Recent Publications
In the Department of History
Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature
Book edited by Allan L. Berger and Lucas Wilson. Published August 2023.
Brazilian Independence
Journal article by Hendrik Kraay. Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press. Published July 2023.
Essa pobre terra cheia de contradições’: Escravizados, africanos e afrodescendentes na festa do 2 de Julho, 1824-1888
Book chapter by Hendrik Kraay. Published July 2023.
“I was a prisoner. Jew. Whore”: Inherited Sexualized Trauma in Sonia Pilcer’s The Holocaust Kid
Journal article by Alex M. Anderson, Lucas Wilson. Published July 2023.
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South Achievements and New Opportunities
Journal article by Frank Towers. Published June 2023.
"Remember, my house it’s also your house too": Survivor-Family Homes as Postmemorial Structures in Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Journal article by Lucas Wilson. Published March 2023.
Murder, Death, and Suicide at the Zoo: Revisiting Anthropomorphic Stories of Quebec’s Captive Polar Bears, 1936–58
Journal article by George Colpitts. Published February 2023.
Sustaining the Confederacy: Informal Diplomacy, Anglo-Confederate Relations, and Blockade-Running in the Bahamas
Journal article by Beau Cleland. Published February 2023.
Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America
Book edited by Jewel Spangler and Frank Towers. Contributions by Beau Cleland, Jewel Spangler, Frank Towers. Published January 2023.
Ambitions for Leadership: Latin American Responses to Mexican Labor’s Role in the Founding of the Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina
Journal article by Amelia Kiddle. Published December 2022.
A monarquia luso-brasileira na visão de um vendeiro, 1808-1828 [The Luso-Brazilian monarchy as seen by a shopkeeper, 1808-1828]
Book chapter by Hendrik Kraay. Published December 2022.
Protestant Liberty: Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828–1878
Book by James Forbes. Published December 2022.
O Tenente-Coronel Francisco Xavier Bigode (1772-1838) e a Independência na Bahia, [Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Xavier Bigode (1772-1838) and Independence in Bahia]
Journal article by Hendrik Kraay. Published December 2022.
Escravos, índios e as ‘classes de cor: a participação popular na Independência [Slaves, Indians, and the ‘Classes of Color’: popular participation in Independence]
Book chapter by Hendrik Kraay. Published November 2022.
EU-US and EU-Canada Energy Relations
Book chapter by Petra Dolata. Published October 2022.
African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Book edited by Timothy Stapleton. Contributions by Alexander Hill and Quentin Holbert. Published November 2022.
What Nudism Exposes: An Unconventional History of Postwar Canada
Book by Mary-Ann Shantz. Published October 2022.
The Animal Anti-Cruelty Movement and the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1919 – 1939
Book chapter by George Colpitts. Published October 2022.
Canada, the EU and energy security: a historical perspective
Journal article by Petra Dolata. Published September 2022.
Peasant Wars in Bolivia: Making, Thinking, and Living the Revolution in Cochabamba (1952-64)
Book by José Gordillo. Published September 2022.
Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Book edited by Ken MacMillan. Published September 2022.
Modern African Conflicts: An Encyclopedia of Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Terrorism
Book by Timothy Stapleton. Published June 2022.
Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes
Book by Harvey Amani Whitfield. Published March 2022.
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day
Book by Joshua Sanborn and Annette Timm. Published February 2022.
The Costs of Silencing Holocaust Victims: Why We Must Add Sexual Violence to Our Definition of Genocide
Book chapter by Annette Timm. Published January 2022.
West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860-1960
Book by Timothy Stapleton. Published December 2021.
A History of Africa
Book edited by Toyin Falola and Timothy Stapleton. Published December 2021.
Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath
Book chapter by Frank Towers. Published November 2021.
Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840
Book by Lyndsay Campbell. Published December 2021.
This monograph is the first ever joint imprint of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the American Society for Legal History’s Studies in Legal History series.
The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History
Book by Alexander Hill. Published November 2021.
Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History
Book by Amelia Kiddle. Published October 2021.
Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana: South Africa’s First Black Parliamentarian
Book chapter by Timothy Stapleton. Published September 2021.
Bison and Bookkeeping: Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts
Book chapter by George Colpitts. Published July 2021.
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil
Book edited by Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho, and Teresa Cribelli. Released April 2021. Chapter eight is also written by Hendrik Kraay.
The editors presented the book at the Núcleo de Estudos da Edição, Literatura e Imprensa, UNICAMP, Brazil. Link to the recording of this event (in Portuguese) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5g1bK6nVQ
Sexual Health in Britain’s West African Colonial Army (1898-1960)
Journal article by Timothy Stapleton. Published July 2021.
The “Abolition Riot” Redux: Voices, Processes
Journal article by Lyndsay Campbell. Published April 2021.
Complex Agency in the Great Acceleration: Women and Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area after 1945
Book chapter by Petra Dolata. Published July 2021.
Sustainability in the Anthropocene: From Forests to the Globe
Book chapter by Petra Dolata. Published May 2021.
Brazil’s Historians in North America, 1980-2019: A Survey of Their Careers
Journal Article by Hendrik Kraay. Released March 2021.
Understanding the Recent History of Energy Security in the Arctic
Book chapter by Petra Dolata. Published February 2021.
Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories
A four-way authored book by Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, Michael Thomas Taylor, and Annette F. Timm, tracking the transmission of knowledge about transsexuality from Germany to the United States through the stories of trans individuals and key sexologists. Winner of “Outstanding Academic Title” award from Choice – the official publication of the American Library Association – 2022.
Special Issue on Conservatism in the Civil War North
Journal co-edited by Frank Towers and Andrew Wiley in Civil War History, September 2020.
Death and Disorder: A History of Early Modern England, 1485–1690
New Book Published by Ken MacMillan
Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Journal publication by Courtnay Konshuh in The Land of the English Kin, Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke. Released April 2020.
Remaking of North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s
Book co-edited by Frank Towers and Jewel Spangler.
Bystander Interventions and Literary Portrayals: White Slaves in Brazil, 1850s-1880s
Article by Hendrik Kraay in Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back
New Book Co-Edited by Lyndsay Campbell
Imagining the Sudan in British Film, 1925–53
Article by Zach Bates, PhD Candidate in Journal of British Cinema and Television
The Most Beautiful Face of Socialism’: Katarina Witt and the Sexual Politics of Sport in the Cold War
Contribution by Annette Timm in The Whole World was Watching: Sport in Cold War
Tripwires and Whisky Tenors: Student-Faculty Relationships in Alberta’s Normal Schools During the 1930s
Article by Shawn Brackett, PhD Candidate, in Historical Studies in Education Journal
The History of Medicine and Healthcare: Selected Papers
Book edited by Lesley Bolton, William J. Pratt, and Frank W. Stahnisch. Released March 2021.
Creating the Future of Health: The History of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, 1967-2012
Book by Robert Lampard, David B. Hogan, Frank W. Stahnisch, and James R. Wright Jr. Published February 2021.
Bedside and Community: 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary
Book edited by by Diana J. Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch, and Paula Larsson. Published February 2020.
A New Field in Mind A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences
Book written by Frank W. Stahnisch. Published March 2020.
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond
Book edited by edited by Frank W. Stahnisch and Erna Kurbegović. Published July 2020.
Selected Papers on the History of Medicine and Healthcare (2014)
Book edited by William J. Pratt, Lesley Bolton, and Frank W. Stahnisch. Released November 2019. "Sebastian K. Littmann (1931-1986): A Pioneering Advocate of Family and Community Psychiatry in North America" is also co-written by Frank W. Stahnisch.
Read Dr. Stapleton's blog on the publisher's website
Treaty 6 Cree Annuity Spending in the Territorial Economy of Western Canada, 1873–1905
Journal article by George Colpitts. Published 2020.
Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap and Northern Canadian Modernism at Pelican Narrows, 1924
Book chapter by George Colpitts. Published 2020.
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Book by George Colpitts. Published 2015.