Social and cultural history Books
University of British Columbia Press A Narrow Vision
Book SynopsisIn A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.Trade ReviewEssential reading for all those trying to understand the evolution of Indian administration in Canada ... does much to illuminate the themes of continuity and change within the Indian Affairs Department. -- Douglas Leighton * Canadian Historical Review *An important book ... puts the problems facing Canada's native population into better perspective. It should be required reading for all members of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. -- Allan Levine * Globe and Mail *Titley has done Canadian scholarship a great service by opening up this area of scholarship to Canadian historians. It is indeed a fine book. -- David McNab * Native Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Indian Administration: Origins and Development2 The Poet and the Indians3 General Aspects of Policy and Administration4 The Treaty Maker5 Schooling and Civilization6 Indian Political Organizations7 The Six Nations’ Status Case8 Land Claims in British Columbia9 “Senseless Drumming and Dancing”10 The Ambitions of Commissioner GrahamConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Walking in Indian Moccasins
Book SynopsisThis landmark study examines the Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government - the first socialist government in North America - and the development of policies aimed at Indian and Metis people in the post-war period.Trade ReviewHas the merit of pulling together a wide and varied body of material and giving us the first comprehensive portrait of a neglected aspect of the Saskatchewan CCF's reform agenda. It is well worth reading by anyone interested in the history of government Indian and Metis policy in Canada. -- James M. Pitsula * Prairie Forum, 23:1 *An important contribution to our understanding of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal policies under CCF premier Tommy Douglas ... Walking in Indian Moccasins is especially valuable due to its focus on provincial government Aboriginal policy in the recent past. It provides a model for future studies of both Alberta's and Manitoba's Aboriginal policies immediately after the second World War ... the book greatly advances our understanding of the Native Peoples of the prairie provinces in the twentieth century. -- Donald B. Smith * Saskatchewan History *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Historical Setting2 The CCF and the Evolution of Métis Policy3 Provincial Indian Policy4 Citizenship Issues5 The Saskatchewan Far North: The Last Frontier6 Opposition to Native Reform7 AssessmentNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Lifeline of the Oregon Country
Book SynopsisIn The Lifeline of the Oregon Country, James Gibson compellingly immerses the reader in one of the most intractable problems faced by the Hudson's Bay Company: how to realize wealth from such a remote and formidable land.Table of ContentsProloguePart 1: Introduction1 Opening the Oregon Country2 Linking the Oregon Country3 Reforming the Oregon CountryPart 2: The Outgoing Brigade4 Canoeing down the Fraser: From Stuart’s Lake to Alexandria5 Packhorsing over the Mountain: From Alexandria to Thompson’s River6 Packhorsing between the Fraser and the Columbia: From Thompson’s River to Okanagan7 Boating down the Columbia: The Easy Leg from Okanagan to Walla Walla8 Boating down the Columbia: The Hard Leg from Walla Walla to the SeaPart 3: The Incoming Brigade9 At the Sea: The “Grand Depot” and “General Rendezvous”10 Boating up the Columbia: The Hard Leg from the Sea to Walla Walla11 Boating up the Columbia: The Easy Leg from Walla Walla to Okanagan12 Packhorsing between the Columbia and the Fraser: From Okanagan to Thompson’s River13 Packhorsing over the Mountain: From Thompson’s River to Alexandria14 Canoeing up the Fraser: From Alexandria to Stuart’s LakeEpilogueAppendixes1 Chief Factor William Connolly’s Journal of the Brigade from New Caledonia to Fort Vancouver and Return, May 5-September 23, 18262 Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease’s Journal of the Brigade from New Caledonia to Fort Vancouver and Return, May 7-September 13, 1831NotesBibliographyIndex
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Spuzzum
Book SynopsisJuxtaposing historical narratives and cultural interpretation, this book explores the history of Spuzzum and the Nlaka'pamux people on the turbulent Fraser River.Trade ReviewThis text is lucid and jargon-free, and the photographs interesting and well placed ... Spuzzum will certainly be of interest to anthropologists, local historians, and specialists who have been following the debate on the writing of Native history. -- Kerry Abel * Canadian Book Review Annual 4163 *A sympathetic re-creation of the native side of that history. This is a model ethnohistory and a superb commentary on the complexities of being both historian and anthropologist ... This finely crafted book boasts good maps, numerous illustrations ... * Choice *This book stands as part of an ongoing awareness of Native cultural persistence, alongside a long history of adaptation to the Euro-Canadian economy and society. -- Robert Campbell * Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on AuthorshipFraser Canyon Histories: Introduction1 Spuzzum2 Song for Simon Fraser, Song for Mount Baker: Strangers in the Land3 Land and Cosmos in a Shifting Economy4 Nlaka'pamux Thought and the Christian Church5 Families, Identities, and a War Widow's Pension6 Chiefs and Land7 A Pause in the Story8 Postscript: Approaching the PastBibliographyAppendix: Place NamesGlossaryIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Limits of Labour Class Formation and the
Book SynopsisThis work looks at class formation in western Canada. The author explores the various levels of class formation and identity in the years before World War I, arguing that Calgary's reputation as a centre of labour conservatism is an oversimplification in need of revision.Trade ReviewBright's well-crafted work contributes usefully to the fast-developing study of local labor history in western Canadian cities ... Recommended. -- M. J. Moore * Choice *This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the history of both Canadian labor and the Canadian West. It weaves together both a wealth of primary documents and secondary sources to fashion a forceful argument about the character of the working class in early Calgary. For the academic reader interested in class formation in western Canada, this is a must-read book. -- Alvin Finkel * Great Plains Research *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Class Formation, 1883-19131 From Cow Town to Hub of Industry2 Social Divisions and Class Disposition3 Class, Culture, and Politics4 Unions and StrikesPart 2: The Labour Movement, 1913-295 Depression and War, 1913-76 Economic Recession and Restructuring, 1918-247 1919: Revolt Reconsidered8 Dissent and Descent: Labour Politics in Calgary, 1918-249 The Limits of Labour, 1925-9EpilogueNotesBibliography
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University of British Columbia Press Since the Time of the Transformers
Book SynopsisThis book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.Trade ReviewA well-written, engaging book. -- Steven Acheson * The Midden 31/4 *In this comprehensive history of [western Vancouver Island and the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington], Alan McMillan integrates all available sources of information into a single account, tracing the heritage of [the region’s indigenous] peoples from the earliest archaeological evidence over 4000 years ago and addressing contemporary issues. * University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries (2000) *The subject of this thoroughly researched and well-written book is the Native peoples of the west coast of Vancouver Island and the northwestern peninsula of Washington State ... McMillan presents an exhaustive and detailed overview of the archaeological evidence ... His book will prove especially valuable to researchers studying the northwest coast of Canada. -- Mima Kapches * Canadian Book Review Annual 4218 *Table of ContentsIllustrations, Maps, and TablesAcknowledgments1 Setting the Stage2 Differing Approaches to the Nuu-chah-nulth Past3 Archaeological Research in Nuu-chah-nulth Territory4 The Emergence of the West Coast Culture Type5 The Late West Coast Culture Type6 The Transition to Recorded History7 Recent History and the Modern CommunitiesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Once Upon an Oldman
Book SynopsisOnce 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.Trade ReviewGlenn has carefully documented the sequence of events surrounding this often bitter controversy and has provided a comprehensive analysis of the issues, motives, and actions involved. His thorough review of the geography, history, and political institutions offers readers an understanding of how and why the project emerged. His book is well written, enjoyable to read, and supplemented by extensive notes and references. Recommended for all readership levels, especially for those interested in the interactions between governmental agencies, lobbyists, Native peoples, environmental groups, and legal institutions. -- M.J. Zwolinski * Choice *In this dense, well-researched, and thoroughly readable book, Jack Glenn examines how this highly controversial project came about. -- Ken Woollard * CBRA 5043 *An exhaustive chronicle of the battles over the construction of the Oldman Den in southern Alberta ... a definitive chronicle of both the battle of the Oldman specifically and the ongoing struggle to keep some of our natural landscape whole in the face of development pressures. Glenn provides background and reasons for his criticisms that are hard to object to, no matter what your agenda. for anyone who was involved, however peripherally, in the Oldman struggle, this book will be both engrossing and enlightening. For those concerned with the overall government versus environment struggle, it should be equally so. -- Valerie Haig-Brown * Alberta Views *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART 11 The Oldman River Basin2 In the Beginning3 The ECA Review4 A Dam on the Oldman5 Interlude6 The Battle Joined7 The EARPGO Challenge8 Carry on Regardless9 Milton and the Lonefighters10 7 September 199011 In the Aftermath12 The Federal Review13 The Panel Reports14 And ThereafterPART 215 The Iron Triangle and the Oldman River Dam16 The Environment and Its Friends17 Archaeology18 Biological Diversity19 EARPGO and the Courts20 FOR and the Attorney General21 The Peigan Indians22 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam I23 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam II24 The Federal Watchdog I25 The Federal Watchdog II26 Iniquity and Betrayal27 The Peigan, Politics, and the Courts28 The Environment, Politics, and the Courts29 Information and Disinformation30 Does It Matter?BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Once Upon an Oldman Special Interest Politics
