Social and cultural history Books
University of British Columbia Press An Ethic of Mutual Respect
Book SynopsisThis book holds up the Covenant Chain, the historical treaty relationship between the British Crown and indigenous people in North America, as a model for building an ethic of mutual respect to guide modern treaty disputes and land claims.Trade ReviewBruce Morito gives vibrant voice to an important yet long-ignored topic. He makes a compelling argument for the existence of the Covenant Chain’s moral framework, using historical evidence to inform present-day indigenous–settler relations. This is an engaging and original book. -- Douglas Sanderson, Faculty of Law, University of TorontoTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Historical Context2 Structure and Function of the Covenant Chain Treaty Relationship3 Reputation and the Role of Key Agents4 The Transcultural, Transhistorical Ethic of the Covenant ChainEpilogueNotes; Bibliography; Index
£61.50
University of British Columbia Press A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection fills a gap in First World War scholarship, revealing the diversity and richness of women’s and girls’ wartime experiences in Canada and Newfoundland.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transformation in a Time of War? / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawPart 1: Mobilizing Women1 “In Defense of the Empire”: The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War / Alison Norman2 The Unquiet Knitters of Newfoundland: From Mothers of the Regiment to Mothers of the Nation / Margot I. Duley3 Freshettes, Farmerettes, and Feminine Fortitude at the University of Toronto during the First World War / Terry WildePart 2: Women’s Work4 Gendering Patriotism: Canadian Volunteer Nurses as the Female “Soldiers” of the Great War / Linda J. Quiney5 “Such Sights One Will Never Forget”: Newfoundland Women and Overseas Nursing in the First World War / Terry Bishop Stirling6 Patriotic, Not Permanent: Attitudes about Women’s Making Bombs and Being Bankers / Kori StreetPart 3: Family Matters7 An Honour and a Burden: Canadian Girls and the Great War / Kristine Alexander8 Supporting Soldiers’ Wives and Families in the Great War: What Was Transformed? / Desmond Morton9 Marks of Grief: Black Attire, Medals, and Service Flags / Suzanne EvansPart 4: Creative Responses10 Verses in the Darkness: A Newfoundland Poet Responds to the First World War / Vicki S. Hallett11 “’Twas You, Mother, Made Me a Man”: The Motherhood Motif in the Poetry of the First World War / Lynn Kennedy12 “Mother, Lover, Nurse”: The Reassertion of Conventional Gender Norms in Fictional Representations of Disability in Canadian Novels of the First World War / Amy TectorConclusion: “Sisterhood of Suffering and Service” / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawSelected Bibliography; Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Prophetic Identities
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how two missionaries in southern Africa and western Canada used their faith and ties to Britain to rearticulate the meaning of indigeneity.Trade ReviewTolly Bradford is among very few historians to compare the spread of British colonization and mission Christianity in nineteenth-century North America and Southern Africa. This thoroughly researched and well-written book examines what it meant to be indigenous and Christian at a time of violent and exploitive European colonial conquest and portrays indigenous missionaries Henry Budd of western Canada and Tiyo Soga of the Eastern Cape as active agents with minds of their own. -- Timothy J. Stapleton, Professor of History, Trent UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Indigenous Missionaries, Identity, and the Colonial FrontierPart 1: Journeys to Ordination1 From “Orphan” to “Settler”: The Making of the Reverend Henry Budd2 From Wars to a Prophet: The Making of the Reverend Tiyo SogaPart 2: Lives3 Alienated and Connected: Finding Positions4 “Placed in very special circumstances”: Defining Themselves5 Advocate and Adviser: Spreading Their WordPart 3: Legacies6 Henry Budd’s “Great Transformation”: A Cree Village Community7 “The Destiny of the Kaffir Race”: A Xhosa National CommunityConclusion: Indigeneity and EmpireNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Fractured Homeland
Book SynopsisAn examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim.Trade ReviewA good case study of a people that have been too rarely discussed and too often misunderstood. Recommended. * CHOICE, Vol. 50 No. 05 *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionAbbreviations and Definitions Relating to the Land ClaimPart 1: Algonquin Survival and Resurgence in the Ottawa River Watershed1 Algonquin Diplomacy, Resistance, and Dispossession2 The Fracturing of the Algonquin Homeland3 Aboriginal Title and the Comprehensive Claims Process4 The Algonquin Land Claim5 Reclaiming Algonquin IdentityPart 2: Algonquin Communities in the Mississippi, Rideau, and Lower Madawaska River Watersheds 6 The Development of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation7 The Effect of the Land Claim in the Region8 Uranium Resistance: Defending the LandPart 3: Algonquin Communities in the Watershed of the Bonnechere and Petawawa Rivers9 The Bonnechere Algonquin Communities and Greater Golden Lake10 Perspectives from PikwakanaganPart 4: Algonquin Communities in the Upper Madawaska and York River Watersheds11 The Upper Madawaska River Communities: Whitney, Madewaska, and Sabine12 The People of Kijicho Manitou: Baptiste Lake and Bancroft Part 5: From Mattawa to Ottawa – Algonquin Communities Along the Kichi Sibi13 Algonquin Communities along the Ottawa RiverPart 6: Conclusion14 Algonquin Identity and NationhoodNotesBibliographyIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Merry Laughter and Angry Curses
Book SynopsisThe end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese-owned newspapers become more influential than anyone could have anticipated, but it was the supposedly frivolous xiaobao, the little or minor papers, that captivated and empowered the public.Merry Laughter and Angry Curses reveals how the late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. As periodical publishing reached a fever pitch, tabloids had free rein to criticize officials, mock the elite, and scandalize readers. Tabloid writers produced a massive amount of anti-establishment literature, whose distinctive humour and satirical style were both potent and popular. This book shows the tabloid community to be both a producer of meanings and a participant in the social and cultural dialogue that would shake the foundations of imperial China and lead to the 1911 Republican Revolution.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Community of Fun2 Officialdom Unmasked3 Imagining the Nation4 Confronting the “New”5 Questioning the Appropriators6 The Market, Populism, and AestheticsConclusionNotesGlossary of Chinese Terms and NamesBibliographyIndex
£36.66
University of British Columbia Press A Small Price to Pay
Book SynopsisWe often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. A Small Price to Pay, the first full-length study of consumer culture in wartime Canada, explodes this myth of home front sacrifice by bringing to light the contradictions of consumer society during the Second World War.Wartime governments pressured Depression-weary citizens to save for the sake of the nation, but Canadians had money in their pockets after years of want, and the fantasy realm of advertisements promised them fresh groceries, glamorous movies, and new cars and appliances. Graham Broad reveals that our greatest generation was not impervious to temptation but rather embarked on one of the biggest spending booms in our nation's history.Cutting through the fog of patriotic enthusiasm, this richly illustrated book reveals that the consumer-spending boom of the 1950s and 1960s was not a postwar phenomenon after all.Trade ReviewA Small Price To Pay is wry, ironic and wonderfully researched. It is also a dramatic resetting of the record. Far from the media depiction of 1940s Canada as a bleak and downcast place, Broad makes a persuasive case that most people never had it so good ... for young Canadians and even for those who lived it, the war years are immortalized as a black-and-white period of communal misery and sacrifice. A Small Price To Pay reruns the memory reel in brilliant colour punctuated with an astonishing fact: in no year of the war did Canada spend more on the military than it did on shopping. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter: Minding Ottawa's Business *I encourage neophytes and specialists alike interested in the Canadian home front to read this book. It should not be ignored for anyone interested in this topic. -- Daniel German, Library and Archives Canada * Canadian Military History *Both books [Broad’s A Small Price to Pay as well as Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front by Ian Mosby, UBC Press 2014] are much needed additions to the historiography of Canada’s Second World War Experience. Too often have the daily lives of those on the home front been overlooked in favour of the stories of the men and women who marched away in khaki. Those who remained behind – 90 percent of Canadians – also had their worlds fundamentally transformed by war, as these books demonstrate. Specialists will certainly appreciate these works, but both are accessible and appealing to a general audience as well. -- Stacey J. Barker * BC Studies *A Small Price to Pay provides an excellent starting point from which to launch further explorations of the subject area … I encourage neophytes and specialists alike interested in the Canadian home front to read this book. It should not be ignored for anyone interested in the topic. -- Daniel German, Library and Archives Canada * Canadian Military History Vol 26, Issue 2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Mrs. Consumer, Patriotic Consumerism, and the Wartime Prices and Trade Board2 Business as Usual: Adworkers and the Coming of War3 Finding a Place for Wartime Advertising4 Advertising to Win the War and Secure the Future5 Buying and Selling Big Ticket Items6 “The Grim Realities of War, as Pictured by Hollywood”: Consuming LeisureConclusionAppendix: Guns and Butter: Consumer Spending, Inflation, and Price ControlsNotes, Selected Bibliography, Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada
Book SynopsisAboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples’ involvement in sport.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. GilesPart 1: Historical Perspectives on Aboriginal Peoples in Sport and Recreation1 Bodies of Meaning: Sports and Games at Canadian Residential Schools / Janice Forsyth2 Indigenous Peoples and Canadian-Hosted Olympic Games / Christine M. O’Bonsawin3 Toward a History of Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport / M. Ann HallPart 2: Contemporary Issues4 Aboriginal Peoples and the Construction of Canadian Sport Policy / Victoria Paraschak5 Canadian Elite Aboriginal Athletes, Their Challenges, and the Adaptation Process / Robert Schinke, Duke Peltier, and Hope Yungblut6 Women’s and Girls’ Participation in Dene Games in the Northwest Territories / Audrey R. Giles7 Performance Indicators: Aboriginal Games at the Arctic Winter Games / Michael Heine8 The Quality and Cultural Relevance of Physical Education for Aboriginal Youth: Challenges and Opportunities / Joannie Halas, Heather McRae, and Amy Carpenter9 Two-Eyed Seeing: Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation Promotion in Indigenous Communities / Lynn Lavallée and Lucie LévesqueConclusion / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. Giles
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada
Book SynopsisAboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples’ involvement in sport.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. GilesPart 1: Historical Perspectives on Aboriginal Peoples in Sport and Recreation1 Bodies of Meaning: Sports and Games at Canadian Residential Schools / Janice Forsyth2 Indigenous Peoples and Canadian-Hosted Olympic Games / Christine M. O’Bonsawin3 Toward a History of Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport / M. Ann HallPart 2: Contemporary Issues4 Aboriginal Peoples and the Construction of Canadian Sport Policy / Victoria Paraschak5 Canadian Elite Aboriginal Athletes, Their Challenges, and the Adaptation Process / Robert Schinke, Duke Peltier, and Hope Yungblut6 Women’s and Girls’ Participation in Dene Games in the Northwest Territories / Audrey R. Giles7 Performance Indicators: Aboriginal Games at the Arctic Winter Games / Michael Heine8 The Quality and Cultural Relevance of Physical Education for Aboriginal Youth: Challenges and Opportunities / Joannie Halas, Heather McRae, and Amy Carpenter9 Two-Eyed Seeing: Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation Promotion in Indigenous Communities / Lynn Lavallée and Lucie LévesqueConclusion / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. Giles
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Indigenous in the City Contemporary Identities
Book SynopsisThis book explores the complexity of urban Indigeneity in Canada and internationally and positions urban areas as places of Indigenous resilience and cultural innovation.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Evelyn Peters and Chris AndersenPart 1: Aboriginal Urbanization in Canada1 The Urbanization of Aboriginal Populations in Canada: A Half Century in Review / Mary Jane Norris, Stewart Clatworthy, and Evelyn Peters2 Urban Aboriginality as a Distinctive Identity, in Twelve Parts / Chris Andersen3 Breaching Reserve Boundaries: Canada v. Misquadis and the Legal Creation of the Urban Aboriginal Community / Yale D. Belanger4 “I Basically Mostly Stick with My Own Kind”: First Nations Appropriation of Urban Space in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan / Evelyn Peters and Carol Lafond5 Being Métis: Exploring the Construction, Retention, and Maintenance of Urban Métis Identity / Ronald F. Laliberte6 Laying the Groundwork for Co-Production: The Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, 1968-82 / Pamela Ouart and the Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre7 Increasing the Depth of Our Civic Identity: Future Seeking and Place Making with Aboriginal Communities / Ryan WalkerPart 2: American Indian Urbanization in the United States8 American Indians and Alaska Natives in Urban Environments / C. Matthew Snipp9 “Being Indian in the City”: Generational Differences in the Negotiation of Native Identity among Urban-Based American Indians / Nancy Lucero10 Dancing into Place: The Role of the Powwow within Urban Indigenous Communities / Jay T. JohnsonPart 3: Aboriginal Urbanization in Australia11 Indigenous Urbanization in Australia: Patterns and Processes of Ethnogenesis / John Taylor12 Aboriginal Identity and Place in the Intercultural Settings of Metropolitan Australia / Kelly Greenop and Paul Memmott13 Aboriginal Youth, Work, and Aspiration in Sydney’s Redfern-Waterloo Region / George MorganPart 4: Maori Urbanization in New Zealand14 The Structure of Urban Maori Identities / Tahu Kukutai15 Maori and Environmental Justice: The Case of “Lake” Otara / Brad Coombes16 Producing Indigeneity / Brendan HokowhituConclusion: Indigenizing Modernity or Modernizing Indigeneity? / Chris Andersen and Evelyn PetersIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Sporting Gender
Book SynopsisSporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. Addressing themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changing gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at a time when women's emancipation and national needs went hand in hand. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these athletes and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Zhang Huilan (1898-1996): The “Mother of Women’s Modern Physical Education”2 Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Healthy Beauty)3 The Basketball Team of the Private Liangjiang Women’s Tiyu Normal School4 The Evanescent Glory of the Track Queens5 “Miss China,” Yang Xiuqiong (1918-82): A Female Olympic Swimmer6 Sportswomen on Screen: The “Athletic Movie Star,” Li Lili (1915-2005)ConclusionNotes; Glossary of Chinese Terms, Titles, and Names; Bibliography; Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Building Sanctuary
Book SynopsisThis book brings to light the activities and influence of the anti-draft groups that sprang up to build support for American Vietnam war resisters in Canada.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: War Resisters in Context 1 We Help Them Because Their Need Is Great: The CanadianAnti-Draft Movement 2 Transnational Connections: US Groups and OtherCanadian Groups 3 Deserters: Treatment, Tactics, Identity 4 Opening the Border: 1969 5 The Limits of Left Nationalism: The Campaign to Openthe Border 6 Hegemonic Reflections: Inside and Outside theMovement 7 Last Chance to Get Landed: Immigration DepartmentStrategies, Anti-Draft Movement Responses, 1971-73 Conclusion: A Contested Refuge from Militarism Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Strong Beautiful and Modern
Book SynopsisStrong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the British world beginning in the 1930s.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Movement is Life: National Fitness in England and Scotland 2 Leisure and Democracy: Physical Welfare as the People’sEntitlement in New Zealand 3 Education or Health? National Fitness in New South Wales andAcross Australia 4 Fitness for War and a Changed World: National Fitness inCanada 5 Healthy Bodies, States and Modernity: A Twentieth-CenturyDilemma Endnotes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press This Is Our Life
Book SynopsisThe story of a transformative visit by members of the Haida Nation to British museums housing their cultural artifacts.Trade ReviewThis inspirational book offers a fascinating ethnography .., The innovative multivocal presentation incorporates a range of opinions and emotions expressed by named curators, conservators, researchers, Elders, cultural descendants, and artists. The authors demonstrate the historical richness of museum collections and highlight their potential for community revitalization and cross-cultural understanding. -- Anita Herle, Senior Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of CambridgeThis book offers honest insight into the logistics, dilemmas, anxieties, anger, and joy, which combined for a “bittersweet” experience for museum professionals and the Haida through the six months' preparations and during the three-week visit. -- Gillian Crowther * BC Studies *Table of ContentsDramatis Personae: Participants in the Haida ProjectPreface1 The Paths Bringing us Together2 Preparations for the Visit3 Moments of EncounterWhy Go There? An Interlude / Ruth Gladstone-Davies4 Reflecting on the Visit5 Maintaining Relationships into the Future6 Museums As They Are, and Museums As They Might BeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£73.80
