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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Carbon Democracy historicizes “the forms of democratic politics that carbon made possible” (233). Timothy Mitchell’s goal is nothing short of destabilizing two central intellectual and material pillars of modern western life: the sacrosanct institution of...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 182-83
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British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
In British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas, Derek Hayes uses over 900 contemporary maps to illustrate the history of British Columbia. The maps are beautifully reproduced, carefully analyzed in captions, often supported by useful...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 149-51
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Indigenous Peoples of North America: A Concise Anthropological Overview
Robert Muckle has responded to the market place need for a concise textbook treatment of the lives and circumstances of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Previous works are too long, too detailed, and unreadable...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 145-46
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Vancouver Anthology
During the 1960s things radically changed in the Canadian art world. Aesthetic categories expanded to include technically based video and multimedia performance art. Traditional art institutions competed with artist-run centres like The Sound Gallery and...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 170-72
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the State: International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation
Forest certification has provided fertile ground for social science research and scholarship since the early 1990s. Much of this work has focused on explaining the improbable rise and continuing global significance of the Forest Stewardship...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 180-82
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Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985
Earning a decent living from pottery is difficult. Crafts, in general, do not support high earners. The notion that any amateur can throw a pot has kept professional potters just above the poverty line —...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 147-48
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John Clarke: Explorer of the Coast Mountains
For over a century, the Coast Mountains have drawn British Columbians, through both gaze and gait, to embrace the rugged peaks for which they are known. And, from the exploratory expeditions of the Mundays in...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 240-241
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Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History
The Society for American Archaeology website describes their “Contemporary Perspectives” series, in which Northwest Coast is the second title, as “short volumes focused on the archaeology of a specific region.” Aimed at “busy professionals and...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 220-222
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Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Secret Service is the first full-length narrative on security intelligence in Canada since Stan Horrall and Carl Betke’s 1978 official RCMP history, Canada’s Security Service: An Historical Outline, 1864-1966. This is a significant achievement for...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 231-233
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The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar’s groundbreaking work, The Punjabis in British Columbia, represents a significant addition to a number of fields. At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 240-242
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Dispatches From The Occupation: A History of Change
On 25 September 2011, the first “occupiers” began to move into Zuccotti Park. Located near the heart of Wall Street, New York’s financial district, their presence was initially ignored by mainstream media. However, awareness grew...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 152-54
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Rewriting Marpole: The Path to Cultural Complexity in the Gulf of Georgia Region
Rewriting Marpole is the published version of Clark’s PhD dissertation (Clark, 2010) and an outgrowth of his MA thesis (Clark, 2000). The goal of his research “is to determine the spatial...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 218-223
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Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia
Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia depicts stories of Canadians who went to Japan, or whose lives, dreams, achievements, and failures were intimately connected to Japan. In contrast to the far more familiar experiences...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 238-240
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Native Claims: Indigenous Law Against Empire, 1500-1920
This major interdisciplinary study shatters the illusion that only Europeans contributed to modern legal debate about the legitimacy of empire and nature of imperial sovereignty and colonial possession. The basic – twofold — premise of...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 223-225
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Behind the Steam: The Inside Story of the Gastown Steam Clock
With a seemingly permanent cluster of tourists snapping its photo, the Gastown steam clock is undoubtedly one of the most popular tourist attractions in Vancouver. Despite its misleading Edwardian appearance (it was built in the...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 134-35
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Company, Crown and Colony: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada
In essence, this is a study of governorship, or governorships — Richard Blanshard to Frederick Seymour, with Sir James Douglas as the centrepiece of description. The addition of many charts and tables lend it an...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 172-174
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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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Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
As the angry, impetuous, and disobedient stepchild of rock-and-roll, punk has become an increasingly popular topic for academic and popular writers. Yet, as Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth demonstrates, Canadian contributions have often gone unnoticed. In...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 151-52
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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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Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
Always among the more contentious of Canadian public policies, the control of immigration, legal and illegal, is once again on the front burner. Political scientist Christopher Anderson sets himself the task of explaining the broad...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 143-44
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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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Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers
Seeing Red is a tough read. It’s tough because the sheer amount of data gathered from Canadian newspapers ends up, at times, reading like endless lists of information, rather than a coherent narrative, argument, or...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 127-28
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Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis
For the past five centuries, Indigenous people of the Pacific Rim have been on the receiving, destructive end of European expansion and technology, witnessing their lands occupied by extractive, industrialized nation states. Now assimilated into...