Book SynopsisOnce 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.Trade ReviewGlenn has carefully documented the sequence of events surrounding this often bitter controversy and has provided a comprehensive analysis of the issues, motives, and actions involved. His thorough review of the geography, history, and political institutions offers readers an understanding of how and why the project emerged. His book is well written, enjoyable to read, and supplemented by extensive notes and references. Recommended for all readership levels, especially for those interested in the interactions between governmental agencies, lobbyists, Native peoples, environmental groups, and legal institutions. -- M.J. Zwolinski * Choice *In this dense, well-researched, and thoroughly readable book, Jack Glenn examines how this highly controversial project came about. -- Ken Woollard * CBRA 5043 *An exhaustive chronicle of the battles over the construction of the Oldman Den in southern Alberta ... a definitive chronicle of both the battle of the Oldman specifically and the ongoing struggle to keep some of our natural landscape whole in the face of development pressures. Glenn provides background and reasons for his criticisms that are hard to object to, no matter what your agenda. for anyone who was involved, however peripherally, in the Oldman struggle, this book will be both engrossing and enlightening. For those concerned with the overall government versus environment struggle, it should be equally so. -- Valerie Haig-Brown * Alberta Views *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART 11 The Oldman River Basin2 In the Beginning3 The ECA Review4 A Dam on the Oldman5 Interlude6 The Battle Joined7 The EARPGO Challenge8 Carry on Regardless9 Milton and the Lonefighters10 7 September 199011 In the Aftermath12 The Federal Review13 The Panel Reports14 And ThereafterPART 215 The Iron Triangle and the Oldman River Dam16 The Environment and Its Friends17 Archaeology18 Biological Diversity19 EARPGO and the Courts20 FOR and the Attorney General21 The Peigan Indians22 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam I23 The Peigan and the Oldman River Dam II24 The Federal Watchdog I25 The Federal Watchdog II26 Iniquity and Betrayal27 The Peigan, Politics, and the Courts28 The Environment, Politics, and the Courts29 Information and Disinformation30 Does It Matter?BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Islands of Truth The Imperial Fashioning of
Book SynopsisTimely, provocative, and a vital contribution to post-colonial studies, this book questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences.Trade ReviewIn effect, Clayton has produced in this assiduously researched and thoroughly annotated book not just a geographical but, more obviously, a sociological history of white/Native contact, conflict, and eventual Native suppression... One can be grateful for Clayton’s provision of so much information, given his goals, and for a bibliography which will prove a valuable resource for future researchers. -- Bryan N.S. Gooch * Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Spaces of European Exploration Introduction1 Captain Cook, the Enlightenment, and Symbolic Violence2 Successful Intercourse Was Had with the Natives?3 Captain Cook and the Spaces of Contact at Nootka Sound4 Cook Books5 Histories, Genealogies, and Spaces of the OtherPart 2: Geographies of Capital Introduction6 The Conflictual Economy of Truth of the Maritime Fur Trade7 Native Power and Commercial Contact at Nootka Sound8 The Spatial Politics of Exchange at Clayoquot Sound9 Regional Geographies of Accommodation and AppropriationPart 3: Circulating Knowledge and Power Introduction10 The Ledger, the Map, and British Imperial Vision11 Circumscribing Vancouver Island12 Delineating the Oregon Territory13 Mythical Localities14 Conclusion: The Loss of LocalityNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Scars of War The Impact of Warfare on Modern
Book SynopsisA forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact of warfare on modern China’s civilian population.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon 1. Burn, Rape, Kill and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism andAnti-Warlordism in Republican China / Edward McCord 2. The Pacification of Jiading / Timothy Brook 3. Atrocities in Nanjing: Searching for Explanations / YangDaqing 4. Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938 /Diana Lary 5. Refugee Flight at the outset of the Sino-Japanese War /Stephen MacKinnon 6. The Politics of Commemoration / Chang Jui-te 7. Between Martyrdom and Mischief / Neil Diamant Bibliography Glossary Index
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University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: On Autonomy and Development / Colin H. Scott2 Healing the Past, Meeting the Future / Peter PenashuePart One: (Re)defining Territory3 Shaping Modern Inuit Territorial Perception and Identity in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula / Ludger Müller-Wille4 Writing Legal Histories on Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond5 The Landscape of Nunavik/The Territory of Nouveau-Québec / Peter Jacobs6 Aboriginal Rights and Interests in Canadian Northern Seas / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. Scott7 Territories, Identity, and Modernity among the Atikamekw (Haut St-Maurice, Québec) / Sylvie PoirierPart Two: Resource Management and Development Conflicts8 Voices from a Disappearing Forest: Government, Corporate, and Cree Participatory Forestry Management Practices / Harvey Feit and Robert Beaulieu9 Conflicts between Cree Hunting and Sport Hunting: Co-Management Decision-Making at James Bay / Colin H. Scott and Jeremy Webber10 Becoming a Mercury Dealer: Moral Implications and the Construction of Objective Knowledge for the James Bay Cree / Richard T. Scott11 Media Contestation of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement: The Social Construction of the Cree Problem / Donna Patrick and Peter Armitage12 Low-level Military Flight Training in Quebec-Labrador: The Anatomy of a Northern Development Conflict / Mary Barker13 The Land Claims Negotiations of the Montagnais or Innu of the Province of Quebec and the Management of Natural Resources / Paul CharestPart Three: Community, Identity, and Governance14 Community Dispersement and Organization: The Case of Ouje-bougoumou / Abel Bosum15 Gathering Knowledge: Reflections on the Anthropology of Identity, Aboriginality, and the Annual Gatherings in Whapmagoostui, Quebec / Naomi Adelson16 Building a Community in the Town of Chisasibi / Sue Jacobs17 Cultural Change in Mistissini: Implications for Self-Determination and Cultural Survival / Catherine James18 The Decolonization of the Self and the Recolonization of Knowledge: The Politics of Nunavik Health Care / Josée G. Lavoie19 Country Space as a Healing Place: Community Healing at Sheshatshiu / Cathrine Degnen20 The Concept of Community and the Challenge for Self-Government / Hedda Schuurman21 The Double Bind of Aboriginal Self-Government / Adrian Tanner22 Afterword: Reflections on Strategy / Colin H. ScottIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Making Native Space
Book SynopsisIt presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.Trade ReviewAs the first comprehensive account of the reserve system in British Columbia, the book is an important contribution to regional history, the history of aboriginal-white relations, and colonialism. Perhaps most unexpectedly, because it puts aboriginal-white relations in the context of the federal-provincial wrangling that has shaped the Canadian political landscape since 1867, it also manages to breathe new life into an old historical chestnut. -- Tina Loo * American Historical Review, April 2003 *This is a wonderful, timely, thoughtful, and gracefully written book. It makes a highly significant contribution, both to scholarship and to public policy. -- Hamar Foster, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, author of English Law, British Columbia: Establishing Legal Institutions West of the Rockies and The White Man’s Law in the Far West: Establishing Legal Institutions in British ColumbiaCole Harris has written the definitive history of the Aboriginal struggle for recognition and justice in British Columbia. Future generations of British Columbians, Aboriginal and otherwise, will thank him for this remarkable story. -- Neil J. Sterritt, Gitksan Nation, co-author of Tribal Boundaries in the Nass WatershedAlong with its encyclopaedic account of the white geographies and mentalities that dominated British Columbia through the 1800s and 1900s, Making Native Space is also a compelling saga of Aboriginal management and resistance. -- Robert Menzies * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1 *Cole Harris’s latest book is a well crafted, handsomely produced historical geography ... It is rich in terms of its colonial discourse analysis, its comparative insight and its engagement with the politics of postcolonialism. -- Alan Lester, University of Sussex * Area, Vol. 35, Issue 3, September 2003 *This is an important book for historians, geographers, lawyers, government officials, and scholars of Aboriginal studies. But it deserves to reach a wider audience because it speaks to fundamental issues of Canada’s founding, namely, the dispossession of the original peoples living here ... Harris has given us a remarkable book, a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of reserve policy and the land question in BC today. -- Jean-Paul Restoule * University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05 *Outstanding ... invites us to rethink, and remap, literally and figuratively, the boundaries and paths that can guide us to a brighter future. -- Karl Preuss, University of Victoria * American Indian Quarterly, Summer & Fall 2005, Vol. 29, Nos. 3 and 4 *Table of ContentsFigures and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Colonial Period1 The Imperial Background2 The Douglas Years, 1850-643 Ideology and Land Policy, 1864-71Part 2: Province and Dominion4 The Confederation Years, 1871-765 The Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-786 Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878-80Part 3: Filling in the Map7 O’Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880-988 Imposing a Solution, 1898-1938Part 4: Land and Livelihood9 Native Space10 Towards a Postcolonial Land PolicyAppendix: Indian Reserves in British Columbia during the Colonial PeriodNotesSource Notes for MapsBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan
