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Contents
Aboriginal Studies 19-21
Asian Studies 26-28
Canadian History 4-7
Canadian Studies 4
Communication 14
Cover image: Dong Zhengyi, Communal Fish Pond
Cultural Studies 22
(1972). This painting appears in Art in Turmoil:
Education 21-22 The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76, edited
by Richard King (see page 27).
Environmental Studies 7-10
Gender & Sexuality Studies 23
Publishers Represented In Canada
Globalization 18-19 Brookings Institution Press
Law 11-14 Earthscan Publishers
Hong Kong University Press
Military History 1-3 Island Press
Peacekeeping & Security Studies 3-4 Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Left Coast Press
Political Science 15-18
Manchester University Press
Sociology 25-26 Michigan State University Press
Oregon State University Press
Urban Studies 24-25
Paradigm Publishers
Transaction Publishers
AU Press (Athabasca University) 28-29 University of Arizona Press
University Press of New England
Recent & Noteworthy - AU Press 29 (includes Wesleyan and Tufts University Presses)
University of Washington Press
(includes Hong Kong UP, National Gallery of Australia
Recent & Noteworthy - UBC Press 30 Press, Silkworm Books, UCLA, Fowler Museum of
Index 31 Cultural History, and Waanders Publishers)

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Canadian Wildlife Service - Pacific Region
Environmental Training Centre
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Western Geographical Press

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 military history

Veterans with a Vision

The History of Canada's War Blinded
in Peace and War
Serge Marc Durflinger
We know something about our war dead but almost nothing about our war
wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human
history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans and of the organization they founded
in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded. Serge Durflinger
details the veterans’ process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological
rehabilitation, and social and personal coping and describes their public advocacy
for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs.
This book captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans’
community and highlights the impacts made by the war blinded as advocates for
all Canadian veterans and for all blind citizens.
Serge marc Durflinger is an associate professor of history at the University
of Ottawa. He is the author of Fighting from Home: The Second World War in
Verdun, Quebec, and co-editor of War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada.

March 2010, 464 pages, 6.6 x 9.5"
54 b&w photos, printed in large type
978-0-7748-1855-1 hc $85.00
military HISTORY / Canadian history
Studies in Canadian Military History Series
Published in association with the Canadian
War Museum and the Sir Arthur Pearson
Association of War Blinded
I was unlucky enough to get in the way
of one of the shrapnel bullets. I felt a
slight sting in my right temple as though
pricked by a red-hot needle – and then
the world became black. Dawn was now
breaking, but night had sealed my eyes.
– James Rawlinson,
blinded at Vimy, 1917
Books written about the conflict record
major political decisions and their
results; they speak of generals, and of
heroes. There is a paucity of literary
tribute to those who offered their youth
to war; nor are there books which tell
of the disabled, the war blinded, the
amputee, the burnt-out veteran.
– David Dorward,
blinded in Sicily, 1943

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 military history Militia Myths
Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896–1921
James Wood

The citizen soldier is a foundational figure in the
Canadian social memory of the First World War.
This cultural history of the amateur military tradi-
tion, however, traces the origins of the citizen
soldier ideal to long before Canadians donned
khaki and boarded troopships for the Western
Front. Before the Great War, Canada's military
culture was in transition as the country navigated
an uncertain relationship with the United States
and fought an imperial War in South Africa. Militia
Myths explores the ideological transformation
that took place between 1896 and 1921, arguing
that by the end of the War, the untrained citizen
volunteer had replaced the long-serving militia-
man as the archetypical Canadian soldier.
James Wood teaches history at the University
of Victoria and is the author of We Move Only
Forward: Canada, the United States, and the
First Special Service Force, 1942-44 and Army of
the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army
Group B from Normandy to the West Wall.
March 2010, 384 pages, 6 x 9"
27 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1765-3 hc $90.00
Military HISTORY / canadian history
Studies in Canadian Military History Series

military history From Victoria to Vladivostok

Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917–19
Benjamin Isitt

This ground-breaking book brings to a life a Benjamin Isitt is an assistant professor and
forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History
Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers at the University of Victoria.
from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat
May 2010, 320 pages, 6 x 9"
Bolshevism. Combining military and labour
37 b&w photos, 5 maps
history with the social history of BC, Quebec, and
978-0-7748-1801-8 hc $85.00
Russia, Benjamin Isitt examines how the Siberian military HISTORY / labour history /
Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian canadian history
society at a time when a radicalized working Studies in Canadian Military History Series
class, many French-Canadians, and even the
soldiers themselves objected to a military adven-
ture designed to counter the Russian Revolution.
The result is a highly readable and provocative
work that challenges public memory of the First
World War while illuminating tensions – both in
Canada and worldwide – that shaped the course
of twentieth-century history.

military History Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954–2009

James G. Fergusson

Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian James G. Fergusson is the director of the
governments have responded to US ballistic mis- Centre for Defence and Security Studies and a
sile defence initiatives with fear and uncertainty. professor in the Department of Political Studies
Officials have endlessly debated the implica- at the University of Manitoba.
tions – at home and abroad – of participation.
May 2010, 268 pages, 6 x 9"
Drawing on previously classified government
19 b&w photos
documents and interviews with senior officials,
978-0-7748-1750-9 hc $85.00
James Fergusson offers the first full account military HISTORY / canadian history /
of Canada's unsure response to US initiatives. Security studies
He reveals that factors such as weak leadership Studies in Canadian Military History Series
and a tendency to place uncertain and ill-defined
notions of international peace and security
before national defence resulted in indecision.
In the end, policy-makers failed to transform the
ballistic missile defence issue into an opportunity
to define Canada's strategic interests at home
and on the world stage.

