Awards

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Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest

Production, Science, and Regulation

This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of BC, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965.

Awards

1997, Winner - Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award, Forest History Society

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Animals and Nature

Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities

“No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations.”

Awards

2000, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

2002, Shortlisted - Raymond Klibansky Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Colonizing Bodies

Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50

This detailed but highly readable ethnohistory shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada’s most populous Aboriginal population.

Awards

1999, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

1999, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association

2000, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Once Upon an Oldman

Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam

Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.

Awards

2000, Winner - Clio Award (Alberta), Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 1999
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No Place to Run

The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War

This book is a reevaluation of the Canadian Corps and poison gas in WWI. It examines how the Canadian Corps organized and protected its soldiers from poison gas.

Awards

2002, Winner - Charles P. Stacey Award

1999, Commended - Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals

Awards

1999, Winner - Reference Award, American Association of University Presses

  • Copyright year: 1999
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