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Multicultural Nationalism
Civilizing Difference, Constituting Community
Canada's national question is self-defeating: attempts to constitute a Canadian political community generate polarizing and depoliticizing deliberations.
2006, Winner - Award for Cover Design, American Association of University Presses
- Copyright year: 2005
The Middle Power Project
Canada and the Founding of the United Nations
Based on materials not previously available to Canadian scholars, The Middle Power Project presents a critical reassessment of the traditional and widely accepted account of Canada’s role and interests in the formation of the United Nations.
2005, Shortlisted - Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation
- Copyright year: 2005
Commanding Canadians
The Second World War Diaries of A.F.C. Layard
Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard’s preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.
2006, Commended - Keith Matthews Prize, Canadian Nautical Research Society
- Copyright year: 2005
Contact Zones
Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past
This provocative book examines how women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter – the so-called “contact zone” – between Aboriginals and newcomers.
2006, Winner - Best Article on the History of Sexuality in Canada, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2005
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities
Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when ...
2006, Winner - Book Prize, Canadian Law Society Association
- Copyright year: 2005
Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution
The Historical Status of Animals
In this provocative inquiry into the status of animals in human society from the fifth century BC to the present, Rod Preece provides a wholly new perspective on the human-animal relationship.
2006, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
2006, Winner - Award for Cover Design, American Association of University Presses
2006, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Copyright year: 2005