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 military history The Politics of Procurement
Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter
Aaron Plamondon
In 1993, Canada's Liberal Party cancelled an
order to replace the Navy's Sea King helicopter.
It claimed that the Tory plan was too expensive,
but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers
hundreds of millions of dollars. Aaron Plamondon
connects this incident to the larger story of the
evolution of the defence procurement process
in Canada since Confederation. He reveals that
partisan politics, rather than a desire to increase
the military's capabilities, have driven the nation's
military procurement process. A fascinating saga
of the government playing havoc with weapons
acquisition, this book offers an explanation for,
and clues for resolving, the under-equipped state
of Canada's military.
military history Kiss the kids for dad, Don't forget to write
The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916–18
Edited by Y.A. Bennett
Between 1916 and 1918, Lance-Corporal George
Timmins, a British-born soldier who served in the
Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote faithfully
to his wife and children. Sixty-three letters and
four fragments survived. These letters tell the
compelling story of a man who, while helping
his fellow Canadians make history at Vimy, Lens,
Passchendaele, and Amiens, used letters home
to remain a presence in the lives of his wife and
children, and who drew strength from his family
to appreciate life's simple pleasures. Timmins's
letters offer a rare glimpse into the experiences and
relationships, the quiet heroism, of ordinary soldiers
on the Western Front.
Kiss the kids for dad offers us new insight into
the multiple themes and narratives that underpin
the First World War experience: the role of the
peacekeeping & security Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960–64
Kevin A. Spooner
In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near
collapse as its first government struggled to
cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed
forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping
operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian
government faced a difficult decision. Should it
support the intervention? By offering one of the
first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement
in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner
reveals that Canada's involvement was not a
certainty: the Diefenbaker government had
immediate and ongoing reservations about the
mission, reservations that challenge cherished
notions of Canada's commitment to the UN and
its status as a peacekeeper.
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Aaron Plamondon teaches Canadian and
military history at the University of Calgary and
Mount Royal University. He is also a National
Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic
Studies at the University of Calgary.
Previously Announced
December 2009, 256 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1714-1 hc $85.00
military HISTORY / security studies / political
science
civilian-soldier in war, the horror and brutality
of trench warfare, the boredom and banality
of military service. Timmins’s letters, framed
within a solid historical background, also reveal
his personal struggle with having left his family
behind to fend for themselves in Canada.
– Tim Cook, author of Shock Troops: Canadians
Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 (volume 2)
Y.A. Bennett is an associate professor of history
at Carleton University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
24 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1609-0 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1608-3 hc $85.00
Military History / Canadian History
Kevin A. Spooner is an assistant professor
of North American studies at Wilfrid Laurier
University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 296 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1637-3 PB $32.95
978-0-7748-1636-6 hc $85.00
peacekeeping and security studies /
canadian history
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 peacekeeping & security Pearson's Peacekeepers
Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–67
Michael K. Carroll, Foreword by Robert Bothwell
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace
Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency
Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched
Canada's love affair with, and reputation for,
peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores
the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a
detailed account of the UNEF's decade-long
effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli
border. The operation was a tremendous achieve-
ment, yet the UNEF also encountered formidable
challenges and problems. This nuanced account
of Canada's participation in the UNEF not only
challenges perceived notions of Canadian identity
and history but will also help students, policy-
makers, and concerned citizens to accurately
evaluate international peacekeeping efforts in
the present.
canadian studies On the Art of Being Canadian
Sherrill Grace
When Vincent Massey wrote On Being Canadian
in 1948, he acknowledged the importance of
the arts to education and citizenship. He did not
consider what the arts can tell us about being
Canadian or about being ourselves. Sherrill Grace
traces how painters, writers, and filmmakers
have shaped Canadian identity in three fields
of representation that are staples in Canadian
culture – the North, iconic national figures, and
war. By telling stories in their chosen medium
and genre about life here or about events and
figures from the past, she shows that artists help
us to understand the Canadian landscape and to
create a shared history.
canadian history The Practice of Execution in Canada
Ken Leyton-Brown
It is easy to forget that the death penalty was
not abolished until 1976 and was an entrenched
aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice
from the time of Confederation. The Practice of
Execution in Canada is not about what led some
to the gallows and others to escape it. It is about
the taken-for-granted rituals and practices of
execution, seen as a social institution.
Drawing on hundreds of fascinating case files,
Ken Leyton-Brown shows that each phase
of the practice of execution – from the trial to
interment of the body – was constrained by law
and tradition. But the institution was not rigid. As
criticism and reform pushed executions out of
the public eye, they were emptied of meaningful
ritual and became more vulnerable to criticism.
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Carroll's book is a major original contribution to
the field. He shows that, although a so-called
"classic" example of peacekeeping, UNEF has
far more relevance to current Canadian opera-
tions in response to international crises than is
generally thought.
– W.A.B. Douglas, official historian of the
Canadian Armed Forces
Michael K. Carroll is a SDF Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic
Studies at the University of Calgary.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 254 pages, 6 x 9"
21 b&w photos, 1 map
978-0-7748-1582-6 pb $29.95
978-0-7748-1581-9 HC $85.00
peacekeeping and security studies /
canadian history
This passionate and evocative study teaches us
how to enjoy the cold, how to vanish, and how to
celebrate our elusive state of "being" in the mag-
nificent imaginative construct we call Canada.
– Aritha van Herk
Sherrill Grace is a professor of English at the
University of British Columbia. She was awarded
the Canada Council Killam Prize in Humanities in
2008.
Previously Announced
October 2009, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
16 b&w photos, 16 colour photos, 6 maps
978-0-7748-1578-9 hc $85.00
canadian studies / cultural studies
Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies
series
Comprehensive and absorbing, this groundbreak-
ing study is for anyone who wants a deeper
understanding of contemporary debates on
capital punishment.
Ken Leyton-Brown is an associate professor in
the History Department at the University of Regina.
May 2010, 256 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1753-0 hc $85.00
canadian history / law
canadian history The Business of Women
Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901–51
Melanie Buddle
Throughout history, Western women have
inhabited a conceptual space divorced from the
world of business. But women have always
engaged in business. Who were these women,
and how were they able to justify their work
outside the home? The Business of Women
explores the world of those women who
embraced British Columbia's frontier ethos in the
early twentieth century. Contrary to expectation,
the typical businesswoman was not unmarried or
particularly rebellious, but a woman reconciling
her entrepreneurship with her identity as a wife,
mother, or widow.
canadian history Writing British Columbia History, 1784–1958
Chad Reimer
Captain James Cook first made contact with the
area now known as British Columbia in 1778.
The colonists who followed soon realized they
needed a written history, both to justify their
dispossession of Aboriginal peoples and to
formulate an identity for a new settler society.
Writing British Columbia History traces how
Euro-Canadian historians took up this task, and
struggled with the newness of colonial society
and overlapping ties to the British Empire, the
United States, and Canada. This exploration
of the role of history writing in colonialism and
nation building will appeal to anyone interested
in the history of British Columbia, the Pacific
Northwest, and history writing in Canada.
canadian history The Hero and the Historians
Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier
Alan Gordon
Historians have long engaged in passionate
debate about collective memory and national
identity. Alan Gordon focuses on one national
hero – Jacques Cartier – to explore how notions
about the past have been passed from generation
to generation in English- and French-speaking
Canada and used to present particular ideas
about the world. Nineteenth-century celebrations
of Cartier reflected a new understanding of
history that accompanied the arrival of moder-
nity in North America. This sensibility, in turn,
influenced the political and cultural currents of
nation building in Canada. Cartier was a point of
contact between English and French Canada, but
the nature of that contact, as Gordon shows, had
profound limitations.
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Buddle offers a unique and important contribution
to Canadian history … She seeks not only to
incorporate women into the history of business …
but also to reconceptualize business history itself
by asking new questions about gender, business,
and the family. Business history needs to undergo
a gender "revolution." This book will promote such
rethinking of the field.
– Lori Chambers, author of Married Women and
Property Law in Victorian Ontario
Melanie Buddle is an instructor and academic
advisor at Trent University.
May 2010, 200 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1813-1 hc $85.00
canadian history / gender studies
Historians, as Reimer eloquently shows, played
an essential role in the colonization of British
Columbia and the maintenance of minority rule
by a capitalist, Anglo, male elite through the late
20th century.
– John Sutton Lutz, author of Makúk: A New
History of Aboriginal-White Relations
Chad Reimer received his PhD in history from
York University and works as an independent
researcher and author in Chilliwack, BC.
Previously Announced
October 2009, 216 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1644-1 hc $85.00
Canadian HISTORY / BC Studies / Historiography
Cartier is one of those rare heroes who have
figured in both French- and English-speaking
representations of the past. By showing the
different ways this came about and the different
purposes for which Cartier has been made to
serve, this important and engaging book connects
two historiographies within Canada as it speaks to
issues of relevance to an international audience.
– H.V. Nelles, L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian
History, McMaster University
Alan Gordon is an associate professor in the
history at the University of Guelph.
Previously Announced
January 2010, 256 pages, 6 x 9"
8 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1741-7 hc $85.00
canadian HISTORY / historiography
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canadian history
canadian history
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Fire and the Full Moon
Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World
David Webster
Our image of Canada's postwar foreign policy is
dominated by the Cold War, while the story of
Canada's response to decolonization in the Global
South is less well known. This book explores
Canadian-Indonesian relations to determine
whether Canada's postwar foreign policy
was guided by an overarching set of altruistic
principles. It shows that Canada remained a loyal
member of the Western alliance. Canada wanted
developing countries to follow its own non-revo-
lutionary model of decolonization and paid little
attention to violations of human rights. Webster's
reassessment of Canada's foreign-policy objec-
tives in Indonesia, and of its own national image,
will appeal to students of diplomatic history
interested in Asia and the developing world.
Becoming Native in a Foreign Land
Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840–85
Gillian Poulter
How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal
come to think of themselves as "native
Canadian"? This richly illustrated work reveals
that colonists adopted, then appropriated,
Aboriginal and French Canadian activities such
as hunting, lacrosse, snowshoeing, and tobog-
ganing. In the process, they constructed visual
icons that were recognized at home and abroad
as distinctly "Canadian." The new Canadian
nationality mimicked indigenous characteristics
but, ultimately, rejected indigenous players, and
championed the interests of white, middle-class,
Protestant males who used their newly acquired
identity to dominate the political realm. This book
shows that English Canadian identity gained
ground by usurping what was indigenous in the
fertile landscape of a foreign land.
The Technological Imperative in Canada
An Intellectual History
R. Douglas Francis
Technology is and has always been the subject
of critical debate. This wide-ranging, engaging
book examines the ideas of Anglo-Canadian
theorists who saw technology as a new im-
perative that would either enhance or threaten
the moral imperative. From the mid-nineteenth
century onward, advocates argued that techno-
logy, as a moral force, would strengthen the
ties that bound Canada to Britain and Western
civilization, while opponents saw technology
as a source of American power that threatened
Canadian independence. The Technological
Imperative in Canada offers new insights into
the ideas of influential Canadian theorists of
technology such as Harold Innis and Marshall
McLuhan and introduces readers to the ideas
David Webster is an assistant professor of
international studies at the University of Regina.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 272 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1684-7 pb $32.95
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canadian history / international relations /
asian studies
This book, both innovative and provocative, will
have a significant impact on our understanding
of the relationship between sport and national
identity construction in Canada. It not only will
add to the scholarly debate in the field, it will help
shape and direct such debate in the future.
– Colin D. Howell, author of Blood, Sweat, and
Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada
Gillian Poulter is an associate professor of
Canadian history at Acadia University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 390 pages, 6 x 9"
81 b&w photos, 1 map
978-0-7748-1442-3 pb $34.95
978-0-7748-1441-6 HC $85.00
canadian history / quebec history /
sports history
and perceptions of lesser-known but key
figures such as Sandford Fleming, Stephen
Leacock, and E.J. Pratt. This seminal book
revises the entrenched notion that Anglo-
Canadian thought has been dominated by the
moral imperative.
R. Douglas Francis is a professor of Canadian
history at the University of Calgary.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 340 pages, 6 x 9"
22 b&w photos, 8 maps
978-0-7748-1651-9 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1650-2 hc $85.00
canadian history / communications
 canadian history The Nurture of Nature
Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920–55
Sharon Wall
Thousands of children attended summer camps
in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply
want a break, or were broader developments at
play? The Nurture of Nature explores how com-
peting cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia
and modern sensibilities about the landscape,
child rearing, and identity – shaped the develop-
ment of summer camps and, consequently,
modern social life in North America. A valuable
resource for those interested in the connections
between the history of childhood, the natural
environment, and recreation, this book will also
appeal to anyone who has been packed off to
camp and wants to explore why.
canadian history Canada's Voice
The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
Adam Chapnick
