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Local Self-Government and the Right to the City
Warren Magnusson’s reputation is secure as one of Canada’s leading political theorists, and Local Self-Government and the Right to the City offers us what he says is “probably… [his] last book” (viii). As such, it...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 207-210
Review
Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology
Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology is an important and well-crafted synthesis by leading scholars, marking a coming of age for the archaeology of Indigenous people in colonial settler societies. To some extent, the title misrepresents...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 133-134
Review
Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge?
The numerous European men and fewer women who travelled overseas to spread a particular brand of Christianity among distant peoples in the nineteenth century are a perennial source of interest among scholars — and for...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 154-55
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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,...
| Page(s) 131-133
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Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247
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Native Claims: Indigenous Law Against Empire, 1500-1920
This major interdisciplinary study shatters the illusion that only Europeans contributed to modern legal debate about the legitimacy of empire and nature of imperial sovereignty and colonial possession. The basic – twofold — premise of...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 223-225
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Life in the Tee-Pee
In the spring of 1956, the proprietors of the roadside Tee-Pee Restaurant near Boston Bar were unceremoniously informed that their business and odd assortment of buildings would be expropriated and destroyed to make way for...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 135-36
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Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
Epidemics call out the ambulance-chaser in all of us, and for health historians, there is none more attention-grabbing than the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, mistakenly dubbed the “Spanish Flu,” the only infectious disease to stop the...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 183-184
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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
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Angus McDonald of the Great Divide: The Uncommon Life of a Fur Trader 1816-1889
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) has been the source for North American historians since the late nineteenth century. From the beginnings of it adventures in the fur trade, the Company’s head office in London sent...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 118-19
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The Cannibal Spirit
Harry Whitehead’s novel The Cannibal Spirit fictionalizes one of the most important figures in the history of BC anthropology, Franz Boas’s long-time collaborator George Hunt. With many points of reference to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 114-15
Review
The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
Everyone who has spent any time researching Vancouver history seems to have a Chuck Davis story. Here’s mine. It’s about 1980, I’m a callow not-easily-impressed grad student doing work on some arcane heritage tax law...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 130-31
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Why Canadian Forestry and Mining Towns are Organized Differently: The Role of Staples in Shaping Community, Class, and Consciousness
Canada’s single industry towns (SITs), especially resource towns, continue to be the focus of considerable academic and policy attention. Canada’s population may be highly urbanized, indeed urbane, with the major metropolitan and even medium-sized urban...