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Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties
Generation has dominated sixties scholarship since the baby-boomers came of age in the 1960s. Early historical scholarship, often written by those who participated in the events, emphasized a rupture with the past. These writers focused...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 146-47
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InJustice Served: The Story of British Columbia’s Italian Enemy Aliens During World War II
Historical redress is a touchy subject and should be handled with care. At root, it is a question about what to address. InJustice Served is funded by the vaguely termed “Community Historical Recognition Program” (CHRP),...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 235-234
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Investing in Place: Economic Renewal in Northern British Columbia
This book addresses the question of how to bring about sustainable economic and social development in northern British Columbia. It is written from a geographic perspective with influences from policy studies and economics. The authors...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 140-1
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Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships
Both the need for and the challenges of strengthening relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians have come into stark relief with the emergence of the Idle No More movement. In this context, Lynne Davis’s edited...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 230-231
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Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
In the second chapter of her powerful book, Mona Oikawa indicts the critical reception of well-known Japanese-Canadian representations of Internment. Readings of Muriel Kitagawa’s This is My Own, for example, have tended to “exceptionalize” it...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 237-238
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Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928
In 1871 in the process of dismantling the mibun or caste system that had been the basis of Japanese politics and society for hundreds of years, the fledgling Meiji government emancipated the buraku jūmin, or...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 144-45
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Interest Group Power and Government Regulation: The Cases of the Mining and Insurance Industries During the Period of New Democratic Party Government in British Columbia, 1972-1975 
BC Studies no. 60 Winter 1983-1984 | Page(s) 48-74
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia mining government control legislation New Democratic Party
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Home Truths: Highlights from BC History
As co-editors of BC Studies, Richard Mackie and Graeme Wynn surveyed all the essays published in the journal since it first appeared in 1968 before deciding to focus on what they concluded were two dominant...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 165-167
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Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community
The authors, Ann-Lee Switzer and Gordon Switzer are both historians and writers with an interest in the Japanese Canadian experience. Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community is a rich history of the Japanese...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 180-182
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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,...