MN - University of British Columbia Press This Is Our Life Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice
Book SynopsisThe story of a transformative visit by members of the Haida Nation to British museums housing their cultural artifacts.Trade ReviewThis inspirational book offers a fascinating ethnography .., The innovative multivocal presentation incorporates a range of opinions and emotions expressed by named curators, conservators, researchers, Elders, cultural descendants, and artists. The authors demonstrate the historical richness of museum collections and highlight their potential for community revitalization and cross-cultural understanding. -- Anita Herle, Senior Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of CambridgeThis book offers honest insight into the logistics, dilemmas, anxieties, anger, and joy, which combined for a “bittersweet” experience for museum professionals and the Haida through the six months' preparations and during the three-week visit. -- Gillian Crowther * BC Studies *Table of ContentsDramatis Personae: Participants in the Haida ProjectPreface1 The Paths Bringing us Together2 Preparations for the Visit3 Moments of EncounterWhy Go There? An Interlude / Ruth Gladstone-Davies4 Reflecting on the Visit5 Maintaining Relationships into the Future6 Museums As They Are, and Museums As They Might BeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Dispersed but Not Destroyed
Book SynopsisThrough the prisms of leadership, women, and power, this book traces the Wendat diaspora beyond a discourse of destruction and into a new world of rejuvenation and hope.Trade Review… the devastating Haudenosaunee attacks in 1649 have long shaped the ways scholars have narrated and understood the past of the Wendat people … So dramatic was this dispersal that many historians and anthropologists have portrayed it as the end of Wendat history and any meaningful Wendat peoplehood. Kathryn Magee Labelle forcefully challenges, and convincingly demolishes, this “discourse of destruction” (p. 196) in her aptly-named Dispersed but Not Destroyed … A topnotch ethnohistory, Labelle’s book … draws a complex yet coherent picture of the vibrant Wendat diaspora. At the same time it prompts broader questions about power, society, and narrative in the study of seventeenth-century North America. -- Sami Lakomäki, University of Oulu * Histoire sociale / Social History *A nuanced and highly readable account of the Wendat people’s turbulent history, which challenges the notion of the Wendat’s disappearance as a cohesive community in the wake of the Iroquois attacks of the mid-seventeenth century. -- Roger M. Carpenter, Department of History, University of Louisiana MonroeTable of ContentsA Brief Chronology: Selected Wendat Events and Migration, 1400-1701IntroductionPart 1: Resistance1 Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake2 A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation3 Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close4 Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition5 The West: The Country of the People of the Sea6 The East: The Lorettans7 Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and GanowaroharePart 3: Diaspora8 Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy9 Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility10 Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the DispersalEpilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press A Timeless Place The Ontario Cottage
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the personal, social, and cultural meanings of the iconic Canadian cottage.Trade Review“Cottaging” in Ontario is a much-discussed phenomenon, and Harrison has set out to shed light on why people are so passionate about this form of domestic tourism. There is surprisingly little written on this, and her excellent book is both compelling and novel. -- Marion Joppe, co-author of Challenges and Opportunities of Incentive TravelTable of Contents1 An Introduction to the Cottage2 The Cottage: A Special Place3 Community, Nature, Modernity, and Nationalism at the Cottage4 Time and Order at the Cottage5 The Cottage Body6 Family at the Cottage7 Gender at the Cottage8 Privilege at the CottageNotesReferencesIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Feminist History in Canada
Book SynopsisThis new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.Trade Review... a thoughtful, well-written and ultimately convincing compilation of essays composed by leading scholars who have forever shaped the fields of women's and gender history in Canada ... this collection evocatively features works that demonstrate the important contributions women have made to the economic, social and cultural realm of Canada. With a strong focus on biography, the authors present a unique flare to Canadian feminist history, offering rich descriptions of various conditions, interactions and experiences faced by individual and collective groups of women over time. This anthology focuses on a wide range of issues and explores a variety of important themes, covering the latest debates in the field and providing thought-provoking analysis to questions that have long interested feminist historians. -- Vanessa Lovisa, McMaster University * Histoire sociale I Social History, Vol. 48, No. 96, May 2015 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Productive Pasts and New Directions / Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek1 James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History / Adele Perry2 Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick / Gail G. Campbell3 “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance”: Friendship, Professional Networks, and International Child Welfare Policy / Karen Balcom4 "The Necessity of Going": Julia Grace Wales's Transnational Life as a Peace Activist and a Scholar / Lorna R. McLean5 Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life: Professional Women's Feminism at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-40 / Catherine Gidney6 Singleness and Choice: The Impact of Age, Time, and Class on Three Female Youth Diarists in 1930s Canada / Heidi MacDonald7 Sexual Spectacles: Saleswomen in Canadian Department Store Magazines between 1920 and 1950 / Donica Belisle8 Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943-72 / Hélène Charron9 Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and National "Character" / Kristina R. Llewellyn10 The Ontario Women's History Network: Linking Teachers, Scholars, and History Communities / Rose Fine-Meyer11 Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice”: Women's Activism in Canadian Engineering during the PioneeringDecades (1970s-80s) / Ruby Heap12 Ad Hoc Activism: Feminist Citizens Respond to the Meech Lake Accord in New Brunswick / Anthony S.C. Hampton13 To Help and to Serve: Women’s Career Paths in the Domestic Services Sector in Quebec City, 1960-2009 / Catherine CharronContributors; Index
£999.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press Oral History at the Crossroads Sharing Life
Book SynopsisDrawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Mutual Sightings1 Interviewing Survivors2 A Flower in the River3 Bearing Witness4 Regenerative Possibilities5 Remembering Haiti6 Smile through the TearsPart 2: Curating Life Stories7 Sharing Stories8 Walking the City9 Oral History and Performance10 Blurred BoundariesConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Rebel Youth
Book SynopsisRebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the 1960s.Trade ReviewA highly readable and important work that brings young Canadians who were in the workforce – rather than attending university – into the conversation about what the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s were all about. -- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus...Milligan’s study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the long sixties, which highlights the diversity and complexity of the era that has heretofore escaped popular memories of it. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Challenge of Rebel Youth2 Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers3 Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change4 Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan5 Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-726 A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork StrikeConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Rebel Youth
