Winner of the 2010 Spiro Kostof Award (sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians)Empire building and modernity dominate the history of the nineteenth century. The French and Ottoman empires
In 1856, in an opera house in Roseville, Illinois, Susan B. Anthony called for the supporters of woman suffrage to stand. The only person to rise was eight-year-old Emma Smith. And she continued to ta
From the publication of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in 1726 to Josef Boruwlaski's Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf in 1788, eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular cult
Seattle is located on the northwest edge of the continental United States, flanked by two mountain ranges and set on the calm shores of Puget Sound. It is remote from the country's hub but a portal to
The Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington offers a window into the beauty and diversity of the rarest plants in the state and serves as a field guide for people seeking to find and identity the
Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy weaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and litera
In the post-Cold War era, problems of war and peace have become complicated and ambiguous, involving such non-military issues as a growing north-south dichotomy of power and wealth, depletion of scare
Lakewold Gardens is one of the great gardens of the Northwest, marrying classical European garden design with modernist scale and perspective, and a distinctly Northwest appreciation of majestic nativ
This unique collection takes a fresh look at Orientalism by shifting its center from Europe to Ottoman Istanbul and thinking about art in terms of exchange, reciprocity, and comparative imperialisms.
Constructing Crime examines the central question: Why do wedefine and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and targetparticular individuals as criminals?To answer this question, contributors interr
Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour inAlberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present.Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists,and or
Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between This book considers the new transnational "economic corridors" connecting norther
The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, behaviors, identities, and attitudes. The authors of this in-depth study deal directly with the l
Creative Subversions explores how whiteness and Indigeneityare articulated through iconic images of Canadian identity -- and thecontradictory and contested meanings they evoke. These benign, evenkitsc
The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelvesrepresents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleumdevelopment. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is noexcep
During the Cold War, nationalism fell from favour among theorists asan explanatory factory in history, as Marxists and liberals looked toclass and individualism as the drivers of change. The resurgenc
Highlighting hubris as a reoccurring theme in Canadian history, MacDowell (history, University of Toronto) examines the historical roots of Canada's present-day environmental problems, stressing that
In the late nineteenth century, a number of prominent reformers wereinfluenced by what Edward Carpenter called "the largersocialism." They would not only address the "bread andcheese" concerns of ort
As Canadians, we take pride in our nation's officialcommitment to fostering diversity. A close look at our media, however,reveals that while they often pay lip service to diversity promotion,they actu
In the early 1990s, voluntary organizations garnered littleattention in Canadian policy circles, even though the federalgovernment was simultaneously offloading its responsibility foressential service
