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British Journal of Canadian Studies
Books Available for Review
June 2008
Reviews Editor: Vivien Hughes, email:
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I am sure there is a book (or books) in this list which is just right for your summer reading! New books are at the head of each section. For further details about any of these books, please get in touch. If you wish to review a recently published book not listed here, do pass on the details and I will try to get it for you. Please look through all the sections as some books are relevant for more than one discipline.
History
Barrington Walker (ed.), The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essential Readings (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2008), 305pp. Paper. £22.99. ISBN 978-1-5513-0340-6.
Patrick Farges, Le Trait d’union ou l’intégration sans l’oubli. Itinéraires d’exilés germanophones au Canada après 1933 (Paris: Dialogiques - Collections du Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA, 2008), 470pp. €26. Paper. ISBN 978-2-7351-1151-0. ) [Le CIERA est un groupement d’intérêt public soutenu par le DAAD et le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, associe La Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme.]
Craig Leslie Mantle (ed.), The Apathetic and the Defiant (Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press, and Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007). 49699. Paper. £28.99. ISBN 978-1-55002-710-5.
Don Bamford, Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 (Toronto: Dundurn National Heritage Books, 2007) 300pp with illustrations. Paper. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-897045-20-6.
Ruth Gorman (edited and with an introduction by Frits Pannekoek), Behind the Man: John Laurie, Ruth Gorman, and the Indian Vote in Canada (Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 2007). 277pp. Paper. £23.50. ISBN 978-1-5523-8218-9.
Robert Bothwell, Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007). Paper. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1369-3, $34.95. [“… the first sustained historical treatment of Canadian foreign policy post-war… also a rumination on the Canadian condition in years of achievement and fragility.” (Norman Hillmer)].
Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale (eds), Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008). Cased. $90. ISBN 978-0-7748-1384-6.
Léon A. Robidoux, The Raftsmen of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue: Shoreline Press, 2008). 195pp. Paper. $22.95. ISBN 978-1-896754-38-3.
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.
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).
Politics and social sciences
Alexander Moens and Martin Collacott (eds), Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States (Fraser Institute, 2008), 237pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-88975-235-1. [This publication arose from a conference held in Toronto in June 2007]
Ryan Edwardson, Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 360pp. Cased. £40. ISBN 0-8020-9759-6. Paper. £18. ISBN 0-8020-9519-4.
Peter Piggott, Canada in Afghanistan: The War So Far (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007). 240pp. Cased. £18. ISBN 978-1-55002-674-0.
Steven Bernstein, Jutta Brunnée, David G. Duff, and Andrew J. Green (eds), A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). 349pp. Paper. £22.50. ISBN 978-0-8020-9596-1.
Paul Heinbecker and Bessma Momani (eds), Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press and The Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2007). 232pp. Paper. £16.50. ISBN 978-1-55458-024-8.
Jennifer Welsh and Ngaire Woods (eds), Exporting Good Governance (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press and The Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2007). 343pp. Paper. £21.99. ISBN 978-1-55458-029-3.
Valerie Knowles, Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006, revised edition (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007). 310pp. Paper. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-55002-698-6.
Bernie Lucht (introduction), The Lost Massey Lectures: J. K. Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Jane Jacobs, Eric W. Kierans, Martin Luther King Jr. (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2007). 399pp. Paper. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-88784-217-7.
Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaelo Iacovino, Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec: Debating Multinationalism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). Paper. £18. ISBN 978-0-8020-9448-3.
Jeremy Leonard, Christopher Ragan, & France St-Hilaire (eds), A Canadian Priorities Agenda: Policy Choices to Improve Economic & Social Wellbeing (Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2007). 573pp. Paper. £27. ISBN 978-0-88645-203-2.
Ian Peach (ed.), Constructing Tomorrow’s Federalism: New Perspectives on Canadian Governance (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007). 252pp. Paper. $27.97. ISBN 978-0-88755-697-5.
Martin Howard (ed.), Intercultural Dialogue: Canada and the Other (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007). 138pp. Paper. $30. ISBN 978-0-7766-0646-0.
Law Commission of Canada (ed.), Indigenous Legal Traditions (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007). 175pp. Paper. $85. ISBN 978-0-7748-1371-6.
Jean McKenzie Leiper, Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006). 242pp. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1320-4.
A. Alan Borovoy, Categorically Incorrect: Ethical Fallacies in Canada’s War on Terror (Toronto:Dundurn Press, 2006). 205pp. Paper. ISBN 978-1-55002-628-3.
Jason Clemens (ed.), The Impact and Cost of Taxation in Canada: The Case for Flat Tax Reform (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2008). 190pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-88975-229-0.
James A. LeClair and Leslie T. Foster (eds), Contemporary Issues in Mental Health: Concepts, Policy, and Practice (Victoria: Western Geographical Press, 2007). 249pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-919838-31-4.
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.
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.]
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.
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.
Literature, Criticism and the Arts
Lynda Jessup, Andrew Nurse, and Gordon E. Smith (eds), Around and About Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture (Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2008), 367pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-660-19775-3. [Marius Barbeau (1883-1969) played a vital role in shaping Canadian culture in the twentieth century
Diamond Jenness and Stuart E. Jenness, Through Darkening Spectacles: Memoirs of Diamond Jenness (Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2008), xxvi + 405pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-660-19802-6. [In 1926 …. Diamond Jenness was appointed Chief of Anthropology at the National Museum of Canada. For the next twenty-two years he sought to expand the Museum’s exhibits, anthropological collections, and reputation, and to improve the recognition, understanding, and living conditions of Canada’s Native Peoples. Almost single-handedly he produced basic publications on Canada’s two Aboriginal peoples: five early Canadian Arctic Expedition volumes on the Inuit in Canada’s Arctic, and The Indians of Canada.]
Gail Vanstone, D is for Daring: The Women behind the Films of Studio D (Toronto: Sumach Press, 2007). 262pp. Paper. ISBN 978-1-894549-67-7.
Elain Kalman Naves, Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2007). 170pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-55065-233-8.
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.
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.
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.]
Marc Charron, Seymour Mayne and Christiane Melançon (eds), Pluriel: Une anthologie des voix/An Anthology of Diverse Voices (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008). 284pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7766-0611-8. Texte en français et en anglais. [“Pluriel provides a composite snapshot, taken from a few particular angles, of the variety of poems written in Canada over the past few decades.”]
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