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Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley
Eugene Thornton Kingsley, an influential socialist in early British Columbia, was 33 years old when he adopted his revolutionary stance. Employed as a brakeman on a railway in rural Montana in 1890, he fell between...
BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | Page(s) 212-214
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At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
James Teit was an amazing community-based engaged anthropologist long before such labels were invented. Wendy Wickwire’s anthropological life story of Teit is a consummate account and indeed, as the top of page advertisement exhorts, it...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 208-209
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Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
I vividly remember when I first heard the name “Svend Robinson.” I was attending the wedding of a distant cousin I had never met before and have not seen since. At the reception, in Burnaby,...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 223-25
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From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919
While the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War unfolds with little or no fanfare, it is appropriate to consider an even more forgotten Canadian military adventure: the Canadian Siberian Expedition to the Russian port...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism is one of those unique edited volumes in which the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. As suggested in the subtitle, the legacy of J.S. Woodsworth...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 141-45
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Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 49, Spring 1981
BC Studies no. 49 Spring 1981 | Page(s) 102-103
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Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920
It took a mountain of labour to write this book, but the result is a molehill of meaningful history. This is the second volume of Ian McKay’s planned multi-volume history of the left in Canada,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 122-127
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In Search of Canadian Political Culture
In Search of Canadian Political Culture positions itself at the centre of debates over the nature of political culture in Canada, taking on disputes within what Alan Cairns would call the “sociological school” (behavioural versus...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 152-5
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With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
We might as well name the elephant in the room. The editors did. The book’s first sentence, back cover, and promotional material all imply a fear that it will be received as “an apologist text”...