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Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships
Nehiyawak Narratives
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships investigates Indigenous economic theories and relationships through the lenses of settler colonial exploitation and Indigenous resurgence.
2024, Joint winner - Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
- Copyright year: 2022
Family Law in Action
Divorce and Inequality in Quebec and France
Family Law in Action examines the inequalities produced by divorce and separation in France and Quebec.
2024, Winner - W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association/Association canadienne droit et société
- Copyright year: 2023
Clara at the Door with a Revolver
The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto
Gender, race, and politics in late-nineteenth-century Toronto swirl around this riveting true story of the murder of Frank Westwood and the controversial acquittal of the main suspect, Clara Ford – a cross-dressing Black single mother.
2023, Shortlisted - Toronto Book Award
2024, Shortlisted - Brass Knuckles Award for Non-fiction Crime Books, Crime Writers of Canada
- Copyright year: 2023
Revival and Change
The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections
Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.
2024, Winner -
Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 2022
Unstable Properties
Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia
Unstable Properties convincingly argues that the so-called land question in British Columbia cannot be resolved without understanding the fundamentally unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements on which the province rests.
2023, Shortlisted - Lieutenant Governor’s Historical Writing Awards
- Copyright year: 2022
Making Muskoka
Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920
Making Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.
2023, Shortlisted - Saskatchewan Book Awards
2024, Winner - Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize, NiCHE
- Copyright year: 2022