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From World Order to 

Global Disorder 2 

Awful Splendour 13 

The Ermatingers 22 

An Officer and a Lady 

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Contents 

UBC Press 

Canadian History 1 

Environmental History 13 

Native History 18 

Asian Canadian History 26 

Asian History 30 

Gender and History 34 

Military History 36 

Legal History 44 

Publishers Represented in Canada 

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Manchester University Press 58 

Transaction Publishers 68 

Michigan State University Press 73 

University of Washington Press 74 

Washington State University Press 76 

Oregon State University Press 77 

Left Coast Press 78 

Paradigm Publishers 79 

Other Publishers Represented In Canada 

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Press, Earthscan / James & James, Hong Kong 

University Press, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 

KITLV Press, National Gallery of Australia, 

Oregon State University Press, Paul Holberton 

Publishers, Silkworm Press, University of Arizona 

Press, University of New South Wales, Waanders 

Publishers, Wesleyan University Press 

Publishers Represented Worldwide 

Canadian Forest Service, Laval University Press 

(English Language Books), Sierra Legal Defence 

Fund, Western Geographical Press 

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Alliance and Illusion 

Canada and the World, 1945–1984 

Robert Bothwell 

A book of great sophistication – fluently composed, 

and with flare; wearing its considerable learning 

lightly; and written by an author in full command of 

his field. Not only is it the first sustained historical 

treatment of Canadian foreign policy post-war, but it is 

also a rumination on the Canadian condition in years 

of achievement and fragility, a paradox that Bothwell 

captures brilliantly. Every page crackles with good 

writing and good sense. 

– Norman Hillmer, co-author of Empire to Umpire 

Alliance and Illusion is a political, economic, and 

social history that examines both domestic and international 

aspects of Canadian foreign policy. Robert 

Bothwell provides nuanced studies of Canada’s leaders, 

examining John Diefenbaker’s muddles, Lester 

B. Pearson’s realism, and Pierre Trudeau’s limited 

policy vision. He also discusses international currents 

that drove Canadian external affairs, from American 

influence over Vietnam and the draft dodgers, to the 

French case of de Gaulle’s eruption into Quebec in 

1967. 

Contents 

Chronology; Introduction 

1 Construction and Reconstruction: Canada in 1945 

2 Real Prosperity and Illusory Diplomacy 

3 Realigning Canadian Foreign Policy, 1945–1947 

4 Dividing the World, 1947–1949 

5 Confronting a Changing Asia, 1945–1950 

6 From Korea to the Rhine 

7 The Era of Good Feeling, 1953–1957 

8 Diefenbaker and the Dwindling British Connection 

9 Nuclear Nightmares, 1957–1963 

10 Innocence at Home: Economic Diplomacy in the 1960s 

11 Innocence Abroad: Fumbling for Peace in Indochina 

12 Vietnam and Canadian-American Relations 

13 National Unity and Foreign Policy 

14 Changing the Meaning of Defence 

15 National Security and Social Security 

16 The 1970s Begin 

17 Parallel Lives: Nixon Meets Trudeau 

18 The Pursuit of Promises 

19 Canada First, 1976–1984 

20 Returning to the Centre 

Conclusion: Multilateral by Profession, Muddled by Nature 

Notes; Further Reading and a Note on Sources; Index 

Robert Bothwell is one of Canada’s foremost 

historians and a leading expert on Canadian 

international relations. He holds the May Gluskin 

Chair in Canadian History at the University of 

Toronto, where he is Director of the International 

Relations Program at Trinity College. He is author 

of The New Penguin History of Canada, as well 

as Canada and the United States, Canada and 

Quebec, and The Big Chill. 

2007, 480 pages, 6.5 x 9.5” 

0-7748-1368-7 / 978-0-7748-1368-6 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1369-5 / 978-0-7748-1369-3 

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From World Order to Global Disorder 

States, Markets, and Dissent 

Dorval Brunelle 

Translated by Richard Howard 

The French philosopher and activist, Jean Rostand, 

said: “It is horrible to see everything one detested 

in the past coming back wearing the colours of the 

future.” Dorval Brunelle’s wonderful new book explains 

how economic globalization has erased the international 

consensus for justice that emerged out of the 

horrors of World War II and exposes this new system 

for the regressive force it really is. 

– Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, 

Council of Canadians 

From World Order to Global Disorder demonstrates the 

profound effect of globalization on relations between 

the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective 

and individual rights. As neo-liberalism evolves 

into globalization, governments are eschewing their role 

as public guardians and are instead bartering the very 

assets and resources their citizens’ labour and activism 

created and preserved. However, no constitution makes 

governments owners of collective assets: governments 

are merely trustees. In this context, the world’s citizens 

have a tremendous task before them: in the wake of the 

welfare state, their social forums are indispensable in 

the quest for a more just and equitable world. 

Dorval Brunelle is a professor of sociology 

and Director of the Observatoire des Amériques 

at the Université du Québec à Montréal. 

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2007, 224 pages, 5.5 x 8.5” 

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The authoritative account of the rise of the 

global social justice movement by an ‘insider,” 

who also happens to be one of Canada’s leading 

social scientists. Dorval Brunelle’s book will be 

of interest to political scientists, economists, 

sociologists, and citizens with an appetite to 

discover what lies behind the headlines about 

lost jobs, world trade talks, growing inequalities, 

and popular unrest in much of the world. 

– Duncan Cameron, Associate Publisher 

of rabble.ca 

Contents 

Abbreviations 

Preface 

Introduction 

1 Building the Postwar Order 

2 Welfare States and Social Rights 

3 Internationalism versus Regionalism in the Cold War 

4 Canada and the Cold War: The Shift to Regionalism 

5 Canada-US Free Trade: From the Regional to the Global 

6 Features of a Global Order 

7 Consultation or Contention: Social Movements 

and Globalization 

Conclusion 

Notes; Bibliography; Index 



Domestic Reforms 

Political Visions and Family Regulation in 

British Columbia, 1862–1940 

Chris Clarkson 

This book tells a complicated story of family and welfare 

law reform within the context of British Columbia’s 

transformation from a British colonial enclave to a 

white settler Canadian province. 

– Dorothy E. Chunn, professor of sociology and codirector, 

Feminist Institute for Studies on Law and 

Society, Simon Fraser University 

Domestic Reforms examines the evolution of British 

Columbia’s family and welfare law reform against the 

backdrop of the province’s transformation from a colonial 

enclave to a white settler province. Chris Clarkson 

examines three waves of property, inheritance, and 

maintenance law reform, arguing that each was related 

to a broader political vision intended to precipitate vast 

social and economic effects. He analyzes the impact of 

the legislation, with emphasis on the ambitions of regulated 

populations, the influence of the judiciary, and the 

social and fiscal concerns of generations of legislators 

and bureaucrats. 

Contents 

Acknowledgments 

Abbreviations 

Introduction 

Part 1: The Yeoman Dream 

1 Deserted Wives and Independent Men 

2 Married Women, Country Wives, and Destitute Orphans 

3 Chivalry and the Democratic Judiciary 

Part 2: A Vision of Mutualistic Hierarchy 

4 Creditors’ Rights, the 1887 Married Women’s Property Act, 

and the Emergence of a Liberal Femininity 

Part 3: The Conservation of Child-Life 

5 Maintaining the “Hope of the Race”: Child-Saving in a 

Conservative Era, 1901-15 

6 Child Protection and Women’s Equality in the Liberal Era, 

1916-23 

7 Public Policy, Published Decisions, and Police Courts 

Conclusion 

Notes; Select Bibliography; Index 

Chris Clarkson teaches in the History 

Department at Okanagan College, British 

Columbia. 

2007, 304 pages, 1 table, 6 x 9” 

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Canada and 

the End of Empire 

Edited by Phillip Buckner 

Canada and the End of 

Empire looks at Canadian 

diplomatic relations with 

the United Kingdom and 

the United States, the 

Suez crisis, the changing 

economic relationship with 

Great Britain in the 1950s 

and 1960s, the role of 

educational and cultural 

institutions in maintaining 

the British connection, the 

royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag 

in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating 

the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian 

Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the 

changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship. 

Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view 

the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. 

Canada and the End of Empire challenges this view 

and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in 

Canadian historiography. 

An important addition to the growing canon of empire 

studies and imperial history, this book will be of 

interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to 

scholars and students interested in the relationship 

between colonialism and nationalism. 

Contributors 

Andrea Benvenuti and Stuart Ward; P.E. Bryden; Lorraine 

Coops; John Darwin; R. Douglas Francis; John Hilliker and 

Greg Donaghy; José E. Igartua; Gregory A. Johnson; Steve 

Koerner; J.R. (Jim) Miller; Marc Milner; Bruce Muirhead; 

George Richardson; Tim Rooth; Paul Rutherford; Allan Smith; 

and Gordon T. Stewart 

2004, 334 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0915-9 / 978-0-7748-0915-3 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-0916-7 / 978-0-7748-0916-0 paper $32.95 

Canada and 

the British World 

Culture, Migration, and Identity 

Edited by Phillip Buckner and 

R. Douglas Francis 

In the decades following 

the Second World War, 

a revolutionary change 

took place in the Canadian 

national identity. The 

English-Canadian majority 

entered this period identifying 

themselves as British 

and emerged from it with 

a new, independent sense 

of themselves as purely 

Canadian. Assured of their 

unique place in the world, Canadians can now reflect 

on the legacies and lessons of their British colonial 

past. 

