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The following books have arrived since the list of books was circulated in January. Please let me know if you would like to review any of them.

Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki (eds), Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). Paper. 233pp. ISBN 978-0-88920-513-0. [“The study of Canadian Literature – CanLit – has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ‘70s …. new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions …. a new generation of prolific Canadian writers has emerged …. The challenge of moving beyond the troubled legacy of nationalism to address the emergent conditions of transnational and global variables.”]

Bernard D. Thraves, M. L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, and Hansgeorg Schlichtmann (eds), Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives (Regina: University of Regina Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2007), 486pp. Cloth. $75. ISBN 978-0-8897-7189-5.

Francesco Loriggio (ed.), The Last Effort of Dreams: Essays on the Poetry of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). 207pp. Hard. ISBN 978-1-55458-019-4. [Italian Canadian poet.]

Roy Parker, Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 (Bristol: The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2008). 354pp. Hard. ISBN 978-1-84742-014-5.

Christopher Dummitt, The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008 – paper, 2007 cloth). 224pp. Paper. $32.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1275-7.

Margaret Burgess (ed.), A Glorious and Terrible Life with You: Selected Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939 (Selected and edited by Margaret Burgess from the edition prepared by Robert D. Denham, with photographs and drawings), (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). 426pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-8020-9476-6.

Patrick James and Mark Kasoff (eds), Canadian Studies in the New Millennium (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). 310pp. Paper. £22.50. ISBN 978-0-8020-9468-6.

Steve Penfold, The Donut: A Canadian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). 256pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-8020-9545-9. [“tells the story of how a simple treat became a symbol of local and national identity …. Much more than a business history …. the book explores the social history …. and the cultural meaning that lies behind our everyday choices.”]

Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz, and Josephene T. Kealey (eds), The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008). 265pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7766-0665-1.
 
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History

Norman Hillmer and Adam Chapnick (eds), Canadas of the Mind: the Making of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 326 pp. Cloth. $85. ISBN 9-7807-7353-272-4. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 9-7807-7353-273-1.
R. B. Fleming (ed.), The Wartime Letters of Leslie & Cecil Frost 1915-1919 (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). 379 pp incl index. ISBN 978-1-55458-000-2.
Lisa Chilton, Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860s-1930 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 240pp. Cloth. $60. £40. ISBN 0-8020-9274-8. Paper. $27.95. £18. ISBN 0-8020-9474-0.
Stephen Brumwell, Paths of Glory: the Life and Times of General James Wolfe (London & New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2006), 406pp. Cloth. £25. ISBN 1-85285-553-3.
Barry Gough, Through Water, Fire and Ice: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006). 213 pp. Paper. $24.99£12.99. ISBN 978-1-55002-569-9.
Gilbert Colins, Guidebook to the Historic Sites of the War of 1812, 2nd ed, revised and updated (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006). 389 pp. $24.00/£12.99. ISBN 978-1-55002-626-9.
P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Battle Grounds: the Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), 368 pp. Cloth. $85. ISBN 9780-7748-1315-0. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 9780-7748-1318-1.
Conny Steenman-Marcusse and Aritha van Herk (eds), Building Liberty: Canada and World Peace, 1945-2005 (Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing, 2005). 339 pp. Paper. ISBN 90-77922-059. [political and historical essays and poetry on the 1940-1945 war years in the Netherlands, the role Canada played in its liberation, and Canada’s role in war and peace since 1945.]
Paul W. DePasquale (ed.), Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007), 236 pp. Paper. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-88864-327-8.
Ute Lischke and David T. McNab (eds), The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 370 pp. Paper. $34.95. ISBN 0-8892-0523-X.
Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation, ‘Pictures Bring Us Messages’/ Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 280 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-9006-0. Paper. $29.95. £20. ISBN 0-8020-4891-9. [“…. a serious advance in research …. a major contribution to research in museums/archives collections and how the people who work at these institutions can reach out to and work productively and collaboratively with Aboriginal peoples.]
Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber, and Suzanne M. Sinke (eds), Letters Across Borders: the Epistolary Practices of International Migrants (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006),
320pp. Cloth. $69.95. £45. ISBN 9-781-4039-7101-2.
Warren Sommer, The Ambitious City: a History of the City of North Vancouver (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2007), 342 pp. Cloth. $44.95. ISBN 978-1-55017-411-3.
Heather Harbord, Desolation Sound: A History (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2007), 260pp. Paper. £21.99. ISBN 10: 1-55017-407-X (13:978-1-55017-407-6).
Veronica Strong-Boag, Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the Nineteenth Century to the 1990s (Toronto: Oxford University Press, Canada, 2006), 318 pp. Paper. $49.95. £24.99. ISBN 0-1954-2492-1.
Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville (eds), Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 486pp. Cloth. $85. £42. ISBN 0-8020-3860-3. Paper. $45. £22. 0-8020-3802-6.
George A. Rose, Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fishery (Breakwater Books, 2007), 592pp. Hard. $74.95. ISBN 978-1-55081-225-1.


