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Book Review
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”...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 116-8
Book Review
Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality: A Vital Link
Canadian Aboriginal Art And Spirituality: A Vital Link acknowledges right from the start that Aboriginal art forms in Canada have historically been misinterpreted as mere “craft” and that the all-important spiritual foundations of such art...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 114-5
Book Review
Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History
A primary goal of feminist scholarship and activism is to interrupt assumed notions about gender and to intervene in the naturalization of processes that perpetuate women’s op pression and subordination in patri archal societies. Contemporary...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 109-11
Book Review
Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past
This is a great time to be writing Aboriginal history. A decade of productive interplay between postcolonial studies, feminist analysis, and new methods of research has opened new interpretive pathways to historians of First Nations....
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 102-4
Book Review
The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America
I must declare an “interest” in this book. Its pictorial dimension consists of reproductions of superb sepia prints made from original glass negatives sold to the Capital Group Foundation by James Graybill, grandson of their...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 113-5
Book Review
At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 130, Summer 2001
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 114-6
Book Review
Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration
Understanding immigration is central to understanding Canadian working-class history and the fortunes of the Canadian labour movement. This is the case not just because immigration stocked, and restocked, the labour market but also because workers...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 145-7
Book Review
Sakura in the Land of the Maple Leaf: Japanese Cultural Traditions in Canada
This book, edited by the curator of Asian studies at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, is a worthy publication. It is a compilation of three research projects conducted in 1976-77 for the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 156-9
Book Review
Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
The publication of Xiaoping Li’s Voices Rising is a rare literary event, a cause for celebration. Through its analysis of the social and cultural movements of Asian Canada, especially in Vancouver and Toronto, her work...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 139-41
Book Review
National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
Leslie Dawn makes an ambitious contribution to a hotly debated topic of Canadian cultural history – the role of the visual arts in the formation of the image of a modern Canadian nation. The title’s...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 179-83
Book Review
Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) Curator of Western Subarctic Ethnology, has produced a lavishly illustrated book, compelling for its quality of images, clarity of writing, and elegance of design. Seventy-one rarely published and...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 118-20
Book Review
Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
If you tackle this readable but detailed history of imperial rivalry in the Pacific Northwest, I recommend that you reread the preface after finishing the book. It will help to explain what you just read....
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 116-7
Book Review
Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations is a thorough treatment of a significant subject in BC history. Lutz has examined the history of exchanges of things, labour, and ideas between Aboriginal peoples and immigrants...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 133-4
Book Review
The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
This book is splendid work of popular political history, biography, and related media study that co-authors Geoff Meggs (a former communications director to Premier Glen Clark) and Rod Mickleburgh (a veteran of the west coast...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 151-154
Book Review
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
In this book, Grace Li Xiu Woo, a retired member of the BC Bar, steps away from a standard case law analysis and instead analyzes Supreme Court decisions related to Aboriginal and treaty rights based...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 159-164
Book Review
People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada
People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada is just that. It uses Discover Canada, the new Canadian Citizenship Guide, as a launch pad for critiquing the current federal government’s ideological leanings, leanings expressed in...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 156-157
Book Review
Wrong Highway: The Misadventures of a Misplaced Society Girl
Wrong Highway is the memoir of Stella Jenkins, a middle-class mother of four from Victoria, who in 1948, recently divorced, formed a relationship with Bob Smith, a trapper and labourer. Stella left Victoria with her...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 136-137
Book Review
Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918, More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 131-133
Book Review
An Environmental History of Canada
On the growing list of books on Canadian environmental history, University of Toronto historian Laurel MacDowell’s new textbook An Environmental History of Canada should take a prominent place. The evolution of this field of study...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 121-122
Book Review
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century
The field of Canadian environmental history has blossomed over the past two decades. Consequently, instructors of Canadian environmental history courses are becoming increasingly spoiled with good options to choose from for course readers. In all...