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The Laws and the Land

The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada

The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawà:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.

Awards

2022, Winner - Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2022, Winner - Best Book Prize, Canadian Studies Network

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Demanding Equality

One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

In a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.

Awards

2022, Winner - The Canadian Committee on Womens and Gender History English Language Book Prize

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Constitutional Pariah

Reference re Senate Reform and the Future of Parliament

Constitutional Pariah is the first comprehensive account of the Senate in the aftermath of the landmark Supreme Court decision that resulted in one of the most significant reforms to Parliament in Canadian history.

Awards

2022, Commended - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

This long-overdue account of the suffrage campaigns in the first region to grant women the vote in Canada shatters cherished myths about how the West was won.

Awards

2021, Winner - WILLA Literary Award, Scholarly Nonfiction

2021, Shortlisted - Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2020, Shortlisted - Margaret McWilliams Prize in Manitoba History

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Fossilized

Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces

Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador – blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 – undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.

Awards

2021, Winner - Book Awards, Canadian Political Science Association

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Bomb in the Wilderness

Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada

The Bomb in the Wilderness is an acutely perceptive analysis of Canada’s nuclear footprint through the medium of photography, revealing how we have represented, interpreted, and remembered nuclear activities since 1945.

Awards

2021, Commended - The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design: Prose Illustrated

  • Copyright year: 2020
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