The Civil Sphere in Canada
The Civil Sphere in Canada shows why a socially just, inclusive society hinges on a robust and dynamic civil sphere.
The Independence of the Prosecutor
Controversy in the Creation of the International Criminal Court
This compelling investigation shows how an independent prosecutor, who can initiate investigations without states’ assent, became a key part of the International Criminal Court.
Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
Home Truths
Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis
With Canadians burdened by the world’s highest household debt after decades of failed housing policy, Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis shows what went wrong, and how it can be fixed.
Shifting Gears
Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics
Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships.
Local Governance in Transition
Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities
Local Governance in Transition presents a framework for conversations around technological, ecological, and economic challenges – and encourages innovative thinking for those interested in exploring sustainable solutions.
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
What is Canada? This new look at “Canada” shows how the country’s prime ministers have consciously worked to shape national identity through their speeches and rhetoric.
Building a Special Relationship
Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61
This book takes a compelling look at how bilateral diplomacy in an era wracked by the Cold War created a culture of cooperation between Canada and the United States that endures to the present day.
Land and the Liberal Project
Canada’s Violent Expansion
Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.
Broken City
Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis
Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure – so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?
Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
Constraining the Court
Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era
Constraining the Court considers what happens when a statute involving a significant public policy issue is declared unconstitutional – and government disagrees.
Canada’s Surprising Constitution
Unexpected Interpretations of the Constitution Act, 1982
Canada’s Surprising Constitution asks why the Constitution Act, 1982, keeps generating unexpected interpretations and outcomes.
Counting Matters
Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Counting Matters emphasizes the importance of gender measurement as a distinct policy and social phenomena while exposing the flaws of the technocratic assumption that all aspects of gender equality can be strictly quantified.
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada brings together experts from across the country to share their perspectives on how energy systems can respond to climate change, enhance social justice, respect local cultures and traditions – and still make financial sense.
A Healthy Future
Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis
This riveting insider’s account of how the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled in one of Canada’s hardest-hit provinces draws on the lessons learned to provide a hopeful vision for building a healthier future.
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec
Bill 21 in Perspective
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec opens up the debates that gave rise to a controversial law on state religious neutrality, taking an open-minded look at how secularism is understood and how it has imposed itself in the Quebec social space.
Silent Partners
The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military-Industrial Complex
Silent Partners delves into the shadowy world of security and national defence to shine a light on the influence they hold in Canadian society.
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage reflexively in critical human rights practice by admitting discomfort and dilemma into conversations about ethics.
A Culture of Justification
Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law
A Culture of Justification examines how a groundbreaking case involving undercover spies and a man’s fight for citizenship helped the Supreme Court of Canada forge a consensus on the future of one of the most important areas in Canadian law.
North of America
Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60
North of America takes a fresh, sharp-eyed look at how Canadians of all stripes reacted to political, economic, and cultural events and influences emanating from postwar America.
Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy
Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats is an incisive look at the history of Canadian foreign policy through the actions of prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.
King and Chaos
The 1935 Canadian General Election
King and Chaos is the first close study of the issues, personalities, and significance of the 1935 federal election, a turning point that fractured the two-party system and permanently changed Canada’s political landscape.
Feminism’s Fight
Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970
Feminism’s Fight shows how fifty years of feminist struggle over public policy can inform today’s fight for gender justice and against continued discrimination.
Condoland
The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace
In an era of frantic vertical urbanization known as “condoism,” Condoland explores the planning and design of Toronto’s CityPlace, one of North America’s largest residential development projects – and reveals what can happen when the real estate industry comes to dominate city planning.
Follow the Leader, Lose the Region
Charting a Canadian Strategy for the Asia-Pacific
Follow the Leader, Lose the Region conclusively demonstrates that an understanding of how Asia sees itself should inform Canadian foreign policy in the region.
People, Politics, and Purpose
Biography and Canadian Political History
People, Politics, and Purpose investigates the roles and reputations of a wide array of political actors, offering insight into Canada’s place in the world and stimulating fresh thinking about political biography.
Life against States of Emergency
Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat
Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence asked in a high-profile ceremonial fast: What does it mean to be in a treaty relationship today?
China’s Asymmetric Statecraft
Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy
China’s Asymmetric Statecraft uncovers the different narratives and paradigms that constitute Chinese foreign policy toward its weaker neighbours, alerting us to a dramatically changing international environment.
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships
Nehiyawak Narratives
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships investigates Indigenous economic theories and relationships through the lenses of settler colonial exploitation and Indigenous resurgence.
Constitutional Crossroads
Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change
Four decades after the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982, Constitutional Crossroads assesses its legacy, focusing on the themes of rights, reconciliation, and constitutional change.
The Political Party in Canada
The Political Party in Canada provides a comprehensive exploration of contemporary Canadian political party composition and organization and draws on rich original data to consider where power lies and how it is exercised.
Revival and Change
The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections
Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.
Canadian Labour Policy and Politics
Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for students seeking to understand the politics of inequality in Canada’s labour market and the policy agenda needed for greater economic equality and a sustainable green recovery.
Pivot or Pirouette?
The 1993 Canadian General Election
Pivot or Pirouette? The 1993 Canadian General Election tells the story of the most surprising election in Canadian history.
A Cooperative Disagreement
Canada-United States Relations and Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–93
Agree to disagree? A Cooperative Disagreement demonstrates how Canada and the United States – neighbours by geography and close allies by design – successfully kept their differences over revolutionary Cuba from permanently damaging their relationship.
Inside the Local Campaign
Constituency Elections in Canada
With modern media and technology, the local campaign has made a comeback. Inside the Local Campaign pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of constituency-level campaigning during a Canadian federal election.
A Sales Tax for Alberta
Why and How
In this collection, Alberta scholars and policy experts map out why and how a provincial sales tax should and can be implemented as the days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by.
Pleasure and Panic
New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs
Pleasure and Panic illustrates how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption are complicated by the politics, economics, and culture of their times.
Changing of the Guards
Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada
Changing of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations are reshaping Canadian criminal justice processes and outcomes.
The High North
Cannabis in Canada
The High North brings together, for the first time, activists, advocates, and academics to evaluate the opaque origins and muddled legacy of cannabis legalization in Canada.
Liquor and the Liberal State
Drink and Order before Prohibition
Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor and the Liberal State explores government approaches to drink and drinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices
A Legal and Policy Analysis
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of how conversion practices targeting transgender people are regulated around the world.
Debt and Federalism
Landmark Cases in Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, 1894-1937
Debt and Federalism is the first complete account of the Canadian federal bankruptcy and insolvency power, showing how four landmark cases form the bedrock of the modern bankruptcy system.
Reconciling Truths
Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada
Reconciling Truths is a forthright examination of commissions of inquiry that demonstrates the need for astute leadership and an engaging process if they are to lead to meaningful change.
Beyond Rights
The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Beyond Rights examines the legal, political, and cultural implications of the groundbreaking process of negotiating the Nisga’a treaty.
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality
Insights from Indonesia
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.
A Liberal-Labour Lady
The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
This authoritative biography of Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) – British Columbia’s first female MLA, the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister, and a BC suffragist – recovers from obscurity an audacious but imperfect champion in the struggle for greater democracy in early twentieth-century Canada.
Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds
Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order
Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds explores the lives and careers of women, famous and forgotten, who influenced Canada’s place in the world during the twentieth century.