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Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities
The essays in Solitudes of the Workplace examine the university as a workplace. The authors use the concept of solitude to examine women’s various experiences as workers in universities. A key premise of the book...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 218-219
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Human Rights in Canada: A History
Human Rights in Canada: A History is a comprehensive survey of the checkered human rights pattern in this country. Dominique Clément writes of a country that in its infancy and youth had a minimal respect...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 224-225
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Empowering Electricity: Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada
Empowering Electricity is a detailed examination of the political and social economy of electricity co-operatives and power sector reform in Canada. The co-operative movement is commonly, and rightfully, viewed as a model of grassroots organization...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 226-227
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Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region: Development, Agency, and Contestation in Northern British Columbia
From the Northern Gateway Pipeline Inquiry, to the Tsilhqot’in land claim decision, to the proposed Site C dam, northern British Columbia has made regular front page news appearances in recent years. In Resource Communities in...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 227-228
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Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments is a fascinating set of essays edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones. Its overall argument is that threats to the environment pose not simply technical or...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 204-205
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Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914
This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140
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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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War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes
For four turbulent years (June 1915 to May 1919) Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes served together in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, taking on new administrative and bedside nursing roles in joint postings...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 145-146
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Death in the Peaceable Kingdom: Canadian History since 1867 Through Murder, Execution, Assassination and Suicide
Two decades ago, a prominent conservative academic smacked down Canadian university instructors with the provocatively-titled Who Killed Canadian History? J.L. Granatstein’s answer was, in part, social history and the historians who taught it. Social historian...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 148-149
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Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University
This fine piece of work provides new insights into the way the nature and culture of life in Canadian universities changed during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Based on a careful review...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 149-150
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Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
Students must become aware of how ambition, self-gratification, power, and control as purposes for learning are forms of self-deception that must be avoided because they lead eventually to the misuse of knowledge and the further...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 152-153
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Community Forestry in Canada: Lessons from Policy and Practice
In Community Forestry in Canada, Sara Teitelbaum brings together a rich array of case studies –including four cases focused on British Columbia – that depict the remarkable variation in regional dynamics within community forestry politics...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 158-159
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Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Canada has a long history of reliance on the labour of both permanent immigrants and migrant workers. In recent decades, the number of migrant workers entering Canada has increased significantly relative to permanent immigrants. A...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 161-163
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Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies
Over the last ten years, Canada has seen recurring waves of protest including Occupy, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter, among others. This collection provides an account of the role of protest in contemporary...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 165-166
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Bringing Water to Victoria: An Illustrated History, 1843-1915
Little is as intimate and political as the water that flows from city taps. We fill our bodies with it, we wash our babies in it. Many of us depend on the state to provide...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 160-161
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Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember
If, as Adele Perry suggests, history is cacophony, then the opening of Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) in September 2014 was bound to be discordant. Camped outside the CMHR, Anishinaabe from Shoal Lake...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 161-162
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Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports: 1806-1821
This volume assembles the remaining records (with the exception of accounts) produced between 1806 and 1821 at Edmonton House, the Saskatchewan District headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company. This period starts with the 1806 Lewis...