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First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
While Sophie McCall’s book is aimed primarily at readers of Aboriginal literary studies, she hopes that her book also will be of interest to “scholars investigating the problem of textualizing Aboriginal oral narrative.” This review...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 229-230
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“We are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
We read this book as the British Columbia government announced that oil and gas development will be banned in the “Sacred Headwaters,” the vast tract of land in North Central British Columbia where the Nass,...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 224-225
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In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness
At last there is a comprehensive biography of Diamond Jenness, perhaps Canada’s greatest anthropologist, and it’s an excellent one. Barnett Richling has risen to the task with a clear understanding of the man, his remarkable...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 222-224
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Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History
Historians of British Columbia have devoted considerable attention to how its economy and social geography were shaped by different kinds of transportation, from sailing vessels and trails to wagon roads and railways. However, automobiles and...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 192-193
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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The Principle of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Do the theories and worldviews of the Enlightenment unfold all there is to know about reality? Can the political relationships between Canadians and Indigenous peoples be mended solely through Eurocentric remedies? Can settler Canadians and...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 171-72
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Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest, also known as the North and Central Coast of British Columbia, is one of the last intact temperate rainforests left in the world. This region has received much attention since 1989,...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 199-201
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Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies
This brilliant volume of comparative law is written by four distinguished Indigenous legal academic specialists, from the United States (Eastern Shawnee Tribe), New Zealand (Maori — Ngati Rawkawa and Ngati Ranginui), Australia (Eualayai/Gammilaroi), and Canada...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 167-169
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British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest: Ecology, Conservation, and Management
“These two streams at the foot of the hills have formed a wide alluvial, on which are forest trees of enormous size; the white cedars were from fifteen to thirty six feet girth, clean grown...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 211-212
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Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Accommodation in Canada and India
The author is a professor of Political Science in Shillong, the capital of the tiny hill state of Magalaya in the tribal area of North Eastern India. This is a state that, by official figures,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thorton
Sheryl Salloum’s new book The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton explores why this important BC artist has generally been ignored in the historical record and cultural landscape of this province. Given that she...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 181-2
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Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror
In Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, Daniel Francis provides an overview of the response of the Canadian state and elite to the postwar labour revolt. Although written for...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 126-28
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Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century
In Nature’s Northwest, William G. Robbins and Katrine Barber have synthesized a wealth of scholarship on the Greater Northwest, encompassing Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana, and southern British Columbia. The authors track social, economic, political,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 124-26
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The Principal’s Office – And Beyond, Volumes 1 (1849-1960) and Volume 2 (1961-2005)
This study considers the development of public education in British Columbia mainly from the perspective of school principals. The author is a prominent scholar in the field of education history and a provocative critic of...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 164-5
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
The negotiation and signing of the numbered treaties with First Nations groups in Western Canada, followed shortly thereafter by the opening of the territory to Euro-Canadian settlement, served to consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 167-8
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Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
Contributing to the emerging and vibrant field of national park histories in Canada, J. Keri Cronin’s Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper explores how photographs created for tourist consumption...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 201-02
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Canada’s Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
Canada’s Road to the Pacific War examines the role of intelligence in Canadian strategic planning during the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Drawing on archival resources in Canada, Britain, and the United...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 184-86
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The Education of an Innocent: An Autobiography by E.R. “Ernie” Forbes
Why should BC Studies review the autobiography of E.R. “Ernie” Forbes, a leading historian of Maritime Canada? The answer is that several years in Victoria helped him to confirm his ideas about the importance of...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 193-94
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Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
This is a groundbreaking book in Chinese Canadian History and in the history of the global Chinese diaspora. It challenges conventional perceptions of Chinese relations with the mainstream society in Canada during the historical era...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 147-48
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British Columbia Politics and Government
British Columbia’s unique geographical location and relative isolation in Canada makes for an interesting study of how politics can be done differently in the federation. The contributors to British Columbia Politics and Government highlight the...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 144-5
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Searching for a Seaport: with the 1870s CPR Explorer Surveyors on the Coast of British Columbia
While researching Surveying Central British Columbia I learned that in the 1920s Frank Swannell found evidence several times of the Canadian Pacific Railway surveys which had been made through the Tweedsmuir and Chilcotin areas a...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 123-24
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British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years
James D. Anderson’s British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years is a tribute to the first century of the Provincial Park system in BC. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history, sensitive to ongoing...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 134-5
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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...