Canada and the British World surveys Canada’s 

national history through a British lens. In a series of 

essays focusing on the social, cultural, and intellectual 

aspects of Canadian identity over more than a century, 

the complex and evolving relationship between 

Canada and the larger British World is revealed. 

Examining the transition from the strong belief of 

nineteenth-century Canadians in the British character 

of their country to the realities of modern multicultural 

Canada, this book eschews nostalgia in its endeavour 

to understand the dynamic and complicated society in 

which Canadians did and do live. 

Candid and ambitious, Canada and the British World 

is recommended reading for historians and scholars 

of colonialism and nationalism, as well as anyone 

interested in what it really means to be Canadian. 

2006, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

1 table 

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0-7748-1306-7 / 978-0-7748-1306-8 paper $34.95 

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From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration 

was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, 

the media, and an array of interest groups viewed 

it as essential to nation building, developing the economy, 

and shaping Canada’s social and cultural character. 

One of the groups most determined to influence public 

debate and government policy on the issue was organized 

labour, and unionists were often relentless critics 

of immigrant recruitment. Guarding the Gates is the first 

detailed study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to 

immigration, a key battleground in struggles between 

different political factions within the labour movement. 

Guarding the Gates provides new insights into labour, 

immigration, social, and political history. It will be valuable 

not only to readers interested in the internal politics 

of social movements, but to everyone concerned with 

long-standing debates about Canadian national identity, 

and gender, ethnic, and race relations. 


Guarding the Gates 

The Canadian Labour Movement and 

Immigration, 1872–1934 

David Goutor 

Contents 

Illustrations; Acknowledgments 

Part 1: Issues and Arguments 

1 Guarding the Gates 

2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in 

Canada, 1872–1934 

Part 2: Labour’s Anti–Asian Agitation 

3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 

1880–87 

4 The “Old Time Question”: The Campaign for Exclusion, 

1888–1934 

Part 3: Labour and Atlantic Immigration 

5 Superfluous People: Labour’s Construction of Immigrants 

from Europe and the British Isles 

6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of 

Immigration 

Part 4: Immigration, Ideology, and Politics 

7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 

1872–79 

8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880–1902 

9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 

1903–34 

Conclusion 


David Goutor is a Canadian historian and 

an assistant professor in the Labour Studies 

Programme at McMaster University. 

2007, 288 Pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1364-4 / 978-0-7748-1364-8 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1365-2 / 978-0-7748-1365-5 


Guarding the Gates provides intriguing historical 

insight into one of Canada’s most pressing 

contemporary social issues. Anyone interested 

in immigration, the labour market, multiculturalism, 

or racism will benefit from reading this 

thought-provoking book. 

– Gregory S. Kealey, Founding Editor of 

Labour/Le Travail and author of Workers and 

Canadian History 


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Nutrition Policy in Canada, 

1870–1939 

Aleck S. Ostry 

Capital and Labour in the 

British Columbia Forest 

Industry, 1934–74 

Gordon Hak 


1870–1939 examines the 

beginnings and early evolution 

of nutrition policy developments, 

mainly at the 

federal level, from the late 

nineteenth century to the 

beginning of the Second 

World War. It outlines the 

development of a national 

system of food safety and 

surveillance, the federal 

government’s early policy focus on infant feeding, and 

the factors leading to the establishment of a national 

dietary standard. 

Aleck Ostry surveys these early developments in 

the context of changing food security concerns, 

particularly during the challenging economic times of 

the 1930s, when, paradoxically, the health status of 

the population improved dramatically in spite of widespread 

hardship. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Establishing a Food Surveillance System in Canada 

2 Infant Mortality, Malnutrition, and Social Reform Prior to 

the First World War 

3 The Medical Profession and Infant Feeding to the 1920s 

4 Cow’s Milk: A New Image for the 1920s 

5 The First National Infant Feeding Guidelines in Canada 

6 Food Safety and Marketing and the Role of the Medical 

Profession in Dispensing Nutritional Advice in the 1930s 

7 Food Security during the Depression 

8 Mortality from Nutritional Deficiency Diseases during 

the Depression 

9 The Canadian Council on Nutrition and the First National 

Dietary Standard 

10 Discussion and Conclusions 

References; Index 

2006, 150 pages, 6 x 9” 

9 figures, 6 tables 

0-7748-1327-X / 978-0-7748-1327-3 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1328-8 / 978-0-7748-1328-0 paper $34.95 

The history of British 

Columbia’s economy 

in the 20th century is 

inextricably bound to the 

development of the forest 

industry. In this comprehensive 

study, Gordon 

Hak approaches this link 

from the perspective of 

workers and employers 

in the industry, examining 

the two main institutions 

that structured this relationship during the Fordist 

era: the companies and the unions. 

Hak investigates the broad relationship between 

capital and labour in a historical context, focusing 

on the corporations and their employees, but also 

taking account of the roles played by the state and 

environmental organizations. Drawing on theories 

of Fordism, the labour process, and discursive 

subjectivity, he relates daily routines of production 

and profit-making to broader forces of unionism, 

business ideology, ecological protest, technological 

change, and corporate concentration. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Companies, Markets, and Production Facilities 

2 The State, Sustained Yield, and Small Operators 

3 Establishing Unions 

4 Union Politics 

5 The Daily Grind: Capital and Labour in the Era of the 

Collective Agreement 

6 Technology 

7 Companies and Unions Meet the Environmental 

Movement 

Final Remarks 


2006, 272 pages, 6 x 9” 

2 maps, 2 tables, 20 b/w photos 

0-7748-1307-5 / 978-0-7748-1307-5 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1308-3 / 978-0-7748-1308-2 paper $29.95 

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The Other Quiet Revolution 

National Identities in English 

Canada, 1945–71 

José E. Igartua 

In the twenty years following 

the Second World War, 

dominant representations 

of Canadian identity in 

anglophone public discourse 

underwent a deep 

transformation. Notions of 

Canadian identity based 

on British ethnic roots 

gave way to a civic-based 

concept of equality. The 

Other Quiet Revolution 

traces this transformation, which underscored the 

formation of Canadian nationhood, including the 

adoption of the Charter of Rights. 

The decade that followed, however, brought struggles 

with bilingualism and biculturalism as well as 

Quebec’s constitutional demands, which helped 

to popularize a new “civic” approach to national 

identity in anglophone Canada – one that embraced 

accommodation, pluralism, diversity, and openness. 

As English Canada reshaped its self-image, Igartua 

argues, the British definition of Canada dissolved and 

gave rise to an identity based on civic mores that 

were no longer linked to a British reference. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 “Being of the Breed” 

2 The boundaries of Canadian citizenship 

3 Values, memories, symbols, myths, and traditions 

4 “This Nefarious Work” 

5 “When Tories Roar” 

6 “Predominantly of British origin” 

7 “Bewailing Their Loss” 

8 The End of Two Nations 

9 Conclusion 


2006, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

2 figures, 1 table, 4 b/w illustrations 

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0-7748-1091-2 / 978-0-7748-1091-3 paper $34.95 

National Visions, 

National Blindness 

Canadian Art and Identities in 

the 1920s 

Leslie Dawn 

In the 1920s a complex set 

of relationships linked the 

construction of a unified 

Canadian identity to the 

imperial centre (England), 

to the depiction of the 

landscape as an imagined 

national geography in the 

works of the Group of 

Seven, and to the image of 

the “Indian” as a disappearing 

race. 

Using new archival evidence, he reverses many 

of the conventional perceptions of the Group as 

a national school, and shows how, in a series of 

international exhibitions held in London and Paris, 

conflicts arose between their unpeopled landscapes 

and the presence of Northwest Coast Native peoples 

and arts. Tracing this conflicted history through two 

state-sponsored programs among the Gitxsan people 

of the Upper Skeena River to the landmark 1927 

exhibition which brought these elements all together 

and staged the “discovery” of Emily Carr, Dawn 

shows how these programs ultimately failed, but at 

the same time opened the door to other directions. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Canadian Art in England 

2 England in Canadian Art 

3 Canadian Art in Paris 

4 Canadian Primitives in Paris 

5 Barbeau and Kihn with the Stoney in Alberta 

6 Barbeau and Kihn with the Gitxsan in British Columbia 

7 Giving Gitxsan Totem Poles a New Slant 

8 Representing and Repossessing the Skeena Valley 

9 West Coast Art, Native and Modern 

10 The Downfall of Barbeau 

11 Revisiting Carr 

Conclusion 

Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index 

2006, 456 pages, 6 x 9” 

26 b/w photos 

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The Middle Power Project 

Canada and the Founding of the 

United Nations 

Adam Chapnick 

Shortlisted for the 2005 

Dafoe Book Prize, 

awarded by the JW Dafoe 

Foundation. 

During the Second World 

War, Canada transformed 

itself from British dominion 

to self-proclaimed 

middle power. It became 

an active and enthusiastic 

participant in the creation 

of one of the longest-lasting global institutions of 

recent times: the United Nations. This was, in many 

historians’ opinions, the beginning of a golden age of 

Canadian diplomacy.. 