Book SynopsisAn elegantly written history that documents the colonial relationship between the CCF and the Saskatchewan north.Trade ReviewQuiring demonstrates quite convincingly that a fundamental contradiction underlay the CCF's Aboriginal policy. On the one hand, the CCF sought to reserve 'traditional' occupations, such as agriculture, fishing, and trapping, for Aboriginals. On the other, the party sought to modernize the Aboriginal way of life, with the ultimate goal of assimilating Aboriginal people into the mainstream economy and culture. CCF Colonialism effectively demonstrates that the party was caught in a classic Catch 22, its own policies contributing to the sense of displacement and marginality its policies professed to address. -- Peter Campbell, History Department, Queen's University * H-Canada *David Quiring’s study constitutes a radical departure from earlier hagiography. It is acidic in demonstrating how far short the CCF fell in applying its egalitarian ideology to the rugged northern half of the province, whose population then, as now, was overwhelmingly Aboriginal in origin ... for as this book makes clear, socialism as a popular movement stopped where the prairie ended and the northern forest began. -- David E. Smith, University of Saskatchewan * Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2005 *David Quiring’s work is an exciting addition to a growing body of scholarship on the Canadian North, both in its territorial and provincial dimensions. Although focusing on the policies developed by the CCF government in Saskatchewan toward the northern regions of the province from 1944 to 1964, Quiring’s research offers many original insights into a host of related issues. It will become compulsory reading for those with an interest in the modern history of Saskatchewan, the workings of the first social democratic government in North America, and the evolution of Aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations in postwar Saskatchewan. -- Michael Cottrell, University of Saskatchewan * The Canadian Historical Review *Quiring builds his critique carefully and painstakingly by examining the CCF ideology, the new economic and social policies the government pursued, and the consequences of these policies for the northern population ... Quiring’s attack on the traditional image of the CCF makes this a worthwhile study. -- Bob Irwin, Grant MacEwan College * Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 97, no. 1, Winter 2005/2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: At the Crossroads1 Another Country AltogetherPart Two: Building the Colonial Structure2 From the Top3 The Ultimate Solution4 A Deterrent to DevelopmentPart Three: The Segregated Economy5 Never Before Have We Been So Poor6 At the Point of a Gun7 Just One Jump Out of the Stone Age8 A Pre-Industrial Way of LifePart Four: Poverty-Stricken and Disease-Ridden9 Scarcely More Than Palliative10 Dollars Are Worth More Than LivesEpilogue: We Will Measure Our SuccessAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Oriental Question
Book SynopsisPatricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.Trade ReviewThis complex and meticulous study will reward an attentive reader. It is an admirable contribution to the historiography of British Columbia and Canada. -- Hilary K. Blair * The International History Review *A finely textured account that convincingly show that while anti-Asian racism was never a monolith, it became consolidated in the image of British Columbia as a “White Man’s province” during this era ... the significance of this work is that, like the earlier volume, it catalogues English-language anti-Asian discourse in British Columbia. As such it is an invaluable reference for students of racism and of British Columbia’s history. -- Timothy J. Stanley, University of Ottawa * Labour/Le Travail, Issue 58, Fall 2005 *The Oriental Question is a solid empirical work, using government records, contemporary newspapers, memoirs, and secondary literature. It would be a highly usefu monograph for an undergraduate audience, since it brings together a broad range of information in a readable and congently argued style. -- Bonnie Huskins and Michael Boudreau * Canadian Literature, Issue 186, Autumn 2005 *Roy's careful attention to political contest and compromise gives us a rich portrait of how British Columbia consolidated around white supremacy ... These books are important empirical studies that will ultimately allow us to understand how migration and regional identities are framed in local and global terms. -- Henry Yu, University of British Columbia * Pacific Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 2, 2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “The least said, the better”: The War Years, 1914-182 “We Could Never Be Welded Together”: The Inassimilability Question, 1914-303 “Putting the Pacific Ocean Between Them”: Halting Immigration, 1919-294 “Shoving the Oriental Around”: Checking Economic Competition, 1919-305 “A Problem of Our Own Peoples”: An Interlude of Apparent Toleration, 1930-386. Inflaming the Coast: The “Menace” from Japan, 1919-417 “Poisoned by Politics”: The Danger Within, 1935-41ConclusionNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Conditions
Book SynopsisSocial science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy.Trade ReviewThe authors of Aboriginal Conditions are unapologetically quantitative in their approach, and, it must be said, sophisticatedly and successfully so. Ultimately, I think this book represents an important addition to any serious discussions regarding Aboriginal issues in Canada and I highly recommend its adoption in any number of courses with Aboriginal issues content. -- Chris Anderson, School of Native Studies, University of Edmonton * The American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2005 *Grounded in recent research, this book successfully identifies key issues bearing on the current social challenges Aboriginal people face in Canada. -- Nathalie Piquemal, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba * Great Plains Research, Spring 2005 *Table of ContentsTables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions / Jerry P. WhitePart 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based on Communities / Jerry P. White1. Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes in Canada’s First Nations Communities / Jerry P. White and Paul S. MaximPart 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to Refine Understandings / Jerry P. White2. Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections / Don Kerr, Eric Guimond, and Mary Jane Norris3. Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First Nations Populations / Stewart Clatworthy4. Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters / Eric Guimond5 . Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the Policy Implications / Mary Jane Norris, Marty Cooke, and Stewart ClatworthyPart 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language and Public Policy / Jerry P. White6 . Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development: Theory and Practice / Erin O’Sullivan7. Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families: Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada, 1996 / Mary Jane Norris and Karen MacConPart 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development / Jerry P. White8. An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1996 / Daniel Beavon and Martin Cooke9. Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians / Paul S. Maxim, Jerry P. White, and Dan Beavon10. Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential for Successful Program Transfer / Paul S. Maxim and Jerry P. WhiteConclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus -- What Have We Learned? / Jerry P. WhiteIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Selling British Columbia
Book SynopsisAn entertaining and illustrated account of the development of BC's tourist industry between 1890 and 1970, examining how BC's history of colonialism was deftly marketed to potential tourists.Trade ReviewOne of Dawson’s more significant contributions to the history of tourism is his analysis of BC tourism activities during and after World War II. Dawson’s study, with its eight decades of coverage, shows how consumer culture was established in BC and, in the process turned tourism into an industry. -- Russell Douglass Jones, Eastern Michigan University * Enterprise & Society, June 2005 *In this interesting book, Michael Dawson studies the rise of a tourist economy in British Columbia over the course of the twentieth century. This is an important discussion, making Selling British Columbia a must-read for historians interested in either consumer history or twentieth-century Canada. Who would have thought that provincial government could be so engaging a topic? -- Steve Penfold, University of Toronto * BC Studies, No. 146, Summer 2005 *He provides the most thorough examination yet of the shift from tourist trade to tourist industry in Canada, and raises important questions about the emergence of consumer capitalism. Selling British Columbia is obviously necessary reading for anyone interested in Canadian tourism; it also merits serious attention from those concerned with advertising, publicity, and promotion, business and industrial associations, and business in twentieth-century Canada generally. One hopes that his approach and suggestive findings will stimulate both methodological debate and further explorations of tourism and consumption by social, cultural and business historians. -- Ben Bradley, Queen’s University * Canadian Historical Review *These stories make for an interesting read, especially in light of the political and economic activities that surrounded major tourism events prior to the 1970s. Readers currently working in BC’s tourist industry, as well as a more general readership, will find the events captured in Dawson’s work to be informative. -- Dr. Kirk Salloum, educational consultant, Vancouver, BC * British Columbia History, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2005 *In tracing its modern origins to the depression, Dawson asks readers to see the deep political forces behind what most have described as economic or cultural ... As a result, he reveals the phenomenon as contingent in a new way, effectively historicizing tourism and asking readers to re-think analyses that treat it as monolithic or static. -- Annie Gilbert Coleman, Indiana University * American Historical Review, February 2006 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroduction: Tourism and Consumer Culture1 Boosterism and Early Tourism Promotion in British Columbia, 1890-19302 From the Investment to the Expenditure Imperative: Regional Cooperation and the Lessons of Modern Advertising, 1916-353 Entitlement, Idealism, and the Establishment of the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, 1935-394 The Second World War and the Consolidation of the British Columbia Tourist Industry, 1939-505 Differentiation, Cultural Selection, and the Post-war Travel “Boom”6 Tourism as a Public Good: The Provincial Government Manages the Post-war “Boom,” 1950-65 Conclusion: From Tourist Trade to Tourist Industry Appendix: Key tourism promotion organizations in British Columbia, 1901-72NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press First Nations Sacred Sites in Canadas Courts
