-19
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Publisher: U of R Press
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Drought and Depression


Gregory P. Marchildon


The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Canadian Prairies. It was a region in the grips of an environmental disaster made even worse by the economic effects of the Depression. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes fell by half...

Publication date: 2018-04-28
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Publisher: U of R Press
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Mapmaker


Barbara Mitchell


As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps,...

Publication date: 2017-10-07
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Publisher: U of R Press
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Mapmaker


Barbara Mitchell


As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps,...

Publication date: 2017-10-07
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Publisher: U of R Press
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Being Kurdish in a Hostile World


Ayub Nuri


In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of starvation that followed the...

Publication date: 2017-09-16
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Publisher: U of R Press
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On the Frontier


William Wallace


First published more than twenty years ago as My Dear Maggie, this new edition of William Wallace's letters home to England provides rare documentation of the earliest days of settlement in the West. The correspondence conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage...

Publication date: 2015-10-15
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Publisher: U of R Press
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Frontier Farewell


Garrett Wilson


The return of a classic, with a new introduction by Candace Savage. Frontier Farewell has been deemed "gracefully written" and "fully and meticulously researched," by Sharon Butala, while Canadian History Magazine called it "a great read that shatters the mythology...

Publication date: 2014-12-08
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Clearing the Plains


James Daschuk


In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir...

Publication date: 2014-08-01
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Publisher: U of R Press
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