Marshall (religion, Brandon U., Canada) provides a picture of the life of early Chinese immigrants in Manitoba, Canada. Since wives and daughters had been left behind in the old world, the men who imm
This collection of ten essays, drawn from a research workshop sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, held at the University of Calgary in 2006, highlights contempo
"In most English-speaking countries, including Canada, 'black letter law'--text-based, firmly entrenched law--is the legal standard upon which judicial decisions are made. Within this tradition, court
The three authors are all based in Canada and are affiliated as follows: Marin K. Luckert (resource economics and environmental sociology, U. of Alberta); David Haley (emeritus, forest resources manag
A project of the History Education Network/Histoire et education en reseau), this volume is the first in a projected series exploring history education research and practice in Canada. Seventeen contr
"The history of Scotian Basin petroleum comprises a series of political challenges, accommodations, and settlements," states Clancy (political science, St. Francis Xavier U. Canada) in his introductio
Citing growing skepticism towards the efficacy of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards and calls for greater government involvement, Lister (Liu Institute for Global Issues, U. of
Challenging scholars' view of rodeos as a symbol of white American male dominance, Kelm (history, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia) presents a balanced examination of the sport as an inter-cultural m
Krull (sociology and cultural studies, Queen's U., Canada) and Sempruch (gender studies, U. of Basel, Switzerland) bring together sociology, social work, law, and women's studies scholars mostly from
Kelly (law, U. of British Columbia, Canada) explores the complex issues encountered by planned lesbian families as they work to define their parental rights, roles, and family structures within the te
Contributors to this work are academics in Chinese history and international affairs working in North America and Asia. Part 1 explores society at war, with chapters on writing and remembering the bat
Bradbury (history, women's studies, York U.) focuses on the institution of marriage and questions of property, wealth, and inheritance in this study of the lives of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish wo
This study of Chinese Canadians documents the evolution of a cultural identity--beginning with a 1920s attempt by the school board in Victoria, British Columbia to segregate Chinese children (for thei
"Rural depopulation, protection of natural resources, suburbanization, affordable housing, mass transportation, loss of fertile lands -- these are modern problems, yet they are not new. Thomas Adams g
Jesuit priest Francis Xavier brought Catholicism to Japan in 1549. Doak (East Asian languages and cultures, Georgetown U., Washington, DC) examines why Catholic influence on Japanese culture was so de
Property regimes are central to understanding globalization and the political economy of international capitalism and property regimes in crisis are sites of conflict and resistance in which global po
Scholars and activists from the three fields explore the interface between them from the perspectives of public opinion, Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Roman Catholicism, non-Christian responses,
In the Workforce Aging in the New Economy project, McMullin (U. of Western Ontario) and other Canadian sociologists studied whether and how gender and age structure work and influence workplace cultur
This fun, colorful, and educational book introduces pre-schoolers to the art of Indigenous Australians and the idea of sharing and caring for our land. Children will develop their observation, manual-
Curious about how to make sense of the past two decades of change in Canadian politics, Bittner (political science, Memorial U., Canada) and Koop (public policy, Simon Fraser U., Canada) organized a w