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the
ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more
than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the
foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian
Institute of International Affairs from 1960
to 1973, and, as a professor of international
relations, mentored a generation of students and
scholars. This book charts the life of a diplomat
and public intellectual who influenced both
how scholars and statespeople abroad viewed
Canada and how Canadians saw themselves on
the world stage.
John W. Holmes had more impact on the thinking
of careful observers of Canada's foreign policy
than any other Canadian "scholar-diplomat." Adam
Chapnick's balanced, thoughtful, and highly read-
able account of his "public life" tells us why.
Environmental studies Managed Annihilation
An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
Dean L.Y. Bavington
The Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishery
was once the most successful commercial
ground fishery in the world. When it collapsed in
1992, fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed
to failures in management such as uncontrolled
harvesting as likely culprits. Managed Annihilation
makes the case that the idea of natural resource
management itself was the problem. The
collapse occurred when the fisheries were state
managed and still, nearly two decades later, there
is no recovery in sight. Although the collapse
raised doubts among policy-makers about
their ability to understand, predict, and control
nature, their ultimate goal of control through
management has not wavered – it has simply
been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and
farmed cod.
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The Nurture of Nature represents a major study
of an important but neglected subject. It is an
important contribution to the study of leisure and
recreation in Canada, to the understanding of
the character of modernity, and to the history of
summer camps.
– Keith Walden, Trent University
Sharon Wall is an assistant professor of history
at the University of Winnipeg.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 392 pages, 6 x 9"
38 b&w photos, 1 map
978-0-7748-1640-3 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1639-7 hc $85.00
canadian history / environmental history
Nature | History | Society series
It is essential reading for anyone with an interest
in Canada's post-1945 diplomatic practice.
– Denis Stairs, Professor Emeritus of Political
Science, Dalhousie University
Adam Chapnick is the deputy director of
education at the Canadian Forces College and
an assistant professor of defence studies at the
Royal Military College of Canada.
New in Paperback
November 2009, 384 pages, 6 x 9"
15 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1672-4 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1671-7 HC $85.00
Canadian HISTORY / international relations /
Biography
Unlike other efforts to make sense of the tragedy
of the commons of the northern cod fishery and
its halting recovery, Bavington calls into question
the very premise of management and managerial
ecology and offers a critical explanation that
seeks to uncover alternatives obscured by this
dominant way of relating to nature.
– Bonnie McCay, Department of Human
Ecology, Rutgers University
Dean L.Y. Bavington is an assistant professor
and Canada Research Chair in Environmental
History at Nipissing University.
May 2010, 192 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1747-9 hc $85.00
Environmental studies / history
Nature | History | Society Series
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Environmental studies
Environmental studies
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The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews
The farming of aquatic organisms is one of the
most promising but controversial new industries
in Canada. The industry has the potential to
solve food supply problems, but critics believe
it poses unacceptable threats to human health,
local communities, and the environment. This
book is not about the methods and techniques of
aquaculture but an exploration of the controversy
itself. Rather than choosing sides, Nathan Young
and Ralph Matthews present the controversy as
a multi-layered conflict about knowledge, rights,
and development. Comprehensive and balanced,
this book addresses one of the most contentious
public policy and environmental issues facing the
world today.
Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status
Nonpasserines: Shorebirds through Woodpeckers
Al Sandilands, with illustrations by Ross James
The volumes in the Birds of Ontario series
summarize life history requirements of bird
species that are normally part of the ecology of
Ontario. The first volume dealt with waterfowl
through cranes while this volume deals with
shorebirds through woodpeckers and completes
the treatment of the nonpasserines. Information
on habitat, limiting factors, and status are dealt
with for the three main bird seasons: breeding,
migration, and winter. It is an essential reference
for biologists, planners, environmental consul-
tants, and other resource professionals involved
in environmental issues and management
pertaining to birds, and a valuable reference for
serious birders. Although focusing on birds of
Ontario, the book will be relevant to adjacent
provinces and states.
What Is Water?
The History of a Modern Abstraction
Jamie Linton
We all know what water is, and we often take it
for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water
crisis suggests that our understanding of water
must be reassessed. Jamie Linton explores the
history of water as an abstract concept, stripped
of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts.
Reduced to a scientific abstraction – to mere
H20 – this concept has given modern society
licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water
with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to
the water crisis involves reinvesting water with
social content, thus altering the way we see
water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to
a fundamental problem.
The book demonstrates, in clear and concise
fashion, the ways in which contemporary social
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada success-
fully negotiates the minefield of partisan positions
and provides a clear way to grasp the multidimen-
sional character of the aquaculture controversy.
– Jeremy Rayner, University of Regina
Nathan Young is an assistant professor of
sociology at the University of Ottawa.
Ralph Matthews is a professor of sociology at
the University of British Columbia and a professor
emeritus of sociology at McMaster University.
May 2010, 312 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1810-0 hc $85.00
Environmental studies / sociology /
resource management
Praise for the first volume: Sandilands has done
a very thorough job of researching information …
A tremendous amount of material is summarized
in the species accounts, and it is presented in
a well-written style. I strongly recommend this
book and future volumes in the series.
– Ron Tozer, Ontario Birds
Al Sandilands is an environmental consultant
and principal, Gray Owl Environmental Inc.
May 2010, 400 pages, 8 x 10"
88 maps, 84 drawings of birds
978-0-7748-1762-2 hc $95.00
environmental studies / ornithology
relationships with water have constituted a crisis
… The subject is of fundamental importance
and the author's emphasis on the need to posit
environmental concerns within a socio-natural
understanding is vital.
– Alex Loftus, University of London
Jamie Linton is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
in the Department of Geography at Queen's
University.
Previously Announced
January 2010, 352 pages, 6 x 9"
30 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1701-1 hc $85.00
environmental studies / environmental
history / resource studies
Nature | History | Society Series
Environmental studies Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953–2003
Joy Parr
Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge
that shape how we understand the world.
If our environment changes at an unsettling
pace, how will we make sense of a world that
is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier
historians tackles this question by exploring
situations in the recent past where state-driven
megaprojects and regulatory and technological
changes forced ordinary people to cope with
transformations that were so radical that they no
longer recognized their home and workplaces or,
by implication, who they were. In concert with a
ground-breaking, creative, and analytical website,
megaprojects.uwo.ca, this timely study offers
a prescient perspective on how humans make
sense of a rapidly changing world.
Environmental studies Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Critical Issues, Critical Perspectives
Edited by Darrin Durant and Genevieve Fuji Johnson
As oil reserves decline and the environment
takes centre stage in public policy discussions,
the merits and dangers of nuclear power and
nuclear waste management are once again
being debated. Nuclear Waste Management in
Canada provides a critical counterpoint to the
favourable position of government and industry
by examining not only the technical but also the
social and ethical aspects of the issue. What do
frequently used terms such as safety, risk, and
acceptability really mean? And how and why did
the public consultation process in Canada fail to
address ethical and social issues? This timely
collection defuses the uncertainty, ambiguity,
and ignorance that surrounds discussions of
nuclear energy.
Environmental studies Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O'Riley
The concept of environmental justice has offered a
new direction for social movements and public pol-
icy in recent decades, and researchers worldwide
now position social equity as a prerequisite for
sustainability. Yet the relationship between social
equity and environmental sustainability has been
little studied in Canada. This book draws together
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars and activ-
ists who bring equity issues to the forefront by
considering environmental justice from a multiple
perspectives and in specifically Canadian contexts.
Speaking for Ourselves … has profoundly shaped
my thinking about the scholarly and political work
being done on environmental justice issues and
about the world we live in and share with other
beings … This book will extend the fields
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In this stunningly creative book, Joy Parr asks how
twentieth-century "mega-projects" – dams, power
plants, canals, military bases – have transformed
local people's most intimate experience of them-
selves and their environments. These examples
are Canadian but the insights are global.
– Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
Joy Parr is a professor and Canada Research
Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the
Geography Department at the University of
Western Ontario.
Previously Announced
December 2009, 304 pages, 6 x 9"
26 b&w photos, 6 maps
978-0-7748-1723-3 hc $85.00
environmental studies / environmental
history / sensory history
Nature | History | Society Series
This book is a solid contribution to the political sci-
ence of public consultation, a strong message to
the Canadian nuclear industry, and a sophisticated
source of support for individuals and groups who
wish to challenge basic assumptions we should
never take for granted.
– Peter Stoett, Concordia University
Darrin Durant is an assistant professor in the
Program in Science and Technology Studies at
York University. Genevieve Fuji Johnson is an
assistant professor in the Department of Political
Science at Simon Fraser University.
Previously Announced
October 2009, 208 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1708-0 hc $85.00
Environmental studies / political science
of environmental justice studies and indigenous
studies in new and productive ways.
–David Pellow, University of California
Julian Agyeman is a professor in and chair of
the Department of Urban and Environmental
Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Peter
Cole is an associate professor of Aboriginal and
northern studies at the University College of the
North. Randolph Haluza-DeLay is an assistant
professor of sociology at King's University College.
Pat O’Riley is an associate professor in the
Department of Equity Studies at York University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 306 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1619-9 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1618-2 HC $85.00
environmental Studies / aboriginal studies
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 Environmental studies
Environmental studies
Environmental studies
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Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada
Edited by Laurie E. Adkin
The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests,
fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and
greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others,  policy approaches toward a deeper consideration
calls for a critical re-thinking of the nature of
our democracy and citizenship. This work aims
to move the ideas of green democracy and
ecological citizenship from the margins to the
centre of discussion and debate in Canada. It
offers sixteen case studies to demonstrate that
environmental conflicts are always about our
rights and responsibilities as citizens and about
the quality of our democratic institutions. This
path-breaking collection charts a new course
for research and activism, one that reveals the
deficits of citizenship and how democracy must
be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologi-
cally sustainable society.
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
Liza Piper
Between 1821 and 1960, industrial economies
took root in the North, transgressing political
geographies and superseding the historically
dominant fur trade. Imported southern scientists
and sojourning labourers worked the Northwest,
and its industrial history bears these newcomers’
imprint. This book reveals the history of human
impact upon the North. It provides a baseline,
grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for
measuring subarctic environmental change. Liza
Piper examines the sustainability of industrial
economies, the value of resource exploitation
in volatile ecosystems, and the human conse-
quences of northern environmental change. She
also addresses northern communities’ historical
resistance to external resource development and
their fight for survival in the face of intensifying
environmental and economic pressures.
Forestry and Biodiversity
Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests
Edited by Fred L. Bunnell and Glen B. Dunsworth
As global demand for forest products increases,
conserving biodiversity has become more
urgent and challenging. Forestry and Biodiversity
advocates adaptive management – a structured
approach to learning by doing – to sustain
biodiversity in managed forests. It draws on the
theory and principles of conservation biology
and forest ecology and illustrates them, and the
challenges they pose, through a practical, real-
world study of commercial forestry in a coastal
temperate rainforest. This book will be of interest
to those who plan, or hope to influence, forest
practices and the future of the environment.
This book is an essential read and reference for
all forest stakeholders who are committed to
integrated management of forests for sustained
economic, environmental, and cultural values.
This book helps reorient environmental discus-
sions in Canada away from standard revisionist
of how democratic aspirations can push back
against the tight policy monopolies that control the
environmental agenda in Canada. This perspective
is absolutely central to addressing [our country's]
environmental problems.
–Ray Rogers, York University
Laurie E. Adkin is an associate professor
of comparative politics in the Department of
Political Science at the University of Alberta.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 392 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1603-8 pb $34.95
978-0-7748-1602-1 HC $85.00
environmental Studies / political science
[This book] makes a very significant contribu-
tion to the field, both by demonstrating to
environmental historians that Northern topics
are of broader interest and by providing Northern
historians with an impressively detailed illustration
of the importance of environmental perspectives.
– Ken Coates, University of Waterloo
Liza Piper is an assistant professor of history at
the University of Alberta.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 436 pages, 6 x 9"
15 b&w photos, 5 maps
978-0-7748-1533-8 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1532-1 hc $85.00
environmental studies /
environmental HISTORY
Nature | History | Society series
So much written about this subject is theoreti-
cal, but this book shares major lessons from a
large-scale real-world effort to implement such
management and to assess its effectiveness.
– Jerry Franklin, University of Washington
Fred L. Bunnell is a professor emeritus
of forestry and conservation biology at
the University of British Columbia.
Glen B. Dunsworth is a forest ecology
and conservation biology consultant.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 374 pages, 6 x 9"
20 b&w photos, 20 tables, 35 charts, 4 maps
978-0-7748-1530-7 pb $39.95
