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Please look through all the sections as some books are relevant for more than one discipline.



History
Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie (eds), Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011), 378 pp. Paper. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-1554889471.

Greg Donaghy and Michael K. Carroll (eds), In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), 272 pp. Paper. £29.50. ISBN 978-1-55238-538-8.

Klaus-Dieter Ertler, Stewart Gill, Susan Hodgett and Patrick James (eds), Canadian Studies: The State of the Art/Études canadiennes: Questions de recherches (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011), 542 pp. Cased. £50.30. ISBN 978-3-631-61599-7. [Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the International Council for Canadian Studies, this collection offers an overview of the state of the art in various disciplines in Canadian Studies]

Cornelous J. Jaenen, Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), 348 pp. Paper. £29.50. ISBN 978-1-55238-258-5.

Colonel Bernd Horn, Battle Cries in the Wilderness: The Struggle for North America in the Seven Years’ War (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011), 141 pp. Paper. £12.99. ISBN 978-1-1554889198.

Edward S. Rogers & Donald B. Smith (eds), Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations (Toronto: Ontario Historical Studies Series/Dundurn Press, 2011), 448 pp. Paper. £18.99. ISBN 978-1-55002-230-8.

Ralph Heintzman (ed.), Tom Symons: A Canadian Life (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011), 488 pp. Cased. £25. ISBN 978-0-7766-3043-4.

Therese Jennison and Colleen Lundy, One Hundred Years of Social Work in English Canada, 1900-2000 (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 351 pp. Paper. £25.99. ISBN 978-1-55458-186-3.

Bruce Muirhead and Ronald N. Harpelle, IDRC: 40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010), 373 pp. Paper. £26.99. ISBN 978-1-55458-301-0.

Frances Swyripa, Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010), 296 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-0-88755-191-8. Paper. ISBN 978-0-88755-720-0.

Jerome Teelucksingh, The Lost Gospel: Christianity and Blacks in North America (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 162 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-1-4438-1635-9.

Charmaine A. Nelson (ed.), Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 321 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-1-4438-2564-1.

John Warkentin (ed.), So Vast and So Various: Interpreting Canada’s Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010), 508 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-0-7735-3719-4. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7735-3738-5.

J. F. Bosher, Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950 (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2010), 839 pp. Paper. $23.99. ISBN 978-1-4500-5962-6.

James G. Fergusson, Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence 1954-2009: Déjà-vu All Over Again (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010), 331 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7748-1751-6.

Geo Takach, Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up? (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010), 426 pp. Paper. £21. ISBN 978-0-88864-543-2.

Pauline Greenhill, Make the Night Hideous: Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), 238 pp. Paper. £18. ISBN 978-1-4426-1015-6.

Lynne Stonier-Newman, Peter O’Reilly: The Rise of a Reluctant Immigrant (Victoria, BC: TouchWood Editions, 2010), 280pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN  978-1-926741-04-8.

Walter B. Cheadle, intro by Stephen R. Bown, Cheadle’s Journal of Trip Across Canada, 1862-1863 (Victoria, BC: TouchWood Editions, 2010), 290pp. Paper. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-926741-07-9.

Michael Gnarowski (ed. and intro), Pilgrims of the Wild: Grey Owl (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010), 251 pp. Paper. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-55488-734-7. [Voyageur Classics Series; first published in 1934]

Thomas O. Hueglin, We All Giggled: A Bourgeois Family Memoir (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 228 pp. Paper. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-55458-262-4.


Politics and social sciences
May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, and Sonali Thakkar, Home and Native Land: Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2011), 256 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-1-8970-7161-8.   

Huhua Cao and Vivien Poy (eds) The China Challenge: Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011), 344 pp. Paper. £23. ISBN 978-0-7766-0764-1.

Michelle Gadpaille, ‘As She Should Be’: Codes of Conduct in Early Canadian Women’s Writing (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010), 129 pp. Paper. €25. ISBN 978-3-8253-5556-2.

Ronald N. Harpelle and Bruce Muirhead (eds), Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World: Canada and Research Development (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 228 pp. Paper. £33.50. ISBN 978-0-55458-223-5.

Edgar-André Montigny (ed.), The Real Dope: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 311 pp. Paper. $35. ISBN 978-0-8020-9655-5.

Xavies Gélinas et Lucia Ferretti (eds), Duplessis: son milieu, son époque (Québec: Les éditions du Septentrion, 2010), 520 pp. Paper. $39.95. ISBN 978-2-89448-625-2.

Patrick James, Constitutional Politics in Canada after the Charter (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010), 181 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-0-7748-1786-8. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7748-1787-5.

Lawrence Leduc, Jon H. Pammett, Judith I. McKenzie & André Turcotte, Dynasties and Interludes: Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010), 575 pp. Paper. £23. ISBN 978-1-5548-8796-5.

Afef Benessaieh (ed.), Transcultural Americas (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010), 261 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-2-7603-0721-6.

Bruno Charbonneau and Wayne S. Cox (eds), Locating Global Order: American Power and Canadian Security after 9/11 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010), 354 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-0-7748-1831-5. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7748-1832-2.  

Gary D. Badcock and Darren C. Marks (eds), War, Human Dignity and Nation Building: Theological Perspectives on Canada’s Role in Afghanistan (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 266 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-1-4438-2381-4.

