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Series: UncededUnderstanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters NowPaperback
George M. Abbott9780774881159
$29.95HISTORY
Sep 01, 2025
Unceded is a compelling history of the BC government’s relationship with Indigenous peoples, from early "land question" disputes to current reconciliation efforts. Treaty commissioner George M. Abbott combines archival research with a former cabinet minister’s insider perspective on government to chronicle over 150 years of BC-Indigenous relations. He details how early government officials refused to negotiate treaties, instead coercing First Nations onto small reserves. Despite sustained Indigenous resistance, the situation only worsened in th... + Read More
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Series: Once upon This LandArchaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It TellsPaperback
Robert J. Muckle9780774881081
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 09, 2025
With evidence of human habitation dating back to the last ice age, British Columbia boasts a fascinating array of archaeological sites. In this thoroughly up-to-date survey, professional archaeologist Robert Muckle takes readers to some exciting locations to explain what archaeology is (and isn’t), how research is undertaken in BC, and what it contributes to our broader understanding of human history. Once upon This Land introduces readers to some of the most notable archaeological investigations in the province, including footprints left in mu... + Read More
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Series: What Could a University Be?Revolutionary Ideas for the FuturePaperback
Robert B. Gibbs9780774839174
$32.95EDUCATION
Sep 01, 2025
Students are not clients, job seekers, or consumers. Their purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. So why do universities largely restrict inquiry to professors and graduate students? In What Could a University Be? Robert Gibbs imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all levels and across all faculties, including professional schools. Gibbs proposes a widely applicable model that reverses the traditional top-down flow by teaching students how to conduct research and become knowledge creators rather than passive recipients... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Chinese StudiesA Tight GripState Power and Control in Modern ChinaHardcover
Wen-Hsuan Tsai9780774872027
$39.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aug 01, 2025
A non-democratic regime must solve two problems in order to survive: how to share power within the political elite and how to control society. A Tight Grip examines the strategies that China’s current, and longest-serving, head of state has used to address these questions and bolster his leadership of the world’s second-most populous country. Wen-Hsuan Tsai explores the president’s method of concentrating decision-making power in his own hands through political dominance and ideological control while still creating scope for local-level politic... + Read More
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Series: Law and SocietyThe Independence of the ProsecuterControversy in the Creation of the International Criminal CourtPaperback
Laszlo Sarkany9780774869973
$34.95LAW
Aug 15, 2025
The establishment of the International Criminal Court was a singular, even revolutionary, achievement. Uniquely within the realm of international criminal justice, the ICC Prosecutor can initiate investigations independently of any state’s wishes. Why would sovereign states agree to such sweeping powers? The Independence of the Prosecutor draws on interviews with key participants to answer that question. Case studies of Canada and the United Kingdom, which supported prosecutorial independence, and the United States and Japan, which opposed it, ... + Read More
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Series: Mega Pipelines, Mega ResistanceTar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy InfrastructurePaperback
Amy Janzwood9780774872355
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 15, 2025
In the late 2000s, when the oil sands industry proposed expanding its capacity to transport fossil fuel products, an unprecedented coalition of Indigenous nations and communities, environmental non-governmental organizations, grassroots groups, and municipal governments mobilized in response. Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance explores how these social movements challenged powerful corporate and government interests and reshaped the politics of energy infrastructure. Amy Janzwood investigates campaign coalitions that were formed to oppose two mega... + Read More
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Series: The Thin Edge of InnovationMetro Vancouver's Evolving EconomyPaperback
Roger Hayter9780774869935
$34.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 15, 2025
Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory. The focus is shifting away from resource-based activities to local entrepreneurial initiatives across a remarkable range of industries, from software to craft beer, biopharmaceuticals to mountain bikes. This evolution is being shaped by local business and the city’s location on the national and global periphery. The Thin Edge of Innovation focusses on the performance of signature businesses in these entrepreneurial sec... + Read More
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Series: Landmark Cases in Canadian LawFatal ConfessionA Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton CasePaperback
Carolyn Strange9780774872768
$32.95TRUE CRIME
Oct 15, 2025
When the body of thirteen-year-old Linda Lampkin was found, raped and strangled, on Toronto’s industrial waterfront in 1956, locals feared a sex maniac was on the loose. Within a day, detectives announced the arrest of Robert Fitton. He was charged with murder, although Fitton claimed the sex was consensual and the strangulation accidental. Fatal Confession is a compelling analysis of that violent encounter and the ensuing legal and political entanglements, which ended in the hanging of Fitton despite the jury’s and judge’s recommendation of me... + Read More
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Series: Landmark Cases in Canadian LawDeciding on DeathRodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in CanadaPaperback
Kent McNeil9780774872126
$32.95LAW
Oct 01, 2025