978-0-7748-1529-1 HC $85.00
environmental studies / forestry /
sustainability
law The British Columbia Court of Appeal
The First Hundred Years
Christopher Moore
Courts of law at once reflect and shape the
society in which they reside and dispense
justice. To mark the 2010 centenary of the British
Columbia Court of Appeal, this book presents
an institutional, jurisprudential, and biographical
account of the court and its evolving role in
the province. Richly illustrated and replete with
group portraits of judges and accounts of key
cases, this authoritative history explores how
the court came into being, how it has operated,
and who its judges have been. In the process, it
tells the story of how the court has shaped – and
been shaped by – the social, political, and legal
development of British Columbia.
Christopher Moore has written an engaging
history of the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
The personalities of the judges, the problems they
law Constitutional Politics in Canada after the Charter
Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Systemism
Patrick James
Since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was
introduced, Canada has experienced more than
twenty-five years of constitutional politics and
countless debates about the future of Canada.
There has, however, been no systematic attempt
to identify general theories about Canada's
constitutional evolution. Patrick James corrects
this oversight. By adding clarity to familiar debates,
this succinct assessment of major writings on
constitutional politics sharpens our vision of the
past – and the future – of the Canadian federation.
Patrick James provides a highly intelligent and
balanced synthesis of twenty-five years of con-
stitutional politics literature in Canada … He also
develops an innovative theoretical approach (sys-
temism) to evaluate competing constitutional
law Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Edited by Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra
Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases
have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal
title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This
book, however, shows that our understanding
of where the concept of Aboriginal title came
from – and where it may be going – can also be
enhanced by exploring legal developments in
these former British colonies in a comparative,
multidisciplinary perspective. This path-breaking
book offers a perspective on Aboriginal title that
extends beyond national borders to consider
similar developments in common law countries.
This book enriches the literature, which is not
greatly endowed with comparative scholarship on
indigenous rights, and it will help scholars, policy-
makers, students, and indigenous groups
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confronted, and the context in which they worked
all come very much alive. This book provides the
reader with a clear picture of the evolution of one
of Canada's most important legal institutions.
– Robert J. Sharpe, Justice of the Court of
Appeal for Ontario
Christopher Moore is a well-known writer
of Canadian history and the author of several
works of legal history. His website is
www.christophermoore.ca.
April 2010, 288 pages, 6 x 9"
100 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1864-3 hc $85.00
law / bc history
Co-published with the Osgoode Society
for Canadian Legal History
theories and to test the theoretical significance
of competing constitutional approaches. Simply
put, as an exercise in theory building, testing,
and evaluation, this book makes a unique
contribution to the state of Canadian politics and
constitutional studies.
– James Kelly, Department of Political Science,
Concordia University
Patrick James is a professor of international
relations and director of the Center for
International Studies at the University of
Southern California.
March 2010, 190 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1786-8 hc $85.00
LAW / political science
Law and Society Series
to appreciate better both historical and recent
legal developments in common law jurisdictions.
– Benjamin J. Richardson, York University
Louis A. Knafla is a professor emeritus of the
Department of History and director of Socio-
Legal Studies at the University of Calgary.
Haijo Westra is a professor of Greek and
Roman studies at the University of Calgary.
April 2010, 272 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1560-4 hc $85.00
law / aboriginal studies
Law and Society Series
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 law Constructing Crime
Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
Edited by Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman
Constructing Crime examines the notion of crime
as a construct and why particular behaviours and
individuals are defined as criminal. Contributors
interrogate notions of crime and processes
of criminalization in five areas – the selective
criminalization of gambling, the enforcement of
fraud among physicians and welfare recipients, the
enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting
practices, and perceptions of disorder in public
housing projects. By demonstrating that defini-
tions of crime are connected to social location and
status, these case studies and an afterword by
Marie-Andrée Bertrand challenge us to consider
just who is rendered criminal and why.
law A Perilous Imbalance
The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance
Stephen Clarkson and Stepan Wood
Through an examination of Canadians' compli-
cated roles as agents and objects of globalization,
this book shows how Canada's experience of
and contribution to globalized governance is
characterized by serious imbalances. It explores
these imbalances by tracing three interlinked
developments: the emergence of a neoconserva-
tive supraconstitution, the transformation of
the nation-state, and the growth of governance
beyond the nation-state. Advocating a revitalized
Canadian state as a vehicle for pursuing human
security, ecological integrity, and social emancipa-
tion, and for creating spaces in which progressive,
alternative forms of law and governance can
unfold, this book offers a compelling analysis
of the challenges that middle powers and their
citizens face in a globalizing world.
law Feminized Justice
The Toronto Women's Court, 1913–34
Amanda Glasbeek
In 1913, Toronto launched Canada's first
woman's police court. The court was run by and
for women, but was it a great achievement? This
multifaceted portrait of the cases, defendants,
and officials that graced its halls reveals a
fundamental contradiction at the experiment's
core: the Toronto Women's Police Court was
both a site for feminist adaptations of justice
and a court empowered to punish women.
Reconstructed from case files and newspaper
accounts, this engrossing portrait of the trials and
tribulations that accompanied an early experi-
ment in feminized justice sheds new light on
maternal feminist politics, women and crime, and
the role of resistance, agency, and experience in
the criminal justice system.
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Seeks to critique the current state of scholarship
and policy-making in criminology and law, with a
particular concern for how crime is produced as
an object of regulation and punishment. These are
crucial questions for Canadian scholars, policy-
makers, and citizens.
– Val Marie Johnson, Saint Mary's University
Janet Mosher is an associate professor at
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
Joan Brockman is a professor at the School
of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
May 2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1819-3 hc $85.00
law / sociology
Law and Society Series
Stephen Clarkson is a professor of political
economy at the University of Toronto and a senior
fellow of the Centre for International Governance
Innovation. Stepan Wood is a professor of law at
Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and
a Core Faculty member of the York Institute for
Research and Innovation in Sustainability.
Previously Announced
December 2009, 360 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1488-1 hc $85.00
law / political science / globalization
Law and Society Series
An original and important contribution to existing
literature on feminized justice. Not only does the
author explore records that have been inad-
equately examined in the past, she also offers
new theoretical insights into these sources.
– Lori Chambers, Lakehead University
Amanda Glasbeek is an assistant professor of
criminology in the Department of Social Science
at York University.
Previously Announced
November 2009, 240 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1711-0 hc $85.00
LAW / History / gender studies
Law and Society Series
LAW Justice Bertha Wilson
One Woman's Difference
Edited by Kim Brooks
Bertha Wilson's appointment to the Supreme
Court of Canada in 1982 capped off a career of
firsts. Wilson had been the first woman lawyer
and partner at a prominent Toronto law firm
and the first woman appointed to the Ontario
Court of Appeal. Her career and passing in 2007
have provoked reflection on her contributions
to Canadian society and the question, what
difference do women judges make? Justice
Bertha Wilson examines Wilson's career through
three distinct frames – foundations, controversy,
and reflections – and a wide range of feminist
perspectives. Taken together, these provocative
essays paint a nuanced portrait of a complex,
controversial woman who made a deep impres-
sion on the Canadian legal landscape.
LAW Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 46, 2008
Edited by D.M. McRae and A.L.C. de Mestral
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law
is issued annually under the auspices of the
Canadian Branch of the International Law
Association (Canadian Society of International
Law) and the Canadian Council on International
Law. The Yearbook contains articles of lasting
significance in the field of international legal
studies; a notes and comments section; a digest
of international economic law; a section on
current Canadian practice in international law; a
digest of important Canadian cases in the fields
of public international law, private international
law, and conflict of laws; a list of recent treaties,
and book reviews.
LAW Contested Constitutionalism
Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Edited by James B. Kelly and Christopher P. Manfredi
The introduction of the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied
by much fanfare and public debate. This book
does not celebrate the Charter, it offers a
critique by distinguished scholars of law and
political science of its effect on democracy,
judicial power, and the place of Quebec and
Aboriginal peoples twenty-five years later. By
employing diverse methodological approaches,
contributors shift the focus of debate from the
Charter's appropriateness to its impact – for
better or worse – on political institutions, public
policy, and conceptions of citizenship in the
Canadian federation.
Kelly and Manfredi have assembled an "all star
team" of scholars in the field. The result is a vol-
ume with thoughtful perspectives on governance
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Was Bertha Wilson a feminist judge or not? This
and other tantalizing questions are explored in this
multifaceted collection devoted to the profes-
sional journey of an internationally famous 'FW2'
(First Woman to...) in the often hostile, masculin-
ist domain of law.
– Margaret Thornton, Professor of Law,
Australian National University
Kim Brooks is an associate professor and the
H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation
in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.
Previously Announced
November 2009, 344 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1732-5 hc $85.00
law / gender studies / political science
Law and Society Series
D.M. McRae (editor-in-chief) is a professor and
Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law
at the University of Ottawa. A.L.C. de Mestral
(associate editor) is a professor and Jean Monnet
Chair in the Law of International Economic
Integration at McGill University.
Previously Announced
December 2009, 816 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1780-6 hc $175.00
LAW / International Law
and institutions, policy making and the courts,
and citizenship and identity. This should be
required reading for both specialists in the field
and those with an interest in constitutional and
Canadian politics.
– Patrick James, University of Southern California
James B. Kelly is an associate professor in the
Department of Political Science at Concordia
University. Christopher P. Manfredi is the
dean of arts and a professor in the Department of
Political Science at McGill University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 336 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1675-5 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1674-8 hc $85.00
LAW / political science
Law and Society Series
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 LAW Multi-Party Litigation
The Strategic Context
Wayne V. McIntosh and Cynthia L. Cates
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. By addressing the potential
and constraints of litigation, this book offers a
comprehensive account of an international issue
that will interest students and practitioners of
law, politics, and public policy.
This book is about the politics of lawsuits in
which multiple parties are pitted against powerful
corporate interests in a battle for money, pride, and
prominence. Yet, at the heart of these struggles is
the tension between what it means to be an
LAW Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921
Renisa Mawani
Encounters between aboriginal peoples,
European colonists, Chinese migrants, and
mixed-race populations generated a range of
racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in
BC. By focusing on these points of contact,
this book forges critical links between histories
of migration and dispossession. The book
highlights the legal and spatial strategies of rule
mobilized by Indian agents, missionaries, and
legal authorities who sought to restrict crossracial
encounters. Mawani illustrates how interracial
proximities in one colonial contact zone inspired
the production of juridical racial truths and modes
of governance that continue to linger in the racial
politics of contemporary settler societies.
This book offers fascinating new perspectives
on the roots of Canadian racism. Moving beyond
communication Media Divides
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern
with William J. McIver, Laura J. Murray, Seán Ó Siochrú, and Leslie Regan Shade
Canada is at a critical juncture in the evolution of
its communications policy. Will our information
and communications technologies continue in a
market-oriented, neoliberal direction, or will they
preserve and strengthen broader democratic
values? Media Divides offers a comprehensive,
up-to-date report card, or audit, on communica-
tions law and policy. Using the concept of
communications rights as a framework for
analysis, leading scholars not only reveal the
nation's democratic deficits in five key domains
– media, access, the Internet, privacy, and
copyright – they also formulate recommenda-
tions, including the establishment of a Canadian
right to communicate, for the future.
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individual and a member of a group, between law
and policy. It is a compelling read with great legal
stories and a strong analytic structure.
– John Brigham, University of Massachusetts
Wayne V. McIntosh is a political science profes-
sor, associate chair, and director of undergraduate
studies with the Department of Government and
Politics at the University of Maryland. Cynthia
L. Cates is a political science professor with
the Department of Political Science at Towson
University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 308 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1597-0 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1596-3 hc $85.00
LAW / Political science
law and society series
traditional narratives of Aboriginal-European contact
and Chinese-European relations, Renisa Mawani
probes the unsettled landscape of cross-racial
encounters between "indians" and "Chinese" in BC
history. She deftly captures the frenzied anxieties
that whites harboured over ungovernable mixed-
race activities, and brilliantly dissects the renewed
state racisms that were born of such encounters.
– Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa
Renisa Mawani is an assistant professor of
sociology at the University of British Columbia.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 288 pages, 6 x 9"
16 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1634-2 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1633-5 hc $90.00
Law / anthropology / aboriginal studies
Law and Society Series
Marc Raboy is a professor and Beaverbrook
Chair in Ethics, Media, and Communications
in the Department of Art History and
Communication Studies at McGill University.
Jeremy Shtern is a Fonds québécois
de la recherche sur la société et la culture
(FQRSC) postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of
Communication and Design at Ryerson
University.
April 2010, 400 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1774-5 hc $90.00
communication / law / public policy
Political Science Voting Behaviour in Canada
Edited by Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B. Stephenson

