Awards

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Preserving What Is Valued

Museums, Conservation, and First Nations

What are the “right ways” to preserve heritage? Are the aims and purposes of museums necessarily at odds with those of First Nations? This thoughtful book explores the concept of museum conservation in light of cultural repatriation issues, and helps readers understand the complex relationship between museums and Aboriginal peoples.

Awards

2002, Winner - Outstanding Achievement Award, Conservation Category, Canadian Museums Association

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Gendering Government

Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada

This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.

Awards

2004, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Anatomy of a Conflict

Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests

Explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon’s temperate rain forest.

Awards

2002, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Making Native Space

Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia

It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.

Awards

2003, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2003, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association

2002, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards

2003, Winner - Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Modern Women Modernizing Men

The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69

Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.

Awards

2003, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Personal Relationships of Dependence and Interdependence in Law

By Law Commission of Canada

This collection explores the intersection of interdependency and the law, and contemplates some of the key issues at stake in the way the law interprets and addresses human relationships.

Awards

2002, Winner - Canadian Policy Research Award for Outstanding Research Contribution

  • Copyright year: 2002
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