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This vivid account of the creation of three public monuments in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside offers unique insights into the links between power, public space, and social memory and asks us to reconsider the nature and role of civic art.

Bow takes a close look at four major bilateral disputes between Canada and the United States to show that - contrary to some reports - the US has not made coercive linkages between issues to get its own way.

Investigates the impact of American Protestant missions on modern Japan and Japanese-American relations.

This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps.

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

Drawing upon insights from law and politics, Multi-Party Litigation outlines the historical development, political design, and regulatory desirability of multi-party litigation strategies in cross-national perspective and describes a battle being fought on multiple fronts by competing interests.

A fresh analysis of the evolving role of the provinces in Canadian foreign trade policy.

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

A fascinating exploration of the tavern as a significant and fluid social space in colonial Canada.

This book demonstrates how global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions to transform Canada and Germany into diverse multicultural societies in the second half of the twentieth 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.

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.

Looks at nurses and nursing in a wide range of settings from the mid-1800s to the 1970s, including indigenous women on the Canadian prairies; First World War nurses posted overseas; outpost nurses in rural and remote areas of Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec; and public health nurses in Winnipeg.

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

A revealing history of human impact in the Canadian North, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the industries that replaced the fur trade.

Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, this title takes up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. It is suitable for teachers and students of educational and Native Studies and readers seeking an understanding of colonialism and Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations.

An important analysis of how the 1994 Howard decision on the Williams Treaties was based on erroneous cultural assumptions that favoured public over special rights.

Using original case studies to show how a range of communities deal with the forces of globalization, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

Renowned animal rights author Rod Preece examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions, from the origins of humanity through to the present.

Using original case studies to show how a range of communities deal with the forces of globalization, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows.

A convincing portrait of Canada's active role in Second World War intelligence gathering.

A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science - the nation-state.

Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge ... makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North.- Farley Mowat

A companion to "First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law". It looks at the key features of Canadian, US, and international law influencing indigenous cultural heritage in Canada. It examines legal and extralegal avenues for reform, including ethics codes, research protocols, institutional policies, human rights law, and First Nation legal orders.

In Canada, issues of protection, appropriation, and repatriation have sometimes been addressed through negotiation. However, the legal environment for negotiation is sometimes dated, often uncertain, and always complex. This volume explores selected First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law.

Describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. This book shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms.

Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.

Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada.