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Obstructed Labour
Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery
2008, Winner - Book Award, Canadian Women's Studies Association
- Copyright year: 2006
Unsettling Encounters
First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr
Featuring almost 300 illustrations, including 90 colour plates, Unsettling Encounters reconstructs a neglected aspect of Carr’s art and is a fresh assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early 20th-century modernism.
2007, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2007
Good Intentions Gone Awry
Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
Presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people.
2006, Shortlisted - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize, BC Book Prizes
2006, Commended - Book Writing Competition on BC History, British Columbia Historical Federation
- Copyright year: 2006
The Other Quiet Revolution
National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71
José Igartua traces the under-examined cultural transformation of English-speaking Canada woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act to the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971.
2006, Winner - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Copyright year: 2006
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada
Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged?
2007, Winner - Doug Purvis Memorial Prize, Canadian Economics Association
- Copyright year: 2006
Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-74
2007, Long-listed - George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC Writing and Publishing
- Copyright year: 2007