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January 2008

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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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