Should Canadians have the right to medical assistance in dying? If so, under what conditions? Deciding on Death delves into the legal and political aspects of these controversial questions. In the early 1990s, Sue Rodriguez unsuccessfully challenged the criminalization of assisted dying. The Supreme Court of Canada subsequently reversed its position in a 2015 case brought by the family of Kay Carter, who had travelled abroad for access to an assisted death. Kent McNeil and Wayne Sumner not only analyze the landmark Rodriguez and Carter decision... + Read More
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Series: Law and SocietyChallenging ExileJapanese Canadians and the Wartime ConstitutionPaperback
Eric M. Adams9780774872843
$34.95HISTORY
Oct 15, 2025
In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment. In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross detail the circumstances and personalities behind the exile. They follow the lives of families facing government orders that uprooted them from their homes, stripped them of their livelihoods and possessions, and proposed to exile them from Canada. And they analyze the court case in which lawyers ... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political HistoryJohn HartA Businessman in British Columbia PoliticsPaperback
Patricia E. Roy9780774872515
$34.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 03, 2025
Diplomacy works better than bluster, as John Hart knew well. Hart, an Irish immigrant with a talent for compromise and a famously winning smile, was at the heart of BC politics during the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on government records, politicians’ papers, and newspaper reports, John Hart illuminates the role of a businessman in politics. Hart, whose firm dealt in real estate, insurance and investments, ran and won in seven elections. He served as a Liberal member of the legislature, finance minister and ultimately premier i... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for DemocracyOur Voices Must Be HeardWomen and the Vote in OntarioPaperback
Tarah Brookfield9780774860208
$24.95HISTORY
Sep 01, 2025
On Election Day 1844, seven widows cast ballots in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women regained voting rights in Ontario.Our Voices Must Be Heard asks why the vote mattered. It explores Ontario’s suffrage history, examining its ideals and failings, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class. Historian Tarah Brookfield looks at how and why women and their m... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political HistoryChrétien and the WorldCanadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003Hardcover
Jack Cunningham9780774872072
$45.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 15, 2025
Conventional wisdom holds that foreign policy was not a priority for Jean Chrétien over his ten years as Canadian prime minister. Chrétien and the World combines the perspectives of key players of the time with analyses by leading scholars to reveal something unexpected: an often ambitious, activist approach to international affairs. Contributors draw on personal recollections, interviews, and research to portray a coherent and engaged foreign policy. Chrétien responded to events that reshaped the international landscape, notably 9/11, the war ... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political HistoryThe Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie KingHardcover
Patrice Dutil9780774871860
$49.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2025
A giant of Canadian history. A racist and anti-Semite typical of his generation. A devoted occultist. An uncontested Liberal Party leader. The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King explores the character, thoughts, and actions of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister. Patrice Dutil leads a who’s who of political historians to explain William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although King often headed minority governments and was sometimes personally defeated in elections, his accomplishments are unmatched. He led the nation during the expansionist 1920s and ... + Read More
Political parties exist at the centre of democratic politics, but where does power lie within them, and how is it exercised? The Political Party in Canada explores the inner workings of these complex organizations through an examination of the composition and roles of key party actors (members and activists, candidates, local associations, donors, central officials, and members of Parliament), as well as the interactions between them. Contemporary parties play a key role in recruiting and selecting candidates and leaders, waging election campai... + Read More
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Series: The Civil Sphere in CanadaPaperback
Jeffrey C. Alexander9780774871150
$39.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2025
When activists, advocates, victims of injustice, and ordinary citizens seek to advance (or block) social justice and cohesion, they draw on morally charged ideals. But the wellsprings of solidarity in a society as diverse as Canada are complex and mutable. The Civil Sphere in Canada analyzes the shifting meanings we attach to key social actors, activities, and institutions to reveal the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that animate Canadian society. Applying Jeffrey Alexander’s groundbreaking civil sphere theory to Indigenous–settler relatio... + Read More
A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting takes readers from the days of the telegraph to the current digital age, examining the role of public broadcasting in the wider context of regulation, private capital, and foreign programming. This comprehensive history spans over a hundred years, highlighting the shifting technological character of the media system within anglophone Canada and the key place of public broadcasting within it. Situated in Canada’s broader economic history, David Skinner’s account ably demonstrates how broadcast regula... + Read More
Working-class Canadians are often overlooked by politicians, policy makers, and political scientists. However, the working class accounts for a substantial share of Canada’s population, and class differences have enduring relevance for how people relate to politics. The Working Class and Politics in Canada argues that changing labour-market patterns, shifting electoral alignments, and increased socio-economic inequality make it essential to revisit the political importance of class. The contributors to this indispensable volume re-examine the ... + Read More
