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The Heiress vs the Establishment

Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice

A rare first-person account of Canada’s early twentieth century legal system, this books retells the Mrs. Campbell fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment to claim her mother’s estate.

Awards

2005, Shortlisted - Toronto Book Award, City of Toronto

  • Copyright year: 2004
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The Soldiers' General

Bert Hoffmeister at War

A complex, analytical yet accessible portrait of Bert Hoffmeister, who won more awards than any Canadian officer in the Second World War.

Awards

2007, Winner - C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian Military History

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Do Glaciers Listen?

Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination

Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.

Awards

2006, Winner - Vic Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology

2006, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press

2006, Winner - Julian Steward Award, American Anthropology Association

2007, Winner - Clio Award (North), Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Longitude and Empire

How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World

This fascinating account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook’s voyages and how they affected the European world view.

Awards

2006, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Our Box Was Full

An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs

Daly explores the central meaning of the notion of land in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997.

Awards

2006, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Governing with the Charter

Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent

Has parliamentary democracy been weakened by judicial responses to the Charter?

Awards

2005, Shortlisted - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation

  • Copyright year: 2005
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