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Coping with Calamity

Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949

The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the Jianghan plain in central China, focusing on the peasants’ relationship with a volatile environment.

Awards

2014, Winner - Academic Excellence Award, Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS)

2015, Winner - Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement

Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.

Awards

2015, Winner - CLIO Prize for Quebec, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Written as I Remember It

Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

This extraordinary book not only offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the teachings of the Sliammon people, it also offers a fruitful model for collaborative research and life-history writing.

Awards

2015, Winner - Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History

2015, Winner - Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2015, Commended - BCHF Historical Writing Awards, British Columbia Historical Federation

  • Copyright year: 2014
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First Nations, Museums, Narrations

Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies

The story of the Franklin Motor Expedition that collected First Nations artifacts on the Prairies in 1929 as well as a larger study of the relationships between museums and the indigenous peoples whose heritage items they house.

Awards

2015, Shortlisted - Aboriginal Book History Prize, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2014
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According to Baba

A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community

This book employs new and critical approaches to oral history to write an insightful and deeply personal history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community between 1901 and 1939.

Awards

2016, Shortlisted - Kobzar Literary Award, Shevchenko Foundation

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 50, 2012

Awards

2013, Winner - Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing, Canadian Association of Law Libraries

  • Copyright year: 2013
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