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  Planting Thistles

  Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada

  Timothy S. Forest

  Forest explores the motivations, misfires, and consequences of the state-sponsored and failed attempts to transplant Scottish crofters from the Outer Hebrides to British Columbia and the Prairies at the height of the Victorian age. This failure prompted colonizers to re-examine issues of religion, race, class, gender, Britishness, and modernity.

  (UBC Press, $125.00 Hardcover, 456 pages, ISBN: 978-07-74870-97-9)  

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  Targeting Libya

  How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens

  Owen Schalk

  Investigative journalist Schalk examines the influence of Canadian business and government actors in Libya, the rise and fall of Muammar Qadhafi, the SNC-Lavalin affair, and Libya’s ongoing instability, dismantling the myth of Canada as a neutral peacekeeper.

  (James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, $27.95 Paperback, 256 pages, ISBN: 978-14-59420-32-8)  

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