Contents 

1 Introduction 

2 Two Steps Behind (Beginnings through January 1942) 

3 Private Failure: Canada and the UNRRA (January 

1942–November 1943) 

4 Public Success: Canada and the New Internationalism 

(January 1942–November 1943) 

5 Canada, the British Commonwealth, and the New World 

Order (February 1943–March 1944) 

6 Forked Roads (November 1943–July 1944) 

7 Disappointment at Dumbarton Oaks (April–October 

1944) 

8 Middle Power Politics (October 1944–April 1945) 

9 The Public Road to San Francisco (October 1944– 

April 1945) 

10 Growing Up: Canada at San Francisco (April–June 1945) 

11 Shaping History (June–October 1945) 

Epilogue: Cherishing Illusions 


2005, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

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0-7748-1248-6 / 978-0-7748-1248-1 paper $32.95 

The Heiress vs the 

Establishment 

Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for 

Legal Justice 

Constance Backhouse and 

Nancy L. Backhouse 

Constance and Nancy 

Backhouse have given a 

new life to this extraordinary 

story of a woman, 

raised in the elite society 

of Ontario, who represented 

herself in a bitter 

legal battle and became 

the first woman to argue 

before the Privy Council 

in London. The authors’ 

meticulous and thoughtful 

treatment of Mrs. 

Campbell’s first-person 

account brings out multiple layers of insight on the 

legal profession, gender boundaries, and the fate of 

self-represented litigants. 

– Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada 

Contents 

Preface / The Hon. Sydney M. Harris 


Cast of Characters 

Introduction 

Where Angels Fear to Tread 

Prologue 

Book One, The Lost Will 

Book Two, The Plundered Estate 

Book Three, Counsel Lay Down Their Brief 

Book Four, My Struggle for England 

Book Five, Downing Street: The Privy Council 

Epilogue 

Appendix: Sequence of Legal Proceedings 

Notes; Index 

2004, 344 pages, 6 x 9” 

36 b/w illustrations 

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Historicizing Canadian 

Anthropology 

Edited by Julia Harrison and 

Regna Darnell 

Do Glaciers Listen? 

Local Knowledge, Colonial 

Encounters, and Social Imagination 

Julie Cruikshank 

A major contribution 

to the field. Until now, 

the literature has been 

sparsely populated, so 

this volume is a landmark. 

It is absolutely unique in 

its scope, and will attract 

Canadian anthropologists 

and others interested 

in the history of and the 

social sciences generally 

in Canada. 

– Jennifer Brown, co-editor 

of Reading Beyond Words: 

Contexts for Native History 

This comprehensive history of Canadian anthropology, 

written by an expert group of authors, will form 

the foundation for future developments in the field. 

I strongly recommend it as an important text for 

undergraduates and graduate students. 

– Richard Preston, author of Cree Narrative: 

Expressing the Personal Meanings of Events 

Historicizing Canadian Anthropology is a watershed 

that will revitalize critical reflexivity within the field. 

With contributions from a broad cross-section of anthropologists 

– from senior scholars to doctoral students 

– this book is essential reading for practising 

Canadian anthropologists, their students, and others 

who seek to understand the historical contours of 

the field. 


Julia Harrison; Regna Darnell; Michael Ames; Vered Amit; 

Colin Buchanan; Penny van Esterik; Nelson Graburn; 

Michelle Hamilton; Robert Hancock; Brian McKillop; Kathy 

M’closkey and Kevin Manuel; David Nock; Andrew Nurse; 

Evie Plaice; Richard Pope; Josephine Smart and Alan Smart; 

Marc Adélard Tremblay; Jim Waldram and Pam Downe; Elvi 

Whittaker and David Howes; and Cory Willmott 

2006, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1272-9 / 978-0-7748-1272-6 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1273-7 / 978-0-7748-1273-3 paper $34.95 

Cruikshank’s book is 

sophisticated, rigorous, 

and exciting. Its pages 

brim with nuanced takes 

on epistemology, sensitive 

descriptions of ice, 

and rigorous analyses 

of cultural interactions. 

This is indeed a tour de 

force in interdisciplinary 

studies. 

– Eric G. Wilson, Wake 

Forest University, American 

Historical Review 

Do Glaciers Listen? is the Winner of the Canadian 

Historical Association’s 2007 Clio Award for 

books on the Northern region; the Society for Humanistic 

Anthropology’s 2006 Victor Turner Prize 

in Ethnographic Writing; and the American Anthropological 

Association’s 2006 Julian Steward Award. 

Contents 

List of Illustrations 


Introduction: The Stubborn Particularities of Voice 

Part 1: Matters of Locality 

1 Memories of the Little Ice Age 

2 Constructing Life Stories: Glaciers as Social Spaces 

3 Listening for Different Stories 

Part 2: Practices of Exploration 

4 Two Centuries of Stories from Lituya Bay: Nature, 

Culture, and La Pérouse 

5 Bringing Icy Regions Home: John Muir in Alaska 

6 . Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the Congo 

Part 3: Scientific Research in Sentient Places 

7 Mapping Boundaries: From Stories to Borders 

8 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories 


2005, 328 pages, 6 x 9” 

23 b/w photos, 10 maps 

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0-7748-1187-0 / 978-0-7748-1187-3 

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CCF Colonialism in 

Northern Saskatchewan 

Battling Parish Priests, Bootleggers, 

and Fur Sharks 

David M. Quiring 

Until the 1940s churches, 

fur traders, and other 

wealthy outsiders held 

uncontested control over 

Saskatchewan’s northern 

region. Following its rise 

to power in 1944, the CCF 

undertook aggressive 

efforts to unseat these 

traditional powers and 

to install a new socialist 

economy and society in 

largely Aboriginal northern communities. The next 

two decades brought major changes to the region 

as well-meaning government planners grossly 

misjudged the challenges that confronted the north 

and failed to implement programs that would meet 

northern needs. As the CCF’s efforts to modernize 

and assimilate northern people met with frustration, 

it was the northern people themselves that inevitably 

suffered from the fallout of this failure. 

In an elegantly written history that documents the 

colonial relationship between the CCF and the 

Saskatchewan north, David M. Quiring draws on 

extensive archival research and oral history to offer 

a fresh look at the CCF era. This examination will find 

a welcome audience among historians of the north, 

Aboriginal scholars, and general readers. 

Contents 

Introduction 

Part 1: At the Crossroads 

Part 2: Building the Colonial Structure 

Part 3: The Segregated Economy 

Part 4: Poverty-Stricken and Disease-Ridden 

Epilogue We Will Measure Our Success 

Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index 

2004, 376 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0938-8 / 978-0-7748-0938-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-0939-6 / 978-0-7748-0939-9 paper $29.95 

Northern Exposures 

Photographing and Filming the 

Canadian North, 1920–45 

Peter Geller 

This book examines the 

photographic and film 

practice of the Canadian 

government, the Anglican 

Church of Canada, and the 

Hudson’s Bay Company, 

the three major colonial 

institutions involved in the 

Arctic and Subarctic. In the 

first half of the twentieth 

century, visual representations 

of the region were 

widely circulated in official publications and presented 

in film shows. Geller reveals the varied ways in 

which taking and displaying pictures of northern people 

and places contributed to the extension of control 

over the northern reaches of the Canadian nation. 

Northern Exposures contributes to understandings 

of twentieth-century visual culture and the relationship 

between photographic ways of seeing and the 

expansion of colonial power, while raising important 

questions about the role of visual representation in 

understanding the past. 

Contents 

1 Taking Pictures and Making History: Photographic 

Representation and the Canadian North 

2 More Than “A Mass of Ice and Snow”: Visualizing the 

State in “Canada’s Arctic” 

3 Pictures of the “Arctic Night”: Archibald Lang Fleming 

and Missionary Messages of the North 

4 The Business of Representing the North: Filmmakers, 

Photographers, and the Fur Traders of the Hudson’s 

Bay Company 

5 From Back to Baffin to Canada Moves North: Richard 

Finnie’s Northern Visions 

6 “Re-Making It Into Here”: Representation and Power in 

Northern Imagery 

Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index 

2004, 280 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-0927-2 / 978-0-7748-0927-6 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-0928-0 / 978-0-7748-0928-3 paper $32.95 

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A History of Migration 

from Germany to Canada, 

1850-1939 

Jonathan Wagner 

A very important book 

– the first, in fact, looking 

at this subject. The narrative 

is clearly written 

and it would interest both 

those studying immigration 

and ethnic history, as 

well as the German-Canadian 

reading public. 

– Alexander Freund, 

Chair, German-Canadian 

Studies, University of 

Winnipeg 

While much has been written about Canada’s multicultural 

heritage, little attention has been paid to 

German migrants although they compose Canada’s 

third largest European ethnic minority. 

A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 

1850-1939 addresses that gap in the record. 

Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their 

home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, 

who assisted their passage, and how they crossed 

the ocean to their new home, as well as how the 

Canadian government perceived and solicited 

them as immigrants. He examines the German 

context as closely as developments in Canada, 

offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian 

immigration. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Migration in the 1850s and 1860s 

2 Migration in the Age of Bismarck and Macdonald, 1870- 

90 

3 Migration in the Generation before the Great War, 1890- 

1914 

4 Interwar Migration, 1919-1939 

Conclusion 


Negotiating Identities in 

19th and 20th Century 

Montreal 

Edited by Bettina Bradbury and 

Tamara Myers 

Negotiating Identities 

presents a colourful 

tapestry of Montreal’s 

social history in essays 

that respond sensitively 

to issues of class, gender, 

age, religion, and 

culture... These studies 

enrich our knowledge of 

one of Canada’s great 

cities and raise questions 

that warrant investigation 

in other urban contexts. 

