| Author | : Anton Treuer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780873519632 |
By fending off repeated assaults on their land and governance, the Ojibwe people of Red Lake have retained cultural identity and maintained traditional ways of life.
| Author | : Ian McKay |
| Publisher | : Between the Lines |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1926662776 |
Explores the ominous campaign to change a nation's definition of itself
| Author | : Michael Paris |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Boys as soldiers |
| ISBN | : 9781861890788 |
War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. Warrior Nation explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for political ends. To achieve national goals, the notion of war has been promoted as an activity of high adventure and chivalrous enterprise and as a rite of passage to manhood. Using a wide range of media, Michael Paris focuses on how war has been "sold" to boys and young men and examines the "warrior" as a masculine ideal.
| Author | : Philip Matyszak |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2017-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473874661 |
This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths. The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient Sparta was a city of contrasts. We might admire their physical toughness, but Spartans also systematically abused their children. They gave rights to female citizens that were unmatched in Europe until the modern era, meanwhile subjecting their conquered subject peoples to a murderous reign of terror. Though idealized by the Athenian contemporaries of Socrates, Sparta was almost devoid of intellectual achievement. In this revealing history of Spartan society, Philip Matyszak chronicles the rise of the city from a Peloponnesian village to the military superpower of Greece. Above all, Matyszak investigates the role of the Spartan hoplite, the archetypal Greek warrior who was feared throughout Greece in his own day and has since become a legend. The reader is shown the man behind the myth; who he was, who he thought he was, and the environment which produced him.
| Author | : Pamela Palmater |
| Publisher | : Fernwood Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1773632914 |
In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media headlines and government propaganda and get to heart of key issues lost in the noise. Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before. Palmater addresses a range of Indigenous issues — empty political promises, ongoing racism, sexualized genocide, government lawlessness, and the lie that is reconciliation — and makes the complex political and legal implications accessible to the public. From one of the most important, inspiring and fearless voices in Indigenous rights, decolonization, Canadian politics, social justice, earth justice and beyond, Warrior Life is an unflinching critique of the colonial project that is Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous peoples and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial future through resistance and resurgence.
| Author | : Ian McKay |
| Publisher | : Between the Lines |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2012-05-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1771130008 |
Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization. The tales cast a vivid light on a story that is crucial to Canada’s future; yet they are also compelling history. Swashbuckling marauder William Stairs, the Royal Military College graduate who helped make the Congo safe for European pillage. Vimy Ridge veteran and Second World War general Tommy Burns, leader of the UN’s first big peacekeeping operation, a soldier who would come to call imperialism the monster of the age. Governor General John Buchan, a concentration camp developer and race theorist who is exalted in the Harper government’s new Citizenship Guide. And that uniquely Canadian paradox, Lester Pearson. Warrior Nation is an essential read for those concerned by the relentless effort to conscript Canadian history.
| Author | : Paul VanDevelder |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2005-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780803296312 |
"A Civil Action" meets Indian country, as one man takes on the federal government and the largest boondoggle in U.S. history--and wins.
| Author | : Roger L. Nichols |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 9780806143828 |
"The author's purpose is to provide a broader analytical framework with which to study Native American wars. The endeavors to ascertain how it was that Natives and American settlers came to chose the military option as a way of dealing with one another during the century after the American Revolution. The other presents the work using a chronologically ordered series of chapter-length case studies, each devoted to a specific "Indian war.""--
| Author | : Philip Matyszak |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2018-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473874742 |
The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat. Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved social issues to bring down the nation—even as its warriors remained invincible on the battlefield. The Spartans believed their society was above the changes sweeping their world. And by resisting change, they were doomed to be overwhelmed by it. But the Spartans refused to accept total defeat, and for many years their city exercised influence far beyond its size and population. This is a chronicle of political failure—one rich in heroes, villains, epic battles and political skullduggery. But it is also a lesson in how to go down fighting. Even with the Roman legions set to overwhelm their city, the Spartans never gave up