Understanding election results is a key issue clear and broad analysis of ballot casting across
for policy-makers and students and scholars of the country, this invaluable text will form the
politics. But can the results be explained, given bedrock of undergraduate studies in Canadian
that each ballot reflects the influence of count- political science for many years to come.
less impressions, decisions, and attachments?
Cameron D. Anderson and Laura B.
Voting Behaviour in Canada reveals the challeng-
Stephenson are assistant professors in the
es of understanding election results as leading
Department of Political Science at the University
young scholars of political behaviour piece
of Western Ontario.
together a comprehensive portrait of the mod-
ern Canadian voter. By systematically exploring April 2010, 328 pages, 6 x 9"
the long-standing attachments, short-term 978-0-7748-1783-7 hc $85.00
influences, and proximate factors that influence POLITICAL SCIENCE
our behaviour in the voting booth, this theoreti-
cally grounded and methodologically advanced
collection sheds new light on the choices we
make as citizens and provides important insights
into recent national developments. Offering a

Political Science The Politics of Linkage

Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US Relations
Brian Bow

Do Canada and the United States share a special Brian Bow is an associate professor of political
relationship, or is this just a face-saving myth, science at Dalhousie University.
masking dependency and domination? The Politics Previously Announced
of Linkage cuts through the rhetoric that clouds November 2009, 232 pages, 6 x 9"
this debate by offering detailed accounts of four 978-0-7748-1695-3 hc $85.00
major bilateral disputes. It shows that the United POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations
States has not made coercive linkages between
issues. In the early Cold War years, the exercise
of American power over Canada was held in
check by a genuinely special diplomatic culture
but since then has been held back only by interest
groups and institutions. This revisionist account
of Canada-US relations is essential reading for
anyone interested in Canadian politics, American
foreign policy, or international diplomacy.

Political Science At Home and Abroad

The Canada-US Relationship and Canada's Place in the World
Patrick Lennox

Canada's relationship with the United States Patrick Lennox is a fellow of the Canadian
and its place in the world currently occupy Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and the
distinct spheres in the minds of policymakers, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie
intellectuals, and citizens. At home, Canada is University.
thought to enjoy a "special" relationship with the Previously Announced
United States; abroad, it occupies a place as the November 2009, 192 pages, 6 x 9"
world's problem-solver and peacekeeper. Patrick 1 photograph, 2 maps
Lennox analyzes six key events in the history of 978-0-7748-1705-9 hc $85.00
relations between the two countries to reveal the POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations
underlying connection between the Canada-US
relationship and Canada's place in the world. The
war in Afghanistan is but the latest in a series of
paradoxical interactions between the two states
abroad that has resulted from the hierarchy in
Canada-US relations at home. Innovative and
sophisticated, this book is essential reading for
anyone interested in understanding Canada's
place in the world.

