selected scholarly activity
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books
- Left Transnationalism The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions 2020
- Radical Ambition The New Left in Toronto 2019
- The Vimy Trap or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War 2017
- Warrior Nation Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety 2013
- In the province of history: The making of the public past in twentieth-century Nova Scotia 2010
- The quest of the folk, CLS edition: Antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia 2009
- Rebels, Reds, Radicals Rethinking Canada's Left History 2005
- For a working-class culture in Canada a selection of Colin McKay's writings on sociology and political economy, 1897-1939 1996
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chapters
- Cashing in on antiquity: Tourism and the uses of history in Nova Scotia, 1890–1960. 454-490. 2012
- Canada as a long liberal revolution: On writing the history of actually existing Canadian liberalisms, 1840s–1940s. 347-452. 2009
- The liberal order framework: A prospectus for a reconnaissance of Canadian history. 617-645. 2009
- ‘The liberal order framework: A prospectus for a reconnaissance of Canadian history,’ reproduction of Canadian historical review 81 (2000): 617–45. 35-63. 2009
- Helen Creighton and the Politics of Antimodernism. 1-16. 1993
- [with Josh Cole], “Concluding Analysis: Turning the Problem on Its Head—Looking to New Critical Directions,” in Rosa Bruno-Jofré, ed., Educationalization and its Complexities: Religion, Politics and Technology (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), 335-351.
- “Beyond the Old Dichotomies to a New History of Capitalism: An Appreciative Critique of Robert Sweeny,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 28, 2 (2017), 90-101.
- “Eine pittoreske Graumaskeit: Tourismus/Geschichte in Kanada und die Erzählung von Evangeline (ca. 1840-1960) [“A Picturesque Atrocity: Canadian Tourism/History and the Romance of Evangeline, 1840s-1960s”], in Angela Schwarz and Daniela Mysliwietz-Fleis, Reisen in die Vergangenheit (Cologne: Bölau Verlag GmbH & Cie, 2019), 263-282.
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conferences
- Henri Gagnon, Tim Buck, Stanley Ryerson, and the Contested Legacy of the Comintern on the National Question The Crisis of French-Canadian Communism in the 1940s. LEFT TRANSNATIONALISM: THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE NATIONAL, COLONIAL, AND RACIAL QUESTIONS. 360-386. 2019
- Left Transnationalism? The Communist International, the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions, and the Strengths and Limitations of the "Moscow Rules" Paradigm. LEFT TRANSNATIONALISM: THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE NATIONAL, COLONIAL, AND RACIAL QUESTIONS. 3-45. 2019
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journal articles
- The Organic Crisis of a Colonised State: Bulgaria in the Eye of the Pandemic, 2020–2022. Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power. 3:3-37. 2023
- Organic Crisis, Integral State, Passive Revolution: Twilight of the Neoliberal Order?. Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power. 1:62-95. 2021
- The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History. Canadian Historical Review, The. 102:s1133-s1158. 2021
- A Pandemic’s Punitive Pedagogy: Education and the Organic Crisis of the Global Neoliberal Order. Encounters on Education. 22:7-40. 2021
- Race, White Settler Liberalism, and the Nova Scotia Archives, 1931-1976. Acadiensis. 49:5-33. 2020
- The "Morals of Genealogy": Liberal Settler Colonialism, the Nova Scotia Archives, and the North American Ancestor-Hunters, 1890-1980. Acadiensis. 48:43-89. 2019
- Liberty, Equality and Tourism: D. C. Harvey, Prince Edward Island, and the Power of Tourism/History, 1931–1956. Histoire Sociale. 49:263-287. 2016
- Liberalism: Contradictions and counterhistories. Capital & Class. 38:603-609. 2014
- Escaping the Throne Room. Historical Materialism. 22:63-98. 2014
- Growing to One World: The Life of J. King Gordon. Canadian Historical Review, The. 95:484-486. 2014
- Extended book review: Gramsci’s Political Thought, by Carlos Nelson Coutinho and Gramsci: Du libéralisme au ‘communisme critique’ by Domenico Losurdo. Capital & Class. 38:455-462. 2014
- Stephen Lyon Endicott. Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930–1936.. American Historical Review. 118:1509-1510. 2013
- Feature review: Our awkward ancestors: Trotsky, Gramsci and the challenge of reconnaissance. Capital & Class. 34:509-530. 2010
- The Canadian passive revolution, 1840-1950. Capital & Class. 34:361-381. 2010
- Insiders and Outsiders: Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship (review). Canadian Historical Review, The. 87:137-138. 2006
- A Little History of Canada (review). Canadian Historical Review, The. 86:547-548. 2005
- 'Writing the wrongs': Eva Valesh and the rise of labour journalism.. Histoire Sociale. 37:112-114. 2004
- Passing into the future. History, memory and identity in contemporary Quebec. Histoire Sociale. 35:260-262. 2002
- Le cas Spencer: Religion, science et politique. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 38:201-202. 2002
- FRIESEN, Gerald, Citizens and Nation. An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000), 307 p.. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 55:617-617. 2002
- The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History. Canadian Historical Review, The. 81:616-678. 2000
- After Canada: On amnesia and apocalypse in the contemporary crisis. Acadiensis. 28:76-97. 1998
- Cynicism and postmodernity. Labour. 313-314. 1998
- Of Karl Marx and the Bluenose: Colin Campbell McKay and the legacy of maritime Socialism. Acadiensis. 27:3-25. 1998
- Changing the Subject(s) of the "History of Canadian Sociology": The Case of Colin McKay and Spencerian Marxism, 1890-1940. Canadian Journal of Sociology. 23:389-389. 1998
- The Tancook Schooners: An Island and Its Boats.. American Historical Review. 101:596-596. 1996
- Helen Creighton and the Art of Being Nova Scotian. New Maritimes. 12:12-22. 1993
- HISTORY AND THE TOURIST GAZE - THE POLITICS OF COMMEMORATION IN NOVA-SCOTIA, 1935-1964. Acadiensis. 22:102-138. 1993
- PATRIOTISM - THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF BRITISH NATIONAL IDENTITY, VOL 1, HISTORY AND POLITICS, VOL 2, MINORITIES AND OUTSIDERS, VOL 3, NATIONAL FICTIONS - SAMUEL,R. Labour. 285-294. 1991
- WHATS-A-COAL-MINER-TO-DO - THE MECHANIZATION OF COAL-MINING - DIX,K. Labour. 201-203. 1990
- Among the Fisherfolk: J.F.B. Livesay and the Invention of Peggy’s Cove. Journal of Canadian Studies. 23:23-45. 1988
- AMONG THE FISHERFOLK + NOVA-SCOTIA - LIVESAY,J.F.B. AND THE INVENTION OF PEGGYS-COVE. Journal of Canadian Studies. 23:23-45. 1988
- ON THE JOB - CONFRONTING THE LABOR PROCESS IN CANADA - HERON,C, STOREY,R. Canadian Historical Review, The. 68:497-499. 1987
- THE MINERS OF DECAZEVILLE - A GENEALOGY OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION - REID,D. Labour. 221-228. 1987
- REFORMERS, REBELS, AND REVOLUTIONARIES - WESTERN CANADIAN RADICAL MOVEMENT, 1899-1919 - MCCORMACK,AR. Labor History. 20:304-306. 1979
- For a new kind of history: A reconnaissance of 100 years of Canadian socialism. Labour. 69-125.
- TARTANISM TRIUMPHANT - THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCOTTISHNESS IN NOVA-SCOTIA, 1933-1954. Acadiensis. 21:5-47.