Chrétien and the World
Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003
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.
Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution
Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution is a meticulously argued case for having the Canadian foreign affairs power rest firmly within the federal sphere.
The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King
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.
Planting Thistles
Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada
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.
Watching the Bear
Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964
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.
The New Politics of Western Canada
Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures
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.
The Debt of a Nation
Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73
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.
A Cold Colonialism
Modern Exploration and the Canadian North
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.