This unconventional history looks at the resettlement of interior British Columbia from the perspective of campaigns to exterminate grasshoppers and wild horses, creatures considered by some to be pests.

A history of the convergence of Western and Chinese medical practices in modern China.

Presenting a historical survey of China’s boundary disputes and settlements, Hyer demonstrates that its approach to territorial disputes has been pragmatic and strategic.

A study of the Samsui women who migrated from China to Singapore, where they have been commemorated as nation-builders.

The first critical analysis of Chinese “cultural entrepreneurs,” businesspeople whose entrepreneurial endeavours in China and Southeast Asia the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the cultural sphere.

A poor man’s first-hand account of the punishing realities of daily life in Haiti from the final years of the Duvalier dictatorship to the year following the 2010 earthquake.

The previously unpublished memoirs of mother and son from a prominent missionary family living near Norway House in the early 1900s.

The story of the highly complex process of of sacred objects to Aboriginal peoples from the Glenbow Museum.

The First Green Wave examines the origins and development of first wave environmental activism (1967-86) in Toronto, home to one of Canada’s earliest and most dynamic communities of environmentalists.