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 Political Science
Political Science
Political Science
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Deliberative Democracy in Practice
Edited by David Kahane, Daniel Weinstock, Dominique Leydet, and Melissa Williams
Deliberative democracy is a dominant paradigm
in normative political philosophy. Deliberative
democrats want politics to be more than a
clash of contending interests, and they believe
political decisions should emerge from reasoned
dialogue among citizens. But can these ideals
be realized in complex and unjust societies?
This book brings together leading scholars who
explore debates in deliberative democratic
theory in four areas of practice: education,
constitutions and state boundaries, indigenous-
settler relations, and citizen participation and
public consultation. This dynamic volume casts
new light on the strengths and limitations of de-
liberative democratic theory, offering guidance
to policy makers and to students and scholars
interested in democratic justice.
Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
Manon Tremblay, translated by Käthe Roth
Women represent a slight majority of Quebec's
population, yet they continue to occupy a
minority of seats in its National Assembly and
in Canada's House of Commons and Senate. To
explain why this is, Manon Tremblay examines
Quebec women's political engagements from
1791 to the present. She traces the path that
led to women obtaining the rights to vote and
run for office and then draws on statistics and
interviews with female politicians to paint an in-
depth portrait of women's under-representation
and its main causes. Her innovative account
not only documents the significant democratic
deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it
also outlines strategies to improve women's
access to legislative representation in Canada
and elsewhere.
Opening Doors Wider
Women's Political Engagement in Canada
Edited by Sylvia Bashevkin
From the days of the fur trade through the
contemporary period, women have played
important roles in the public life of Canada. Until
the 1970s, however, these contributions were
generally overlooked. This book focuses on two
questions. First, are the doors to participation
presently open wider than they were in the past?
Second, how can these doors be opened wider,
both in terms of real-world participation and our
scholarly understanding of public engagement?
These tightly argued essays shed new light on
the public involvement of women. The nuanced
discussions of solutions as well as problems
makes this book an indispensable resource for
students and practitioners of politics at all levels.
David Kahane is an associate professor and
Vargo Distinguished Teaching Chair in the
Department of Political Science at the University
of Alberta. Daniel Weinstock is a professor
of philosophy and Canada Research Chair in
Ethics and Political Philosophy at Université de
Montréal. Dominique Leydet is a professor of
philosophy at Université de Québec à Montréal.
Melissa Williams is a professor of political
science at the University of Toronto.
Previously Announced
December 2009, 264 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1677-9 hc $85.00
POLITICAL science / political theory / law
Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
fills a crucial gap in the Canadian and international
literatures in English on women and politics. It
presents the welcome voice of a well-informed
Quebec scholar, who sheds invaluable light on
women's political history and contemporary
participation in la belle province.
– From the Foreword by Sylvia Bashevkin
Manon Tremblay is a professor of political
science at the University of Ottawa. Käthe Roth
has been a literary translator, working mainly in
historical non-fiction, for more than twenty years.
She lives and works in Saint-Lazare, Quebec.
Previously Announced
January 2010, 272 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1768-4 hc $85.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE / gender studies
Sylvia Bashevkin is a professor of political
science and Principal of University College at the
University of Toronto.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 236 pages, 6 x 9"
12 charts and 11 tables
978-0-7748-1564-2 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1563-5 HC $85.00
political SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Political Science Identity/Difference Politics
How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Rita Dhamoon
Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to
dominate debates about identity and difference
politics in contemporary western political theory.
Identity/Difference Politics offers a nuanced
critique of these debates by switching the focus
from culture to power. Issues of power are
examined through accounts of meaning-making
– those processes through which meanings of
difference are produced, organized, and regu-
lated. Other forms of identity/difference such as
whiteness, ableism, gender, and heteronormativ-
ity establish the analytic and normative value of
Dhamoon's alternative theoretical framework,
and reveal that an exclusive preoccupation with
culture can dissolve into essentialism – which too
often provides a rationale for state regulation of
groups deemed to be too different.
political science Language Matters
How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English
Edited by David R. Cameron and Richard Simeon
Canada is an officially bilingual country. But how
do voluntary associations manage linguistic
diversity? In the 1960s, a pioneering study by
Vincent Lemieux and John Meisel revealed that
associations were paralyzed by internal conflicts
over language. Language Matters presents case
studies of well-established and newer associa-
tions to determine whether this has changed.
Contributors examine key turning points in the
given association's history and highlight how
its mandate, leadership, and relationship to the
federal and provincial governments shaped
its response to linguistic diversity. This book
provides a deeper understanding of the language
dynamic in Canada and offers solutions to groups
and governments trying to manage difference.
Political science Leviathan Undone?
Towards a Political Economy of Scale
Edited by Roger Keil and Rianne Mahon
Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen
in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy
has been found wanting when it comes to prob-
lematizing space and scale. Globalization and the
rise of world cities and regions have shaken the
discipline's foundations and fostered new interest
in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings
together leading theorists and scholars from a
variety of disciplines to develop a new language
to understand the spatial restructuring that has
accompanied globalization. By treating scale as
the core concept of our time, these innovative,
groundbreaking essays bring a new sensibility to
classical and contemporary concerns in Canadian
and international political economy.
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Dhamoon develops an "account of meaning-
making" that attunes us to the complexities of
power as it interfaces with cultural patterns. With
new and compelling case studies, she moves us
out of the linguistic focus of Kymlicka and Taylor
in Canada and the religious/ethnic focus of many
American tracts.
– Hawley Fogg-Davis, author of The Ethics of
Transracial Adoption
Rita Dhamoon teaches political science at the
University of the Fraser Valley.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 208 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1591-8 pb $29.95
978-0-7748-1590-1 hc $85.00
political science / political theory / sociology
David R. Cameron is the chair and a professor
of political science at the University of Toronto
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Richard Simeon a is professor of political
science and law at the University of Toronto and a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 244 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1504-8 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1503-1 hc $85.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE / sociology
Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of
Environmental Studies and director of the City
Institute at York University. Rianne Mahon is
professor and director of the Institute of Political
Economy and a member of the School of Public
Policy and Administration and the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton
University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 380 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1631-1 pb $34.95
978-0-7748-1630-4 hc $85.00
POLITICAL science / Political economy
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 Political science Big Steel
Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market
Daniel Madar
World steel production has grown dramatically as
countries industrialize and add their own steel-
producing capacity. China's prodigious expansion
of steel output increases the industry's natural
vulnerability to oversupply and volatile prices.
And the merger of the two largest steelmakers,
Arcelor and Mittal, portends consolidation as a
prime strategy for diversification and stabilization.
This book examines the competition and survival
strategies of the integrated steel industry from
various vantage points including cost structures
and technology, export pricing strategies, the
economics of trade protection, Paul Krugman’s
Nobel Prize-winning explanation of industrial
diffusion and trade, and the prospects of coop-
erating closely with automakers. The industry's
future, Big Steel shows, is cosmopolitan.
globalization Unsettled Legitimacy
Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era
Edited by Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman
Globalization has challenged relationships of
rule in local, regional, national, and international
settings. This unsettling of legitimacy raises
questions. Under what conditions do individuals
and communities accept globalized decision
making as legitimate? And what political
practices do individuals and collectivities
under globalization use to exercise autonomy?
To answer these questions, the contributors
explore the disruptions and reconfigurations of
political authority that accompany globalization.
Arguing that we live in an era in which political
legitimacy at multiple scales of authority is
under strain, they show that globalization has
also created demands for regulation, security,
and the protection of rights and expressions of
individual and collective autonomy.
globalization Empires and Autonomy
Moments in the History of Globalization
Edited by Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman
Globalization is one of the most significant
developments of our time. But which elements
of contemporary globalization and forms of
autonomy are novel and which are merely
continuations of long-standing trends? This book
brings together a distinguished group of scholars
who address these questions by focusing on
historical moments that involved the establish-
ment or protection of autonomy, moments that
inevitably involved friction. By examining the
dialectic between globalization and autonomy at
moments ranging from the Chinese occupation
of Tibet in 1720 to the meeting between Reagan
and Gorbachev that led to the end of the Cold
War, this volume provides novel insights into
changes overtaking the contemporary world.
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Big Steel explores an industry that has been in
near continual transformation for a generation or
more and captures the shape and structure of
these changes. Perhaps even more significantly,
it makes the case that developments in the
new millennium denote a new phase in the
global steel business, which portends even more
dramatic changes of behaviour and performance.
– Peter Clancy, St. Francis Xavier University
Daniel Madar is a professor of political science
at Brock University.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 248 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1666-3 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1665-6 HC $85.00
POLITICAL science / Political economy
Steven Bernstein is an associate professor
of political science and associate director of the
Centre for International Studies at the University
of Toronto. William D. Coleman is a professor
and Center for International Governance
Innovation Chair in Globalization and Public Policy
at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Previously Announced
October 2009, 408 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1717-2 hc $85.00
Globalization / POLITICAL SCIENCE
Globalization and Autonomy Series
Stephen M. Streeter is an associate profes-
sor in the Department of History at McMaster
University. John C. Weaver is a Distinguished
University Professor in the Department of History
at McMaster University. William D. Coleman
is a professor and Center for International
Governance Innovation Chair in Globalization
and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of
International Affairs.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 394 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1600-7 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1599-4 HC $85.00
Globalization / POLITICAL SCIENCE / history
Globalization and Autonomy Series
 globalization Cultural Autonomy
Frictions and Connections
Edited by Petra Rethmann, Imre Szeman, and William D. Coleman
Globalization has challenged concepts such as
local culture and cultural autonomy. And the
rampant commodification of cultural products has
challenged the way we define culture itself. Have
these developments transformed the relationship
between culture and autonomy? Have traditional
notions of cultural autonomy been recast? This
book showcases the work of scholars who
employ a broad definition of culture to trace
how issues of cultural autonomy have played
out in various arenas, including literary criticism,
indigenous societies, the Slow Food movement,
and skateboarding culture. Although they focus
on the marginalized issue of autonomy, they
reveal that globalization has limited but also
created new forms of cultural autonomy.
globalization Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy
Insights for a Global Age
Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman
When the UN adopted the Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, it brought
the negative effect of globalization on the lives
of Indigenous peoples to the centre of public
debate. This innovative collection extends the
discussion by asking, what can Indigenous
peoples' experiences with and thoughts on
globalization tell us about the relationship
between globalization and autonomy and the
meaning of the concepts themselves? It presents
case studies from around the world to explore
how Indigenous peoples are engaging with and
challenging globalization and Western views
of autonomy. Taken together, these insightful
studies reveal that concepts such as globalization
and autonomy neither encapsulate nor explain
Indigenous peoples' experiences.
aboriginal studies No need of a chief for this band
Maritime Mi'kmaq and Federal Election Legislation, 1899–1951
Martha Walls
In 1899 the Canadian government passed
legislation to replace the community ap-
pointment of Mi'kmaw leaders and Mi'kmaw
political practices with the triennial system,
a Euro-Canadian system of democratic band
council elections. Officials in Ottawa assumed
the federally mandated and supervised system
would redefine Mi'kmaw politics. They were
wrong. Many Mi'kmaw communities rejected or
amended the legislation, while others accepted
it sporadically to meet specific community needs
and goals. Compelling and timely, this book sup-
ports Aboriginal claims to self-governance and
complicates understandings of state power by
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Petra Rethmann is an associate professor in
the Department of Anthropology at McMaster
University. Imre Szeman is Canada Research
Chair in Cultural Studies and a professor of
english and film studies at the University of
Alberta. William D. Coleman is a professor and
Center for International Governance Innovation
Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the
Balsillie School of International Affairs.
March 2010, 336 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1759-2 hc $85.00
globalization / cultural studies /
anthropology
Globalization and Autonomy Series
Mario Blaser is Canada Research Chair in
Aboriginal Studies at Memorial University.
Ravi de Costa is an assistant professor in
the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York
University. Deborah McGregor is an associate
professor in geography, planning, and Aboriginal
studies at the University of Toronto.
William D. Coleman is a professor and Center
for International Governance Innovation Chair
in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie
School of International Affairs.
May 2010, 280 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1792-9 hc $85.00
globalization / aboriginal studies
Globalization and Autonomy Series
showing that the Mi'kmaq, rather than succumb-
ing to imposed political models, retained political
practices that distinguished them from their
Euro-Canadian neighbours.
Martha Walls is an assistant professor of
history at St. Francis Xavier University.
May 2010, 200 pages, 6 x 9"
10 b&w photos, 1 map
978-0-7748-1789-9 hc $85.00
aboriginal studies / canadian history /
political science
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 aboriginal studies One of the Family
Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan
Brenda Macdougall

In recent years there has been growing interest Brenda Macdougall is an associate profes-
in identifying the social and cultural attributes sor in the Department of Native Studies at the
that define the Metis as a distinct people. In University of Saskatchewan.
this path-breaking study, Brenda Macdougall Previously Announced
employs the concept of wahkootowin – the January 2010, 352 pages, 6 x 9"
Cree term for a worldview that privileges family 8 b&w photos, 5 maps, 24 family trees
and values interconnectedness – to trace the 978-0-7748-1729-5 hc $85.00
emergence of a Metis community in northern aboriginal studies / canadian history
Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how
relationships worked and helps to explain how
the Metis negotiated with local economic and
religious institutions while nurturing a society
that emphasized family obligation and responsibil-
ity. This innovative exploration of the birth of
Metis identity offers a model for future research
and discussion.

aboriginal studies Urbanizing Frontiers

Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
Penelope Edmonds

Frontiers were not confined to the bush, Penelope Edmonds is an Australian Research
backwoods, or borderlands. Towns and cities at Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of
the farthest reaches of empire were crucial to Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne.
the settler colonial project. Yet the experiences of
Indigenous peoples in these urban frontiers have Previously Announced
been overshadowed by triumphant narratives January 2010, 328 pages, 6 x 9"
of progress. This book explores the lives of 24 b&w photos, 5 maps
Indigenous peoples and settlers in two Pacific Rim 978-0-7748-1621-2 hc $85.00
Aboriginal studies / history
cities – Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne,
Australia. Built on Indigenous lands and overtaken
by gold rushes, these cities emerged between
1835 and 1871 in significantly different locations,
yet both became cross-cultural and segregated
sites of empire. This innovative study traces how
these spaces, and the bodies in them, were
transformed, sometimes in violent ways, creating
new spaces and new polities.

aboriginal studies First Nations, First Thoughts

The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
Edited by Annis May Timpson

Countless books and articles have traced the im-
pact of colonialism and public policy on Canada's
First Nations, but few have explored the impact
of Aboriginal thought on on public discourse and
policy development in Canada. First Nations,
First Thoughts brings together Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal scholars who cut through the
prevailing orthodoxy to reveal Indigenous thinkers
and activists as a pervasive presence in diverse
political, constitutional, and cultural debates and
arenas, including urban spaces, historical texts,
public policy, and cultural heritage preservation.
This innovative, thought-provoking collection
contributes to the decolonization process by
encouraging us to imagine a stronger, fairer
Canada, one in which Aboriginal self-government
and expression can be fully realized.
This is a luminous collection of voices that reveals
the power of Indigenous thought and that must
be read to comprehend the transformation of
Canadian thought and the spirit of the Indigenous
renaissance.
– Sákéj Henderson, Native Law Centre,
University of Saskatchewan
Annis May Timpson is director of the Centre of
Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 336 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1552-9 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1551-2 HC $85.00
aboriginal studies / canadian history /
political science

