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The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science

UBC Press

This volume is the first sustained attempt to describe, analyze, and assess the “comparative turn” in Canadian political science.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada, Third Edition

Current Trends and Issues

Foreword by John Hylton; Edited by Yale Belanger
UBC Press, Purich Publishing

An interdisciplinary guide for learning about government policy and the aspirations of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Gendering the Nation-State

Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

UBC Press

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science – the nation-state.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Criminal Artefacts

Governing Drugs and Users

UBC Press

By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution

UBC Press

The essays illustrate how deeply multiculturalism is woven into the fabric of the Canadian constitution and the everyday lives of Canadians.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples

Achieving UN Recognition

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

With a focus on international law, Henderson analyzes what the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples means for Indigenous peoples around the world and for Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Provinces and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy

UBC Press

A fresh analysis of the evolving role of the provinces in Canadian foreign trade policy.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Electing a Diverse Canada

The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities, and Women

UBC Press

Covering eleven cities as well as Canada’s Parliament, this book presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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From Pride to Influence

Towards a New Canadian Foreign Policy

UBC Press

From Pride to Influence brings Canadian foreign policy into the twenty-first century.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Emerging Technologies

From Hindsight to Foresight

UBC Press

Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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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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Contributing Citizens

Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66

UBC Press

A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Makúk

A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

UBC Press

This award-winning work explores Aboriginal people’s displacement from the new economy from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Language Matters

How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English

UBC Press

Canadian voluntary associations have proven that they can effectively manage bilingualism -- this book shows how and why.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Opening Doors Wider

Women's Political Engagement in Canada

UBC Press

This book asks whether the doors to women’s participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Identity/Difference Politics

How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters

UBC Press

Identity/Difference Politics offers a new direction for the study of identity/difference, one that moves beyond liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance

Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927

Athabasca University Press

This book explores the means used by government officials, police officers, church representatives, and ordinary settlers to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Canada's Voice

The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes

UBC Press

Canada’s Voice is the first comprehensive biography of a diplomat and scholar who shaped foreign policy during Canada’s golden age as a middle power.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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First Nations, First Thoughts

The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada

UBC Press

A thought-provoking volume that brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinkers and activists to explore the innovations and challenges that Indigenous thought continues to bring to Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Negotiating the Numbered Treaties

An Intellectual and Political History of Alexander Morris

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

The story of the prairie treaties and Alexander Morris, a man who embraced a larger concept of nationhood and the role of First Nations in the expansion of Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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