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This multidisciplinary collection fills a gap in First World War scholarship, revealing the diversity and richness of women's and girls' wartime experiences in Canada and Newfoundland.

Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?

Lays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.

This book holds up the Covenant Chain, the historical treaty relationship between the British Crown and indigenous people in North America, as a model for building an ethic of mutual respect to guide modern treaty disputes and land claims.

Blue-Green Province provides the first comprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario and explores what lessons on the future of environmental and economic policy in Canada might be learned from this province's experience.

The first book-length exploration of how marketing tools and concepts are transforming elections and politics in Canada.

A multifaceted exploration of how humanitarian organizations, private militaries, and non-state armed groups are shaking the foundations of international humanitarian law.

Reveals the underlying forces that shaped postwar conflict and cooperation in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle.

A fascinating history that challenges common assumptions of how the Ontario government attempted to regulate licensed public drinking after the repeal of prohibition.

This story about a remarkable Sikh family living in British Columbia tells a larger tale about an immigrant community's triumphs and tribulations and the strong connections that Indo-Canadians continue to forge with their homeland.

A multidisciplinary exploration of Canada's experience of illness and death during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic.

A groundbreaking exploration of the causes and consequences of Halifax's tough-on-crime measures in the interwar era.

This groundbreaking collection explores relational theory and how it can be brought to bear on practical areas of concern in health law and policy.

Brings to the light the conflicting meanings attached to skiing by diverse groups in British Columbia.

The first synthesis of the archaeological and ethnological evidence pertaining to the St'at'imc or Upper Lillooet people of the Mid-Fraser Canyon.

This book examines the rules and conduct of Private Members' Business to assess the crucial role of MPs in representing citizens and affecting policy decisions.

This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.

The Media Gaze is an eye-opening expose of how mainstream media depictions are ideologically raced, gendered, classed, sexualized, secularized, and ageist.

Hereditary chief Umeek weaves together Nuu-chah-nulth and Western worldviews to revitalize contemporary approaches to the environment and the plight of indigenous peoples.

Focusing on the ideas of Bernard Shaw, Rod Preece examines modernist views of animal rights in the context of late Victorian socialism.

This volume furthers the multiculturalism debate by assessing whether public institutions are capable of evaluating minority group claims fairly.

The first comprehensive study of Nooksack place names in Washington State and southern British Columbia, based on historical records and field trips with elders.

This book provides an in-depth look at the multiple dimensions of Canada-US relations in the areas of politics, security, trade, and energy, with a particular emphasis on the period since 9/11.

This book provides a clear theoretical lens and practical guidance on the prospects and limits of leveraging private corporate social responsibility standards, such as forest certification, alongside government regulatory efforts to achieve more effective and adaptive sustainability solutions.

This volume brings together feminist scholars from multiple disciplines to challenge the notion that work and family are two distinct areas of life in need of balance.

A unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.

Challenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man's sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.

The final volume of the Canadian Democratic Audit, this book presents a timely synthesis of the project's findings and suggestions for democratic reform in Canada.

Architecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.

A comprehensive review of the first four decades of the Canadian Election Studies, showing how this series of surveys is important in the study not only of Canadian politics but also of comparative electoral behavior.