The (Un)Making of the Modern Family
Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples
Achieving UN Recognition
With a focus on international law, Henderson analyzes what the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples means for Indigenous peoples around the world and for Canada.
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
For Future Generations
Reconciling Gitxsan and Canadian Law
Dawn Mills passionately shows how reconciliation can be achieved between Canada’s First Nations and the various levels of government.
Canada’s Rights Revolution
Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82
In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists.
A Zapotec Natural History
A Zapotec Natural History is an extraordinary book and accompanying CD (also avialble on the web here!) that describe the people of a small town in Mexico and their remarkable knowledge of the natural world in which they live. San Juan Gbëë is a Zapotec Indian ...
The Reluctant Land
Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
Captain Alex MacLean
Jack London's Sea Wolf
Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.
At the Far Reaches of Empire
The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
The most complete study of Bodega and his epoch yet written, At the Far Reaches of Empire is an absorbing narrative of eighteenth-century empire building.
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede, an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 days every July.
Voices Raised in Protest
Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49
Northern Rover
The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
Uprooted
The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917
Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada in the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about?
Mountain Masculinity
The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938
A captivating portrait – in his own words – of Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978), who reinvented himself as a Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman."
Imagining Head-Smashed-In
Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major study of the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before and after European contact. drawing on his 25 years excavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta, Canada – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.
Guarding the Gates
The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
Domestic Reforms
Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940
Creating a Modern Countryside
Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
Working Girls in the West
Representations of Wage-Earning Women
Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.
An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War
Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as “officers and ladies.”
New Histories for Old
Changing Perspectives on Canada’s Native Pasts
The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields, to shed new light on the history of scholarship on Canada’s Aboriginal past.
Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights
Creating Postwar Canada
Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75
First Nations of British Columbia, Second Edition, The
An Anthropological Survey
A concise and accessible overview of First Nations cultures and issues in the province, this book familiarizes readers with the history, diversity, and complexity of First Nations to provide a context for contemporary concerns and initiatives.
A Leaf upon the Sea
A Small Ship in the Mediterranean, 1941-1943
Here is the tale of the smallest surface ships in the Mediterranean Sea front of World War II, and the naval officers who played vital roles in making possible the successes of the larger squadrons.
Hunting for Empire
Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert’s Land.
Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
This collection of correspondence – letters sent to Hudson's Bay Company men by their families and loved ones but never delivered – offers a rare and human history of ordinary people, many of whom were the early settlers of the Pacific Northwest.
The First Nations of British Columbia
An Anthropological Survey
A concise and accessible overview of First Nations’ peoples, cultures, and issues in the province.
Tammarniit (Mistakes)
Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
Strangers in Blood
Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country
The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.
Russia in Pacific Waters, 1715-1825
A Survey of the Origins of Russia's Naval Presence in the North and South Pacific
Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914
These letters describe the creation of a shortlived English home in the Windermere Valley of southwestern British Columbia.
In the Way
A Study of Christian Missionary Endeavours
This book examines the work of Christian missionaries - often regarded as relics of an outgrown and mostly discredited colonialism - from a new perspective, combining anthropology with insights from history, sociology, missiology, and theology.