Book SynopsisRebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the 1960s.Trade ReviewA highly readable and important work that brings young Canadians who were in the workforce – rather than attending university – into the conversation about what the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s were all about. -- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus...Milligan’s study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the long sixties, which highlights the diversity and complexity of the era that has heretofore escaped popular memories of it. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Challenge of Rebel Youth2 Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers3 Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change4 Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan5 Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-726 A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork StrikeConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Private Women and the Public Good Charity and
Book SynopsisAn engaging history of the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum and a broad consideration of the ability of women’s charitable work to bridge the nineteenth-century boundaries of public and private spheres.Trade ReviewA very readable, persuasive, and important contribution to the literature on gender and social policy in nineteenth-century Canada written in a way that engagingly connects history with theory. -- James E. Struthers, professor in the Canadian Studies Department at Trent University...Nielson’s well-crafted study provides a unique lens through which to examine gender, the public-private spheres, and politics in nineteenth-century Canada. -- Claire L. Halstead, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and the Public Sphere1 Hamilton, Upper Canada, to 18462 A “sufficiently extensive and efficient instrumentality”3 A Mixed Social Economy4 The City and the Ladies5 Public Acts and Private Lives6 Institutionalization, Adoption, and Apprenticeship7 Continuity and Change, 1870-93Conclusion: A Career in Christian CharityNotesBibliographyIndex
£66.30
University of British Columbia Press Private Women and the Public Good Charity and
Book SynopsisAn engaging history of the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum and a broad consideration of the ability of women’s charitable work to bridge the nineteenth-century boundaries of public and private spheres.Trade ReviewA very readable, persuasive, and important contribution to the literature on gender and social policy in nineteenth-century Canada written in a way that engagingly connects history with theory. -- James E. Struthers, professor in the Canadian Studies Department at Trent University...Nielson’s well-crafted study provides a unique lens through which to examine gender, the public-private spheres, and politics in nineteenth-century Canada. -- Claire L. Halstead, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and the Public Sphere1 Hamilton, Upper Canada, to 18462 A “sufficiently extensive and efficient instrumentality”3 A Mixed Social Economy4 The City and the Ladies5 Public Acts and Private Lives6 Institutionalization, Adoption, and Apprenticeship7 Continuity and Change, 1870-93Conclusion: A Career in Christian CharityNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.79
University of British Columbia Press According to Baba
Book SynopsisThis book employs new and critical approaches to oral history to write an insightful and deeply personal history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community between 1901 and 1939.Trade ReviewCommunity studies inform us about social organization and general conditions, and this study does indeed show us how the community as a whole functioned. But Zembrzycki brilliantly organizes her book so that oral histories show us individual lives: the women who refused to talk about domestic violence but could not leave out all signs of it; women who gleaned a feeling of belonging by working with other women, often to raise money for the Catholic Church; octogenarians who fondly remembered themselves as teenagers going to dances and eating fried chicken sandwiches early in the morning; men who described the excessive heat in the mines that caused many to pass out. This study is grounded in careful research in both written records and oral histories. It is also deeply personal and unforgettable. -- Valerie Yow, Independent Scholar * Ontario History Review *“Who has not struggled to understand the older people in their lives,” asks Zembrzycki by way of her conclusion to this tremendously interesting and thoughtful book. This study provides a good, honest reckoning with an unusual research process. In this sense, it does all historians a service because it makes obvious those parents, grandparents, and other older people who almost invariably inspire – but almost never receive more than a passing mention – in the work of academic historians. -- Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University * Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Building: Recreating Home and Community2 Solidifying: Organized Ukrainian Life3 Contesting: Confrontational Identities4 Cultivating: Depression-Era Households5 Remembering: Baba’s SudburyConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press According to Baba A Collaborative Oral History of
Book SynopsisThis book employs new and critical approaches to oral history to write an insightful and deeply personal history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community between 1901 and 1939.Trade ReviewCommunity studies inform us about social organization and general conditions, and this study does indeed show us how the community as a whole functioned. But Zembrzycki brilliantly organizes her book so that oral histories show us individual lives: the women who refused to talk about domestic violence but could not leave out all signs of it; women who gleaned a feeling of belonging by working with other women, often to raise money for the Catholic Church; octogenarians who fondly remembered themselves as teenagers going to dances and eating fried chicken sandwiches early in the morning; men who described the excessive heat in the mines that caused many to pass out. This study is grounded in careful research in both written records and oral histories. It is also deeply personal and unforgettable. -- Valerie Yow, Independent Scholar * Ontario History Review *“Who has not struggled to understand the older people in their lives,” asks Zembrzycki by way of her conclusion to this tremendously interesting and thoughtful book. This study provides a good, honest reckoning with an unusual research process. In this sense, it does all historians a service because it makes obvious those parents, grandparents, and other older people who almost invariably inspire – but almost never receive more than a passing mention – in the work of academic historians. -- Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University * Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Building: Recreating Home and Community2 Solidifying: Organized Ukrainian Life3 Contesting: Confrontational Identities4 Cultivating: Depression-Era Households5 Remembering: Baba’s SudburyConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press M233tis Race Recognition and the Struggle for
Book SynopsisA provocative meditation on how “Métis” has come to signify an ever-expanding racial category rather than an indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture.Trade Review“Métis” is, without a doubt, essential reading for everyone who studies the Métis, Indigeneity, and/or race and racialization as it provides a powerful critique of Métis racialization and an example of the impact of racialization on Indigenous nations. -- Monique Giroux * Acadiensis *Andersen's book is thorough and deep, insightful and provocative. Some will find it unsettling. But, for anyone interested in questions of Métis identity, or more generally Indigenous rights in Canada, it is an essential read. -- Dwight Newman * Review of Constitutional Studies *Andersen does a superb job of engaging with the scholarship of the field, allowing the reader to gain a clear understanding of its historical trajectory and where Andersen’s work stands in comparison ... Métis is an important contribution and I expect that it will spur lively discussions, productive critiques, and shift the scholarship in the field. -- Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) * NAIS (Native American and Indigenous Studies) Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015 *Table of ContentsForeword / Paul ChartrandIntroduction1 Mixed: The History and Evolution of an Administrative Concept2 Métis-as-Mixed: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Census3 The Métis Nation: A People, a Shared History4 Métis Nation and Peoplehood: A Critical Reading of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Census5 A Case of (Mis)recognition: The NunatuKavut Community CouncilConclusionNotes; Works Cited; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Cultivating Connections
