James Laxer is the award-winning author of more than
twenty-five books, including the #1 national bestseller Tecumseh
and Brock: The War of 1812, Stalking an Elephant: My Discovery of
America (published by the New Press in New York as Discovering
America), and The Border: Canada, the U.S., and Dispatches from the
Forty-Ninth Parallel. He is a professor of political science in the
Department of Equity Studies at York University. He lives in
Toronto.
This is a vast, formidable work by a writer with an imposing
collection of historical and political writings to his name.
*Publisher's Weekly*
Smart popular history . . . [Staking Claims To A Continent] adds
insight and texture to Laxer’s continuing tale of how a continent
of bickering, mutually suspicious European settlers created the
remarkably peaceable North America we enjoy today.
*Globe and Mail*
Laxer writes with enthusiasm . . . [His] contribution to this
narrative is to situate Canada more firmly within it. A worthy goal
and a terrific idea for a book.
*National Post*
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