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aboriginal studies Finding Dahshaa
Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Just as dahshaa – a rare type of dried, rotted
spruce wood – is essential to the Dene moose-
hide-tanning process, self-determination and the
alleviation of social suffering are necessary to
Indigenous survival in the Northwest Territories.
But is self-government an effective path to
self-determination? Finding Dahshaa shows
where self-government negotiations between
Canada and the Dehcho, Délînê, and Inuvialuit
and Gwich’in peoples have gone wrong and
offers, through descriptions of tanning practices
that embody principles and values central to
self-determination, an alternative model for nego-
tiations. This accessible book, which includes a
foreword by Dene National Chief Bill Erasmus, is
the first ethnographic study of self-government
negotiations in Canada.
Education Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic
Heather E. McGregor
This groundbreaking study provides the historical
context needed to understand the educational
challenges currently faced in Nunavut. Since
the mid-twentieth century, sustained contact
between Inuit and newcomers in the Eastern
Arctic has led to profound changes in education,
including the experience of colonization and
the re-establishment of traditional education in
schools. With an emphasis on cultural negotia-
tion, decision making, and the role of tradition,
Heather McGregor assesses these trends as they
played out over four periods – the traditional, the
colonial (1945-70), the territorial (1971-84), and
the local (1985-99). She concludes that educa-
tion is most successful when Inuit involvement
and local control support a system that reflects
Inuit culture and Inuit visions for the future.
education A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Larry Prochner
In the early nineteenth century, governments
introduced kindergartens and infant schools to
give children a head start in life. These programs
hinged on new visions of childhood that origin-
ated in England and Europe, but what happened
when they were exported to the colonies? This
book unwinds the tangled threads of this history,
from early infant schools in England to three
Commonwealth countries – Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand – where systems of educating
young children were transplanted but adapted
to suit local ideas, politics, and populations. This
unique, comparative approach to the history of
early childhood education provides fresh insight
into how to reconcile educational theory and
practice in an increasingly global world.
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Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox holds a doctorate
in polar studies from Cambridge University and
for the past decade has worked for Indigenous
peoples on self-government and related political
development processes in Canada's Northwest
Territories. See also findingdashaa.ca.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 216 pages, 6 x 9"
24 b&w photos, 2 maps
978-0-7748-1625-0 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1624-3 HC $85.00
aboriginal studies / political science /
northern studies
In April 2008 Inuit Tapiritsat Kanatmi, the
pan-Canadian Inuit political organization, called a
national summit to address the failure of current
schooling to meet the academic, social, and cul-
tural needs of Inuit students in formal schooling in
the four Inuit regions of Canada. This book clearly
shows that when schools create different power
relationships with Inuit families and communities,
positive results can be seen.
– Joanne Tompkins, author of Teaching in a Cold
and Windy Place: Change in an Inuit School
Heather E. McGregor is a researcher who
currently works for the pubic service in Nunavut.
May 2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-1744-8 hc $85.00
Education / aboriginal studies /
northern studies
Professor Larry Prochner has produced a
systematic, scholarly and insightful analysis of the
emergence of infant schools and kindergartens in
Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. This
book will be a key reference work for all scholars
in the field.
– Deborah Brennan, University of New South
Wales
Larry Prochner is a professor of early child-
hood education at the University of Alberta.
New in Paperback
January 2010, 352 pages, 6 x 9"
17 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1660-1 pb $32.95
978-0-7748-1659-5 HC $85.00
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 education Lost Kids
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Edited by Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, and Veronica Strong-Boag

Children and youth occupy important social and
political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang
out on street corners. Conceptualized as either
harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomor-
row, they have motivated many adult-driven
schemes to effect a positive future. But have
all children benefited from these programs and
initiatives? Lost Kids examines adults' misgivings
about, and the inadequate care of, vulnerable
children. From explorations of interracial adoption
and the treatment of children with disabilities
to discussions of the cultural construction of
the hopeless child, this multifaceted collection
rejects the essentialism of the "priceless child" or
"lost youth" – simplistic categories that continue
to shape the treatment of those who deviate
from the so-called norm.
The volume editors all teach at the University of
British Columbia. Mona Gleason is an associate
professor in the Department of Educational
Studies, Tamara Myers and Leslie Paris
are associate professors in the Department
of History, and Veronica Strong-Boag
is a professor in the Women’s Studies and
Educational Studies departments.
Previously Announced
November 2009, 272 pages, 6 x 9"
8 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1686-1 hc $85.00
Education / history / sociology /
family & childhood studies

cultural studies Transnational Yearnings

Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City
Jenny Burman
Transnational Yearnings
Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City
People, money, and uneven power relations Jenny Burman is a professor of communication
congest routes between cities and nations in our studies at McGill University.
globalizing world. Transnational Yearnings maps
May 2010, 176 pages, 6 x 9"
a new way to look at modern contact zones and
978-0-7748-1735-6 hc $85.00
the personal interconnections that inform them cultural studies / sociology
by tracing circuits of migration and leisure travel
between postcolonial Jamaica and Toronto, a city
that has become for Jamaican Canadians both a
place of promise and cultural vitality and a site of
criminalization and exclusion through deportation.
Innovative and provocative, this book is about the
desires, intimacies, and power relations that at
once inform and reflect transnational migration
and the diasporization of urban space.
Jenny Burman

cultural studies Terrain of Memory

A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
Kirsten Emiko McAllister

For communities who have been the target of Kirsten Emiko McAllister is an associate
political violence, the damaging after-effects can professor in the School of Communication at
haunt what remains of their families, their com- Simon Fraser University.
munities, and the societies in which they live.
April 2010, 320 pages, 6 x 9"
Terrain of Memory tells the story of the Japanese
20 b&w photos
Canadian elders who built a memorial in New
978-0-7748-1771-4 hc $90.00
Denver, British Columbia, to transform a site of cultural studies / canadian history /
political violence into a space for remembrance. BC Studies
The book shows how collectively excavating pain-
ful memories can contribute to building relations
across social and intergenerational divides. Those
seeking a deeper understanding of the potential
of memorial projects in transforming the damag-
ing effects of human rights abuses should read
this compelling account of community building
and social justice.

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gender & sexuality studies Awfully Devoted Women
Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900–65
Cameron Duder

The lives of lesbians before 1965 remain cloaked Cameron Duder teaches history at Capilano
in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight University in Vancouver.
on upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and on
May 2010, 288 pages, 6 x 9"
working-class butch and femme women, but the
978-0-7748-1738-7 hc $85.00
lives of the lower-middle-class majority remain Gender & Sexuality Studies /
in the shadows. Awfully Devoted Women offers canadian history
a nuanced portrait of middle-class lesbianism in Sexuality Studies Series
the decades before the gay rights movement in
English Canada. This intimate study of the lives
of women who were forced to love in secret not
only challenges the idea that lesbian relation-
ships in the past were asexual, it also reveals
the courage it took to explore desire in an era
when women were supposed to know little
about sexuality.

gender & sexuality studies The Canadian War on Queers

National Security as Sexual Regulation
Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the contribution to Canadian history and LGBT
state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays studies.
and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideolo- – Barry Adam, author of The Rise of a Gay
gies and other practices to construct their targets and Lesbian Movement
as threats to society. Based on official security
documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, Gary Kinsman is a professor in the Sociology
civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path- Department at Laurentian University. Patrizia
breaking book discloses acts of state repression Gentile is assistant professor in the Pauline
and forms of resistance that raise questions about Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies
just whose national security was being protected. at Carleton University.
Passionate and personalized, this account of how New in Paperback
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state security apparatuses and an important

gender & sexuality studies Sapphistries

A Global History of Love between Women
Leila J. Rupp

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in
contemporary Indonesia, women throughout
history and around the globe have desired, loved,
and had sex with other women. This book tells
their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that
diverse societies have shaped female same-sex
sexuality across time and place. Leila Rupp
reveals how, from the time of the very earliest
societies, the possibility of love between women
has been known, even when it is feared, ignored,
or denied. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative
with meticulous historical research, providing
a uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and
sex between women around the globe from the
beginning of time to the present.
Leila J. Rupp is a professor of feminist studies
and associate dean of the Division of Social
Sciences at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. She is author of many books, including
A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex
Love in America.
Previously Announced
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29 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1782-0 HC $34.95
Gender & Sexuality Studies / history
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 urban studies Sex and the Revitalized City
Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
Leslie Kern

When a recent wave of condominium develop- Leslie Kern is an assistant professor of women's
ment overtook Toronto, women emerged as studies at Mount Allison University.
powerful consumers, and reports claimed that
April 2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
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13 b&w photos
women freedom, financial independence, and
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personal security. Sex and the Revitalized City urban studies / human geography /
examines the truth of these claims by exploring gender studies
the phenomenon from the perspective of women
condo owners and planners and developers. This
fresh perspective on urban revitalization reveals
that condo ownership is not freeing women from
constraints – neoliberal ideologies are remak-
ing women's relationship with the city in the
image of fast capital and consumer citizenship.
Women's emancipation through condominium
ownership is a marketing ploy rather than a major
shift in gender relations.

urban studies Reconstructing Kobe

The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity
David W. Edgington

Six thousand people died and hundreds of David W. Edgington is a former director of the
thousands lost their homes when the Hanshin Centre for Japanese Research and an associate
Earthquake hit Kobe in 1995. It was the largest professor of geography at the University of
disaster in postwar Japan and, until Hurricane British Columbia.
Katrina, the largest postwar natural disaster to
May 2010, 312 pages, 6 x 9"
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978-0-7748-1756-1 hc $95.00
the long-term reconstruction efforts remain a urban studies / planning
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reconstruction and recovery and asks whether
planners successfully exploited opportunities to
make a more sustainable and disaster-proof city.
This intricate investigation of one of the largest
redevelopment projects in recent memory is
essential reading for urban planners and policy-
makers, and anyone interested in Japanese urban
and planning history.

urban studies Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Transformations in Toronto's Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875–2002
Carolyn Whitzman

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the Carolyn Whitzman is a senior lecturer in urban
relationship between image and reality for one planning at the University of Melbourne.
city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn New in Paperback
Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three January 2010, 240 pages, 6 x 9"
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also shows how Parkdale’s image influenced
planning policy for the neighbourhood. Whitzman
demonstrates that image and reality have not
always correlated for Parkdale. Parkdale’s chang-
ing image stood in stark contrast to its real social
conditions. Nevertheless, this image became
a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to
increasingly discriminatory planning practices for
Parkdale in the late twentieth century.