Book SynopsisIn the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For these men, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada''s Chinese settlers men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies. This book offers an incisive look at the organizations, relationships, and ties that were critical in forging and sustaining life yet it also serves as a remarkable record of the voices of some of the Prairies' most resilient and resourceful pioneers.Trade ReviewCultivating Connections provides a nuanced analysis of the gendered and racial experiences of Chinese Prairie Canadians and is an excellent contribution to the literature on the history of immigration and migration, social geography, and women’s history. -- Cayley B. Bower, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Affective Regimes, Nationalism, and the KMT2 Reverend Ma Seung3 Bachelor Uncles: Frank Chan and Sam Dong4 Affect through Sports: Mark Ki and Happy Young5 Married Nationalists: Charles Yee and Charlie Foo6 Women beyond the Frame7 Early Chinese Prairie Wives8 Quongying’s Coins and Sword9 Chinese Prairie DaughtersConclusionAppendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Cultivating Connections
Book SynopsisIn the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For these men, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada''s Chinese settlers men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies. This book offers an incisive look at the organizations, relationships, and ties that were critical in forging and sustaining life yet it also serves as a remarkable record of the voices of some of the Prairies' most resilient and resourceful pioneers.Trade ReviewCultivating Connections provides a nuanced analysis of the gendered and racial experiences of Chinese Prairie Canadians and is an excellent contribution to the literature on the history of immigration and migration, social geography, and women’s history. -- Cayley B. Bower, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Affective Regimes, Nationalism, and the KMT2 Reverend Ma Seung3 Bachelor Uncles: Frank Chan and Sam Dong4 Affect through Sports: Mark Ki and Happy Young5 Married Nationalists: Charles Yee and Charlie Foo6 Women beyond the Frame7 Early Chinese Prairie Wives8 Quongying’s Coins and Sword9 Chinese Prairie DaughtersConclusionAppendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press French Canadians Furs and Indigenous Women in the
Book SynopsisThis book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest.Trade ReviewBarman’s feast of historical and genealogical data on French Canadians in British Columbia forces the reader to ponder their absence in previous BC histories, and reinforces the position of French Canadians as one of the founding peoples of that province. -- Maurice Guibord, Société historique francophone de la Colombie-BritanniqueThe history of French Canadian fur trappers in the northwest, often mentioned in local state histories, here crosses national and cultural borders to include their interactions with indigenous peoples and stories of travels from eastern Canada to Oregon and British Columbia. This book is an essential forensic history for all people who trace their ancestry to the fur trade era of the Pacific Northwest. -- David G. Lewis, PhD, Tribal Historian, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of OregonIn Barman’s adroit hands, the lives and experiences, hopes and dreams of the French Indian families who had a significant yet generally unremarked impact on the Pacific Northwest come to life. Rather than peripheral figures in the larger course of historical events, they were often at the center of the action - in exploring and fur-trapping expeditions, during periods of relatively peaceful negotiation and exchange, and at times of armed conflict. -- Melinda Marie Jetté * Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2015 *Barman concludes this extensive, well-researched, and analytical work by stressing the need to view the history of the Pacific Northwest more inclusively. -- Jacky Moore, Herne Bay * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *This is a massive undertaking by a historian at the height of her powers. Barman has availed herself of an eclectic assemblage of sources: biographies, fur trade journals and exploration narratives, church records, and recent Canadian and American historiography on the fur trade, among others. She has seamlessly integrated this material to tell the stories of individuals and families, while at the same time providing a contextual framework for understanding the social, economic, and political trajectories of these people … French Canadian, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest is yet another fine contribution to BC history by one of its leading practitioners. -- Heather Devine, University of Calgary * BC Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: French Canadians and the Fur Economy1 To Be French Canadian2 Facilitating the Overland Crossings3 Driving the Fur Economy4 Deciding Whether to Go or to StayPart 2: French Canadians, Indigenous Women, and Family Life in the Fur Economy5 Taking Indigenous Women Seriously6 Innovating Family Life7 Initiating Permanent Settlement8 Saving British Columbia for CanadaPart 3: Beyond the Fur Economy9 Negotiating Changing Times10 Enabling Sons and Daughters11 To Be French Canadian and Indigenous12 Reclaiming the PastAppendixNotesWorks CitedIndex
£999.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press The First Nations of British Columbia Third
Book SynopsisThe First Nations of British Columbia is a concise and accessible introduction to histories, cultures, and issues of the First Peoples of BC.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introducing First Nations, Popular Perceptions, and the Anthropological PerspectivePopular PerceptionsThrough the Lens of AnthropologyOverview of ChaptersRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 2: Defining and Situating First Nations TodayUnderstanding Labels: First Nations, Aboriginal, Indian, and MorePopulation, Reserves, Settlements, and LandsBands, Ethnic Groups, Tribal Councils, and Other AffiliationsSituating BC First Nations within Canada, in North America, and around the WorldRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 3: Archaeology and First NationsFirst Nations and Archaeological Perceptions of the PastThe Nature of Archaeological Research in British ColumbiaEarly Migrations through British ColumbiaHere to StaySettling DownProminent SitesTracing AncestryRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 4: Languages, Population Estimates, and Traditional LifewaysTraditional Culture Areas of British ColumbiaLanguagesPopulationSettlement PatternsDietTechnologySocial OrganizationMyths, Spirits, and ShamansHealth and HealingArtThe Potlatch and Other Important CeremoniesTrade, Slavery, and WarfareRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 5: From the Late 1700s through the Twentieth CenturyPopulation LossThe Impact of the Fur TradeThe Impact of the Gold RushesThe Impact of Non-Indigenous SettlementMissionaries and Residential SchoolsFirst Nations and Wage LabourGovernment Relations with First NationsAssertions of Aboriginal RightsNegotiations in the Late 1900sAnthropology in the Late 1900sRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 6: First Nations and Anthropology in the Twenty-First CenturyLiving in the Twenty-First CenturyEconomic and Cultural InitiativesTreaty NegotiationsOutstanding IssuesAsserting Rights and IdentityFirst Nations and Anthropology in the Twenty-First CenturyFirst Nations Cultures Still ExistFinal Comments: Things to RememberRecommended Readings and ResourcesAppendices1 The First Nations of British Columbia2 Major Ethnic Groups3 Excerpts from the British Columbia Heritage Conservation Act, 19964 Apology for Residential Schools5 Excerpts from the Royal Proclamation, 1763GlossarySelected Bibliography
£21.59
University of British Columbia Press Far Off Metal River
Book SynopsisDrawing on the story of the 1771 Bloody Falls massacre, human geographer Emilie Cameron explores the relationship between stories and colonialism, challenging readers to examine their perceptions of the contemporary Arctic and its peoples.Trade ReviewStories—“theirs” and “ours”—have been staples in core curricula that incorporate the critical study of cultures deemed “Non-Western.” Anyone tasked with teaching such courses must read this book by Cameron, who emphasizes that stories are value-charged and multidimensional … Highly recommended. -- J.S. Krysiek * Choice *Cameron’s Far Off Metal River is a masterful and carefully written book that addresses pressing theoretical and methodological questions for postcolonial studies, nature-society relations, and Indigenous geographies … It is a timely example of a non-Indigenous researcher centering the agency of Indigenous peoples in both research practice and writing … [This book] is a particularly important resource for students who are learning to engage with Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies in both the field and in the classroom … But it would be a mistake to read Far Off Metal River as valuable to researchers of Indigenous communities and histories alone … it has much to teach us about research in general. -- Kelsey Johnson, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia * Society + Space *Table of ContentsHivuniqhuut, Preface1 Summer Stories2 Ordering Violence3 To Mourn4 Copper Stories5 Resistance Stories6 Toward an Emerging Past7 Ptarmigan StoriesNotes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
MN - University of British Columbia Press Far Off Metal River
