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Chrétien and the World

Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003

UBC Press

Chrétien and the World, the first book-length study of the former prime minister’s foreign policy, reveals a far more ambitious, coherent engagement in international affairs than has been understood to date.

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Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution

UBC Press

Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution is a meticulously argued case for having the Canadian foreign affairs power rest firmly within the federal sphere.

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The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King

Edited by Patrice Dutil
UBC Press

The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King assembles a who’s who of political historians to untangle the legacy of Canada’s longest-serving, most controversial, and possibly greatest prime minister.

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Planting Thistles

Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada

UBC Press

Planting Thistles explores how state-sponsored settlement of Scottish Islanders in Western Canada at the height of Victorian imperialism brought core conceptions of race, class, gender, and modernity itself into question.

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Watching the Bear

Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964

UBC Press

Watching the Bear draws on recently declassified documents to offer a wholly new perspective on Canada’s policies for the defence of North America in the decades following the Second World War.

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The New Politics of Western Canada

Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

UBC Press

The New Politics of Western Canada examines the identity of “the West,” its contested political ideologies, and current economic and policy concerns to anticipate the challenges that lie ahead.

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The Debt of a Nation

Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73

UBC Press

The Debt of a Nation reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but also its continuing implications for contemporary Canadian politics.

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A Cold Colonialism

Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

UBC Press

A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert control over northern peoples and their lands.

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The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213

Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric

Athabasca University Press
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