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Series: Renegotiating the BargainThe Formation of Power-Sharing Arrangements within Canadian Political PartiesHardcover
Rob Currie-Wood9780774872188
$110.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2025
The franchise bargain that once divided Canadian political parties into separate spheres of authority – with members on the ground and elites at the centre – has been displaced. Renegotiating the Bargain explains why parties have reformed their internal decision-making structures and shows how the new arrangement operates. Rob Currie-Wood draws on in-depth interviews with current and former party officials, party governance documents, and election financing reports to trace organizational change within Canadian political parties since the end o... + Read More
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Series: The New Politics of Western CanadaContested Histories, Uncertain FuturesHardcover
Charles Smith9780774871983
$110.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2025
The Canadian West: an economic engine with a history of grievance against federal power emanating from the east. The New Politics of Western Canada grapples with the West’s complex, multifaceted past to promote a better understanding of this vast region’s political realities and the challenges that lie ahead. Contributors re-examine the historical and contemporary meanings attached to “the West” as a form of identity, through themes such as colonialism, gender, and class. They develop a nuanced analysis of Western political ideology, from resen... + Read More
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Series: Trading on ArtCultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North AmericaPaperback
Sarah E.K. Smith9780774868921
$34.95ART
Nov 15, 2025
The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement reinvented the concept of North America as a cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental unity lay a paradox. While art was mobilized to frame the new narrative, culture itself was explicitly excluded from the agreements that implemented this vision. Trading on Art brings culture to the fore by examining how artworks, exhibitions, and museum programs from the 1980s to 2010 mediated North American free trade, from government-... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military HistoryWatching the BearCanadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964Hardcover
Alan Barnes9780774871662
$110.00HISTORY
Sep 01, 2025
As the Soviet threat to North America evolved in the early Cold War, the world was watching. What was the view from Ottawa? Watching the Bear begins to tell that story. Alan Barnes, a twenty-five-year veteran of the Canadian intelligence community, draws on recently declassified archival sources to offer a wholly new perspective on Canada’s policies for the defence of North America from 1946 to 1964. After the Second World War, Canada created an independent capacity to produce strategic intelligence assessments, and Canadian analysts worked wit... + Read More
The ability to make decisions impacting international affairs can be a thorny subject for a federal state like Canada. Provinces wield considerable powers, but does their legal authority extend beyond provincial borders? How is foreign affairs power defined within the law? Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution breaks new ground with a rigorous exploration of these questions. Scott Fairley explores federal-provincial confrontations over foreign affairs, beginning with the free-trade debate of the 1980s. To contextualize the issues, he tra... + Read More
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Series: Law and SocietyGreyscale LegalityThe Diverse Landscape of Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in ChinaHardcover
Qiaoling He9780774871709
$99.00LAW
Aug 15, 2025
Poor enforcement of international intellectual property law in non-Western countries is typically blamed on national-level institutional, political, and cultural contexts. However, there are other factors at play, producing uneven efficacy of transplanted laws within a nation. Greyscale Legality analyzes how and why legal transplants perish or thrive by critically examining the application of international IP law across six industries in China. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Qiaoling He investigates widely differing degrees of IP enforcement i... + Read More
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Series: The Rise of Tzu ChiThe Making of a Global Buddhist MovementPaperback
Chengpang Lee9780774871105
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2025
With ten million members worldwide, Tzu Chi has influence unmatched by most East Asian religious and non-profit organizations. The Buddhist foundation was established in Taiwan in 1966 by nun Cheng Yen and a group of laywomen. As with most religious movements, its success is often attributed to a charismatic leader, but The Rise of Tzu Chi offers a strikingly new analysis. Chengpang Lee traces Tzu Chi’s apparently contradictory trajectory. Although authority is centralized, it is not authoritarian. Each unit has significant autonomy, resulting ... + Read More
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Series: Sufism in CanadaWeaving Islamic Practice and Contemporary SpiritualityPaperback
Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond9780774870702
$37.95RELIGION
Dec 01, 2025
Whirling dervishes. Ecstatic experience. Historical and contemporary expressions of Sufism are suffused with spirituality, asceticism, and mysticism. Sufism in Canada asks how we can understand this fascinating religious practice in a specifically Canadian context and, by extension, how Sufism informs Islam and popular spirituality not only in Canada but across the globe. Using case studies rooted in Canadian concerns and communities, scholars of Islamic studies, sociology, ethnomusicology, and history analyze the meaning and practice of Sufism... + Read More
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Series: Tender LabourMigrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life across BordersPaperback
Jennifer E. Shaw9780774871310
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2025
To meet demand in Canada, more and more women are migrating from the Philippines to become domestic workers. What happens to family left behind? Tender Labour investigates the experiences of young people as they navigate precarity in all its forms when their mothers work elsewhere. Jennifer Shaw conducts nuanced research with youth who have been separated from and later reunited with their mothers in Canada, incorporating their own voices through poems, song lyrics, and photographs. She focuses on how their tender labour – the work they perform... + Read More
