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Contradictory Impulses

Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century

UBC Press

Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Cautious Beginnings

Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51

UBC Press

A convincing portrait of Canada's active role in Second World War intelligence gathering.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

UBC Press

This is the story of a man and an institution. A world-renowned psychiatrist and first director-general of the World Health Organization, Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, yet is little-known today.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Crisis of Conscience

Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War

UBC Press

The first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Grand Experiment

Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The (Un)Making of the Modern Family

By Daniel Dagenais; Translated by Jane Brierley
UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law

Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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For Future Generations

Reconciling Gitxsan and Canadian Law

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

Dawn Mills passionately shows how reconciliation can be achieved between Canada’s First Nations and the various levels of government.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Quebec

A Historical Geography

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Canada’s Rights Revolution

Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

UBC Press

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Reluctant Land

Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Captain Alex MacLean

Jack London's Sea Wolf

UBC Press

Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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At the Far Reaches of Empire

The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

UBC Press

The most complete study of Bodega and his epoch yet written, At the Far Reaches of Empire is an absorbing narrative of eighteenth-century empire building.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Renegades

Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

UBC Press

The definitive account of Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Voices Raised in Protest

Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Uprooted

The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917

UBC Press

Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada in the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about?

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Healing Henan

Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947

UBC Press

Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Guarding the Gates

The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934

UBC Press

A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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