Manon Tremblay, trans. Käthe Roth, Quebec Women and Legislative Representation (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010 – originally published as Québecoises et representation parliamentaire in 2005), 258 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7748-1769-1.

Daniel Coleman and Smaro Kamboureli (eds), Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011), 336 pp. Paper. £30. ISBN 978-0-88864-541-8.

Vera Regan, Isabelle Lemée and Maeve Conrick (eds), Multiculturalism and Integration: Canadian and Irish Experiences (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010), 283 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7766-0722-1.

Bob Rae, Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010), 304 pp. Cased. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-7710-7289-5.

Jenny Kerber, Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010), 276 pp. Cased. $85. ISBN 978-1-55458-218-1.

Robert J. Hoshowsky, Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010), 218 pp. Paper. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-55488-739-2.

Richard Feist, Chantal Beauvais, and Rajesh Shukla (eds), Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010), 184 pp. Paper. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-7766-0716-0.

Karim-Aly Kassam, Understanding Terror: Perspectives for Canadians (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), 263pp. Paper. ISBN 978-1-55238-272-1.


Literature, Criticism and the Arts
Gaëtan Brulotte, La Nouvelle Québécoise (Montreal: Les Éditions Hurtubise, 2010), 335 pp. Paper. $29.95. ISBN 978-2-89647-322-9. [“… le premier ouvrage à proposer un survol historique et critique de ce genre littéraire pratiqué au Québec depuis plus de cent cinquante ans.”]

Barbara M. Freeman, Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 328 pp. Cased.  £70.99. ISBN 978-1-55458-269-3.

Gillian Roberts, Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 272 pp. Cased. $45. ISBN 978-1-4426-4271-3.

Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Nancy van Styvendale, & Cody McCarroll (eds), Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation State (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011), 408 pp. Paper. £24. ISBN 978-0-88864-518-0.

Sheena Wilson (ed.), Joy Kogawa: Essays on Her Works (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2011), 362 pp. Paper. £16.99. ISBN 978-1-55071-311-4.

Ingrid Ruthig (ed.), Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2011), 219 pp. Paper. £16.99. ISBN 978-1-55071-280-3.

Lee Skallerup (ed.), Anne Hébert: Essays on Her Works (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2010), 181 pp. Paper. $20. ISBN 978-1-55071-278-0.

J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson (eds), Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 281 pp. Paper. £33.50. ISBN 978-1-55458-257-0.

Marusya Bociurkiw, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 178 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-1-55458-268-6.

Herb Wylie, Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 279 pp. Paper. £35.99. ISBN 978-1055458-326-3.

Andrea Cabajsky and Brett Josef Grubisic (eds), National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010), 252 pp. Paper. £28.99. ISBN 978-1-55458-061-3.

Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Marian Bredin (eds), Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010), 202 pp. Cased. ISBN 978-0-88755-190-1. Paper. ISBN 978-0-88755-718-7.

Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, and Ezra Winton (eds), Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010), 573 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7735-3663-0.

Gurjinder Basran, Everything was Good-bye: A Novel (Salt Spring Island, BC: Mother Tongue Publishing, 2010), 256 pp. Paper. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-896949-07-9.

Irene Gammel and Benjamin Lefebvre (eds), Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), 263 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-1-4426-1106-1.

Douglas Coupland, PlayerOne: What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2010), 246 pp. Paper. $15.95. 978-0-88784-968-8.

Shirley Chew and Chandani Lokuge (eds.), Michael Ondaatje: Critical Perspectives  (Leeds: University of Leeds School of English Moving Worlds, a journal of transcultural writings, Volume 10 Number 2, 2010), ISSN 1474-4600. [Articles by Catherine Bates, Natalie Diebschlag, Aparna Halpé, Ashley Halpé, Aritha van Herk, Gail Jones, Chandani Lokuge, Milena Marinkova, Jeffrey D. Orr, Gillian Roberts, Roberts J.C. Young]

S. Leigh Matthews, Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History and Identity (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), 418 pp. Paper. £26.99. ISBN 78-1-55238-096-3.

Rudy Wiebe, Collected Stories 1955-2010 (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010), 529 pp. Paper. £26.99. ISBN 978-0-88864-540-1.

Lee Skallerup (ed.), Anne Hébert: Essays on Her Works (Toronto: Guernica Editions Inc, 2010), 181 pp. Paper. £13.50. ISBN 978-1-55071-278-0.

Anthony Wall (ed. and trans.), Words and Images: A French Rendez-vous (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), 251pp. Paper. £23.50. ISBN 978-1-55238-259-2. [“collection of essays dealing with the multifarious ways in which the words and images of art and everyday life interact with one another. They stem for the most part from an international symposium held at the University of Calgary in 2007, and attended by researchers associated with the Research Group ‘Approches pragmatiques en philosophie du langage et en communication’ from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III and the ‘Texts and Images Research Group’ at the University of Calgary.]

Jacques Ferron, trans. and with an afterword by Betty Bednarski, Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other Stories (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010), 273 pp. Paper. $21.95. ISBN 978-0-7710-9404-0.

J. A Wainwright, Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010), 289 pp. Cased. £25.50. ISBN978-1-55458-182-5.

John Leroux, Building a University: The Architecture of UNB (Fredericton, BN: Goose Lane Editions, 2010), 142 pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-86492-623-4.


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