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Alliance and Illusion

Canada and the World, 1945-1984

This is the definitive assessment of the domestic and international aspects of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era.

Awards

2008, Commended - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Sexing the Teacher

School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies

A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals, this book employs queer theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist film theory to examine sensationalized legal cases, including Mary Kay Letourneau, Amy Gehring, and Heather Ingram.

Awards

2009, Commended - Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Archive of Place

Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau

Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.

Awards

2008, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Assocation

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Triumph of Citizenship

The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67

This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.

Awards

2008, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards

2008, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2013, Winner - Patricia E. Roy is the recipient of the Canadian Historical Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Vanishing British Columbia

Awards

2005, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards

2005, Runner-up - Book Writing Competition on BC History, British Columbia Historical Federation

  • Copyright year: 2005
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In Search of Canadian Political Culture

The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics.

Awards

2008, Shortlisted - Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE

  • Copyright year: 2007
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