Politics and social sciences

Herman Bakvis & Grace Skogstad (eds), Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, second edition (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2008), 398pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-19-542512-3.
Nicholas Brown and Linda Cardinal (eds), Managing Diversity: Practices of Citizenship (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007), 212pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7766-0645-5.
Mike Harris and Preston Manning, Vision for a Canada Strong & Free, Vol VI (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2007), 330pp. ISBN 978-0-88975-223-8.
Ramsay Cook and Réal Bélanger (eds), Canada’s Prime Ministers: Macdonald to Trudeau - Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 476 pp incl index. Cloth $85/£48. ISBN 0-8020-9173-0. Paper. $36/£22.50. ISBN 0-8020-9174-1.
Raymond B. Blake (ed.), Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), xx+500pp. Cloth. $85. ISBN 9-7807-7353-2144. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 9-7807-7353-2151.
Andrew Graham, Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2007). Cloth. $85. ISBN 978-1-5533-9121-0. Paper. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-5533-9120-3.
Bruce Muirhead, Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957-1973 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 323 pp. Cloth. $65. £42. ISBN 0-8020-9016-8.
Suzanne Staggenborg, Social Movements (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 173 pp. Paper. £25.99. ISBN 978-0-19-542309-9.
Reginald C. Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 428 pp. Hard. $60/£40. ISBN 978-0-8018-8785-7. [U.S, and Canadian Relations in post 9/11 world…This book explores the origins, evolution, and contemporary character of Upper North American interdependence and political independence.]
David M. Thomas (ed.), Canada and the United States: Differences that Count, second edition (Toronto: Broadview Press), 386pp. Paper. ISBN 1-55111-252-3.
Dawn Moore, Criminal Artefacts: Governing Drugs and Users (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), 336 pp. Cloth. $85. ISBN 978-0-7748-1386-0. Paper. $32.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1387-7. [Theoretical tools inspired by Foucault, Latour, and Goffman, and case studies, question the assumption that drugs lie at the heart of crime.]
J. D. McPhail, The Freshwater Fishes of British Columbia (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007), 696 pp. Cloth. $90. ISBN 978-0-88864-467-1.
I.S.MacLaren (ed.), Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007) 316pp. ISBN 0-88864-483-3.
Susan Hodgett, David Johnson and Stephen A. Royle (eds), Doing Development Differently: Regional Development on the Atlantic Periphery (Sydney: Cape Breton University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-897-009-19-2.
Mel Watkins, Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins, edited by Hugh Grant and David Wolfe (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 320 pp. Paper. $29.95. £16.99. ISBN 0-7735-3145-9.
Janice Gross Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, Michael Valpy, Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 160 pp. Paper. $24.95. ISBN 1-55458-012-9.
H. C. Wolfart (ed.), Papers of the Thirty-Eighth Algonquian Conference (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007), 416pp. Paper. ISBN 0831-5671
Yale D. Belanger, Gambling With the Future: the Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in Canada (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2006), 232 pp. Paper. $31, ISBN 1-8958-3028-1.
Stephen Brooks, Canadian Democracy: an Introduction, Fifth edition, (Don Mills: Oxford University Press Canada, 2006), 570pp. Paper. $64.95. ISBN 0-1954-2323-2. [With a new Core Concepts video supplement packaged with each text includes video segments showing various experts being interviewed about core concepts covered in the text
Maeve Conrick and Vera Regan, French in Canada: Language Issues (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007 Modern French Identities volume 28), 186 pp. Paper. $26. US $51.95. €40. ISBN 978-3-03910-142-9.
Andrew F. Cooper and Dane Rowlands (eds), Canada Among Nations 2006: Minorities and Priorities (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 312 pp. Paper. £17.99. ISBN 0-7735-3170-X. [Examines two central themes: first, how two different forms of minority – parliamentary and cultural – are shaping Canada’s international approach, and, second, the emerging foreign policy priorities of the minority Conservative government.]
Andrew Graham, Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2007), xviii 328 pp. Cloth. $85. ISBN 9-7815-5339-121-0. Paper. $39.95. ISBN 9-7815-5339-120-3.
Andrew D. Irvine and John S. Russell, In the Agora: the Public Face of Canadian Philosophy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 352 pp. Cloth. £42. $65. ISBN 0-8020-3895-6. Paper. £20. $29.95. ISBN 0-8020-3817-4. [The views of Canadian philosophers who have made important contributions to public debate … here … we find their views on topics ranging from free speech to free trade, from science to citizenship, from terrorism to tyranny, and from ethics to the environment.]
Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky and Colleen Varcoe (eds), Women’s Health in Canada: Critical Perspectives on Health and Policy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), Cloth. 432 pp. $85. £55. ISBN 0-8020-3939-1.
Jacalyn Duffin, SARS in Context: Memory, History and Policy (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 248 pp. Paper. $29.95 CA. $27.95 US. £50. ISBN 0-7735-3194-7.
Carol Tator and Frances Henry (eds), Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘A Few Bad Apples’ (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). 251 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-8714-0. Paper. $35. £22. ISBN 0-8020-8666-7.
Vijay Agnew (ed.), Interrogating Race and Racism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 417 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-9356-6. Paper. $35. £22.50. ISBN 0-8020-9509-7.
Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Randy Enomoto, Race, Racialization, and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 252 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-8014-6. Paper. $35. £22.50. ISBN 0-8020-9504-6.