– Judith Fingard, co-editor 

of Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, 

and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax 

Negotiating Identities in 19th and 20th Century 

Montreal illuminates the cultural complexity and 

richness of a modernizing city and its people. 

Readers will discover the links between identity, 

place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant 

women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the 

Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, 

reformers, notaries, and social workers, among 

others. This fascinating study explores the intersections 

of state, people, and the voluntary sector 

to elucidate the processes that took people 

between homes and cemeteries, between families 

and shops, and onto the streets. 


Mary Anne Poutanen; Darcy Ingram; Anna Shea and 

Suzanne Morton; Brian Young; Marie-Eve Harbec; Karine 

Hébert; Sylvie Taschereau; and Jarrett Rudy 

2005, 328 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1197-8 / 978-0-7748-1197-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1198-6 / 978-0-7748-1198-9 paper $32.95 

2005, 296 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1215-X / 978-0-7748-1215-3 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1216-8 / 978-0-7748-1216-0 paper $32.95 



River of Memory 

The Everlasting Columbia 

William D. Layman 

Vanishing British Columbia 

Michael Kluckner 

The Columbia River 

of today bears little 

resemblance to the 

river Native Americans, 

First Nations, 

and settlers knew in 

the early twentieth 

century. Engineering 

has transformed 

much of the river into a series of large reservoirs 

contained by fourteen hydroelectric dams. While 

many grieved the loss of the free-flowing river, others 

embraced a newly tamed waterway that could control 

floods, irrigate desert lands, and supply electrical 

power for the growing region. 

River of Memory honours a place and time now 

gone from view. It restores an unfettered Columbia 

through more than ninety historical photographs that 

capture the river as it once appeared. This extraordinary 

visual record is accompanied by the words 

of early explorers, surveyors, and naturalists who 

wrote about specific places along the river and by 

the work of contemporary Canadian and American 

writers and poets. 

Contents 

Foreword 

Introduction 

1 The Mouth of the Columbia to Celilo Falls 

2 Celilo Falls to Snake River 

3 Snake River to the International Boundary 

4 International Boundary to Columbia Lake 


Credits; Acknowledgments 

2006, 168 pages, 11 x 9” 

130 colour and duotone illustrations 

0-7748-1303-2 / 978-0-7748-1303-7 paper $29.95 

The old buildings and 

historic places of 

British Columbia form 

a kind of “roadside 

memory,” a tangible 

link with stories of 

settlement, change, 

and abandonment 

that reflect the great 

themes of our history. 

With small towns 

declining and old rural 

properties changing, so little of the history of these 

places has been recorded in museums or archives, 

and so much of it may disappear as families disperse 

and memories dim. 

The study of roadside memory demonstrates the 

visceral connection that people, especially those 

who are part of the rural-to-urban diaspora of modern 

times, have for the sites of their family memories. 

On a grander scale this approach leads to a 

broader understanding of more abstract historical 

themes and of the province’s history and culture. It 

also presents a compelling argument for stewardship 

of regional history in the face of urbanization 

and globalization. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Themes & Variations 

2 Southwestern Mainland 

3 Hope-Princeton & Tulameen 

4 The Okanagan; Boundary Country 

5 The Kootenays 

6 Fraser-Thompson-Shuswap 

7 Vancouver Island 

8 The Cariboo & the Chilcotin 

9 The Nort 

10 The Future 

Painting Notes; Additional Notes & Acknowledgments; 

Bibliography; Index 

224 pages, 8.5 x 11” 

220 colour illus., 130 b/w illus., 22 maps 

0-7748-1125-0 / 978-0-7748-1125-5 cloth $49.95 

0-7748-1126-9 / 978-0-7748-1126-2 paper $39.95 

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UBC Press / Environmental History 

Awful Splendour 

A Fire History of Canada 

Stephen J. Pyne 

Another blockbuster from one of the world’s foremost 

environmental historians. Pyne is a master of rich detail 

married to grand narrative, and Canada provides a 

huge subject worthy of those talents. He portrays that 

great northern country in all of its ecological complexity 

and then shows how a complex political entity of 

nation and province interacted to forge policy. This 

book sets a new standard for all future writing about 

Canadian lands and peoples. 

– Donald Worster, author, Nature’s Economy: 

A History of Ecological Ideas 

Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With 

few exceptions, Canada’s forests and prairies have 

evolved with fire; its peoples have exploited fire and 

sought to protect themselves from its excesses; and 

since Confederation, the country has devised institutions 

to connect fire and society. Awful Splendour narrates 

the history of this grand saga. 

Fire remains a vital presence in the boreal environment. 

How Canadians have chosen to relate to it says a great 

deal about their national character. Awful Splendour will 

interest geographers, historians, and members of the 

fire community. 

Contents 

Author’s note: A Boreal Burning Bush 

Prologue: White Canada 

Book 1: Torch 

Book 2: Axe 

With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind 

“Burning Most Furiously” 

Book 3: Engine 

Dominion of Fire: Canada’s Quest for Fire Conservancy 

Sea and Shield: Fire Provinces of Eastern Canada 

Fire’s Lesser Dominion 

Plain and Mountain: Fire Provinces of Western Canada 

Revanchism and Federalism 

Fire’s Outer Limits: Fire Provinces on the Fringe 

Epilogue: Green Canada 

Notes 

Bibliographic Essay 

Index 

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the School of 

Life Sciences at Arizona State University. 

October 2007 

450 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

Approx. 32 b/w photos, 6 maps 

0-7748-1391-1 / 978-0-7748-1391-4 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1392-X / 978-0-7748-1392-1 

paper $34.95 (publishing July 2008) 

NATURE | HISTORY | SOCIETY SERIES 


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Creating a Modern 

Countryside 

Liberalism and Land Resettlement 

in British Columbia 

James Murton 

Exceptionally well-written. 

This book makes a very 

significant contribution 

indeed to environmental 

history, BC history, and 

intellectual history. 

– Barry Ferguson, author 

of Remaking Liberalism 

In the early 1900s, British 

Columbia embarked on 

a brief but intense effort, 

with long consequences, 

to manufacture a modern countryside. For the first 

time, the state directly intervened in planning and 

implementing land settlement. Creating a Modern 

Countryside examines how this process unfolded 

and assesses its consequences. 

Contents 

Introduction 

Part 1: A Modern Countryside 

1 Liberalism and the Land 

2 Soldiers, Science, and an Alternative Modernity 

Part 2: Where Apples Grow Best 

3 Stump Farms: Soldier Settlements at Merville 

4 Creating Order at Sumas 

5 Achieving the Modern Countryside 

Part 3: Back to Work 

6 Pattullo’s New Deal 

Conclusion 

Appendix 


2007, 280 Pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1337-7 / 978-0-7748-1337-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1338-5 / 978-0-7748-1338-9 



The Archive of Place 

Unearthing the Pasts of 

the Chilcotin Plateau 

William J. Turkel 

William Turkel’s great 

achievement in this book 

is to show how once takenfor-granted 

accounts of 

geophysical processes, 

Aboriginal occupancy, and 

colonial settler society 

have now come to underpin 

sharply conflicting 

understandings of history. 

– Julie Cruikshank, author, 


This book weaves together 

a series of narratives about environmental history in 

British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau. In the 1990s, the 

Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. 

Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate 

of the region, invoked different understandings of its 

past – and different types of evidence – to justify their 

actions. Turkel uses these controversies as case studies 

to examine how people interpret material traces to 

reconstruct past events, the conditions under which 

such interpretation takes place, and the role that this 

interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social 

memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that 

extends the span of conventional historical research. 

Contents 

Foreword: Putting Things in Their Place / Graeme Wynn 

Preface; Acknowledgments 

Part 1: Deep Time in the Present 

Part 2: The Horizon of Experience 

Part 3: Shadowed Ground 

Afterword 

Appendices 

A Glacial Time 

B Geological Time 

Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index 

Spring 2007, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

3 maps, 1 figure 

0-7748-1376-8 / 978-0-7748-1376-1 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1377-6 / 978-0-7748-1377-8 



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Hunters at the Margin 

Native People and Wildlife 

Conservation in the Northwest 

Territories 

John Sandlos 

With deft prose and an 

array of revealing case 

studies, John Sandlos 

presents a powerful 

new interpretation of 

Canada’s conservation 

policies in the Northwest 

Territories. Hunters at 

the Margin could not be 

more central to current 

efforts to rethink the 

histories of nature and 

Native peoples alike. 

– Karl Jacoby, author of Crimes Against Nature 

Hunters at the Margin draws on themes from 

Canadian, environmental, and ecological history, 

Northern studies, and Native studies to illuminate 

the intersection between the discourse of wildlife 

conservation and the expansion of state power in 

northern Canada. 