Book SynopsisThe sacred sites of indigenous peoples are under increasing threat worldwide as a result of state appropriation of control over ancestral territories, coupled with insatiable demands on lands, waters, and natural resources. Yet because they spiritually anchor indigenous peoples' relationship with the land, they are crucial to these peoples' existence, survival, and well-being. Thus, threats to sacred sites are effectively threats to indigenous peoples themselves.In recent decades, First Nations peoples of Canada, like other indigenous peoples, have faced hard choices. Sometimes, they have chosen to grieve in private over the desecration and even destruction of their sacred sites. At other times, they have mounted public protests, ranging from public information campaigns to on-the-ground resistance. Of late, they have also taken their fight to the courts. First Nations Sacred Sites in Canada's Courts is the first work to examine how the courts have responded. InformeTrade ReviewThis is a provocative book that is well worth assessing by trial lawyers interested in our aboriginal issues. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What First Nations Peoples Have at Stake1 The Outlines of a General Theory of Sacred Sites2 The Context in Which First Nations Carry Their Fight to the Courts3 In Canada’s Courts: The Meares Strategy4 In Canada’s Courts: The Haida Strategy5 How First Nations Sacred Sites Have Fared in Canada’s Courts6 Tima Kwetsi- EpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press First Nations Sacred Sites in Canadas Courts
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how and why courts have failed to fairly treat First Nations sacred sites, which are under increasing threat worldwide due to state appropriation and insatiable demands on natural resources.Trade ReviewThis is a provocative book that is well worth assessing by trial lawyers interested in our aboriginal issues. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What First Nations Peoples Have at Stake1 The Outlines of a General Theory of Sacred Sites2 The Context in Which First Nations Carry Their Fight to the Courts3 In Canada’s Courts: The Meares Strategy4 In Canada’s Courts: The Haida Strategy5 How First Nations Sacred Sites Have Fared in Canada’s Courts6 Tima Kwetsi- EpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press With Good Intentions
Book SynopsisExamines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.Trade ReviewHaig-Brown, Nock and the contributing authors are to be congratulated for presenting a work that is well-researched and competently argued. -- Derek Whitehouse-Strong, History Department, Grant MacEwan College * H-Net Book Review, July 2006 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / David A. Nock and Celia Haig-Brown1 Horatio Hale: Forgotten Victorian Author of Positive Aboriginal Representation / David A. Nock2 Trust Us: A Case Study in Colonial Social Relations Based on Documents Prepared by the Aborigines Protection Society, 1836-1912 / Michael D. Blackstock3 A Mi’kmaq Missionary among the Mohawks: Silas T. Rand and His Attitudes toward Race and “Progress” / Thomas S. Abler4 A Visionary on the Edge: Allan Macdonell and the Championing of Native Resource Rights / Alan Knight and Janet E. Chute5 Taking up the Torch: Simon J. Dawson and the Upper Great Lakes’ Native Resource Campaign of the 1860s and 1870s / Janet E. Chute and Alan Knight6 The “Friends” of Nahnebahwequa / Celia Haig-Brown7 Aboriginals and Their Influence on E.F. Wilson’s Paradigm Revolution / David A. Nock8 Good Intentions Gone Awry: From Protection to Confinement in Emma Crosby’s Home for Aboriginal Girls / Jan Hare and Jean Barman9 The “Cordial Advocate”: Amelia McLean Paget and The People of the Plains / Sarah A. Carter10 Honoré Joseph Jaxon: A Lifelong Friend of Aboriginal Canada / Donald D. Smith11 Arthur Eugene O’Meara: Servant, Advocate, Seeker of Justice / Mary Haig-Brown12 “They Wanted … Me to Help Them”: James A. Teit and the Challenge of Ethnography in the Boasian Era / Wendy WickwireAppendix: The Fair Play Papers – The Future of Our IndiansSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth and
Book SynopsisIn this illuminating history of Montreal, readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, reformers, notaries, and social workers.Trade Review"This book combines a number of key topics that greatly enhance historians' understanding of Montreal's cultural diversity. Scholars with a wide range of interests - those studying identity formation, the public/private divide, agency and regulation, consumer behavior, and collective memory - will find this an illuminating and valuable volume." - Alan Gordon, author of Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories"Table of Contents1. Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- andTwentieth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury and TamaraMyers Part 1: Homes and Homelessness 2. Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender,Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal /Mary Anne Poutanen 3. Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Instituteand the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98 / Darcy Ingram 4. Keeping Men Out of "Public or Semi-Public" Places: TheMontreal Day Shelter for Homeless Men, 1931-34 / Anna Shea andSuzanne Morton Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood 5. Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: TheMontreal McCords / Brian Young 6. Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood inEarly-Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury Part 3: Youth, Institutions, and Identities 7. The Ideal Education to Construct an Ideal World: The DunhamLadies' College and the Anglican Elite of the Montreal Diocese,1860-1913 / Marie-Eve Harbec, translated by Yvonne Klein 8. On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women'sAnti-Delinquency Work in Interwar Montreal / Tamara Myers 9. From Tomorrow’s Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: TheSearch for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-58 /Karine Hébert, translated by Steven Watt Part 4: Selling and Consumption 10. "Behind the Store": Montreal Shopkeeping FamiliesBetween the Wars / Sylvie Taschereau, translated by YvonneKlein 11. A Ritual Transformed: Women Smokers in Montreal, 1888-1950 /Jarrett Rudy Index
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University of British Columbia Press Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth and
Book SynopsisIn this illuminating history of Montreal, readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, reformers, notaries, and social workers.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- andTwentieth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury and TamaraMyers Part 1: Homes and Homelessness 2. Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender,Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal /Mary Anne Poutanen 3. Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Instituteand the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98 / Darcy Ingram 4. Keeping Men Out of "Public or Semi-Public" Places: TheMontreal Day Shelter for Homeless Men, 1931-34 / Anna Shea andSuzanne Morton Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood 5. Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: TheMontreal McCords / Brian Young 6. Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood inEarly-Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury Part 3: Youth, Institutions, and Identities 7. The Ideal Education to Construct an Ideal World: The DunhamLadies' College and the Anglican Elite of the Montreal Diocese,1860-1913 / Marie-Eve Harbec, translated by Yvonne Klein 8. On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women'sAnti-Delinquency Work in Interwar Montreal / Tamara Myers 9. From Tomorrow’s Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: TheSearch for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-58 /Karine Hébert, translated by Steven Watt Part 4: Selling and Consumption 10. "Behind the Store": Montreal Shopkeeping FamiliesBetween the Wars / Sylvie Taschereau, translated by YvonneKlein 11. A Ritual Transformed: Women Smokers in Montreal, 1888-1950 /Jarrett Rudy Index
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University of British Columbia Press Kiumajut Talking Back Game Management and Inuit
Book SynopsisExamines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on regulating Inuit based on government animal counting methods, and the emerging regime of government intervention.Trade ReviewThis book is a rich story, weaving together the elements of policy and people. […] The case study approach and choice of the Inuit is of particular value in that it clearly identifies the limits of “objective” science and makes the case for what is now accepted as the importance of traditional knowledge. […] Though this book is not intended as a cautionary tale for current policy makers, it will be of interest to academics, students and policymakers alike as it sheds light on the challenges and conflicts ever-present in regulating Aboriginal people. -- Gabrielle Slowey, TOPIA, Issue 20Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Managing the Game1 Trapping and Trading: The Regulation of Inuit Hunting Prior to World War II2 Sagluniit (“Lies”): Manufacturing a Caribou Crisis3 Sugsaunngittugulli (“We Are Useless”): Surveying the Animals4 Who Counts? Challenging Science and the LawPart II: Talking Back5 Inuit Rights and Government Policy6 Baker Lake, 1957: The Eskimo Council7 Inuit Petition for Their RightsConclusion: Contested GroundNotes; Bibliography; Index