Literature, Criticism and the Arts

Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2007). 294 pp. Cloth. $52.95. ISBN 978-1-931968-47-8. Paper. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-931968-48-5. [“… critically explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law… focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women’s guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female in a wide variety of media including novels, theatrical plays, movies and television series … a highly readable and analytically rigorous study of justice and gender on the page and screen.”]
Lorraine York, Literary Celebrity in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 200 pp. Cloth. $35/£22.50. ISBN 0-8020-9282-9. [“… a very significant and genuinely novel study which makes a considerable contribution both to Canadian literary studies and to the study of celebrity.”]
Britta Olinder (ed.), Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World (Pieterlen: Peter Lang AG, 2007), 246pp. ISBN 978-90-5201-296-4.
Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier (eds), Canadian Cultural Exchanges/Échanges culturels au Canada (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 401 pp incl index. Hard. ISBN 978-0-88920-519-2. [“… provides a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience … discusses, from various perspectives, how Canadian cultural space undergoes continual translation of both the other and oneself.”]
Jason Camlot and Todd Swift (eds), Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry 1976 to the 21st Century (Montréal: Véhicule Press, 2007), 466 pp. Paper. $22.95 CAN. $17.95. US. ISBN 1-5506-5225-7.
Leslie Dawn, National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), 456 pp. Paper. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1218-4.
Michael McKinnie, City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 178 pp. Cloth. $45. £28. ISBN 0-8020-9121-0.
David Staines (ed), The Letters of Stephen Leacock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 564 pp. Cloth. ISBN 0-1954-0869-1.
d’bi.young, art on black (Toronto: Women’s Press, 2006). 110 pp. Paper. [jamaican-canadian dub poet, actor and playwright…retelling our forgotten herstories.]
Paulette Dubé, First Mountain, poems (Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 2007), 96pp. Paper $15.95. ISBN 978-1-897235-33-1. [Winner of a 2006 CBC Literary Award… the poems reflect the author’s response to the pristine mountain world in which she lives.]
Thomas Waugh, The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 624 pp. Cloth. $85. £57. ISBN 0-7735-3069-X. Paper. $35.95 CA. $29.95 US. £18.99 ISBN 0-7735-3146-7.
Gerta Moray, Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006). 400 pp (8.5 x 12”, 197 photos incl 91 colour plates). Cloth. $75. ISBN 978-0-7748-1282-5.


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Books for Review June 2007 PDF E-mail
British Journal of Canadian Studies
Books Available for Review
June 2007

Please look through all the sections as some books are difficult to categorize.

