Written by well-known experts, this book provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many dynamic faces of BC politics.

Offers an innovative and far-reaching contribution to the debate over sustainability at a time when many individuals are questioning the future of the environment in British Columbia.

The first Canadian text on child welfare, this work examines a number of issues which represent the state of the art of child welfare in Canada.

A critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores federalism in the 1990s, bringing together leading scholars from law, economics, sociology, and political science to comment on federalism's strengths, weaknesses, and potential in a variety of contexts.

This book examines some of the most important policy issues confronting Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) governments.

This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.

A unique and innovative study, Roasting Chestnuts seeks to demystify Maritime politics and expose the flimsy basis for many of the region's lasting political stereotypes.

Jonathan Vance examines Canada's role in the formation of an important aspect of international law, traces the growth and activities of a number of national and local philanthropic agencies, and recounts the efforts of ex-prisoners to secure compensation for the long-term effects of captivity.

This is the story of the struggle for social housing in Vancouver between 1919 and 1950.

This timely book argues that changing hegemonic structures are significantly reshaping Canadian foreign policy in the Western hemisphere, where it has played only a minor role throughout the 20th century.

This is the story of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement negotiations between Canada and the US, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues behind them.

This book examines how two middle powers, Australia and Canada, are grappling with the difficult process of relocating themselves in the rapidly changing international economy.

The most comprehensive selection ever published of Vancouver's architecture -- modest and grand, historic and modern, attractive and not-so-attractive.

This provides the context for a better understanding of these issues and traces the evolution of an innovative, increasingly indigenous, governmental process.

This volume is an important and timely analysis of past and current Canadian policies toward both the formal and less formal arrangements which regulate such areas as international trade and financial transactions, international service industries, fisheries resources, and the environment.

The first systematic account of party activists at the provincial level in Canada.

A perceptive case study of racial politics in a non-western political system, this book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of recent events in this important island state.

This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of the land question in British Columbia and is the first to examine the modern political history of British Columbia Indians.

This collection introduces a new chapter in feminist literature, focusing on women and their experiences in Canadian urban settings and illustrating the importance of gender in the development of urban areas.

The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.

The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.

In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.

This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis.

This book is a detailed study of Japan's foreign policy which guided the nation in its resurgence.

A unique account of the way social and economic conditions were actually felt and experienced in B.C. at the time of Confederation.

This book is the first study of the Chinese in Cambodia -- from anthropological, historical, the economic, the legal, and demographic points of view.