£29.70
University of British Columbia Press Myth and Memory
Book SynopsisExamines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. Focusing on misunderstandings embedded in the stories of "first contacts" and these narratives' contemporary relevance, production, and performance, this book introduces different tools for understanding the genre.Trade ReviewThe essays provide a fascinating surf of “first contacts” from New Zealand, England, southern Africa, and the Pacific Northwest, from the eighteenth century to today […]. A plentiful range of new approaches to the genre of the contact narrative distinguishes this impressively interdisciplinary collection, with contributions from historians, anthropologists, linguists, and literary critics. -- Sophie McCall * Canadian Literature, No.197 *Myth & Memory injects an interesting and crucial “new” narrative into the historical record. -- Kelly Chaves * The Northern Mariner, Vol.XIX, No.1 *This convincing and solid collection encourages assessment and reassessment of contact narratives. … Ten scholars from various fields, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature, engage in this informative work. …Edited by University of Victoria historian John Sutton Lutz, the chapters in Myth and Memory integrate a number of global indigenous perspectives. Lutz’s extensive insight regarding native and newcomer relations provides a solid basis for editorial expertise of this compendium. -- Corinne George, Simon Fraser University * H-Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again / John Lutz1. Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin2. First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast / John Lutz3. Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact / Keith Carlson4. Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives / Patrick Moore5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of “The Chinook” / I.S. MacLaren6. Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke / Michael Harkin7. Stories at the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography / Wendy Wickwire8. When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney9. The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America / Nora and Richard DauenhauerNotesBibliographyContributors
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University of British Columbia Press Unsettling Encounters First Nations Imagery in
Book SynopsisFeaturing almost 300 illustrations, including 90 colour plates, Unsettling Encounters reconstructs a neglected aspect of Carr’s art and is a fresh assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early 20th-century modernism.Trade ReviewUnsettling Encounters is the most unified, offering an exhaustive narrative of Carr’s engagement with painting village scenes and the arts of the totem poles from the first decade of the 20th century until the mid 1930s. -- Clint Burnham * The Vancouver Sun *Moray…has written a fascinating and well-researched history on Canadian artist Emily Carr’s expeditions to witness and document native art in British Columbia. More than a history, Moray makes a forceful argument for Carr’s conscious attempt to represent Native art in a manner consistent with Native life and belief, in part as a critique of non-Native national and religious policies. The text is well illustrated with many period photos, the paintings of other artist, and Carr’s own drawings and watercolors…making this a splendid and full resource. * Reference and Research Book News *Table of ContentsForeword / Marcia CrosbyPlaces Painted by Emily CarrPart 1: Contexts for a Colonial Artist1 The Legendary Emily Carr2 Drawing and Insubordination3 Missionary in Reverse4 Among Ethnographers and Indian AgentsPart 2: A Pictorial Record of Native Villages and Totem Poles, 1899-19135 They Named Me Klee Wyck6 The Despised and Joyous Way of Painting7 Old Mythological Legends: Gitxsan Villages in 19128 A Great Dignity: Haida Gwaii in 19129 Unchanged by Fashion and Civilization: Kwakwaka’wakw Villages in 191210 The Largest Collection Yet Made: Carr’s 1913 Exhibition in Vancouver and Its AftermathPart 3: Homesick for Indian11 Out of the Wilderness and into the National Gallery12 What They Are Trying to Forget: Sketching Trips from 192813 The Big Thing That Means Canada Herself14 RetrospectNotes; Bibliographic; Essay; Index
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University of British Columbia Press States of Nature
Book SynopsisThis multi-award-winning book is one of the first to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots.Trade ReviewLoo uses the history of Canadian wildlife conservation as a lens through which to view the changing attitude of Canadians to wildlife in the twentieth century ... It is this kind of reassessment that makes States of Nature such a welcome addition to the literature on wildlife conservation. -- Bill Waiser * The Beaver *Table of ContentsForeword: Troubles with Nature / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Wild by Law: Animals, People, and the State to 19452 Make Way for Wildlife: Colonization, Resistance, and Transformation3 The Dominion of Father Goose: Local Knowledge and Wildlife Conservation4 The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Conservation5 Buffalo Burgers and Reindeer Steak: Government Wildlife Conservation in Postwar Canada6 Predators and Postwar Conservation7 From Wildlife to Wild PlacesConclusionPhoto EssayNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Creating a Modern Countryside
Book SynopsisIn the early 1900s, British Columbia embarked on a brief but intense effort, with long consequences, to manufacture a modern countryside. For the first time, the state directly intervened in planning and implementing land settlement. This work examines how this process unfolded and assesses its consequences.Trade ReviewMurton’s main contrubution to environmental history is his analysis of state formation whithin a region, an order that depended upon establishing a new and more direct relationship with the land. Creating a Modern Countryside opens up the possibility for an exploration of the intersection between state organization, landscape ideology, and culture in British Columbia ... As a recent addition to the Nature/ History/ Society series published by UBC Press and edited by Graeme Wynn, it fits well the aim to publish high quality, lively, innovative scholarship on the interaction of people and nature through time in North America ... It challenges us to think about how our constructions of the past need to be informed by an understanding of the environment. It is a good example of how environmental historians might 'get outside and into the dirt.' -- Bruce Shelvey * Environmental History Journal, Volume 12, Number 4 *In Creating a Modern Countryside, historian James Murton addresses British Columbia’s distinctive attempts to promote in tandem particular ways of life and particular methods of land use. Through a case study approach to interwar land resettlement programs, Murton illustrates how “changes in the state and changes in the land were inextricably linked.”Murton’s study exposes the complex entanglements of nature and the provincial state in a landscape that, for all Tourism British Columbia’s efforts to promote the availability of beauty and pleasure, was not always amenable to human designs.Murton’s volume is an impressive contribution to the burgeoning subfield of Canadian environmental history, as well as an engagement with themes such as high modernism that are of importance to the international field of environmental history. And given its close engagement with liberalism, a topic of concern to Canadian historians at large, Creating a Modern Countryside is also one of the most compelling illustrations to date of why Canadian historians cannot afford to ignore the work of their environmental history colleagues.As he details efforts at the creation of a modern countryside, Murton also provides valuable insight into the new liberal mindset, which has remained largely unexplored....Murton promotes an expansive view of the field of environmental history, one in which the focus is not solely or necessarily on the most blatantly environmental human activities....In addition to a penetrating analysis of new liberalism at work in interwar British Columbia, then, Murton’s work is also an example of the sort of environmental history analysis that might be possible for other ideological perspectives or, to use his terminology, general logics. ...the book offers a vivid rendering of new liberalism in interwar British Columbia, an important contribution to key themes in the fields of Canadian and environmental history, and a compelling illustration of how these fields might benefit through greater recognition of their overlapping concerns.... -- Shannon Stunden Bower * H-Canada *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword: Soldiers’ Fields / Graeme WynnAcknowledgmentsA Note on Terminology and Units of MeasureIntroductionPart 1: A Modern Countryside1 Liberalism and the Land2 Soldiers, Science, and an Alternative ModernityPart 2: Where Apples Grow Best3 Stump Farms: Soldier Settlement at Merville4 Creating Order at Sumas5 Achieving the Modern CountrysidePart 3: Back to Work6 Pattullo’s New DealConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Guarding the Gates
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.Trade ReviewDavid Goutor skilfully explores the meanings and consequences of organized labour’s opposition to wholesale recruitment of labour abroad and to different streams of immigration ... Goutor’s most significant contribution is to explore the relationship between labour’s attitudes to immigration and its ability to develop as an effective political force. -- James Naylor, Brandon University * BC Studies, No. 155, Autumn 2007 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Issues and Arguments1 Guarding the Gates2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934Part 2: Labour’s Anti-Asian Agitation3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-874 The “Old Time Question”: The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934Part 3: Labour and Atlantic Immigration 5 Superfluous People: Labour’s Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of ImmigrationPart 4: Immigration, Ideology, and Politics7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-798 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-19029 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Triumph of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.Trade ReviewPatricia E. Roy’s two previous books on Anglo-Canadian treatment of the Japanese and Chinese in British Columbia, […] have established her reputation as a leading authority on the subject. The present study extends her inquiry into the tumultuous years of the Pacific War and up to 1967. […] no one has marshalled as much evidence from the political arena and the media to capture the cacophony of the expressed views and to discern the evolving direction as Roy has in this book. Her research in public archives and newspaper collections yields a most comprehensive assemblage of the voices of government leaders and politicians, and also of local reactions not only across the country but also community by community across British Columbia. -- Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio * International History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 A Civil Necessity: The Decision to Evacuate2 Adverse Sentiments beyond the Coast3 “Repatriation” to Japan and “Non-Repatriation” to British Columbia4 The Effects of the War on the Chinese5 Toward First-Class Citizenship for Japanese Canadians, 1945-46 Beyond Enfranchisement: Seeking Full Justice for Japanese Canadians7 Ending Chinese Exclusion: Immigration Policy, 1950-67ConclusionEpilogueNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press New Histories for Old Changing Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThe collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields, to shed new light on the history of scholarship on Canada’s Aboriginal past.Trade ReviewThis selection of essays sheds new light on historical and up to date relationships between the European and the Native. It reviews the aspirations of the Indigenous people to recover their lands in whole or in part. The book is a fresh look at the history of our original peoples and is an up to date reference for both historians and litigators. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * Barrister, Issue 87 *Table of ContentsMapsIntroduction / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan1 Arthur J. Ray and the Writing of Aboriginal History / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan2 Rupert’s Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land: Cree and English Naming and Claiming around the Dirty Sea / Jennifer S.H. Brown3 Echo of the Crane: Tracing Anishnawbek and Metis Title to Bawating (Sault Ste. Marie) / Victor P. Lytwyn4 Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of Indian Treaty Making / J.R. Miller5 Smallpox along the Frontier of the Plains Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Jody Decker6 Mapping the New El Dorado: The Fraser River Gold Rush and the Appropriation of Native Space / Daniel Marshall7 Innovation, Tradition, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Fishing Conflicts in the Lower Fraser Canyon / Keith Thor Carlson8 Meanings of Mobility on the Northwest Coast / Paige Raibmon9 "Choose Your Flag": Perspectives on the Tsimshian Migration from Metlakatla, British Columbia, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 1887 / Susan Neylan10 Gitxsan Law and Settler Disorder: The Skeena “Uprising” of 1888 / R.M. Galois11 Arthur J. Ray and the Empirical Opportunity / Cole HarrisContributorsIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Contributing Citizens Modern Charitable
Book SynopsisA social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.Trade Review"Tillotson takes what is often seen by historians as a "conservative" force in Canadian history - charitable fundraising - and creates a nuanced and sympathetic account of its origins, failures, and successes. By incorporating the local histories of Halifax, Ottawa, and Vancouver, she allows us to see how large-scale political change played out in local contexts. Contributing Citizens is a clear, thoughtful, and well-researched contribution to the field of Canadian history. - Lara Campbell, Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University"Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public and Private in Welfare History1 The Citizenship of Contribution: Taxation in the 1920s2 The Technologies of Contribution: Taxation and Modern Fundraising Methods3 Social Advertising and Social Conflict: The Community Chest Method in Vancouver, 1930-354 Race, Charity, and Democracy: Organizing Inclusion, 1927-525 How Charity Survived the Birth of the Welfare State6 Reconstructing Charity: The Postwar Politics of Public and Private, 1945-667 Justice, Inclusion, and the Emotions of Obligation in 1950s CharityConclusion: Similarities, Differences, and Historical ChangeAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Suburb Slum Urban Village
Book SynopsisA history of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, spanning three eras of suburban and urban development and examining the controversial planning practices that shaped it.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 A Good Place to Live? Perceptions and Realities of Suburbs, Slums, and Urban Villages2 The Flowery Suburb: Parkdale’s Development, 1875-19123 “Becoming a Serious Slum”: Decline in Parkdale, 1913-19664 From Bowery to Bohemia: The Urban Village, 1967-20025 Why Does Parkdale Matter?NotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples
Book SynopsisOffers a perspective on Aboriginal title and land rights that extends beyond national borders and the contemporary context to consider historical developments in common law countries.Trade ReviewThe book is a major contribution to the widespread controversies over how the contemporary state and minority peoples/nations within it can come to an enduring rapprochement…the editors and contributors have produced a volume that should be on the bookshelf of every serious scholar studying Aboriginal issues. -- Alan Cairns * BC Studies, Winter 2011 *This collection offers a welcome contribution to the growing literature on comparative Indigenous rights frameworks…it should help stimulate further thinking that crosses national and disciplinary borders while addressing issues of interest to the Great Plains. -- Dwight Newman, University of Saskatchewan * Great Plains Research, Vol 21, No 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction. “This Is Our Land”: Aboriginal Title at Customary and Common Law in Comparative Contexts / Louis A. KnaflaPart 1: Sovereignty, Extinguishment, and Expropriation of Aboriginal Title1 From the US Indian Claims Commission Cases to Delgamuukw: Facts, Theories, and Evidence in North American Land Claims / Arthur Ray2 Social Theory, Expert Evidence, and the Yorta Yorta Rights Appeal Decision / Bruce Rigsby3 Law’s Infidelity to Its Past: The Failure to Recognize Indigenous Jurisdiction in Australia and Canada / David Yarrow4 The Defence of Native Title and Dominion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Compared with Delgamuukw / Haijo Westra5 Beyond Aboriginal Title in Yukon: First Nations Land Registries / Brian BallantynePart 2: Native Land, Litigation, and Indigenous Rights6 The “Race” for Recognition: Toward a Policy of Recognition of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand7 The Sources and Content of Indigenous Land Rights in Australia and Canada: A Critical Comparison / Kent McNeil8 Common Law, Statutory Law, and the Political Economy of the Recognition of Indigenous Australian Rights in Land / Nicolas Peterson9 Claiming Native Title in the Foreshore and Seabed / Jacinta Ruru10 Waterpower Developments and Native Water Rights Struggles in the North American West in the Early Twentieth Century: A View from Three Stoney Nakoda Cases / Kenichi MatsuiConclusion. Power and Principle: State-Indigenous Relations across Time and Space / Peter W. HutchinsSelected Bibliography; General Index; Index of Cases; Index of Statutes, Treaties, and Agreements
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University of British Columbia Press Urbanizing Frontiers
Book SynopsisThis book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.Trade ReviewUrbanizing Frontiers is a fine example of comparative colonial history. This sort of history requires research in multiple locations often separated by vast distances, engagement with the historiographical contours of at least two countries, and a conceptual language to bridge them. ...[it shows] rich and compelling evidence or the insightful analysis which is developed with reference to postcolonial, feminist and spatial theory.... Urbanizing Frontiers is a sophisticated monograph, carefully crafted and impressive in scope. It deserves a wide readership in indigenous studies, colonial history, urban history and historical geography, while also making an important and timely contribution to both Australian and Canadian history. -- Fances Steel, University of Wollongong * Aboriginal History, Vol 35 *Edmonds argues for a redefinition of perhaps the most contested idea in settler colonial historiography: that of the frontier….and offers a devastating indictment of the urban biopolitics of settler colonialism and their effect on Indigenous society. -- Edward Cavanagh, University of the Witwatersrand * Settler Colonial Studies, Issue 1 *Taking as her case studies Victoria on Canada’s west coast and Melbourne, Australia, Edmonds makes a compelling case for the ways in which urban and indigenous histories are deeply entwined..