Jun 11, 2015
Toronto's mishandling of a transformation
Daniel Francis
Is Toronto the centre of Canada? Does its transformation echo that of Canada's? Hmm, guess it depends on what city you're from! Read Vancouverite Daniel Francis' incisive review.
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Feb 15, 2013
Lincoln, Marx and the struggle against slavery
Derrick Morrison
Robin Blackburn introduces this collection of speeches, essays and correspondence, which includes the inaugural addresses of President Abraham Lincoln and the writings of Karl Marx.
Nov 15, 2012
Tecumseh & Brock: The antidote to Harper's War of 1812 propaganda
Derrick O'Keefe
To get past the War of 1812 myth-making to the real facts of history, a good start would be to turn off the vulgar, violent images on TV and pick up and read James Laxer's Tecumseh & Brock.
Sep 13, 2012
Michael Kluckner's new book examines a vanishing Vancouver
Kevin Hollett
In Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years, author Michael Kluckner pushes back, back in time and back against the disappearing city he clearly fell in love with.
Jul 12, 2012
Jason Kenney's summer reading: White Canada and the Komagata Maru
Matthew Behrens
As Parliament passes sweeping, repressive immigration legislation, Toronto filmmaker Ali Kazimi's timely book, Undesirables, should be required reading for Jason Kenney and his cohorts.
Apr 19, 2012
Confronting Canada's colonialist past
Al Engler
In Orienting Canada, John Price focuses on 20th century racism and on Canada's role as junior partner in British and U.S. imperialism.
Feb 16, 2012
Reflections on Germany's Red Army Faction
Stefan Christoff
Reading news reports on Germany over recent weeks in Montreal, often quick fix articles in the Globe and Mail, has been complemented by a heavy book: The Red Army Faction.
May 26, 2011
Witch hunts past and present
Jane Kirby
Authors Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich provide an overview of the repression and exclusion of women lay healers.
Oct 23, 2008
The making of a people
Jonathan Cook
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list — and that success has come to the history professor despite his book chall
Jun 5, 2008
Haiti's lost years
Stuart Neatby
Peter Hallward's new book is the first comprehensive account of how the international community helped orchestrate the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti, who the actors were in Haiti and internationally, wha
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