Contents 

Maps, Tables, Figures 

Foreword: The Enigmatic North / Graeme Wynn 

Preface 

Introduction: Wildlife and Canadian History 

Part 1: Bison 

1 Making Space for Wood Bison 

2 Control on the Range 

3 Pastoral Dreams 

Part 2: Muskox 

4 The Polar Ox 

Part 3: Caribou 

5 La Foule! La Foule! 

6 To Save the Wild Caribou 

7 The Caribou Crisis 

Conclusion, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index 

2007, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1362-8 / 978-07748-1362-4 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1363-6 / 978-07748-1363-1 



Hunting for Empire 

Narratives of Sport in 

Rupert’s Land, 1840–70 

Greg Gillespie 

This work provides an 

innovative examination of 

material not often covered 

in Canadian historiography. 

It brings together 

approaches and questions 

from sport history and 

cultural history … By 

situating the discussion so 

effectively in the context 

of current work in cultural 

history, the manuscript 

provides an excellent way 

of encouraging readers to 

examine published materials in a new light. 

– Colin Coates, Canada Research Chair in Cultural 

Landscapes, York University 

Despite Canada’s vast wilderness and outdoor 

heritage, the history of sport hunting remains at the 

periphery of academic thought. Hunting for Empire 

writes sport hunting into Canadian scholarship and 

provides a starting point for further study. 

Hunting for Empire offers a cultural history of sport 

and imperialism as revealed through 19th-century 

British big-game hunting and exploration narratives 

from the western interior of Rupert’s Land. Greg 

Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural 

history, cultural studies, literary criticism, and 

cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, 

sport, science, and nature. Blending these 

interdisciplinary perspectives, he produces a unique 

theoretical lens to study narratives of early imperial 

sport hunting that prevailed before the rise of western 

Canada’s hunting tourism industry in the late 19th 

century. 

October 2007, 176 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1354-7 / 978-0-7748-1354-9 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1355-5 / 978-0-7748-1355-6 




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The Culture of Flushing 

A Social and Legal History of 

Sewage 

Jamie Benidickson 

States of Nature 

Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the 

Twentieth Century 

Tina Loo 

Benidickson does a fine 

job of comparing issues 

across national borders, 

and is one of only a very 

few studies that integrates 

English, American, 

and Canadian experiences.This 

is a very good 

synthesis of an important 

topic that should be of 

interest to scholars in 

many fields and to people 

in many walks of life. 

– Martin V. Melosi, author, Effluent America and 

The Sanitary City 

To most, the flush of a toilet seems a routine motion 

to banish waste and ensure cleanliness: safe, efficient, 

necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. 

However, this social and legal history of sewage 

in Canada, the US, and the UK demonstrates that the 

uncontroversial reputation of flushing is deceptive. In 

a time when community water quality can no longer 

be taken for granted, this book is particularly relevant, 

as it delves into and clarifies the murky issues 

surrounding the evolution of the culture of flushing. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 The Advantage of a Flow of Water 

2 Navigating Aquatic Priorities 

3 A Source of Civic Pride 

4 The Water Closet Revolution 

5 Municipal Evacuation 

6 Learning to Live Downstream 

7 The Bacterial Assault on Local Government 

8 The Dilutionary Impulse at Chicago 

9 Separating Water from the Waterways 

10 Streams are Nature’s Sewers 

11 Riparian Resurrection 

12 Governing Water 

Conclusion: Water Quality and the Future of Flushing 

2006, 368 pages, 12 b/w illustrations, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1291-5 / 978-0-7748-1291-7 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1292-3 / 978-0-7748-1292-4 



Loo uses the history of 

Canadian wildlife conservation 

as a lens through 

which to view the changing 

attitude of Canadians 

to wildlife in the twentieth 

century… It is this kind of 

reassessment that makes 

States of Nature such 

a welcome addition to 

the literature on wildlife 

conservation 

– Bill Waiser, The Beaver 

Winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s 

2007 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. 

States of Nature traces the social, political, and historical 

roots of Canadian wildlife conservation. While 

noting the influence of celebrity conservationists 

such as Jack Miner and Grey Owl, Tina Loo emphasizes 

the impact of ordinary people on the evolution 

of wildlife management in Canada. She also explores 

the elements leading up to the emergence of the 

modern environmental movement, ranging from the 

reliance on and practical knowledge of wildlife demonstrated 

by rural people to the more aloof and scientific 

approach of state-sponsored environmentalism. 

Contents 

Preface / Graeme Wynn 

Introduction 

1 Wild by Law: Animals, People, and the State to 1945 

2 Make Way for Wildlife: Colonization, Resistance, and 

Transformation 

3 The Dominion of Father Goose: Local Knowledge and 

Wildlife Conservation 

4 The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Conservation 

5 Buffalo Burgers and Reindeer Steaks: Government 

Wildlife Conservation in Postwar Canada 

6 Predators and Postwar Conservation 

7 From Wildlife to Wild Places 

Conclusion; Photo essay; Bibliography; Index 

2006, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

35 b/w photos, 1 map 

0-7748-1289-3 / 978-0-7748-1289-4 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1290-7 / 978-0-7748-1290-0 paper $29.95 


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Shaped by the West Wind 

Nature and History in Georgian Bay 

Claire Elizabeth Campbell 

Culture of Hunting in Canada 

Edited by Jean Manore and Dale 

Miner 

Campbell gives a wellreasoned 

and reflective 

yet unromanticized account 

of a place that has 

captivated many people 

for centuries (herself and 

myself included). Her 

prose is crisp and fluid, 

and the book is a true 

pleasure to read. 

– Nik Luka, University of 

Toronto Quarterly 

This is not a narrowly 

conceived local history but a focused argument 

about how places take on shifting cultural meanings 

over time. Claire Elizabeth Campbell argues that 

the environment of Georgian Bay is not simply 

an imagined geography but has been created 

through an active engagement between cultural 

readings and physical circumstances. Shaped 

by the West Wind speaks to a wide variety of 

disciplines including geography, art and design, 

literary criticism, environmental studies, and public 

history. It will appeal to anyone interested in the 

environmental dimensions of Canadian history. 

Contents 

Foreword: Of Canoes and Pines and Rock-Bound Gardens / 

Graeme Wynn 

Introduction: Writing a History of Place 

1 “What word of this curious country”: Surveying the 

Historical Landscape 

2 “A Region of Importance”: Industry and Land Use 

3 “A Vivid Reminder of a Vanished Era”: Imagining Natives 

and History in a Terre Sauvage 

4 Rocks and Reefs: The Culture of an Inland Sea 

5 “Our Dear North Country”: Developing a Sense of Place 

6 “Some Proper Rule”: Managing and Protecting 

Georgian Bay 

Conclusion Listening to the Bay 


2004, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1098-X / 978-0-7748-1098-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1099-8 / 978-0-7748-1099-9 paper $32.95 

The Culture of Hunting in 

Canada is about a pivotal 

but little studied aspect of 

Canadian history, culture, 

and society. It covers 

elements of the history of 

hunting from the pre-colonial 

period until the present 

in all parts of Canada, 

featuring essays by practitioners 

and scholars of 

hunting and by pro- and 

anti-hunting lobbyists. The result crosses the boundaries 

between scholarship and personal reflection, and 

between academia and advocacy. 

The essays collected here address important historical 

and contemporary issues regarding the culture 

and practice of hunting. Topics include hunting identities; 

conservation and its relationship to hunting; tensions 

between hunters and non-hunters and between 

Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hunting groups; hunting 

ethics; debates over hunting practices and regulations; 

animal rights; and gun control. The discussion 

involves consideration of the social, political, and 

economic context as well as class and racial tensions 

between sport hunters and subsistence hunters. 

Contents 

Illustrations 

Preface 

Introduction 

Part 1: Hunting and Identity 

Part 2: Hunting and Conservation in History 

Part 3: Hunting and Contemporary Challenges 

Conclusion; 


Index 

2006, 288 pages, 6 x 9” 

2 figures, 2 tables, 7 b/w photos 

0-7748-1293-1 / 978-0-7748-1293-1 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1294-X / 978-0-7748-1294-8 paper $32.95 


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UBC Press / Native History 

Myth and Memory 

Stories of Indigenous-European Contact 

Edited by John Sutton Lutz 

The so-called “contact narratives” – stories indigenous 

peoples and Europeans tell about their first encounters 

with each other – are enormously valuable historical 

records, but their relevance is not limited to the 

past. For settlers, they are origin stories, explanations 

for their arrival, and the opening paragraph of 

a long rationale for displacing indigenous peoples. 

For indigenous peoples, the stories are a prologue to 

their world’s upheaval. For both, contact stories are a 

mytho-historical opening act to a play that we continuously 

recreate and re-perform. 

Myth and Memory argues that we are still in the contact 

zone, struggling to understand the meaning of contact 

between indigenous and settler populations. It will appeal 

to scholars and students in Canadian history and 

First Nations studies, as well as to history enthusiasts 

and other readers interested in contact narratives. 

John Sutton Lutz is an associate professor of 

history at the University of Victoria. 

Contributors include Judith Binney, 

Keith Thor Carlson, J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin, 

Nora Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, 

Michael Harkin, I.S. MacLaren, Patrick Moore, 

and Wendy Wickwire. 