[with] insightful placements of the potlatch and the corroboree alongside the grid and the picturesque ... the urban stories she tells are rich, complex, and densely critical ... Urbanizing Frontiers is an outstanding contribution to the nascent literature on urban colonialism and indigenous peoples. -- Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia * Pacific Historical Review *This is an important book, a must read not only for scholars in Native studies, but for urban historians as well. Indeed, I found myself excitingly quoting from it and footnoting it while preparing a manuscript before I could sit down and systematically read it for the purposes of this review ... One of the strengths of this book, indeed, is Edmonds’ nuanced analysis of gender. We not only see indigenous women in a wide variety of roles in both places from oyster traders to victims of sexual abuse, we also see how critical gender was in the discursive construction of place -- Jay Gitlin, Yale University * Australian Historical Studies *Urbanizing Frontiers sheds much-needed light on the spatial mobility of the developing settler colonial city where ‘mutual, albeit uneven, interactions, of colonization and Indigenization were, for a short time part of the tenor of the early settler-colonial landscape’. Edmonds is truly interdisciplinary in her research and conceptualisation of these two sites and she makes an important contribution to the understanding of Australian and Canadian history, as well as the other discourses of colonialism, race and urban geography. -- Tiffany Shellam * History Australia *An excellent work of comparative colonial history...the casual reader of British Columbian or Australian history as well as the academic of urban studies, policy, urban geography, colonial, gender and race history should consider reading this book. -- Omeasoo Butt, University of Saskatchewan * Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire, Vol. XLVlI, Autumn/automne 2012 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Extremities of Empire: Two Settler-Colonial Cities in Comparative Perspective2 Settler-Colonial Cities: A Survey of Bodies and Spaces in Transition3 "This Grand Object": Building Towns in Indigenous Space [Melbourne, Port Phillip]4 First Nations Space, Protocolonial Space [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58]5 The Imagined City and Its Dislocations: Segregation, Gender, and Town Camps [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50]6 Narratives of Race in the Streetscape: Fears of Miscegenation and Making White Subjects [Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s]7 From Bedlam to Incorporation: First Nations Peoples, Public Space, and the Emerging City [Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s]8 Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire [Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71]ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Nurture of Nature
Book SynopsisThousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores the history of summer camps and sheds light on a wider phenomenon: the divided consciousness that informs modern assumptions about nature, technology, and identity.Wall examines how two competing tendencies antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity played out in the camp's interaction with nature, its class and gendered dimensions, its engagement with emerging ideologies of childhood, and in the politics of race inherent in its Indian programming.The Nurture of Nature offers a fascinating discussion of the summer camp's contribution to modern social life that will appeal to students and practitioners of the history of childhood, the natural environment, and recreation or anyone who has been packed off to camp and wants to exTrade Review"The Nurture of Nature represents a major study of an important but neglected subject. It is an important contribution to the study of leisure and recreation in Canada, to the understanding of the character of modernity, and to the history of summer camps. - Keith Walden, Department of History, Trent University"Table of ContentsForeword: Modernism in Camp: A Wilderness Paradox / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Back to Nature: Escaping the City, Ordering the Wild2 Socialism for the Rich: Class Formation at the Private Camp3 "All they need is air": Building Health, Shaping Class at the Fresh Air Camp4 Making Modern Childhood, the Natural Way: The Camp Experiment with Psychology, Mental Hygiene, and Progressive Education5 Shaping True Natures in Nature: Camping, Gender, and Sexuality6 Totem Poles, Tepees, and Token Traditions: "Playing Indian" at CampConclusion: All Antimodern Melts into Modern?NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada
Book SynopsisThis book explores the history of kindergartens and infant schools in three settler colonies, revealing how discourses and developments in the past have shaped early childhood education in the present.Trade Review"Professor Larry Prochner has produced a systematic, scholarly and insightful analysis of the emergence of infant schools and kindergartens in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. This book will be a key reference work for all scholars in the field. - Deborah Brennan, University of New South Wales"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Childhood and Education2 Infant Schools in Britain3 Infant Schools in the Case-Study Countries4 Childcare and Daycare5 Kindergarten from Germany to England and America6 Kindergarten in the Case-Study Countries7 Winnipeg Free Kindergarten Association8 Kindergarten Union of New South Wales9 Wellington Free Kindergarten Association10 Conclusion: Change and ContinuityNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Asian Religions in British Columbia Asian
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Don Baker and Larry DeVriesPart 1: Traditions from South Asia1 Hindu and Other South Asian Religious Groups / Larry DeVries2 The Making of Sikh Space: The Role of the Gurdwara / Kamala Elizabeth Nayar3 Religion, Ethnicity, and the Double Diaspora of Asian Muslims / Derryl N. MacLean4 Zoroastrians in British Columbia / Rastin MehriPart 2: Traditions from Southeast Asia5 Thai and Lao Buddhism / James Placzek and Ian G. Baird6 Sri Lankan and Myanmar Buddhism / Bandu Madanayake7 Vietnamese Buddhist Organizations / Cam Van Thi Phan (aka Thich nu Tri Kha)Part 3: Traditions from East and Central Asia8 Korean Religiosity in Comparative Perspective / Don Baker9 Tibetan Religions / Marc des Jardins10 Traditional and Changing Japanese Religions / Michael Newton11 Christianity as a Chinese Belief / Li Yu12 Chinese Religions / Paul CroweConcluding Comments / Dan OvermyerSuggested ReadingsContributors
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University of British Columbia Press Sensing Changes
Book SynopsisOur bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. But if global environmental changes continue at their present unsettling pace, how will we make sense of time and place when the air, land, and water around us are no longer familiar?Joy Parr, one of Canada's premier historians, tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past when state-driven megaprojects such as chemical plants, dams, nuclear reactors, transportation corridors, and new regulatory regimes forced people to cope with radical transformations in their work and home environments. In each case, the familiar was transformed so thoroughly that residents no longer recognized where they lived or, by implication, who they were.Sensing Changes and its associated website, http://megaprojects.uwo.ca, make a key contribution to environmental history and the emerging field of sensory history. This study offers a timely, prescient perspectiveTrade ReviewThe New Media component of Sensing Changes is a wonderful illustration of how we can and should engage our students in multi-sensory ways and how we, as historians, must move beyond privileging the written word. -- Lisa Rumiel, McMaster University * Left History, 15.1 *Historian and geographer Joy Parr has written an extraordinary book…Sensing Changes will make important contributions to the field of sensory studies and that other readers, approaching their own topics in diverse locations and from various disciplinary backgrounds, will, like this reviewer, find edification and inspiration in the pages of this remarkable book. -- Deborah Davis Jackson, Earlham College * Senses and Society, Vol 6, Issue 2 *Table of ContentsForeword: "Now I am Ready to Tell How Bodies are Changed Into Different Bodies” / Graeme WynnThe Megaprojects New Media Series / Jon van der Veen1 Introduction – Embodied Histories2 Place and Citizenship – Woodlands, Meadows, and a Military Training Ground: The NATO Base at Gagetown3 Safety and Sight – Working Knowledge of the Insensible: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Power Plants, 1962-924 Movement and Sound – A Walking Village Remade: Iroquois and the St. Lawrence Seaway5 Time and Scale – A River Becomes a Reservoir: The Arrow Lakes and the Damming of the Columbia6 Smell and Risk – Uncertainty along a Great Lakes Shoreline: Hydrogen Sulphide and the Production of Heavy Water7 Taste and Expertise – Local Water Diversely Known: The E. coli Contamination in Walkerton 2000 and After8 Conclusion: Historically Specific BodiesNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Terrain of Memory
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Japanese Canadians living in an isolated mountainous valley in the province of British Columbia worked together to transform the village where they lived for over fifty years from a site of political violence into a space for remembrance.Trade ReviewTerrain of Memory is a powerful contribution to cultural studies and memory work...employing an approach that scrutinizes with exacting honesty her moments of crisis, blockages, and breakthroughs, McAllister unfolds a scholarly activist praxis that is ethical, inventive, inimitable, and suffused with dramatic emotional struggle. -- Glenn Deer * University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 81, No 3 *The novelty of the subject, distinctive methodological approach, engaging voice, and sophisticated analysis makes Terrain of Memory a worthwhile selection for public history classes seeking to model how to understand both past and present meanings of monuments and memorials, though the more analyti-cal sections may be more appropriate for advanced rather than introductory. -- Gail Dubrow * The Public Historian, Vol 34, No 4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Drive to Do Research1 A Necessary Crisis2 Mapping the Spaces of Internment3 The Chronotope of the (Im)memorial4 Continuity and Change between Generations5 Making Space for Other Memories in the Historical Landscape6 In Memory of OthersConclusion: Points of DepartureNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press No need of a chief for this band
Book SynopsisA nuanced account of Ottawa's failed attempt to replace Mi'kmaw political culture with Euro-Canadian political values and structures.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Mi’kmaw World in 1900 2 Continuity and Change in Mi’kmaw Politics to 1899 3 The Origins of the Triennial Band Council System 4 Federal Interference and Political Persistence in Mi’kmawCommunities 5 The Limits of Triennial Elections Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of British Columbia Press Taking Medicine
