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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 

  • Publication 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

  • Publication 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

  • Publication 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

  • Publication year: 2020
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King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land

The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae

This insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.

Awards

2021, Winner - Joseph Brant Award, Ontario Historical Society

  • Publication year: 2020
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The Good Fight

Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy

The Good Fight is the insightful and entertaining biography of arguably the most important francophone diplomat and civil servant in Canadian history.

Awards

2020, Winner - J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation

  • Publication year: 2019
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