2007, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1262-1 / 978-07748-1262-7 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1263-X / 978-07748-1263-4 


Contents 


Myth Understandings; or First Contact, Over and Over Again / 

John Sutton Lutz 

1 Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward Chamberlin 

2 First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the 

North American West Coast / John Sutton Lutz 

3 Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: 

Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact / Keith Thor 

Carlson 

4 Poking Fun: Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives 

/ Patrick Moore 

5 Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of “The 

Chinook” / I.S. MacLaren 

6 Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of 

Roanoke / Michael Harkin 

7 Stories from the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive British 

Columbia Historiography / Wendy Wickwire 

8 When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney 

9 The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in 

Tlingit America / Richard Dauenhauer and Nora Marks 

Dauenhauer and 

Notes, Bibliography, Contributors, Index 

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Makúk 

A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations 

John Sutton Lutz 

The history of Aboriginal-settler interactions in Canada 

continues to haunt the national imagination. Despite 

billions of dollars spent on the “Indian problem,” Aboriginal 

people remain the poorest in the country. Because 

the stereotype of the “lazy Indian” is never far from the 

surface, many Canadians wonder if the problem lay with 

“Indians” themselves. 

John Lutz traces Aboriginal people’s involvement in the 

new economy, and their displacement from it, from the 

first arrival of Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing upon 

oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, 

and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal 

people flocked to the workforce and prospered in 

the late 19th century. The roots of today’s widespread 

unemployment and “welfare dependency” date only 

from the 1950s, when deliberate and inadvertent policy 

choices – what Lutz terms the “white problem”– drove 

Aboriginal people out of the capitalist, wage, and 

subsistence economies, offering them welfare as “compensation.” 

Makúk invites readers into a dialogue with the past with 

visual imagery and an engaging narrative that gives a 

voice to Aboriginal peoples and other historical figures. 

Students, scholars, policy-makers (Aboriginal and non- 

Aboriginal), and a wide public who care to bring the 

spectres of the past into the light of the present will find 

the book insightful and invaluable. 

Contents 

Preface; Acknowledgments 


2 The Lazy Indian 

3 The Lekwungen 

4 The Tsilhqot’in 

5 Outside History: Labourers of the Aboriginal Province 

6 The White Problem 

7 Prestige to Welfare: Remaking the Moditional Economy 

8 Conclusion: The Outer Edge of Probability, 1970–2006 

Appendices 


John Sutton Lutz teaches in the Department 

of History at the University of Victoria and is coeditor, 

with Jo-Anne Lee, of Situating “Race” and 

Racisms in Space, Time, and Theory. 

September 2007 

416 pages, 8 x 10” 

80 b/w photos, 10 maps, 10 tables, 8 figures 

0-7748-1139-0 / 978-0-7748-1139-2 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1140-4 / 978-0-7748-1140-8 



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Be of Good Mind 

Essays on the Coast Salish 

Edited by Bruce Granville Miller 

Be of Good Mind brings together the views of Aboriginal 

leaders, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, 

and linguists about how Coast Salish lives 

and identities have been reshaped by two colonizing 

nations and by networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, 

and understandings of landscape. 

This is the first book-length effort to directly incorporate 

Aboriginal perspectives and a broad interdisciplinary approach 

to research about the Coast Salish. Contributors 

point to the continual reshaping of Coast Salish identities 

through litigation and language revitalization, as 

well as community efforts to reclaim their connections 

with the environment. 

Readers interested in First Nations history and contemporary 

issues in Canada and Aboriginal-academic 

relations will find this essential reading, as will scholars 

interested in ethnographic methods and interdisciplinary 

inquiry. 

Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of 

anthropology at the University of 

British Columbia. 

2007, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1323-7 / 978-07748-1323-5 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1324-5 / 978-07748-1324-2 


Contents 

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments 

Introduction / Bruce Granville Miller 

1 Coast Salish History / Alexandra Harmon 

2 The Not So Common / Daniel L. Boxberger 

3 We Have to Take Care of Everything That Belongs to Us / 

Naxaxalhts’i, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie 

4 To Honour Our Ancestors We Become Visible Again / 

Raymond (Rocky) Wilson 

5 Toward an Indigenous Historiography: Events, Migrations, 

and the Formation of “Post-Contact” Coast Salish Collective 

Identities / Keith Thor Carlson 

6 “I Can Lift Her Up ...”: Fred Ewen’s Narrative Complexity / 

Crisca Bierwert 

7 Language Revival Programs of the Nooksack Tribe and the 

Stó:lo Nation / Brent Galloway 

8 Stó:lo Identity and the Cultural Landscape of S’ólh Téméxw / 

David M. Schaepe 

9 Conceptions of Coast Salish Warfare, or Coast Salish 

Pacifism Reconsidered: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and 

Ethnography / Bill Angelbeck 

10 Consuming the Recent for Constructing the Ancient: 

The Role of Ethnography in Coast Salish Archaeological 

Interpretation / Colin Grier 

Index 

20 



New Histories for Old 

Changing Perspectives on Canada’s Native Pasts 

Edited by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan 

Scholarly depictions of the history of Aboriginal people 

in Canada have changed dramatically since Arthur J. 

(Skip) Ray entered the field in the early 1970s. This collection 

examines Ray’s role in this transformation, and 

it extends scholarship on Canada’s Aboriginal history in 

new directions. 

New Histories for Old combines essays by senior historians, 

geographers, and anthropologists with contributions 

by new voices in these fields. Dealing with regions 

from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast, contributors 

examine the fur trade, treaties, and Indian policy, and 

they explore the relationship between Natives and 

newcomers in the fur trade and elsewhere. This collection 

related recent historiographical developments to 

Ray’s scholarship by offering a snapshot of the kinds 

of inquiry established and emerging scholars presently 

conduct. 

Contents 

Introduction / Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan 

1 Arthur J. Ray and the Writing of Aboriginal History / Ted 

Binnema and Susan Neylan 

2 Rupert’s Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land: Cree and English 

Naming and Claiming around the Dirty Sea / Jennifer Brown 

3 Echo of the Crane: Tracing Anishinawbek and Metis Title to 

Bawating (Sault Ste. Marie) / Victor Lytwyn 

4 Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of Indian 

Treaty Making / J.R. Miller 

5 Smallpox along the Frontier of the Plains Borderlands at the 

Turn of the Twentieth Century / Jody Decker 

6 Mapping the New El Dorado: The Fraser River Gold Rush 

and the Appropriation of Native Space / Daniel Marshall 

7 Innovation, Tradition, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Fishing 

Conflicts in the Lower Fraser Canyon / Keith Thor Carlson 

8 Meanings of Mobility on the Northwest Coast / Paige 

Raibmon 

9 “Choose Your Flag”: Perspectives on the Tsimshian 

Migration from Metlakatla, BC, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 

1887 / Susan Neylan 

10 Gitksan Law and Settler Disorder: The Skeena “Uprising” of 

1888 / R.M. Galois 

11 Arthur J. Ray and the Empirical Opportunity / Cole Harris 

Contributors; Index 

Ted Binnema is associate professor of history 

at the University of Northern British Columbia. 

Susan Neylan is a member of the Department 

of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

November 2007 

336 pages, 8 maps, 4 tables, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1413-6 / 978-0-7748-1413-3 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1414-4 / 978-0-7748-1414-0 



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The Ermatingers 

A 19th-Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family 

W. Brian Stewart 

In about 1800, fur trader Charles Ermatinger married 

an Obijwa woman, Mananowe. Their three sons grew up 

with both their mother’s hunter/warrior culture and their 

father’s European culture. As adults, they lived adventurously 

in Montreal and St Thomas, where they were 

accepted and loved by fellow citizens while publicly 

retaining their Ojibwa heritage. 

The Ermatingers contrasts the “European” commercial 

and trading society in urban Montreal, where Charles 

was brought up, with the Ojibwa hunter/warrior values 

of Mananowe’s society. Their sons variously risked life 

at war in Spain and in the Upper and Lower Canada 

rebellions, policed Montreal streets in an era of riots, 

spied on the Fenians on the US border, and made 

a hazardous journey to help establish the Canadian 

Pacific Railway’s route. Brian Stewart argues that the 

sons’ Ojibwa traditions and values shaped their adult 

lives: during their adventures, the sons fought for Native 

rights for themselves as well as for Ojibwa relatives and 

friends. 

W. Brian Stewart worked as a feature writer 

in his native New Zealand and then in various 

positions with the CBC. He retired as head of 

Research Services for the English Language 

CBC Radio and TV Networks in 1983. 

2007, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

1 map, 2 charts, 4 b/w photos 

0-7748-1233-8 / 978-07748-1233-7 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1234-6 / 978-07748-1234-4 


The Ermatingers is an exciting story that contributes to 

our understanding of Indian and European biculturalism 

and its effects on those who make up the various forms 

of Métis society today. It will appeal to general readers 

as well as scholars and students in Native studies and 

Canadian history. 