Book SynopsisDrawing on the story of the 1771 Bloody Falls massacre, human geographer Emilie Cameron explores the relationship between stories and colonialism, challenging readers to examine their perceptions of the contemporary Arctic and its peoples.Trade ReviewStories—“theirs” and “ours”—have been staples in core curricula that incorporate the critical study of cultures deemed “Non-Western.” Anyone tasked with teaching such courses must read this book by Cameron, who emphasizes that stories are value-charged and multidimensional … Highly recommended. -- J.S. Krysiek * Choice *Cameron’s Far Off Metal River is a masterful and carefully written book that addresses pressing theoretical and methodological questions for postcolonial studies, nature-society relations, and Indigenous geographies … It is a timely example of a non-Indigenous researcher centering the agency of Indigenous peoples in both research practice and writing … [This book] is a particularly important resource for students who are learning to engage with Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies in both the field and in the classroom … But it would be a mistake to read Far Off Metal River as valuable to researchers of Indigenous communities and histories alone … it has much to teach us about research in general. -- Kelsey Johnson, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia * Society + Space *Table of ContentsHivuniqhuut, Preface1 Summer Stories2 Ordering Violence3 To Mourn4 Copper Stories5 Resistance Stories6 Toward an Emerging Past7 Ptarmigan StoriesNotes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Learning and Teaching Together
Book SynopsisAn inspirational account of how a group of pre-service teachers, working alongside Indigenous wisdom keepers in British Columbia, developed an indigenist approach to education that can be applied in a wide variety of classrooms.Trade ReviewThis book is essential reading for teachers, teacher educators, and anyone interested in indigenous education, social justice, and transformative learning. It also provides important insights and guidance to educational policymakers… [Learning and Teaching Together] is highly recommended. -- Jean-Paul Restoule, Ontatrio Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto * Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Volume 109, Number 2 *… Indigenous educators and allies will find this text inspirational, hopeful, and useful. -- Alma M. O. Trinidad, School of Social Work, Portland State University * Great Plains Research *Teachers in British Columbia and throughout Canada who struggle with how to enact curriculum changes that incorporate Indigenous knowledge, history, and identity will find this book illuminating … in spite of the seemingly overwhelming challenges in making a space for Indigenous thought and experience, it can and must be done. The transformation has been happening and is continuing. -- Michael Marker * BC Studies, no. 196, Winter 2017/18 *Table of ContentsForeword / Greg CajeteSENĆOŦEN Pronunciation and GlossaryIntroduction: A WelcomingThe Moons of XAXE SIÁM SILA1 Orienting to Place and Pedagogical Purpose2 Opening Oneself to Indigenous Ways of Being-Knowing-Doing3 Rethinking Learner-Teacher Relationships4 Invoking Good Intention and Conscious Action5 Focusing on How and Why We Teach6 Trusting Learners and Remembering Wholeness7 Coming Together in Safe Enough Spaces8 Continuing Reflection towards Sustainability9 Preparing Self and Community for Dispositional Change10 Indigenizing Practice amid Classroom Challenges11 Re-envisioning (Teacher) Education12 Touchstones for Future TeachingReferences; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press What We Learned
Book SynopsisMoving beyond the more familiar stories of residential schools, two generations of Tsimshian students recall their experiences attending day and public schools in northwestern British Columbia.Trade ReviewToo many stories are still untold; too many memories have been lost to the ages; too many biases have coloured our view of the past. That is why a book such as this one is a treasure, an overdue and culturally aware look at a forgotten aspect of the education of Indigenous children in British Columbia. -- Dave Obee, a member of the board of Canada's History Society and editor-in-chief of the Times Colonist in Victoria * Canada's History, Vol. 97 No. 1, February 2017 *Helen Raptis has written an important book about Tsimshian educational history. It is also a book about building research relationships with Indigenous communities. It is a work that recognizes, implicitly, that Indigenous history does not run in a straight line but is more liquid and circular. The journey to understand the Indigenous past requires deft canoe navigation through riptides and crosscurrents, past colonization’s half-submerged debris. Landing on the beach, one discovers no conventional separation between past, present, and future. There are only the stories—the stories and the sacred landscape. -- Michael Marker, University of British Columbia * History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 57 No. 1, February 2017 *One of the few serious studies of the subject, [What We Learned] provides an unusually detailed account of the transition from on-reserve to integrated schooling through the eyes of those who were there … With its contextual richness, innovative methodology, sharp analysis, and poignant personal narratives, What We Learned is a book that deserves a wide audience. -- Brian Titley, The University of Lethbridge * BC Studies *[Raptis] draws on a rich range of Indigenous scholarship, as well as the Tsimshian oral histories, in producing a nuanced account of learning that complicates the current focus on residential schools and that radically questions the equation of formal education with learning …The result is a perceptive, self-reflexive and important contribution, at once substantive and methodological. -- Elaine Coburn, Glendon Campus, York University * Oral History Forum d'histoire orale *What We Learned offers a fascinating account of the complexities of everyday educational life for Tsimshian students in twentieth-century British Columbia. It will be of interest to many both inside and outside of the academy. -- Sean Carleton, University of Alberta * BC Studies *In What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools, Helen Raptis reminds historians of education that not all Indigenous children were forcibly removed and sent to residential schools … Raptis and her collaborators challenge not only histories of Indigenous education that centre on residential schools, but also histories of British Columbia centred on white settlers.What We Learned will be a significant resource for those seeking to widen and deepen conversations on our shared past. -- Jacqueline Gresko * BC BookLook *Table of ContentsForeword / James McDonald1 A Class List and a Puzzle: Researching Indigenous Schooling and Education2 Indigenous Schooling as Assimilation: From Segregation to Integration3 Tsimshian Education versus Western-Style Schooling4 Walking on Two Paths: Education and Schooling at Port Essington among the Pre-1950s Generation5 Buried Seeds Taking Root: Dispossession and Resurgence at Terrace among the Post-1950s Generation6 Stability and Change: Tsimshian Education and Schooling across Time and PlaceEpilogueNotes;Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Fragile Settlements
Book SynopsisFragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book highlights the parallels and divergences between these connected British frontiers by examining how colonial actors and institutions interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interaction with Indigenous peoples on the ground. Fragile Settlements questions the finality of settler colonization and contributes to ongoing debates around jurisdiction, sovereignty, and the prospect of genuine Indigenous-settler reconciliation in Canada and Australia.Trade ReviewFragile Settlements is a testament to the benefits of collaboration and an answer to the daunting logistics of comparing multiple historic sites ... [It] is a valuable contribution to the historiographies of Canada and Australia. -- Kenton Storey, independent historian, Canada * Australian Historical Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies1 British Law and Colonial Legal Regimes2 The Foundations of Colonial Policing3 Policing Aboriginal People on the Settler Frontier4 Co-optive Policing: Native Police, Trackers, and Scouts5 Agents of Protection and Civilization6 Aboriginal Peoples and Settlers in the Courts7 Agents of the Church8 Agency and Resistance: Aboriginal Responses to Colonial Authority9 Colonizing and Decolonizing the PastConclusion: Spaces of Indigenous and Settler LawNotes; Bibliography; Index of Statutes, Treaties, Charters, and Proclamations; Table of Reported Cases; Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Who Controls the Hunt
