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This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada's response to environmental challenges.

What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons?

A comparative collection of essays that examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations throughout the twentieth century.

This first comprehensive account of contemporary planning and urban design practice in any Canadian city examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban design from its inception in the early 1970s to the present day.

A timely comparative study of state-network interactions in agro-environmental policy-making in the US, Canada, and France.

This brilliantly crafted overview and analysis of the historical foundations of modern Canadian trade policy is the first survey to address the history of Canadian commercial policy in over fifty years.

This work provides a sustained analytical history of the Halifax Explosion, a defining event in the Canadian consciousness. It retraces the events preceding the disaster and the role of the military in its aftermath, analyzing the legal maneuvers, rhetoric, blunders and public controversy.

This collection explores the treatment of incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues.

This volume focuses on two dimensions of globalization: the cultural and social realities of global connection and the uneasily shifting role of the state. Through a series of case studies, the editors assess the choices states have and the consequences of those choices for culture and society.

Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance.

The first major scholarly examination of the foreign policy of the Mulroney Conservative era, this collection analyzes free trade with the U.S., a continentalized energy policy, the transformation of peacekeeping into peacemaking, and other departures from traditional Canadian statecraft.

A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians, linking abstract analytical and philosophical questions to the critical and challenging questions of decision-making practice in Canadian foreign policy.

What are the "right ways" to preserve heritage? Are the aims and purposes of museums necessarily at odds with those of First Nations? This thoughtful book explores the concept of museum conservation in light of cultural repatriation issues, and helps readers understand the complex relationship between museums and Aboriginal peoples.

A forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact of warfare on modern China's civilian population.

Couture and Commerce investigates how and why 1950s couture fashion was important in its own day.

Lively, impassioned and informed, these essays provide insight into the relationship between academic freedom and the inclusive university.

Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.

This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.

This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.

Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity.

"No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations." - From the book

An ethnographic case study of Williams Lake. Elizabeth Furniss looks at the roots of social conflicts and examines how prevalent colonial assumptions of history, identity and Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations affect the lives of all residents.

This book addresses the major problems facing policy-makers and managers in sustaining biological diversity in managed forests.

Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped - and been shaped by - these changing spaces.

This book is a pioneering attempt to consider the concrete policy implications of the much discussed transition to sustainable forestry.

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

In Borderlands, W.H. New poetically and metaphorically considers the image of 'the border' in Canada and how it affects the way Canadians look at themselves and their society.

In this revised edition of Canada and Quebec, Robert Bothwell describes the lead-up to the October 1995 referendum and traces political developments from its immediate aftermath to the present.

Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush.