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TRUDEAU’S DARKEST HOUR
War Measures in Time of Peace | October 1970
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15
Forty years ago in the middle of the night the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau proclaimed the War Measures Act following two political kidnappings by the FLQ. It thereby suspended the Constitution and all civil liberties, deployed 12,500 troops in Quebec—7,500 in Montreal alone— arrested 465 people without charges and detained them incommunicado without bail and without the…
ROADS TO RICHMOND
Portraits of Quebec's Eastern Townships
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15
“Richmond is easy to find on a map,” writes Nick Fonda. “Or at least the name is easy to find. There are at least fifty Richmonds worldwide and no fewer than four in Canada, of which two are in Quebec… The most frequent response when I mention Richmond is, ‘Oh, I know Richmond.’” Those people stand to be…
AN INDEPENDENT QUEBEC
The past, the present and the future
Anna Maria Tremonte interviews Jacques Parizeau on THE CURRENT (CBC)
“I am very pleased to see this book published in English,” declared Jacques Parizeau. “It has always been my belief that the best way for Quebecers and English-speaking Canadians to reach an understanding that is satisfactory for all is through direct communication. Though we may not agree on the best course…
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media
The Return of the Nigger Breakers
Now available
“Brilliant.” Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner.
Jill Nelson talks to Ishmael Reed in THE DEFENDERS ONLINE, organ of the NAACP legal defense fund.
For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men like Edward Covey, who was…
The Riot that Never Was
The military shooting of three Montrealers in 1832 and the official cover-up
“The Riot that Never Was provides a striking portrayal of mid-nineteenth-century Montreal: the vigorous debates that raged in Patriote and Conservative newspapers, the hot fighting during elections that often degenerated into open conflict between the Canadiens, the Irish, and the English, and the recurrent epidemics like the cholera epidemic in 1832. (…) Jackson brilliantly establishes the exact course of events…
Joseph Elzear Bernier 1852-1934
Champion of Canadian Arctic Sovereignty
One hundred years ago, on July 1, 1909, Captain Joseph-Elzear Bernier, his officers and crew erected a plaque on Melville Island in the Northwest Passage and laid claim to the entire Arctic Archipelago for Canada. It was the crowning moment in the life of a man identified as one of the 100 Great Canadian Achievers in 1967. Born in the…
A People’s History of Quebec
A People’s History of Quebec is a lively guide to a little-known part of North American history. It tells of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley, but also of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and embrothered the peoples they met. Based on meticulous research, Jacques Lacoursière and Robin…
America’s Gift
What the world owes to the Americas and their first inhabitants
The world was never the same after 1492. The encounter of two “old worlds” gave rise to a truly new world on both sides of the Atlantic. America’s Gift recalls the full significance of the contact made between Europe and the Americas, mistakenly called the “New World.” As Columbian intellectual German Arciniegas wrote: “From questions of astronomy to the food…
Saint-Laurent
Montreal's Main
The incomparable “Main” or Saint-Laurent Boulevard crosses the heart of Montreal from north to south. It has been a gateway for immigrants and the place where “solitudes” have met. Many social and cultural movements were born on the Main and continue to thrive and influence, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and beyond.
112 pages | 8 1/4 X 9 | Illustrations
Paper | S24.95…
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Forthcoming Fall 2010 – Portraits of Quebec’s Eastern Townships; 1970 War Measures Revisited; Discrimination in the NHL; You could lose an eye…
Baraka Books will launch four new titles in fall 2010. Dates and places of launches will be posted.
Roads to Richmond, Portraits of Quebec’s Eastern Townships
Nick Fonda (September 2010)
ISBN 978-1-926824-00-0; 188…
BARACK OBAMA AND THE JIM CROW MEDIA in the Media: Montreal Review of Books; The DEFENDERS online (NAACP); Montreal Gazette; KPFA Berkeley
The MONTREAL REVIEW OF BOOKS, summer edition, leads off with a long interview with Ishmael Reed as well as a video-taped interview recorded while he was in Montreal in April.
Jill…
“THE 1832 RIOT THAT NEVER HAPPENED — authorities overreacted” — The Montreal Gazette
“a fascinating new book…”
By John Kalbfleisch, The Gazette, May 24, 2010
“The Intention of the rioters may be ascertained by the cry which several gave of ‘Let us have their heart’s…