Book SynopsisAs the nineteenth century ended, Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Tourists and sport hunters spent growing amounts of money in search of game, and the government began to extend its regulatory powers in this arena. Restrictions were imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring Anishinaabeg hunting rights set out in the Robinson Treaties of 1850. Who Controls the Hunt? examines how Ontario's emerging wildlife conservation laws failed to reconcile First Nations treaty rights and the power of the state. David Calverley traces the political and legal arguments prompted by the interplay of treaty rights, provincial and dominion government interests, and the corporate concerns of the Hudson's Bay Company. A nuanced examination of Indigenous resource issues, the themes of this book remain germane to questions about who controls the hunt in Canada today.Trade ReviewWho Controls the Hunt… is an important resource providing a clear and lucid historical context as Canada and the provinces continue to wrestle with this question. -- Tracie Lea-Scott, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Calverley provides a detailed description of key events and conflicts that surround First Nations harvesting rights, wildlife conservation, and management in Ontario during this period. -- Arlana Bennett (Redsky) * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"…this book is a welcome addition to the historiography of the difficult relationship between provincial wildlife conservation policies and Indigenous peoples in Canada." -- Mathieu Arsenault, University of Montreal * Ontario Historical Society Review *I would go as far as heavily recommending [this book] as a means of gaining a deeper, more nuanced understanding of hunting, fishing, and conservation policy in Ontario, Canada and abroad. -- Robert Flewelling, University of Guelph * Scientia Canadensis *Who Controls the Hunt? is a valuable case study to which readers can bring as much as they take – and one I will remember each spring as we gather up the rods, the regulations, and the resident and non-resident permits we need to spend another season on the water. -- Darcy Ingram, Selkirk College * Network in Canadian History and Environment *Table of ContentsForeword / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 First Nations Hunting Activity in Upper Canada and the Robinson Treaties, 1783–18502 Ontario’s Game Laws and First Nations, 1800–19053 First Nations, the Game Commission, and Indian Affairs, 1892–19094 Traders, Trappers, and Bureaucrats: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1892–19165 The Transitional Indian: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Game Act, 1914–206 R. v. Padjena: Local Pressure and Treaty Hunting Rights in Ontario, 1925–317 R. v. Commanda, 1937–39EpilogueAppendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press White Settler Reserve
Book SynopsisThis innovative history of a reserve for Icelandic settlers connects the dots between immigration and Indigenous dispossession in western Canada.Trade Review[White Settler Reserve] highlights the early and ongoing interactions between the Icelanders and Indigenous peoples, beginning with the pre-existing land claims and including the devastating impact of smallpox, adding greater depth and context to the history of New Iceland and to the history of the settlement of the Canadian Northwest. -- Kate MacFarlane, Parks Canada * Manitoba History Journal, Issue 88 *White Settler Reserve contextualizes the emigrant story, and triangulates what is sometimes simplified into a binary relationship between settlers and indigenous peoples, lands and humans. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *White Settler Reserve exposes one of those corners of Canadiana omitted from official records and federal observances of this 150th anniversary of Confederation. It is shocking and intriguing, the best kind of history. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *White Settler Reserve is a sophisticated and persuasive consideration of the interplay of liberalism, colonization, and emigration, and of that “dialectic process between the centre and the periphery” (p.191) that was an integral part of the iconic story of the settlement of the Canadian West." -- Jane Errington * Histoire sociale/Social history, Volume 52, Numéro/Number 106 *Western Canada’s bloc settlements are an understudied aspect of Canadian land policies in the nineteenth century, making Ryan Eyford’s study of New Iceland in Manitoba a welcome addition to the field. -- Sheila McManus, University of Lethbridge * Pacific Historical Review *A particularly powerful aspect of White Settler Reserve is the richly detailed portrait it paints of the "First New Icelanders" who formed communities in this colonization reserve. By bringing their names, experiences, and struggles to this new audience, Eyford has helped to ensure their stories will not be forgotten. -- Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker * Ormsby Review, March 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Northern Dreamlands: Canadian Expansionism and Icelandic Migration2 Broken Townships: Colonization Reserves and the Dominion Lands System3 The First New Icelanders: Family Migration and the Formation of a Reserve Community4 Quarantined within a New Order: Smallpox and the Spatial Practices of Colonization5 “Principal Projector of the Colony”: The Turbulent Career of John Taylor, Icelandic Agent6 Becoming British Subjects: Municipal Government and Citizenship7 “Freemen Serving No Overlord”: Debt, Self-Reliance, and LibertyConclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Exhibiting Nation
Book SynopsisThis exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation.Trade ReviewExhibiting Nation is an accessible book that contextualizes prominent Canadian institutions within the established study of museology, making it an academic contribution that has been long overdue. Its case study approach will be valuable to both curators and academics[...] -- Cody Groat * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface: A Sense of DiscomfortPart 1: Introduction1 Multicultural Nationalism and the Power of Metaphor2 Museums, Discipline, and DialoguePart 2: Feast3 The Limits of Unity in Diversity4 The Royal BC Museum’s Modern History GalleriesPart 3: Spectacle5 The Limits of Equality and Recognition6 The Royal Alberta Museum’s Cultural Communities ProgramPart 4: Border7 The Limits of Universalism and Diversity8 The Royal Ontario Museum’s World Cultures GalleriesEpilogue: Working with the ContradictionsNotes; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Exhibiting Nation
Book SynopsisThis exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation.Trade ReviewExhibiting Nation is an accessible book that contextualizes prominent Canadian institutions within the established study of museology, making it an academic contribution that has been long overdue. Its case study approach will be valuable to both curators and academics[...] -- Cody Groat * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface: A Sense of DiscomfortPart 1: Introduction1 Multicultural Nationalism and the Power of Metaphor2 Museums, Discipline, and DialoguePart 2: Feast3 The Limits of Unity in Diversity4 The Royal BC Museum’s Modern History GalleriesPart 3: Spectacle5 The Limits of Equality and Recognition6 The Royal Alberta Museum’s Cultural Communities ProgramPart 4: Border7 The Limits of Universalism and Diversity8 The Royal Ontario Museum’s World Cultures GalleriesEpilogue: Working with the ContradictionsNotes; Bibliography; Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Creating Canadas Peacekeeping Past
Book SynopsisCreating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past delves into diverse representations of Canadian peacekeeping, including National Film Board documentaries, political rhetoric, and high school textbooks to show how peacekeeping became a symbol of Canadian national identity in both French and English Canada.Trade Review…McCullough demonstrates how cultural histories can rejuvenate topics rooted in diplomatic and military histories. Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past will be of value to scholars interested in peacekeeping or Canadian identity during the post-Second World War era. -- Thirstan Falconer, Centre on Foreign Policy & Federalism, St. Jerome’s University * Canadian Military History, Vol 27, Issue 2 *Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past is a valuable book by a serious scholar. It will be required reading for scholars of Canadian and foreign and defence policy and international affairs for years to come. -- Adam Chapnick, Royal Military College of Canada * Ontario History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Political Rhetoric of Peacekeeping, 1956–972 Peacekeeping in Canadian High School History Classrooms, 1959–973 The National Film Board of Canada’s Representations of peacekeeping, 1957–954 English and French Canadian Newspaper Coverage of Peacekeeping Operations, 1956–975 From Policeman to Klansman: Depictions of Peacekeeping in Newspaper Editorial Cartoons, 1956–976 Nostalgia and Commemorations of Canada’s Peacekeeping PastConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£31.35
University of British Columbia Press Infidels and the Damn Churches
