Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977), Paul Robeson's first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics.
Harriet's Legacies articulates new critical terrain for the historic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman by recuperating the significance of Tubman's time in Canada as not just an interlude in her American narrative but another site for thinking about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories.
For the first generations of university women, higher education was a transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, University Women explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women's contested entrance into higher education.
Canada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900. The book demonstrates that Canadian cultural nationalism left its mark on both countries. Contemporary decolonization movements in Canada and cultural exchanges between Ireland and Indigenous peoples make this a timely study.
A wide-ranging study of the politicizing effects of social program participation, Take a Number introduces a compelling new dimension to our understanding of why some citizens are politically active while others remain quiescent.
When The Practice of Cookery first appeared in Edinburgh and London editions in 1829, reviewers hailed it as one of the best cookbooks available. Both a history of the seminal cookbook and a guide for readers and cooks today, Mrs Dalgairns's Kitchen offers an intimate look at the tastes and smells of an early nineteenth-century kitchen.
The definitive history of the African-Canadian experience, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution adds a necessary critical lens through which twenty-first-century readers should view Winks's research.
The everyday struggles of war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. This book highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts.
Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays about Canada and its land, peoples, politics, and literature, spanning her writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s.
The untold history of how Ottawa tackled fiscal inequalities among the resentful provinces.
An examination of mobility, inequality, and the unfolding of lives on three continents during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A classic work, first published in 1922 and now back in print, presents a unique account of life at the front.
An exploration of state records and the forgotten people of Upper Canada.
An indispensable collection of state-of-the-art work in oral history by Canadian scholars.
The first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of Canada
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