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These captivating reflections on the history of our environment and ourselves will make you think differently not only about Canada's past but also about our future.

This is the remarkable story, told by a key insider, about Vancouver's dramatic transformation from a typical mid-sized North American city into an inspiring world-class metropolis celebrated for its liveability, sustainability, and vibrancy.

This long-overdue account of the suffrage campaigns in the first region to grant women the vote in Canada shatters cherished myths about how the West was won.

Exploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.

At the Bridge lifts from obscurity the story of James Teit (1864-1922), an outstanding Canadian ethnographer and Indian rights activist whose thoughtful scholarship and tireless organizing have been largely ignored.

What's Trending in Canadian Politics? explores the changing nature of political communication and democratic governance in a digital age.

Putting Family First challenges the conventional view of settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market, placing the family at the centre of the successful immigrant experience.

The first comprehensive analysis of the Canadian reference power, Seeking the Court's Advice examines how policy makers use the courts strategically to achieve political ends.

This illuminating account of the St. Catherine's case of the 1880s reveals the erroneous assumptions and racism inherent in judgments that would define the nature and character of Aboriginal title in Canadian law and policy for almost a century.

Through five diverse episodes of forced relocation across Canada, Moved by the State offers a new look at the power of the welfare state and the political culture of postwar Canada.

Do women do politics differently? By assessing the legacies of eleven women premiers, this groundbreaking volume answers a question that has been debated around the world since women first demanded the right to vote and hold public office.

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic and develop appropriate solutions.

This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.

Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komagata Maru incident.

Taking an original approach to the study of gender and political communication, this book examines how politicians, journalists, and citizens deploy intersecting notions of gender, sexuality, race, age, and class in Canadian politics.

Drawing on radical democratic theory and the ideas of political theorist Guy Debord, Rethinking the Spectacle examines the tension between spectacles and political agency in our digital society.

The New NDP traces the tumultuous shift in federal New Democratic Party's ideology and campaigning techniques in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

This book demonstrates why economic development is synonymous with institutional development for the furthering of human development issues.

This insightful collection untangles the paradox of mobilizing a Canadian contribution to Britain's imperial wars - and forging a national identity in the process.

Focusing on developments at the divisional level in Britain and Canada, The Empire on the Western Front casts a critical eye on how the British Empire transformed unseasoned volunteers into battle-ready soldiers for the Western Front.

Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance examines contested zones of global governance to understand state policy and market behaviour in the current era.

Delivering Policy explores how the tension between science and politics shaped the long and fraught path to Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act.

Saving the Nation through Culture tells the little-known story of how a group of Chinese scholars attempted to use "low culture" to promote national unity during a long period of crisis.

Indigenous People and Dementia brings together research and Indigenous knowledge on memory loss and memory care in later life to assist students, practitioners, and educators to decolonize their work with Indigenous peoples.

Incorporating Culture examines what happens when Indigenous people assert control over the commercialization of their art by instilling the market with their communities' values.

This fascinating account of Ontario's 1980s' censor wars shows that when art intersects with law, artists have the power to transform the law, and the law, in turn, can influence the concept of art.

A Queer Love Story chronicles the poignant, incisive exchanges and intimate friendship that developed between Jane Rule, lesbian novelist and essayist, and Rick Bebout, gay journalist and activist, as they reflected on and participated in the key issues and events that shaped LGBT communities in the '80s and '90s.

The first published collection devoted entirely to historical studies of Canadian masculinity, Making Men, Making History pushes the boundaries of what it has meant to be a man in Canada.

In the first Western language history of Liangshan, Joseph Lawson argues that the region was not inherently violent but made violent by turmoil elsewhere in China.

Researchers engaged in community-based participatory research share stories about their work with marginalized communities, offering insights and imparting valuable lessons that will inspire others doing research with an eye to social justice.