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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 Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics.
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.
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.
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.
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
An indispensable collection of state-of-the-art work in oral history by Canadian scholars.
How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.
A magisterial biography of a major Canadian and Quebec public intellectual.
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