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Adele Perry

Adele Perry is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She was born and raised in a non-Indigenous family in British Columbia, did hard time in Toronto, and has lived in Winnipeg since 2000. She writes about the nineteenth century, gender, Canada, and colonialism, and is the author of On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (University of Toronto Press, 2001), Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World (Cambridge, 2015), and the co-editor of four editions of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History. With Esyllt Jones, she coordinated 2011's People's Citizenship Guide to Canada, published by ARP Books. You can find her on twitter at @AdelePerry.

Books by Adele Perry

Royally Wronged

The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples

edited by Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach & Adele Perry

Aqueduct

Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember

by (author) Adele Perry

Structures of Indifference

An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City

by (author) Mary Jane Logan McCallum & Adele Perry

Within and Without the Nation

Canadian History as Transnational History

edited by Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry & Henry Yu

Place and Replace

Essays on Western Canada

edited by Adele Perry, Esyllt W. Jones & Leah Morton

A People's Citizenship Guide

A Response to Conservative Canada

edited by Esyllt Jones & Adele Perry

Rethinking Canada

The Promise of Women's History

edited by Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers & Adele Perry

Rediscovering the British World

edited by Phillip Buckner
contributions by R. Douglas Francis, Phillip Bucker, Catherine Hall, James Belich, Elizabeth Elbourne, Paul Pickering, Douglas Lorimer, Bettina Bradburry, Adele Perry, Frank Bongiorno, Jeffrey Grey, Patrick H. Brennan, Paul Ward, John Lambert, Satadru Sen, Wendy Webster, R. Scott Sheffield, David Lowe, Stuart Macintyre & Stuart Ward

On the Edge of Empire

Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871

by (author) Adele Perry