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urban studies Thinking Planning and Urbanism
Beth Moore Milroy

When manufacturers and retailers vacate tradi-
tional locations, they leave holes in a city's fabric
that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. Who
should mend these spaces, and how should
they approach the problem? Using Toronto's
Dundas Square and surrounding area as a case
study, this book meticulously reconstructs the
redevelopment process to explore the theories
and practices used. It traces the labyrinth of
competing interests that can sideline and nearly
overwhelm the public planning function. In these
circumstances, Moore Milroy concludes that
practising planners are marooned by planning
theories that begin from the premise that urban
space is a social construction and only second-
arily a function of technology and aesthetics.
Beth Moore Milroy, professor emerita, is
former director of the School of Urban and
Regional Planning at Ryerson University and
a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
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22 b&w photos, 8 maps
978-0-7748-1615-1 pb $34.95
978-0-7748-1614-4 hc $85.00
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sociology Speaking for a Long Time

Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver
Adrienne L. Burk

In the late 1990s, Vancouver's Downtown Adrienne L. Burk is a senior lecturer in the
Eastside became the setting for three monu- Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
ments – Crab Park Boulder, Marker of Change, Simon Fraser University.
and Standing with Courage, Strength and Pride.
April 2010, 192 pages, 6 x 9"
The monuments were grassroots initiatives that
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challenged the norms of civic art by claiming a
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place in public space for society's most vulner- sociology / urban studies / human geography
able groups, and each figured in debates about
violence. Emphasizing the resilience and agency
of artists, activists, and residents, this vivid
account of the creation of memory-scapes offers
unique insights into the links between power,
public space, and social memory. It asks us to
reconsider what constitutes public art that will
“speak for a long time.”

sociology Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal

Edited by Janice R. Foley and Patricia L. Baker

Trade unions in Canada are losing their traditional
support base, and membership numbers could
sink to US levels unless unions recapture their
power. Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal
brings together a distinguished group of union
activists and equity scholars who trace how tra-
ditional union cultures, practices, and structures
have eroded solidarity and activism and created
an equity deficit in Canadian unions. Informed
by a feminist vision of unions as instruments of
social justice, the contributors argue that equity
within unions is not simply one possible path
to union renewal – it is the only way to reposi-
tion organized labour as a central institution in
workers’ lives.
Janice R. Foley is a professor in the Faculty
of Business Administration at the University of
Regina. Patricia L. Baker was an associate
professor of anthropology at Mount St. Vincent
University.
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political science

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 sociology Surveillance
Power, Problems, and Politics
Edited by Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg

Surveillance is commonly rationalized as a interdisciplinary work by Canadian scholars [the

solution for existing problems such as crime and
terrorism. This book explores how surveillance,
often disguised as risk management or harm
reduction, can also cause a range of social and
political problems. Canadian scholars from
diverse disciplines interrogate the moral and ideo-
logical bases and material effects of surveillance
in policing, consumerism, welfare administration,
disaster management, popular culture, moral
regulation, news media, social movements, and
anti-terrorism campaigns.
In this sprightly volume, the wide tires of
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reality inducing roads of critical conceptual and
empirical inquiry. The field of surveillance studies
lurches forward as a result. This informative
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should be read by anyone interested in the
richness, complexity, and varied consequences of
both traditional and new surveillance techniques.
– Gary T. Marx, professor emeritus of sociology
at M.I.T.
Sean P. Hier is an associate professor in the
Department of Sociology at the University
of Victoria. Josh Greenberg is an assistant
professor in the School of Journalism and
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asian studies Administering the Colonizer

Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918–29
Blaine R. Chiasson

Harbin of the 1920s was viewed by Westerners Blaine R. Chiasson is an associate professor
as a world turned upside down. The Chinese of modern Chinese history and Sino-Russian
government had taken over administration of relations at Wilfrid Laurier University.
the Russian-founded Chinese Eastern Railway
March 2010, 340 pages, 6 x 9"
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the multiple national influences that have shaped
northern China and Chinese nationalism.

asian studies The New Silk Road Diplomacy

China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War
Hasan H. Karrar

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Hasan H. Karrar is a visiting scholar at the
independent states such as Kazakhstan sprang Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International
up along China's western frontier. Suddenly, Studies, University of Toronto.
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build an energy infrastructure to import the
region's oil. While China's gradualist approach to
Central Asia prioritized multilateral diplomacy, it
also brought Beijing into direct competition with
the United States, which views Central Asia as
vital to its strategic interests.

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asian studies Art in Turmoil
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–76
Edited by Richard King

Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural
Revolution, this book revisits the visual and
performing arts of the period – the paintings,
propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture,
folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet –
and examines what these vibrant, militant, often
gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and
their audiences at the time, and what they mean
now, both in their original forms and as revolu-
tionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented
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art and by artists whose careers were shaped by
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works that have transcended their times.
The passage of time and passion, as well as the
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participants put a human face on the decade-
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exquisite scholarship to deepen our understand-
ing of the artistic life of Maoist China.
– Richard Kraus, author of The Party and the Arty
in China: The New Politics of Culture
Richard King is the director of the Centre for
Asia-Pacific Initiatives and an associate professor
of Chinese studies at the University of Victoria.
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23 colour, 40 b&w photos
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to work on the Cultural Revolution. Memoirs of

asian studies Asian Religions in British Columbia

Edited by Larry DeVries, Don Baker, and Dan Overmyer

British Columbia is Canada's most ethnically Larry Devries is an instructor in religious

diverse province. Yet in general we know little
about the diversity of religions that accompanied
immigrants to the province or how they are prac-
tised today. This book offers intimate portraits
of local religious groups, including Hindus and
Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations
from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and
Chinese religions from East and Central Asia. The
first comprehensive, comparative examination of
Asian religions in British Columbia, this book is
mandatory reading for teachers, policy-makers,
scholars of local history and culture, and of Asian
Canadian studies.
studies and Asian studies at Langara College.
Don Baker is a professor in Asian studies at the
University of British Columbia. Dan Overmyer
is professor emeritus in Asian studies at the
University of British Columbia.
May 2010, 332 pages, 6 x 9"
11 b&w photos
978-0-7748-1662-5 hc $85.00
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bc studies
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asian studies Reforming Japan

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
Elizabeth Dorn Lublin

In 1902 the WCTU petitioned the Japanese Elizabeth Dorn Lublin is an assistant professor
government to stop rewarding good deeds with of history at Wayne State University.
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prove the lives of women, and spread Christianity.
As Elizabeth Dorn Lublin argues, the WCTU's
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Meiji Japan. Far from being politically submissive,
members felt a duty to shape government policy
and believed that their moral values and religious
beliefs were essential to their vision. They did not
passively accept and propagate government policy
– they defined social problems and tried to shape
official solutions.

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 Asian Studies American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859–73
Hamish Ion

Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two Hamish Ion is a professor of history at the Royal
hundred years because of religious and political Military College of Canada.
instability caused by Christianity. By 1859, Previously Announced
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history of Japanese-American relations – the
formation of Protestant missions. He reveals
that the transmission of values and beliefs was
not a simple matter of acceptance or rejection:
missionaries and Christian laymen persisted in
the face of open hostility and served as important
liaisons between East and West.

AU Press A Woman of Valour

The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
Claire Trépanier

The biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
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She discovers love with the priest of her village,
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The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand
Angela Wanhalla

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 AU Press The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined ”Region“
Sarah Carter, Alvin Finkel, and Peter Fortna

The West and Beyond evaluates and appraises
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Alvin Finkel is a professor of history at
Athabasca University. Sarah Carter, F.R.S.C.,
is a professor and the Henry Marshall Tory Chair
in the Department of History and Classics and
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 INDEX

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Dhamoon, Rita 17 Kukucha, Christopher J. 30 Sandford, Robert W. 29
Peoples 11 Dion, Susan D. 30 Labour/Le Travail 29 Sandilands, Al 8
Accessible Elements 29 Duder, Cameron 23 Lackenbauer, P. Whitney 1 Sapphistries 23
Adkin, Laurie E. 10 Dunsworth, Glen 10 Language Matters 17 Sensing Changes 9
Administering the Colonizer 26 Durant, Darrin 9 Law and Religious Pluralism in Setting the Standard 30
Agyeman, Julian 9 Durflinger, Serge Marc 1 Canada 30 Sex and the Revitalized City 24
American Missionaries, Christian Ecology and Wonder 29 Lennox, Patrick 15 Shade, Leslie Regan 14
Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859–73 28 Edgington, David W. 24 Letters from the Lost 29 Shaw, Amy J. 1, 30
Anderson, Cameron D. 15 Edmonds, Penelope 20 Leviathan Undone? 17 Shaw, Lawton 29
Andrew, Caroline 30 Einsiedel, Edna F. 30 Leydet, Dominique 16 Shtern, Jeremy 14
Aquaculture Controversy in Canada 8 Electing a Diverse Canada 30 Leyton-Brown, Ken 4 Siemiatycki, Myer 30
Art in Turmoil 27 Elliott, Jayne 30 Linton, Jamie 8 Simeon, Richard 17
Asian Religions in British Columbia 27 Emerging Technologies 30 Lost Kids 22 Siochrú, Seán Ó 14
At Home and Abroad 15 Empires and Autonomy 18 Lublin, Elizabeth Dorn 27 Speaking for a Long Time 25
Awfully Devoted Women 23 Environmental Conflict and Macdougall, Brenda 20 Speaking for Ourselves 9
Baker, Don 27 Democracy in Canada 10 Madar, Daniel 18 Spooner, Kevin A. 3
Baker, Patricia L. 25 Feminized Justice 12 Mahon, Rianne 17, 30 Stephenson, Laura B. 15
Bashevkin, Sylvia 16 Fergusson, James G. 2 Managed Annihilation 7 Streeter, Stephen M. 18
Battle Grounds 1 Fighting from Home 1 Manfredi, Christopher P. 13 Strong-Boag, Veronica 22
Bavington, Dean L.Y. 7 Filax, Gloria 29 Matthews, Ralph 8 Stuart, Meryn 30
Beaty, Bart 29 Finding Dahshaa 21 Mawani, Renisa 14 Suburb, Slum, Urban Village 24
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Canadian Yearbook of International Eastern Arctic 21 Piper, Liza 10 Williams, Melissa 16
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