To most, the flush of a toilet seems a routine motion to banish waste and ensure cleanliness: safe, efficient, necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. However, Jamie Benidickson's examinati
How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal come to think of themselves as "native Canadian"? This incisive, richly illustrated work reveals that colonists adopted Aboriginal and French
In 1999 and 2000, France adopted laws to ensure equal access to elected office for women and men.Parity Democracy explores the evolution and influence of France's gender parity reforms, from their his
Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture explores the complex processes at work in the generation of political cultures. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and quantitative analysis, it provides the first
2014 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book at the Manitoba Book Awards2014 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Scholarly Book Award In order to interpret and implement a treaty b
Taking Control is a critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. It presents an intimate view of the centre, focusing on the ways that people work there-First Na
In this revised version of Hawker's (art and design, Zayed U., Dubai) 1998 doctoral dissertation (U. of British Columbia), the author explores historical experiences and the shaping of artistic discou
Vancouver has one of the largest populations of Chinese in North America. In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city’s Chinese residents in their search for
For more than three decades, the fate of British Columbia’s old-growth forests has been a major source of political strife. While more than 5 million hectares of wood were being clearcut, the BC wilde
The recent string of minority governments has reminded Canadians that voting behaviour has serious consequences - on the composition of government as well as on the direction of public policy. Underst
Along the east shore of Ontario’s Georgian Bay lie the Thirty Thousand Islands, a granite archipelago scarred by glaciers, where the white pines cling to the ancient rock, twisted and bent by the west
It might, at first glance, seem to many that industry and ecology make strange bedfellows. For proponents of sustainable development, however, such a union is crucial. How else are we to make the indu
During the first two decades of this century, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway played an important part in the development of the north-central corridor of British Columbia. The GTP, which ran from Win
The Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Ditidaht are closely related peoples who occupy the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula and western Vancouver Island. In this compelling and comprehensive history of t
People and Place demonstrates the fascinating ways in which personality and locale interact to shape the law, and how location influences legal cultural history. The essays, by a diverse array of scho
Mental health issues affect many members of society, either directly through personal mental health problems, or indirectly through their impact on family and friends supporting those who suffer from
Few books in Canada empirically and systematically examine the role journalists play in the news-making process. While there are several books that look at how journalists do their jobs, and others th
Alex MacLean was the inspiration for the title character, Wolf Larsen, in Jack London’s bestselling novel, The Sea-Wolf. Originally from Cape Breton, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North Americ
