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Party Discipline in Canada

This revealing examination of the inner workings of party discipline exposes the machinery of message coordination that courses through Canadian legislatures and politics.

Awards

2021, Shortlisted - Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, The Writers Trust

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Justice Crisis

The Cost and Value of Accessing Law

Based on innovative recent empirical research, The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.

Awards

2021, Shortlisted - Walter Owen Book Prize, The Canadian Foundation for Legal Research

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Fixing Niagara Falls

Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall

Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.

Awards

2020, Winner - Honourable Mention - Wilson Book Prize, The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Cataloguing Culture

Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.

Awards

2022, Winner - The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize, Canadian Anthropology Society

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Great Revolutionary Wave

Women and the Vote in British Columbia

The first book on the woman’s suffrage movement in British Columbia, A Great Revolutionary Wave traces the history of the fight for the vote from the 1870s to the 1940s against a backdrop of social reform, international social movements, labour politics, and settler colonialism.

Awards

2021, Commended - Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Association

2021, Winner - Clio Awards (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Society

  • Copyright year: 2020
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War Junk

Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada

War Junk recounts the surprising history of leftover military munitions and supplies, revealing their complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies in postwar Canada.

Awards

2022, Commended - C.P. Stacey Award

  • Copyright year: 2020
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