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Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada
One of the most contentious aspects of politics is the legislation of morals. How much should governments be beholden to any one set of religious beliefs held by influential minorities or a major ity? Chris...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 99-101
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Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Past
A student in search of a thesis topic or a scholar seeking to understand the shape of historical writing in New Zealand over the past fifty years need go no further. In this collection of...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 153-155
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From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
Gerhard Ens and Joe Sawchuck’s co-written volume From New Peoples to New Nations approaches historical and contemporary Métis identity from a perspective that is uncommon and even contested among Indigenous histories. From a social constructionist...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 152-153
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Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972
Labour historians have been arguing about the left in British Columbia politics and labour for ages. Now, through a skilful conversion of his 2008 University of New Brunswick dissertation “Tug of War,” University of Victoria...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 143-4
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Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River
This book purports to represent a ‘New Ethnohistory’ as community-engaged research in First Nations communities. It consists primarily of essays written by graduate students who participated in the Ethnohistory Field School run since 1997 by...
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Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront 1919-1939
In Citizen Docker Andrew Parnaby explores industrial relations on the Vancouver waterfront during the interwar years. The analysis is linked to a broader consideration of the transition to the welfare state and the new industrial...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 139-141
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New Perspectives on the Gold Rush
Under editor Kathryn Bridge, New Perspectives on the Gold Rush teams up academic historians, archaeologists, and museum professionals in an effort to add previously marginalized voices to traditional histories of British Columbia’s gold rush. Despite...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 164-66
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A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur
Selected as one of ten Vancouver books reprinted to celebrate the city’s 125th anniversary, A Hard Man to Beat is perhaps even more important now than when it was first published. Then, Bill White’s lively...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 191-93
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Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
With Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan hearkens back to the political youth movements that went to the barricades, the conferences, and the picket lines in the 1960s, and in the process historicizes the events and people...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 178-79
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Royal City: A Photographic History of New Westminster, 1858-1960
Today, many residents of the Lower Mainland know New Westminster only as the site of traffic jams as they wait to get on to the Pattullo, the Queensborough, and Alex Fraser bridges; Highway 401; or...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 112-4
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The Slocan History Series
Edited by Cole Harris, the Slocan History Series began with four booklets that focus primarily on the mining “boom days” of the 1890s and their long-term effects on the region....
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 141-144
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Treaty Talks in British Columbia: Building a New Relationship 3rd edition
The onset of modern treaty negotiations in British Columbia, in 1993, was greeted with a good measure of optimism. The treaty process, it was hoped, would resolve the long-standing “Indian land question,” meeting both First...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 97-99
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
In this fascinating collection, seven Indigenous artists from across Canada illustrate how digital technologies and Indigenous ontologies combine to inform new media theory and practice. In different ways, the contributors demonstrate how digital technologies are...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 217-218
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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
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Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History
Viewing the historical study of Canada over the past few decades as having put class, gender, ethnic, regional, and cultural conceptions at the heart of Canadian inquiry, contributors to this volume turn to what remains...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 105-7
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British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
In British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas, Derek Hayes uses over 900 contemporary maps to illustrate the history of British Columbia. The maps are beautifully reproduced, carefully analyzed in captions, often supported by useful...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51
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Labour Goes to War: The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45
Labour Goes to War is a welcome new study whose title promises readers an analysis of the major industrial union organizing drive led by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) during the Second World War....
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 164-65
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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Telling the story of the timber wars in the national forests of the Pacific Northwest is a task that has moved from journalism to history, William Dietrich suggests in this 2010 edition of The Final...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 171-173
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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
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The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture (2nd Edition)
Twenty years after its initial publication, The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture remains a relevant read. Featuring a new preface and afterword, this second edition of Daniel Francis’s important popular...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 172-73
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Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
After the Second World War, most of the Japanese relocated in camps in the interior were sent to Ontario or to Japan, while many of those who remained in British Columbia, largely the elderly or...