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Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
This is an interesting and provocative book that will motivate readers to rethink the role of the state in directing and managing a multicultural society. Exalted Subjects is divided into a number of sections labelled...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 135-137
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The Trail of 1858: British Columbia’s Gold Rush Past
After the California and Australia gold rushes, the Fraser River rush of 1858 was considered the third great exodus of gold seekers in search of a New El Dorado. At the time, it was said:...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 121-3
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In Search of Canadian Political Culture
In Search of Canadian Political Culture positions itself at the centre of debates over the nature of political culture in Canada, taking on disputes within what Alan Cairns would call the “sociological school” (behavioural versus...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 152-5
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Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990’s
This book is a long-overdue corrective to existing literature on the history of the Canadian family. Adoption, as Veronica Strong-Boag asserts, “is a far from marginal phenomenon in Canadian history” (vii), yet historians have given...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 134-7
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The Wheel Keeper
In The Wheel Keeper , first-time novelist Robert Pepper-Smith, an instructor at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has written an engaging and often enchanting tale that draws heavily on three generations of the...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
According to Patricia Wood, ethnic studies in Canada – or at least the study of Italian immigrants and their descendants – is at best a marginal or fringe activity in the Canadian academy. She complains,...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 123-7
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Watara- Dori (Birds of Passage)
WATARA-DORI (Birds of Passage) is a biographical fiction of a half-year period (24 June 1915 to 1 January 1916) in the life of a Japanese-Canadian fisher. Mitsuo Yesaki has a thorough knowledge of the Pacific coast fisheries,...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 120-1
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A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960
An early and still not inappropriate epithet for Vancouver is Terminal City. This epithet denotes not only a peripheral cultural as well as a geographical location but also the city’s potential for development, despite its...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 117-20
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Chasing the Comet: A Scottish Canadian Life
ALTHOUGH HIS NAME does not appear in the tide, this book follows the eventful career of David Cadlow, who was born in Dundrennan, Ayrshire, but spent most of his life contributing to the development of...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 210-1
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Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West
DAVID PETERSON DEL MAR’S work on violence against wives is well known to social and legal historians, and in this important, innovative, and provocative new book, he has broadened his approach to examine interpersonal violence...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 196-8
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Sutebusuton: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast
MITSUO YESAKI was born in Steveston, known to its early Japanese-Canadian residents as Sutebusuton. He spent his early childhood there until the expulsion of Japanese Canadians from the West Coast in 1942. He is a...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 133-4
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941
THIS IS AN AMBITIOUS bookthat aims to “recontextualize, if not challenge” (9) several standard historical narratives: of the American West, of Asian American settlement, and of Filipino experiences in the United States in the early...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 130-1
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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition
I was intrigued by this textbook and agreed to review it for two reasons: first, because it is more than fifteen years since I lived in British Columbia and I was keen to discover how...
BC Studies no. 132 Winter 2001-2002 | Page(s) 103-105
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Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration
Understanding immigration is central to understanding Canadian working-class history and the fortunes of the Canadian labour movement. This is the case not just because immigration stocked, and restocked, the labour market but also because workers...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 145-7
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The Silent Debate: Asian Immigration and Racism in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 127, Autumn 2000
BC Studies no. 127 Autumn 2000 | Page(s) 144-6
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