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Based on case studies of three self-government negotiations in the Northwest Territories, Finding Dahshaa is the first ethnographic study of the negotiation of self-government in Canada.

This book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities - Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.

This is the forty-fifth volume of The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, the first volume of which was published in 1963.

By exposing the details of the Dundas Square area in Toronto, this book shows how city planners can be overwhelmed by the machinations of money and power, and why the planning field is ill-equipped to find creative solutions for post-industrial problems.

This book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.

The letters of Lance-Corporal George Timmins, who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, offer a rare glimpse into the life and relationships, at home and abroad, of an ordinary Canadian soldier.

This path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.

This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.

This path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.

The first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War.

From Pride to Influence brings Canadian foreign policy into the twenty-first century.

Pearson's Peacekeepers describes Canada's role in the first peacekeeping effort mounted by the UN and uncovers realities, and challenges, that lie beneath the myth of Canada's peacekeeping mission.

Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.

This comprehensive exploration of the origins and development of family allowances offers inventive insights into Canada's welfare state and social policy over the past half century.

This book asks whether the doors to women's participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

This book critically examines the commercialization of today's universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.

Offers a perspective on Aboriginal title and land rights that extends beyond national borders and the contemporary context to consider historical developments in common law countries.

A thought-provoking volume that brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinkers and activists to explore the innovations and challenges that Indigenous thought continues to bring to Canada.

A thought-provoking volume that brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinkers and activists to explore the innovations and challenges that Indigenous thought continues to bring to Canada.

Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.

Becoming British Columbia investigates critical moments in the demographic record of British Columbia, including catastrophic epidemics, immigrant rushes, forced migrations, the fertility transition, and the baby boom, in an accessible yet scholarly and provocative way.

This book decodes the rhetoric of China's turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.

A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of "Indian" and "White" societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa's sources lie first in the language of the Chinookans who lived along the lower Columbia River ...

Aboriginal people in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion.

The family institution is undergoing a radical transformation whereby all the constituent relations of its structure are being challenged. A classical exercise of family sociology, this book draws upon a wide range of disciplines: history, anthropology, psychoanalysis and demography.

Canadian voluntary associations have proven that they can effectively manage bilingualism -- this book shows how and why.

The relationship between law and religion in democracies committed to equal citizenship and religious pluralism has become the subject of significant interest in recent years. This title seeks to elucidate this complex and often uneasy relationship.

Features essays that reflect the different directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. This title shows how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project.

Tackles the pressing question of how Canadian engagement with globalization can be marshaled to advance rather than impair human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation.

Covering eleven cities as well as Canada's Parliament, this book presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada.