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The Heiress vs the Establishment
Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice
A rare first-person account of Canada’s early twentieth century legal system, this books retells the Mrs. Campbell fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment to claim her mother’s estate.
2005, Shortlisted - Toronto Book Award, City of Toronto
- Copyright year: 2004
The Soldiers' General
Bert Hoffmeister at War
A complex, analytical yet accessible portrait of Bert Hoffmeister, who won more awards than any Canadian officer in the Second World War.
2007, Winner - C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian Military History
- Copyright year: 2005
Do Glaciers Listen?
Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.
2006, Winner - Vic Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
2006, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press
2006, Winner - Julian Steward Award, American Anthropology Association
2007, Winner - Clio Award (North), Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2005
Longitude and Empire
How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World
This fascinating account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook’s voyages and how they affected the European world view.
2006, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Copyright year: 2005
Our Box Was Full
An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs
Daly explores the central meaning of the notion of land in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997.
2006, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Copyright year: 2004
Governing with the Charter
Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent
Has parliamentary democracy been weakened by judicial responses to the Charter?
2005, Shortlisted - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation
- Copyright year: 2005