Book SynopsisThe buffalo hunter, the medicine man, and the missionary continue to dominate the history of the North American west, even though historians have recognized women's role as both colonizer and colonized since the 1980s.Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by investigating the convergence of Aboriginal and settler therapeutic regimes in the Treaty 7 region from the perspective of women. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women played important roles as healers and caregivers, and the knowledge and healing work of both Aboriginal and settler women brought them into contact. But as settlement increased and the colonial regime hardened, informal encounters in domestic spaces gave way to more formal, one-sided interactions in settler-run hospitals and nursing stations.By revealing Aboriginal and settler women's contributions to the development of health care in southern Alberta, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandiTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Niitsitapi: The Northwestern Plains2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the Therapeutic Culture of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T’ina, and Nakoda3 Giving Birth: Women’s Health Work and Western Settlement, 1850-19004 Converging Therapeutic Systems: Encounters between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women, 1870s-90s5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of Nurses, Nursing Sisters, and Female Attendants on Reserves, 1890-19156 Taking over the System: Graduate Nurses, Nursing Sisters, Female Attendants, and Indian Health Services, 1915-307 The Snake and the Butterfly: Midwifery and Birth Control, 1900s-30sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Storied Communities
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.Trade ReviewThe book is a welcome addition to the recent work of scholars such as Andrea Smith, Patrick Wolfe, Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, who have drawn fundamental connections between the structural elimination of Native peoples and the racialization of (and violence against) non-Native minority groups in settler colonial states. -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy WebberPart 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhanda Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward ChamberlinPart 4: Contact and Its Narratives9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific “Wild” Places / Jacinta RuruPart 5: Arrival and Its Narratives13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt14 “Robbed of a Different Life”: Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler CoutinPart 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously?15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack17 Proof and Narrative: “Reproducing the Facts” in Refugee Claims / Donald GallowayPart 7: Theoretical Implications: Where Do We Go from Here?18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / Martha NandorfyContributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Manufacturing National Park Nature
Book SynopsisJasper National Park is an international travel destination, world heritage site, and icon of Canadian identity. Although national parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, we are only beginning to understand how their visual imagery has shaped and continues to inform our perception of the natural world, ecological issues, and ourselves.In Manufacturing National Park Nature, J. Keri Cronin draws on visual images such as postcards and tourist snapshots to show that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image. Adopting an ecocritical approach to visual culture, she reveals that packaging Jasper as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals masks the real threats to the park's ecosystems. In telling the story of how various groups have used photography to shape our ideas about nature, this book sets the stage for a re-examination of protection policies and acknowledgTrade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Manufacturing National Park Nature
Book SynopsisFocusing on Jasper National Park, this richly illustrated book shows how photography has shaped and continues to inform perceptions of nature and ecological issues in Canada.Trade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Rethinking the Great White North
Book SynopsisRethinking the Great White North explores the troubling side of the images of whiteness and wilderness that are so central to Canadian national identity.Trade ReviewInnovative...the book is also particularly stimulating in its attempt to read urban geographies against and/or as part of Canada's constitutive interaction with “nature.” -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *Is the issue race or whiteness? Nature or wilderness? The best papers in this collection engage the tensions between key concepts, offering not only theoretically engaged analyses of the Canadian situation but also seeking to advance conceptual understanding of race or whiteness and nature or wilderness. -- Shannon Stunden Bower, University of Alberta * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where Is the Great White North? Spatializing History, Historicizing Whiteness / Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, and Audrey KobayashiPart 1: Identity and Knowledge1 “A Phantasy in White in a World That Is Dead”: Grey Owl and the Whiteness of Surrogacy / Bruce Erickson2 Indigenous Knowledge and the History of Science, Race, and Colonial Authority in Northern Canada / Stephen Bocking3 Cap Rouge Remembered? Whiteness, Scenery, and Memory in Cape Breton Highlands National Park / Catriona SandilandsPart 2: City Spaces4 The “Occult Relation between Man and the Vegetable”: Transcendentalism, Immigrants, and Park Planning in Toronto, c. 1900 / Phillip Gordon Mackintosh5 SARS and Service Work: Infectious Disease and Racialization in Toronto / Claire Major and Roger Keil6 Shimmering White Kelowna and the Examination of Painless White Privilege in the Hinterland of British Columbia / Luis L.M. Aguiar and Tina I.L. MartenPart 3: Arctic Journeys7 Inscription, Innocence, and Invisibility: Early Contributions to the Discursive Formation of the North in Samuel Hearne’s A Journey to the Northern Ocean / Richard Milligan and Tyler McCreary8 Copper Stories: Imaginative Geographies and Material Orderings of the Central Canadian Arctic / Emilie CameronPart 4: Native Land9 Temagami’s Tangled Wild: The Making of Race, Nature, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario / Jocelyn Thorpe10 Resolving “the Indian Land Question”? Racial Rule and Reconciliation in British Columbia / Brian Egan11 Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects: Neo-Liberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves / Jessica Dempsey, Kevin Gould, and Juanita SundbergInterlocationsExtremity: Theorizing from the Margins / Kay AndersonColonization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Sherene H. RazackNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Pineros
Book SynopsisSarathy draws on interviews, government documents, and media accounts to trace the Latinization of forest labour in the US Pacific Northwest and the marginalization of Latino workers.Table of Contents1 Invisible Workers 2 Cutting and Planting 3 From Pears to Pines 4 The Marginality of Forest Workers 5 A Tale of Two Valleys 6 Conclusions Appendix; Bibliography; Notes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Wildlife Conservation and Conflict in Quebec
Book SynopsisDespite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. In Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, Darcy Ingram explores the combination of NGOs, fish and game clubs, and state-administered leases that formed the basis of a unique system of wildlife conservation in North America. However, these early strategies were not as forward-focused as they appear. Ingram traces the emergence of a lease-based regulatory system that blended elite forms of sport and conservation. Applied first to British North America's prized salmon rivers, this system came to encompass the bulk of Quebec's hunting and fishing territories. Inspired by a longstanding belief in progress, improvement, and social order based on European as well as North American models, this system effectively privatized Quebec's fish and game resources, often to the detrimTable of ContentsContentsForeword: What You See Depends upon Where (and How) You Look / Graeme WynnIntroductionPart 1: Beginnings, 1840-801 The New Regulatory Environment2 Salmon, Sport, and the Lower St. Lawrence3 ConflictPart 2: Expansion, Consolidation, and Continuity, 1880-19144 From Public Space to Private Power5 The Evolution of Patrician Culture6 Opposition, Resistance, and the New CenturyConclusionAppendicesNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Conflict in Caledonia
Book SynopsisA powerful account of how land disputes reflect complex and often competing understandings of law, landscape, and identity among First Nations and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Rule of Law”2 Places to Grow3 “Us” and “Them”4 A History of Sovereignty5 In Search of Justice6 Constitutional TerritoryConclusionAppendix 1: Key personsAppendix 2: Timeline of eventsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Epidemic Encounters
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary exploration of Canada’s experience of illness and death during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Magda Fahrni and Esyllt JonesPart 1: Public Responses to the Influenza Pandemic in Canada1 The Limits of Necessity: Public Health, Dissent, and the War Effort during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic / Mark Osborne Humphries2 “Rendering Valuable Service”: The Politics of Nursing during the 1918-19 Influenza Crisis / Linda Quiney3 “Respectfully Submitted”: Citizens and Public Letter Writing during Montreal’s Influenza Epidemic, 1918-20 / Magda FahrniPart 2: Who Contracted Influenza and Why?4 The North-South Divide: Social Inequality and Mortality from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton, Ontario / D. Ann Herring and Ellen Korol5 Beyond Biology: Understanding the Social Impact of Infectious Disease in Two Aboriginal Communities / Karen Slonim6 A Geographical Analysis of the Spread of Spanish Influenza in Quebec, 1918-20 / Francis Dubois, Jean-Pierre Thouez, and Denis GouletPart 3: Influenza and the Limits of Modernity7 Flu Stories: Engaging with Disease, Death, and Modernity in British Columbia, 1918-19 / Mary-Ellen Kelm8 Spectral Influenza: Winnipeg’s Hamilton Family, Interwar Spiritualism, and Pandemic Disease / Esyllt JonesPart 4: Influenza and Public Health in the Contemporary Context9 Toronto’s Health Department in Action: Influenza in 1918 and SARS in 2003 / Heather MacDougallConclusion / Esyllt Jones and Magda FahrniSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex
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