History

Gerhard P. Bassler, Vikings to U-Boats: the German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 440pp. Cloth. £48. 0-7735-3124-6
Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau, On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 250pp. Paper. $50. £32. ISBN 0-7766-0591-7.
Cleophas Belvin, The Forgotten Labrador (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 240 pp. Cloth. $ xx. £27.ISBN 0-7735-3151-3.
Jack Boudreau, Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats: Whitewater Freighting on the Upper Fraser (Madeira Park: Caitlin Press, 2006), 256 pp. Paper. $18.95. ISBN 1-8947-5920-6.
Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers (eds), Negotiating Identities in 19th-and 20th- Century Montreal (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005), 336pp. Cloth. $85. ISBN 0-7748-1197-8. Paper. $22.95. ISBN 0-7748-1198-6.
Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation, ‘Pictures Bring Us Messages’/ Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 280 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-9006-0. Paper. $29.95. £20. ISBN 0-8020-4891-9.
Stephen Brumwell, Paths of Glory: the Life and Times of General James Wolfe (London & New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2006), 406pp. Cloth. £25. ISBN1-85285-553-3.
Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis, Beyond Equalization: Examining Fiscal Transfersin a Broader Context (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2007), 127pp. Paper. $xx. ISBN 978-0-88975-215-3
Ramsay Cook, The Teeth of Time: Remembering Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 200 pp. Cloth. $29.95 CA. $29.95 US. £18.99. ISBN 0-7735-3149-1.
Frederick E. Crowe, Appropriating the Lonergan Idea, edited by Michael Vertin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 410 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-9117-2.
Frederick E. Crowe, Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical and Existential Themes, edited by Michael Vertin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 385 pp. Cloth. $75. £45. ISBN 0-8020-8938-0.
Margaret E. Derry, Horses in Society: a Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), xvii+302 pp. Cloth. £60. £40. ISBN 0-8020-9112-1.
Jacalyn Duffin, SARS in Context: Memory, History and Policy (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 248 pp. Paper. $29.95 CA. $27.95 US. £50. ISBN 0-7735-3194-7.
Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, Mike Bechthold (eds), Vimy Ridge: a Canadian Reassessment (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 358 pp. Cloth. $38.95. ISBN 0-8892-0508-6.
T. Stephen Henderson, Angus L. Macdonald: a Provincial Liberal (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 368 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-9231-4. Paper. $35. £22.50. ISBN 0-8020-9459-7.
Robert J. Hoshowsky, The Last to Die: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007), 224pp. Paper. $24.99. ISBN 978-1-55002-672-6.
Harold Johnson, Two Families: Treaties and Government (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2007), 144 pp. Paper. $20. ISBN 978-1-895830-293.
Arthur Kroeger, Hard Passage: a Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006), 269 pp. Paper. $34.95. ISBN0-8886-4473-6.
Harold LeRat with Linda Ungar, Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life on a Reserve (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2005), 160pp. Paper. $20. ISBN 1-8958-3026-5.
Andrée Levesque, Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and Her Comrades (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 232 pp. Cloth. $34.95. £20.99. ISBN 0-7735-3125-4.
Farley Mowat, No Man’s River (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005), 355pp. $36.95. Cloth. ISBN 1-5576-3624-0.
Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville (eds), Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 486pp. Cloth. $85. £42. ISBN 0-8020-3860-3. Paper. $45. £22. 0-8020-3802-6.
Conny Steenman-Marcusse, and Aritha van Herk, Building Liberty: Canada and World Peace, 1945-2005, Canada Cahiers No. 11, (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2005), 333pp. Paper, €35. ISBN 90 77922 059.
Veronica Strong-Boag, Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the Nineteenth Century to the 1990s (Toronto: Oxford University Press, Canada, 2006), 318 pp. Paper. $49.95. £24.99. ISBN 0-1954-2492-1.
William Edward Traill, Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill 1864-1894, editor K. Douglas Munro (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006), 339 pp. Paper. $34.95. ISBN 0-8886-4460-4.