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Series: Disability Culture and PoliticsUnmothering AutismEthical Disruptions and Affirming CarePaperback
Patty Douglas9780774869737
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 15, 2025
As global rates of autism diagnosis rise, dominant cultural representations continue to define autism as a tragic neurological disorder. And mothers – as primary caregivers and advocates – are centrally implicated in the impulse to find both cause and cure. How should we care about autism and autistic people? Unmothering Autism emerged from Patty Douglas’s desire to understand a contradiction: she and her two sons (one autistic) experienced beauty living together, while their public encounters with doctors, school professionals, and agencies we... + Read More
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Series: Disability Culture and PoliticsAutism and the Culture of TherapyThe Politics and Practice of Applied Behaviour AnalysisHardcover
Julia Gruson-Wood9780774870771
$110.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Oct 01, 2025
Applied behaviour therapies are highly proscriptive and controversial evidence-based autism interventions that have, in many settings, become the standard of care. Autism and the Culture of Therapy is the first empirical study of applied behaviour therapies. To understand such therapies, we need to assess them in everyday practice, through the multiple interpretations, ethical frameworks, and applications of practitioners. Julia Gruson-Wood examines how applied behaviour checklists, forms, protocols, and plans shape professional consciousness, ... + Read More
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Series: Research with Refugee Children and FamiliesEthical Dilemmas and Methodological InsightsHardcover
Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali9780774871822
$99.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 15, 2025
In the aftermath of the war in Syria, Canada and Germany welcomed thousands of refugees. Scholars in both countries conducted studies to learn how the refugee children and families were faring, and how local populations and non-governmental agencies were responding. This book presents researchers’ accounts of responsible ethical conduct in complex situations such as these. In this volume edited by Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, contributors describe the challenges of data collection, analyses, and dissemination of findings. These include getting institu... + Read More
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Series: After RedressJapanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for JusticePaperback
Kirsten Emiko McAllister9780774870665
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2025
Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians have demanded justice from the Canadian state for its discriminatory systems of colonialism and racial management. Critics have argued that state apologies co-opt those demands. Meanwhile, many Canadian institutions still attempt to control narratives about residential schools and other violence committed against Indigenous peoples, as well as the internment of Japanese Canadians. After Redress examines how struggles for justice continue long after truth and reconciliation commissions conclude and state... + Read More
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Series: Handing Over the KeysIndigenous Peoples and Carceral InjusticeHardcover
Linda Mussell9780774871266
$110.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 15, 2025
Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Widespread criticism calls Canadian prisons the new residential schools and Australian ones a national tragedy. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the government itself has suggested Māori may be the most incarcerated people in the world. Handing over the Keys compares three countries with enduring records of confining Indigenous people. Intergenerational imprisonment – the legacies of institutional confinement in an array of settings – leaves a long sh... + Read More
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Series: Planting ThistlesScottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian CanadaHardcover
Timothy S. Forest9780774870979
$125.00HISTORY
Nov 15, 2025
At the height of the Victorian age, governments on both sides of the Atlantic targeted Scottish crofters from the Outer Hebrides as ideal colonists, proposing settlement schemes in British Columbia and on the Prairies that were to bring benefits to the region and the settlers themselves. Within six years, these plans were considered tragic failures. Planting Thistles explores the motivations, misfires, and consequences of this state-sponsored colonization. Timothy S. Forest links the programs to shifting and interconnected factors: economic con... + Read More
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Series: After IceCold Humanities for a Warming PlanetPaperback
Emma Kowal9780774869379
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 01, 2025
As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice? This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investigate ice and its dynamic properties as a foundational element of Indigenous communities in the Arctic ... + Read More
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Series: Claiming the Right to the CityRethinking Urban Transformations in BrazilHardcover
Abigail Friendly9780774871907
$99.00ARCHITECTURE
Oct 15, 2025
The right to the city – the freedom for all to occupy, govern, change, and enjoy the city and access its resources – is fundamental to genuinely inclusive democracy. Claiming the Right to the City critically explores attempts to redefine Brazil’s planning model based on social justice. The Brazilian experience of profound urban challenges over the past forty years reveals the division between a theoretically acknowledged right to the city and the reality of urban policy, planning, and practice, within the context of economic inequality and uneq... + Read More
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Unceded Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now Paperback 9780774881159 $29.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2025