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The First Nations of British Columbia is a concise and accessible introduction to histories, cultures, and issues of the First Peoples of BC.

This book examines how political scientists apply diverse comparative strategies to better understand Canadian political life.

This timely volume explores how Canadian political institutions, the media, and citizens are adapting to a fast-evolving media environment and the effects this is having on Canadian democracy.

A close study of the judges appointed in early 20th-century Manitoba, revealing Canada's highly political judicial appointment process.

A study of the television dramas about government corruption that became hugely popular in the mid-1990s and their reflection of China's post-Socialist anxieties.

Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary "progressive" attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.

The story of the Franklin Motor Expedition that collected First Nations artifacts on the Prairies in 1929 as well as a larger study of the relationships between museums and the indigenous peoples whose heritage items they house.

The first of its kind, this book approaches the "democratic deficit" by assessing the performance of Parliament and the media in light of Canadians' perceptions and expectations of their democracy.

This book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest.

A landmark account of the background, motivations, and experiences of African Canadian volunteers in America's Civil War.

A compelling, highly readable study of American migration to the West Kootenays and of the counterculture values that created a vibrant society in the Canadian wilderness.

Rebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the 1960s.

Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.

A detailed account of the complex and contested process that resulted in the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia.

An engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi.

A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines.

An exploration of one little-known mineral, and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped both its history and the twentieth century.

Examines the limitations and dilemmas of government responses to religious diversity and how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.

A revealing look at the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project -- a megaproject that had a profound impact on North American history.

A history of the convergence of Western and Chinese medical practices in modern China.

This invaluable analysis of eighteen Lushootseed traditional stories includes interlinear grammatical analyses.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in adaptive co-management, where adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships that are reshaping environmental governance.

The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life.

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money's writing, to assess the profound impact of this pioneering sexologist's work on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.

This book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.

This volume re-examines 9/11's effect on North American security policy and international relations from a trilateral rather than a bilateral perspective.

This book examines how urbanization and pluralization are shaping the world's cities and what can be done to encourage integration and minimize ethnic and nationalist tensions.

An original and critical account of the evolution of the Canadian Army and Canada's relationship with NATO in the Cold War era.

This path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.