Politics and social sciences

Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott, Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 326 pp. Cloth. $65. £42. ISBN 0-8020-3951-0.Paper. $29.95. £20. ISBN 0-8020-3784-44.
Ian Angus, Ron Dart, and Randy Peg Peters (eds), Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant's Theology, Philosphy, and Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 384 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-9176-8.
Yale D. Belanger, Gambling With the Future: the Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in Canada (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2006), 232 pp. Paper. $31, ISBN 1-8958-3028-1.
A. Alan Borovoy, Categorically Incorrect: Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror (Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2006), 206 pp. Paper. $24.99. £12.99. ISBN 1-5500-2628-3.
Stephen Brooks, Canadian Democracy: an Introduction, Fifth edition, (Don Mills: Oxford University Press Canada, 2006), 570pp. Paper. $64.95. ISBN 0-1954-2323-2. [With a new Core Concepts video supplement packaged with each text includes video segments showing various experts being interviewed about core concepts covered in the text
Isla Carmichael, Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds, and Social Investment in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 225 pp. Cloth. $50. ISBN 0-8020-3647-3.
Andrew F. Cooper and Dane Rowlands (eds), Canada Among Nations 2006: Minorities and Priorities (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 312 pp. Paper. £17.99. ISBN 0-7735-3170-X.
Nadeem Esmail and Michael Walker with Sabrina Yeudall, How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2004 Report: An International Comparison of Health Care Systems (Vancouver: the Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin Series, 2004), 64 pp. Paper. $xx. ISSN 1480-3666.
Nadeem Esmail and Michael Walker, Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 15th Edition (Vancouver: the Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin Series, 2005), 86 pp. Paper. $12.95 ISSN 1480-3666.
Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino, Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec: Debation Multiculturalism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006), 217 pp. Cloth. $60. £40. ISBN 0-8020-9216-0. Paper. $27.95. £18. ISBN 0-8020-9448-1.
Xavier Gélinas, La droite intellectuelle québécoise et la Révolution tranquille (Levis: Les Presses de l’Universite Laval 2007), 486 pp. Paper. $45. ISBN 978-2-7637-8059-7.
François Gendron, The Case of the 'Traitors': an Essay on Freedom of Speech in Politics (Montreal: Wilson and Lafleur, 2006), 75pp. Cloth. no price available. ISBN 2-89127-744-9.
James Gwartney and Robert Lawson with William Easterly, Economic Freedom of the World 2006 Annual Report (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2006), 794 pp. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 0-8897-5236-2.
Mike Harris and Preston Manning, A Canada Strong and Free (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2005), 69 pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 0-8897-5214-1. [Please note, volumes II and III are listed below]
Mike Harris and Preston Manning, Building Prosperity in a Canada Strong and Free (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2006, Volume IV in the Canada Strong and Free series), 102 pp. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 0-8897-5238-9.
Mike Harris and Preston Manning, Caring for Canadians in a Canada Strong and Free (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2005, volume II in the Canada Strong and Free series), 90 pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 0-8897-5226-5.
Mike Harris and Preston Manning, Rebalanced and Revitalized: A Canada Strong and Free (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2006 volume III in the Canada Strong and Free series), 106 pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 0-8897-5226-5.
Andrew D. Irvine and John S. Russell, In the Agora: the Public Face of Canadian Philosophy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 352 pp. Cloth. £42. $65. ISBN 0-8020-3895-6. Paper. £20. $29.95. ISBN 0-8020-3817-4.
Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren, with a foreword by Gérard Bouchard, Language, citizenship and identity in Quebec (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 260 pp. Cloth. £50. ISBN 1-4039-4975-1. [Part of the Language and Globalization series, Sue Wright and Helen Kelly-Holmes, eds)
Andie Diane Palmer, Maps of Experience: the Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), xxiii+250 pp. Cloth. $60. £32. ISBN 0-8020-3559-0. Paper. $27.95. £15. ISBN 0-8020-8435-4.
Sally C. Pipes, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2004, with Pacific Research Institute), 219 pp. Paper. $19.95. CAN. $14.95. US. ISBN 0-8897-5212-5. [With an introduction by Milton Friedman]
Roy Rempel, Dreamland: How Canada’s Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 216 pp. Paper. $29.95 CA. $29.95 US. £18.99. ISBN 1-5533-9118-7.
Lance W. Roberts, Rodney a. Clifton, Barry Ferguson, Karen M. Kampen, and Simon Langlois (eds), Recent Social Trends in Canada 1960-2000 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005) viii+670 pp. Cloth. $85. CAN, $85. US. ISBN 0-7735-2955-1.
Edith Samuel, Integrative Antiracism: South Asians in Canadian Academe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), xii+206 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-3944-8. Paper. $29.95. £20. ISBN 0-8020-3782-8.
Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement (eds), Work in Tumultuous Times (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), 352pp. Paper. £57. ISBN 978-0-7735-3140-6.
Brett J. Skinner, Price Controls, Patents, and Cross-Border Internet Pharmacies: Risks to Canada’s Drug Supply and International Trading Relations (Vancouver: the Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin, 2006), 36 pp. 12.95. ISSN 1480-3666.
Carol Tator and Frances Henry (eds), Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘A Few Bad Apples’ 251 pp. Cloth. $75. £48. ISBN 0-8020-8714-0. Paper. $35. £22. ISBN 0-8020-8666-7.
Roger S. Tonkin and Leslie T. Foster (eds), The Youth of British Columbia: Their Past and Their Future, Western Geographical Series 39 (Vancouver: Western geographical Press, 2005), 233 pp. Paper. $25. ISBN 0-9198-3829-4.
Niels Veldhuis and Michael A. Walker (eds), Tax Facts 14, 30th Anniversary Edition (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2006), 118 pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 0-8897-5230-3.
Thomas Waugh, The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 624 pp. Cloth. $85. £57. ISBN 0-7735-3069-X. Paper. $35.95 CA. $29.95 US. £18.99 ISBN 0-7735-3146-7.
H. S. Wolfart, Papers of the Thirty-sixth Algonquian Conference (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005), 471 pp. Paper. $48. ISSN 0831-5671. [Ethnological and historical papers, including one entitled, ‘An Idea Ahead of its Time: Vernacular-Language Education for Northern Ontario’.]
H.S. Wolfart, Actes du Trente-Septième Congrès des Algonquinistes (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006), xv, 496 pp. Paper. $48. ISSN 0831-5671. { Following a long-standing tradition, this volume—based on the 2005 session of the Algonquian Conference in Gatineau, Québec—is titled and introduced in French (even though all but one of the papers are actually published in English).]
Robert Young and Christian Leuprecht (eds), Canada: the State of the Federation 2004: Municipal-Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006, Canada the State of the Federation Series), 440 pp. Paper. $45. £28.99. ISBN 1-5533-9015-6.