Book SynopsisThe first major historical study of secularism in Canada, Infidels and the Damn Churches traces the origins of irreligion in BC to the unique character of the region’s settler society.Trade ReviewThis is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the secularizing trends in the Pacific Northwest, whether in Canada or the United States, and increasingly in the rest of their societies. -- Randi Jones Walker, Pacific School of Religion * Pacific Northwest Quartlery, Volume 109, Number 2 *British Columbia is in the vanguard of a secularizing trend that is afoot across the Western world… As Lynne Marks demonstrates in her impeccably researched book, this phenomenon is deeply rooted in the province’s history. -- Denis McKim, Douglas College * Canadian Journal of History, 53-3 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Leaving God Behind?1 A Godless Province? Counting the Infidels and the Indifferent2 Pie in the Sky When You Die: Political and Cultural Challenges to Religion3 Manly White Men, Fuzzy Fidelity, and Practical Christians: Blurred Boundaries of Belief and Chasms of Racialized Difference4 Sundays Are So Different Here: Communities in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia5 Could Sodom Be Worse? Christianity, Moral Reform, and the Godless of Vancouver and Victoria6 Under Siege: Non-Christians, Racialized Groups, and White Women’s Rights7 Subtler and More Dangerous Forms of Error: Metaphysical ReligionsConclusion: Godless Past and PresentAppendix: TablesNotes; Bibliography; Index
£38.83
University of British Columbia Press Griffintown
Book SynopsisThis vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and collective memory in this legendary enclave.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Nations and Nationalism in Griffintown, 1900–142 Griffintown from the First World War to Irish Independence, 1914–223 The Last Stand of Irish-Catholic Griffintown, 1929–454 The Death of Griffintown, 1945–755 The Griffintown Commemorative Project, 1991–2010 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£63.00
University of British Columbia Press Griffintown
Book SynopsisThis vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. As Irish immigration dwindled by the late nineteenth century, Irish culture in the city became diasporic, reflecting an imagined homeland. Focusing on the power of memory to shape community, Matthew Barlow finds that, despite sociopolitical pressures and a declining population, the spirit of this ethnic quarter was nurtured by the men and women who grew up there. Today, as Griffintown attracts renewed interest from developers, this textured analysis reveals how public memory defines our urban centres.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Nations and Nationalism in Griffintown, 1900–142 Griffintown from the First World War to Irish Independence, 1914–223 The Last Stand of Irish-Catholic Griffintown, 1929–454 The Death of Griffintown, 1945–755 The Griffintown Commemorative Project, 1991–2010 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Blood Sweat and Fear
Book SynopsisThe first full-length historical exploration of individual violence in the automotive industry, Blood, Sweat, and Fear taps the class, race, and gendered roots of the workplace as battleground.Trade ReviewBlood, Sweat And Fear is fresh, unpredictable and candid … Milloy’s research is meticulous. He examines why people do what we do -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *Table of Contents1 Dripping with Blood and Dirt: Confronting the History of Workplace Violence under Capitalism2 Fights and Knifings Are Becoming Quite Commonplace: Dodge Main, 1965–803 The Way Boys and Men Took Care of Business: Windsor Chrysler Plants4 The Constant Companion of All That Earn Their Living Here: Workers, Unions, and Management Respond5 Chrysler Pulled the Trigger: The Courts and the Press6 Out of the Back Streets and into the Workplace: The Discovery of Workplace Violence in the 1980s and 1990sNotes; Bibliography; Index
£52.70
University of British Columbia Press Alan Caswell Collier Relief Stiff An Artists
Book SynopsisAspiring artist Alan Caswell Collier’s letters, sketches, and paintings recall in vivid detail life in Canada’s relief camps and the crisis of youth unemployment during the Great Depression.Trade Review[Collier] was a skilled letter writer and his lively narrative is free of pretension. He attempted to record the toughness of the life in a way that was authentic, while no doubt taking off a few rough edges and embellishing anecdotes, as all writers do … This book is an easy read and will appeal to general readers, as well as those interested in the 1930s life or Canadian art. This fascinating slice of social history forms a Canadian counterpart to the volume of Pollock family letters. -- Alexander Adams, art critic * alexanderadamsart *Peter Neary has done a real service by bringing Alan Collier’s letters to a wide public audience. Collier’s views of the politics of the camps, while contentious, provide a useful comparison to the more familiar leftist reading of the era. More importantly, his letters, along with the paintings and photographs that Neary has collected, provide an intimate and detailed glimpse, a view from the inside, of the relief camp system, a short-lived but embryonic experiment in social control during a time of economic crisis. -- Daniel Francis * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsPreface Principal PersonsIntroduction2231 Blenheim St., VancouverCamp 506, Big Bend Road, Near RevelstokeCamp 376, TappenCamp 378, Notch Hill2231 Blenheim St., VancouverAfterwards …Appendix; Further Reading; Index
£31.50
University of British Columbia Press Montreal City of Water
Book SynopsisMontreal, City of Water investigates the development of the city over two centuries, tracing the relationship between the city’s inhabitants and the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks.Trade ReviewMontreal, City of Water is full of insights. -- Annmarie Adams * Scientia Canadiensis *The past was never paradise. Michèle Dagenais’s Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city’s streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment… -- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto * Network in Canadian History and Environment *Table of ContentsForeword: Water-Ville / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Montreal: One City, One Island2 Sources of a New Definition of the City3 The St. Lawrence: “A Superb Instrument to be Developed and Moulded”4 From City to Island: The Extension of Water Systems and the Structuring of the Urban Fabric5 In Search of the Lost River, or, the Urbanization of the Rivière des Prairies6 The Weight of the Island: Connecting the City to the Continent7 One City, One Archipelago: A Utopia?Conclusion: In the Heart of the CityNotesBibliographyIndex
£56.10
University of British Columbia Press Montreal City of Water
Book SynopsisBuilt within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks. Even as the city has pushed its suburbs deeper into the interior of the island and onto the mainland, the daily lives and leisure activities of its inhabitants remain closely bound to water.Montreal, City of Water focuses on water not only as a physical element of the landscape both shaping and shaped by urban development but also as a sociocultural component of the life of the city. In exploring the dynamics governing the relationship between Montrealers and their environment, this unique study considers the role of water in the production and transformation of urban space over two centuries. It traces the history of urbanization and shines a light on current concerns about water pollution, river rehabilitation, and renewed public access to the riverfront and the power relations involved in addressing those conTrade ReviewMontreal, City of Water is full of insights. -- Annmarie Adams * Scientia Canadiensis *The past was never paradise. Michèle Dagenais’s Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city’s streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment… -- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto * Network in Canadian History and Environment *Table of ContentsForeword: Water-Ville / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Montreal: One City, One Island2 Sources of a New Definition of the City3 The St. Lawrence: “A Superb Instrument to be Developed and Moulded”4 From City to Island: The Extension of Water Systems and the Structuring of the Urban Fabric5 In Search of the Lost River, or, the Urbanization of the Rivière des Prairies6 The Weight of the Island: Connecting the City to the Continent7 One City, One Archipelago: A Utopia?Conclusion: In the Heart of the CityNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Duty to Dissent
Book SynopsisThis revisionist account of Henri Bourassa’s writings and times reshapes our understanding of why Quebec diverged from the rest of Canada when it came to war.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Fais ce que dois!2 The Duty of Canada at the Present Hour3 What Do We Owe England?4 The Soul of Canada5 The Possibility of Peace6 The Wall of Deceit7 SilencedConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Duty to Dissent
Book SynopsisThis revisionist account of Henri Bourassa’s writings and times reshapes our understanding of why Quebec diverged from the rest of Canada when it came to war.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Fais ce que dois!2 The Duty of Canada at the Present Hour3 What Do We Owe England?4 The Soul of Canada5 The Possibility of Peace6 The Wall of Deceit7 SilencedConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
£26.99
