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Book Review
The House (Convention Centre, Stadium, Rapid Transit System, Etc.) That Jack Built: Jack Volrich and Vancouver Politics
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 53, Spring 1982
BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 72-5
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International Rivers: The Politics of Cooperation
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 41, Spring 1979
BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | Page(s) 61-3
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The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 68, Winter 1985
BC Studies no. 68 Winter 1985-1986 | Page(s) 73-6
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The Politics of Canadian- Japanese Economic Relations 1952-1983
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 66, Summer 1985
BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 69-70
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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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No Laughing Matter: Adventure, Activism and Politics
For some readers, Margaret Mitchell’s title will bring to mind a turning point in Canadian feminists’ struggle for women’s equality: an outrageous uproar of male shouting and laughing when Mitchell, MP for Vancouver East, told...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 143-144
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An Error in Judgement: The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian/White Community
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 80, Winter 1988/89
BC Studies no. 80 Winter 1988-1989 | Page(s) 73-5
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After Bennett: A New Politics for British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 79, Autumn 1998
BC Studies no. 79 Autumn 1988 | Page(s) 92-4
Book Review
Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 113, Spring 1997
BC Studies no. 113 Spring 1997 | Page(s) 109-10
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Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rainforest
PDF – Shelvey Review Essay – BC Studies 130, Summer 2001
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 93-104
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Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns: Chinese Politics in the Americas and the 1911 Revolution
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 90, Summer 1991
BC Studies no. 90 Summer 1991 | Page(s) 78-80
Book Review
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
MANY NORTH AMERICAN cities have had great civic leaders. Fiorello La Guardia, New York’s Depression-era mayor, is considered the father of modern New York; Metro chair Fred Gardiner put his distinctive imprint on Toronto in the...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 128-30
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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
POET, WRITER, storyteller, spokesperson, performer, actress, performance artist. Pauline Johnson is certainly the most public and popular writer that nineteenth-century Canada produced, and perhaps even the most public Canadian writer of the last century. Such...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 115-8
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The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
Thirty years ago, my husband and I were having dinner at the Da Tandoor restaurant in Victoria with the incomplete executive of the League of Canadian Poets. All eyes were on the door. Would Pat...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 97-9
Book Review
The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914
David Leonard’s latest work on the Peace River country of northern British Columbia and Alberta is distinguished from its predecessors by an emphasis on the region’s agricultural history. Drawn in part from documents profiling who...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 111-2
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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
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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
Book Review
Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974
A few exceptions aside, the remarkable escalation of books that have investigated British Columbia’s forests and forest economy in recent years have not paid much attention to labour. Yet labour’s role is vital to the evolution...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 155-7
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Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
Resilience. This is a word that, for me, conjures up a feeling of hard times met with bald-faced determination to get through whatever comes one’s way. Coasts under Stress brings this idea to life through...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 164-6
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In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada
The issue of voice, its recuperation and responsible representation, has long ranked among Aboriginal history’s central concerns. In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada shares this commitment. Refuting...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 140-2
Book Review
Far West: The Story of British Columbia
When I received this book by this popular and prolific writer, I thought it was a coffee table history of British Columbia. While Far West is large and glossy, I quickly realized that BC Studies...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 148-9
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Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934
How many Canadians know exactly where Nome is? Yes, we know it’s in Alaska, though the author of this book may not be confident that all readers will know, since he names the state as...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 153-4
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Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems
The cover of Garry Gottfriedson’s book promises us a collection of traditional cowboy poetry. Exposed on a wood-grained surface are a pair of silver spurs, feathers, leather collar, and two bullets, one of which is...