Literature, Criticism and the Arts

John Bell, Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe (Toronto: Dundurn, 2006), 192 pp. 60 illustrations. Cloth. $40. £20. ISBN 1-5500-2659-3.
Heather Burt, Adam’s Peak (Toronto: Dundurn, 2006), 335 pp. Paper. $21.99. ISBN 1-5500-2646-1. [A novel set variously in Montreal, Scotland and Ceylon from the end of WWII to the 1960s]
Colin M. Coates (ed.), Majesty in Canada: Essays on the Role of Royalty (Toronto: Dundurn, 2006), 280 pp. Paper. $36.99. £17. ISBN 1-5500-2586-4.
Leslie Dawn, National Visions, National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), 456 pp. Paper. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1218-4.
Steve Gravestock, Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 200 pp. Paper. $16.95. ISBN 0-9689-1324-5. [Study of the director of 1964 feature film Nobody Waved Goodbye.]
Elaine Keillor, Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 494 pp. Cloth. $54.95. £32. ISBN 0-7735-3012-6. [with a CD of previously unrecorded Canadian music].
Verena Klein, Mothering Her Self (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006), 225 pp. Paper. €23.50. ISBN 9-7838-8476-847-1.
Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor (eds), Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), 343 pp. Cloth. £60. ISBN 978-0-7486-2287-0. Paper. £18. ISBN 978-0-7486-2287-0.
John Miller, A Sharp Intake of Breath (Toronto: Dundurn, 2007), 240 pp. $21.99. ISBN 1-5500-2607-0.
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh, Wilfried von Bredow, Peter Dörrenbächer (eds), Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien: Im Auftrag der Gessellschaft für Kanada-Studien herausgegeben von Vorstand und Beirat, 27. Jahrgang Nr. 1 Band 50 (Augsburg: Wissner-Verlag, 2007), 206 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-3-89639-583-2. ISSN 0944-7008.
Reingard M. Nischik (ed.), The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations (Rochester: Camden House, 2007), 426 pp. Cloth. £45. $75. ISBN 978-1-5711-3127-0.
Christine Wiesenthal, The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 489 pp. Cloth. $65. ISBN 0-8020-3635-X.
Mel Watkins, Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins, edited by Hugh Grant and David Wolfe (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 320 pp. Paper. $29.95. £16.99. ISBN 0-7735-3145-9.


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