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June 2007

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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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