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A Long Way to Paradise
A New History of British Columbia Politics
A Long Way to Paradise is a lively account of the personalities and ideas that shaped the first hundred years of BC politics and created one of Canada’s most fractious and dynamic political scenes.
2022, Winner - Clio Prize (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2021
The Laws and the Land
The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada
The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawà:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.
2022, Winner - Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2022, Winner - Best Book Prize, Canadian Studies Network
- Copyright year: 2021
Demanding Equality
One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism
In a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.
2022, Winner - The Canadian Committee on Womens and Gender History English Language Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2021
Constitutional Pariah
Reference re Senate Reform and the Future of Parliament
Constitutional Pariah is the first comprehensive account of the Senate in the aftermath of the landmark Supreme Court decision that resulted in one of the most significant reforms to Parliament in Canadian history.
2022, Commended - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
- Copyright year: 2021
Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice
Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
This long-overdue account of the suffrage campaigns in the first region to grant women the vote in Canada shatters cherished myths about how the West was won.
2021, Winner - WILLA Literary Award, Scholarly Nonfiction
2021, Shortlisted - Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2020, Shortlisted - Margaret McWilliams Prize in Manitoba History
- Copyright year: 2020
Fossilized
Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces
Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador – blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 – undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.
2021, Winner - Book Awards, Canadian Political Science Association
- Copyright year: 2020