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Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism
Indigenous Women and Work, edited by Carol Williams, consists of seventeen essays that examine the history of indigenous women and wage labour in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The object of these...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 146-147
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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
This substantial collection brings interdisciplinary approaches to a range of questions on Aboriginal populations. Aiming to bring about a “comprehensive understanding of the social demographic transformation of the Canadian Aboriginal population” (ix), the contributors review...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149
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Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? addresses important questions about the contribution of arts and culture in small and medium sized cities and the ethos and ethics of supporting cultural development in these environments. Small and...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 177-78
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Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
In Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Robert Hogg examines the gendered expectations, manly identities, and lived experiences of British men in mid-nineteenth-century Queensland and British Columbia....
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 166-67
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The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War
In his portrait of Victoria High School (VHS), Barry Gough has created a vivid microcosm of the First World War’s impact on Canadians. As one of Canada’s foremost historians, Gough brings a special authenticity to...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 128-30
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Bootleggers and Borders: The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-US Borderland
Given how contentious relations between Canada and the US became during the American Prohibition era (1917-1933), it is surprising how little scholarly work has been done on the subject. There are many popular books about...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 173-74
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The Railway Beat: A Century of Canadian Pacific Police Service
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) experimented with many different forms of policing throughout its long history. How do you protect a 2,000-mile transportation network that keeps growing? David Laurence Jones’s The Railway Beat looks...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 168-69
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Now You’re Logging
Romance, high drama with runaway logging trucks (26-29), and dangerous river crossings of donkey engines (65-72) are all integral parts of this graphic portrayal of British Columbia’s coastal logging scene during the 1930s. Although Griffiths...