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This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.

This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.

This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction.

The culmination of more than 25 years of effort, this much-awaited final volume of The Birds of British Columbia completes what some have called one of the most important regional ornithological works in North America.

This books examines the Hudson's Bay company exploration efforts beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean from 1793 to 1843 - which led to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America.

This book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country.

These essays aim to address, and redress, this bias of the colonial doctrine that continues to define and shape Aboriginal and treaty rights in the Canadian legal system.

This book is a clarion call for a balanced, objective approach to forestry issues, including clearcutting, slashburning, old growth, and management chemicals.

This book is the most recent major work on the ecology and management of Sitka spruce.

Achieving Sustainable Development provides an overall introduction to critical subjects in sustainable development -- industrial growth, women, institutional arrangements, industrial practices, and aboriginal people -- and argues for the immediate development of a research and policy agenda for Canada and suggests mechanisms for its implementation.

A provocative account of one of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in Canadian history, this book documents the downfall of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which helped develop the north-central corridor of British Columbia - then collapsed dramatically in 1919.

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.

This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print.

This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.

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

Pacific Salmon Life Histories gives detailed descriptions of the different life phases through which each of the seven species pass.

This book deals with Canada's oceans management policies since the conclusion of the 1982 Convention of the Law of the Sea.

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition.

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition.

The stories in this collection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filtered through the imagination of some of Canada's most famous writers.

In this straightforward but colourful narrative, the only critical study of its kind, Malcolm McGregor explains how democracy was nurtured in Athens and how effective government was achieved.

This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis.

A groundbreaking study of women entrepreneurs in early twentieth-century British Columbia.

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.

Placing Canada in an international context, this book explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and consumerism from 1919 to 1945.

This innovative blend of oral history and anthropological commentary documents how the Dane-zaa survived and flourished for millennia in northern BC.

Drawing on case studies from the Pacific Rim, this book traces the selective adaptation of international trade law to local conditions.

Identity/Difference Politics offers a new direction for the study of identity/difference, one that moves beyond liberal multiculturalism's preoccupation with culture.

This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the language of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical and visual performances.