Contents 

Figures, Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1 The Urban Canadian Grandparents 

2 The Upper Country Ojibwa Grandparent 

3 Charles Sr’s Fur Trade Career 

4 Charles and Charlotte in Montreal 

5 A Wild Man’s Land and a World of Virgil 

6 Farmer and Cavalry Man: Charles Jr 

7 Ojibwa Chief and Montreal Policeman: Charles Jr 

8 Soldier, Clerk, and a Last Adventure: James 

9 Dandy Turned Hero: William 

10 Suppressing Riots in Montreal: William 

11 Murder, Militia, and Military Intelligence: William 

12 The Ermatinger Women 

13 A Lost Past, a Future Unattained 

Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index 

22 



Kiumajut [Talking Back] 

Game Management and Inuit Rights, 1950–70 

Peter Kulchyski and Frank Tester 

Kiumajut [Talking Back] examines the struggle between 

Inuit of Canada’s North and Crown administration during 

critical decades in Inuit and Canadian history. Until the 

1950s, Inuit lived free from government interference 

and control; in the next two decades, an increasingly 

powerful northern administration sought to impose its 

policies and practices on Inuit communities. 

Drawing upon new material compiled from archival 

sources and oral interviews conducted during three 

seasons of community-based research, Peter Kulchyski 

and Frank Tester demonstrate how a deeply flawed set 

of scientific practices around counting animal populations 

led policy makers to develop strict policies that 

curtailed the activities of Inuit hunters. Animal management 

became a justification for controlling hunters and, 

in practice, was “hunter management.” However, as 

the administration attempted to impose its policies, 

Inuit resisted. Kulchyski and Tester look closely at Inuit 

legal challenges, petitions, and the activities of the first 

Inuit community council to trace how Inuit began to “talk 

back” to the Canadian state. 

Kiumajut examines a range of issues pertinent to community 

development in Nunavut. It will appeal to scholars 

and students in Native studies, political science, 

law, and geography, and it will engage a general reading 

public interested in the Canadian North. 

Contents 


Preface 

Introduction 

Part I: Managing the Game 

1 Trapping and Trading: The Regulation of Inuit Hunting Prior 

to World War II 

2 Sagluniit (“Lies”): Manufacturing a Caribou Crisis 

3 Sugsaunngittugulli (“We Are Useless”): Surveying the 

Animals 

4 Who Counts? Challenging Science and the Law 

Part II: Talking Back 

5 Inuit Rights and Government Policy 

6 Baker Lake, 1957: The Eskimo Council 

7 Inuit Petition for Their Rights 

Conclusion: Contested Ground 


Peter Kulchyski is head of the Department 

of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba 

and the author of Like the Sound of a Drum, 

winner of the 2006 Alexander Kennedy Isbister 

Award. Frank Tester teaches in the Faculty of 

Social Work and Family Studies at the University 

of British Columbia. They are co-authors of 

Tammarniit [Mistakes]: Inuit Relocation in the 

Eastern Arctic, 1939–63. 

August 2007 

328 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

Approx. 23 b/w photos, 1 map, 2 tables 

0-7748-1241-9 / 978-0-7748-1241-2 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1242-7 / 978-0-7748-1242-9 



23


With Good Intentions 

Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations 

in Colonial Canada 

Edited by Celia Haig-Brown and 

David A. Nock 

Contact Zones 

Aboriginal and Settler Women in 

Canada’s Colonial Past 

Edited by Katie Pickles and 

Myra Rutherdale 

With Good Intentions examines 

the joint efforts of 

Aboriginal people and individuals 

of European ancestry 

to counter injustice in 

Canada when colonization 

was at its height, from the 

mid-nineteenth to the early 

twentieth century. These 

people recognized colonial 

wrongs and worked 

together in a variety of 

ways to right them, but they could not stem the tide 

of European-based exploitation. 

The book is neither an apologist text nor an attempt 

to argue that some colonizers were simply 

“well intentioned.” Almost all those considered here 

– teachers, lawyers, missionaries, activists – had as 

their overall goal the Christianization and civilization 

of Canada’s First Peoples. While their sensitivity and 

willingness to work in concert with Aboriginal people 

made them stand out from their less sympathetic 

compatriots, they were nonetheless implicated in the 

colonialist project, as the contributors to this volume 

make clear. 

By discussing examples of Euro-Canadians who 

worked with Aboriginal peoples, With Good Intentions 

brings to light some of the lesser-known complexities 

of colonization. This volume is an important resource 

for anyone interested in Canadian history, Native 

studies, and issues of colonization of Native peoples. 


Thomas Abler; Michael Blackstock; Sarah Carter; Janet E. 

Chute; Mary Haig-Brown; Alan Knight; Donald D. Smith; and 

Wendy Wickwire 

Contact Zones locates 

Canadian women’s history 

within colonial and 

imperial systems. As 

both colonizer and colonized 

(sometimes even 

simultaneously), women 

were uniquely positioned 

at the axis of the colonial 

encounter – the so-called 

“contact zone” – between 

Aboriginals and newcomers. 

Some women were able to transgress the 

bounds of social expectation, while others reluctantly 

conformed to them. 

Aboriginal women such as E. Pauline Johnson, Bernice 

Loft, and Ethel Brant Monture shaped identities 

for themselves in both worlds. By recognizing the necessity 

to “perform,” they enchanted and educated 

white audiences across Canada. On the other side of 

the coin, newcomers imposed increasing regulation 

on Aboriginal women’s bodies, and they were expected 

to consent to moral, sexual, and marital rules 

that white women were already contesting. 


Jean Barman; Robin Jarvis Brownlie; Sarah Carter; Sherry 

Farrell Racette; Jo-Anne Fiske; Carole Gerson; Cecilia 

Morgan; Dianne Newell; Adele Perry; Joan I. Sangster; and 

Veronica Strong-Boag. 

2005, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1135-8 / 978-0-7748-1135-4 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1136-6 / 978-0-7748-1136-1 paper $32.95 

2006, 336 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1137-4 / 978-0-7748-1137-8 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1138-2 / 978-0-7748-1138-5 paper $32.95 

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Good Intentions Gone Awry 

Emma Crosby and the Methodist 

Mission on the Northwest Coast 

Jan Hare and Jean Barman 

Unsettling Encounters 

First Nations Imagery in the Art of 

Emily Carr 

Gerta Moray 

Shortlisted for the 2007 

Roderick Haig-Brown 

Award, BC Book Prizes. 

Unlike most missionary 

scholarship that focuses 

on male missionaries, 

Good Intentions Gone 

Awry chronicles the experience 

of a missionary 

wife. Based on the letters 

of Emma Crosby, Good 

Intentions Gone Awry is a fascinating collection. 

Crosby, besides being a prolific letter-writer, was 

well-educated and an informative writer. Her letters 

shed light on a particular era and bear witness to 

the contribution of missionary wives. They show 

that mission work was something much more 

complex than simple tales of conversion by men 

invested in Christianity. Multiple participants shaped 

the missionary enterprise, each of them acting on 

their own motivations with consequences that no 

one would have anticipated. 

Contents 

Crosby Family Chronology 

Simpson’s Early Women Teachers and Missionaries 

Introduction 

1 Courtship and Marriage 

2 Arrival at Fort Simpson 

3 Motherhood 

4 Emma Alone 

5 A Comfortable Routine 

6 Adversity 

7 Changing Times 

8 Good Intentions Gone Awry 

9 Repatriation 

Afterword by Caroline Dudoward 


2005, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1270-2 / 978-0-7748-1270-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1271-0 / 978-0-7748-1271-9 paper $29.95 

This is an erudite, richly 

illustrated, and compelling 

narrative of how 

Carr related to the First 

Nations imagery that 

brought her national 

recognition and iconic 

status. Gerta Moray’s 

extraordinary account 

is sensitive to language, 

gender, colonial, and racial 

issues, reconstructing 

a multi-layered and wellresearched 

context for Carr’s expeditions. Avoiding 

simplistic oppositions, Unsettling Encounters keeps 

the expressive drive and creative ambitions of Emily 

Carr firmly in the centre. 

– Johanne Lamoureux, Université de Montréal 

Unsettling Encounters is the Winner of the Canadian 

Historical Association’s 2007 Clio Award for books 

on the British Columbia region. 

Unsettling Encounters is the definitive study of Carr’s 

‘Indian’ images, locating them within both the local 

context of Canadian history and the wider international 

currents of visual culture. Gerta Moray radically 

re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in representing 

Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting 

and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of 

Carr’s work that was central in shaping her vision and 

career, it makes possible a new assessment of her 

significance as a leading figure in early twentieth-century 

North American modernism. 

Contents 

Foreword / Marcia Crosby 

Places Painted By Emily Carr 

1 Contexts for a Colonial Artist 

2 A Pictorial Record of Native Villages and Totem 

3 The Late ‘Indian Villages’ 

Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Illustrations; Index 

2006, 400 pages, 8 ½ x 12” 

200 b/w and 90 colour illustrations, 4 maps 

0-7748-1282-6 / 978-0-7748-1282-5 cloth $75.00 

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UBC Press / Asian Canadian History 

A White Man’s Province 

British Columbia Politicians and 

Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 

1858–1914 

Patricia E. Roy 

“We are not strong 

enough to assimilate 

races so alien from us 

in their habits … We are 

afraid they will swamp 

our civilization as such.” 

– Nanaimo Free Press, 

1914 

A White Man’s Province 

examines how British 

Columbians changed their 

attitudes towards Asian 

immigrants from one of toleration in colonial times 

to vigorous hostility by the turn of the century and 

describes how politicians responded to popular cries 

to halt Asian immigration and restrict Asian activities 

in the province. 

Contents 

Illustrations 

Foreword 


1 The Colonial Sojourners, 1858–1871 

2 “A World of Their Own”: Morality, Law, and Public Health, 

1871–1914 

3 Confederation, the Chinese, and the Canadian Pacific 

Railway, 1871–1885 

4 Checking Chinese and Japanese Competition, 1886– 

1896 

5 The Politics of Restricting Immigration, 1896–1902 

6 Checking Competition within British Columbia, 1896– 

1902 

7 The Lull before the Storm, 1903–1907 

8 The Vancouver Riot and Its Consequences, 1907–1908 

9 Making a White Man’s Country, 1908–1914 

Epilogue 

Appendix 

Notes 

Manuscript Sources 

Index 

1989, 345 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0373-8 / 978-0-7748-0373-1 paper $32.95 

The Oriental Question 

Consolidating a White Man’s 

Province, 1914–41 


The Oriental Question 

continues Patricia A. Roy’s 

study into why British 

Columbians – and many 

Canadians from outside 

the province – were historically 

so opposed to Asian 

immigration. Drawing on 

contemporary press and 

government reports and 

individual correspondence 

and memoirs, Roy 

shows how British Columbians consolidated a “white 

man’s province” from 1914 to 1941 by securing a 

virtual end to Asian immigration and placing stringent 

legal restrictions on Asian competition in the major 

industries of lumber and fishing. While its emphasis 

is on political action and politicians, the book also 

examines the popular pressure for such practices 

and gives some attention to the reactions of those 

most affected: the province’s Chinese and Japanese 

residents. 

Contents 


Introduction 

1 “The least said, the better”: The War Years, 1914–18 

2 “We Could Never Be Welded Together”: The Inassimilability 

Question, 1914–30 

3 “Putting the Pacific Ocean Between Them”: Halting 

Immigration, 1919–29 

4 “Shoving the Oriental Around”: Checking Economic 

Competition, 1919–30 

5 “A Problem of Our Own Peoples”: An Interlude of Apparent 

Toleration, 1930–38 

6 Inflaming the Coast: The “Menace” from Japan, 1919–41 

7 “Poisoned by Politics”: The Danger Within, 1935–41 

Conclusion 

Notes 

Index 

2003, 344 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1010-6 / 978-0-77481-010-4 cloth $95.00 

0-7748-1011-4 / 978-0-77481-011-1 paper $32.95 

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The Triumph of Citizenship 

The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67 


Patricia E. Roy examines the climax of antipathy to 

Asians in Canada: the removal of all Japanese Canadians 

from the BC coast in 1942. Their free return 

was not allowed until 1949. Yet the war also brought 

increased respect for Chinese Canadians: they were 

enfranchised in 1947, and the federal government 

softened its ban on Chinese immigration. 

The Triumph of Citizenship explains why Canada 

ignored the rights of Japanese Canadians and placed 

strict limits on Chinese immigration. It explores how 

Japanese Canadians and their supporters in the human 

rights movement managed to halt “repatriation” 

to Japan, and how Chinese Canadians successfully 

lobbied for the same rights as other Canadians to 

sponsor immigrants. The final triumph of citizenship 

came in 1967, when immigration regulations were 

overhauled and the last remnants of discrimination 

were removed. 

Contents 

Tables and Figures 

Abbreviations 

Introduction 

1 A Civil Necessity: The Decision to Evacuate 

2 Adverse Sentiments beyond the Coast 

3 “Repatriation” to Japan and “Non-Repatriation” to 

British Columbia 

4 The Effects of the War on the Chinese 

5 Toward First-Class Citizenship for Japanese Canadians, 

1945–49 

6 Beyond Enfranchisement: Seeking Full Justice for 

Japanese Canadians 

7 Ending Chinese Exclusion: Immigration Policy, 1950–67 

Conclusion 

Epilogue 

Notes 

Index 

Patricia E. Roy is a professor emerita of history 

at the University of Victoria and a member of the 

Royal Society of Canada. 

2007, 400 pages, 6 x 9” 

21 illustrations, 1 map, 2 tables 

0-7748-1380-6 / 978-0-7748-1380-8 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1381-4 / 978-0-7748-1381-5 



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Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891–1941 

Michiko Midge Ayukawa 

This social history of migration from Hiroshima to Canada 

tells the story of a community that was destroyed in 

1942 but remains in the memories of a rapidly decreasing 

number of senior citizens. It describes the political, 

economic, and social circumstances that precipitated 

emigration from Hiroshima prefecture to Canada between 

1891 and 1941, and it examines the lives and 

experiences of those who settled in western Canada. 

Starting with the history of the feudal fiefs of Aki and 

Bingo that were merged into Hiroshima prefecture, 

Ayukawa explains the immigrants’ reasons for migration. 

Interviews with three generations of community 

members in Canada, as well as with those who never 

emigrated, supplement research on immigrant labour, 

the central role of women, and the challenges Canadianborn 

children faced as they navigated life between two 

cultures. 

Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891–1941 draws 

on both Japanese- and English-language sources. The 

author herself is a second-generation member of the 

community she is writing about. 

Michiko Midge Ayukawa writes articles and 

gives talks on Japanese Canadian history. 

She lives in Victoria. 

December 2007 

208 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

Approx. 14 b/w photos, 4 maps, 2 tables 

0-7748-1431-4 / 978-0-7748-1431-7 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1432-2 / 978-0-7748-1432-4 


Contents 

Illustrations 

Prologue 

1 The Hiroshima Homeland 

2 The First Ones 

3 Sojourning and Beyond 

4 The Women Come 

5 Farmers 

6 The Urban Community: Labour Versus Capital? 

7 Nisei, The Second Generation 

Conclusion 

Epilogue 

A Note about the Sources 

Notes 

Bibliography 

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The removal and confinement of Japanese Americans 

and Japanese Canadians during the Second World War 

constituted the worst violations of citizenship rights 

in 20th-century North America. The book looks at this 

injustice by examining, in comparative context, citizen 

activism in defence of democracy on behalf of citizens 

of Japanese ancestry. 

Voices Raised in Protest examines the removal and 

deportation of persons of Japanese ancestry during 

the Second World War by highlighting how its meaning 

and impact diverged in Canada and the United States. 

Stephanie Bangarth begins with a comparative survey 

of removal and related policies, then analyzes the efforts 

and discourse of advocates and relevant court 

cases. Persons of Japanese ancestry were also active 

in their own defence: their critiques of the removal and 

deportation policies symbolized a growing interest in 

rights, which would provide a foundation for rights activism 

in subsequent years. 


Voices Raised in Protest 

Defending North American Citizens of 

Japanese Ancestry, 1942–49 

Stephanie Bangarth 

Voices Raised in Protest is timely in light of today’s 

debates over ethnic and racial profiling, treatment of 

“enemy combatants,” and tensions between civil liberty 

and security imperatives. It will appeal to scholars and 

students in history, law, politics, and Asian Canadian/ 

American studies, as well as to activists and general 

readers. 

Contents 

To view the contents of Voices Raised in Protest, please 

visit our web site at www.ubcpress.ca. 

Stephanie Bangarth is an assistant professor 

of history at King’s University College, University 

of Western Ontario. 

November 2007 

304 pages, est., 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1415-2 / 978-0-7748-1415-7 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1416-0 / 978-0-7748-1416-4 



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UBC Press / Asian History 

Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the 

Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897–1937 

Xiaoping Cong 

Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern 

Chinese Nation-State is an innovative account of 

educational and social transformations in politically 

tumultuous early twentieth-century China. It focuses 

on the unique nature of Chinese teachers’ schools, 

which bridged Chinese and Western ideals, and the 

critical role that these schools played in the changes 

sweeping Chinese society. It also documents 

their role in the empowerment of women and the 

production of grassroots forces leading to the 

Communist Revolution. 

Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern 

Chinese Nation-State will attract attention from 

scholars in Asian studies, Chinese history, 

educational history, and comparative studies, and 

will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate 

students in these fields. 

Xiaoping Cong is an assistant professor of 

history at the University of Houston. 

2007, 320 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1347-4 / 978-0-7748-1347-1 

hc $85.00 

0-7748-1348-2 / 978-0-7748-1348-8 

pb $32.95 (publishing January 2008) 

A major contribution to the study of teachers’ 

schools in Republican China. Cong’s work helps 

us understand why China’s rural society and 

lasting feudal structure were transformed and 

dismantled during the Republican period and 

also what led to the success of the Chinese 

Communist Party in 1949. 

– George Wei, author of Sino-American Economic 

Relations, 1944–49 

Contents 

Tables 


Introduction 

1. The Imperial School System and Education Reform in 

the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Historical 

Review 

2. Education and Society in Transition: The Rise of Teachers’ 

Schools, 1897–1911 

3. Pursuing Modernization in Trying Times: Teachers’ 

Schools from 1912–22 

4. Modernity and the Village: The Emergence of Village 

Teachers’ Schools, 1922–30 

5. Nationalizing the Local: Teachers’ Schools in Rural 

Reconstruction, 1930–37 

6. Transforming the Revolution: Social and Political Aspects 

of Teachers’ Schools, 1930–37 

Conclusion 

Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index 

CONTEMPORARY CHINESE STUDIES SERIES 

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The Chinese State at the Borders 

Edited by Diana Lary 

The People’s Republic of China claims 40,000 

kilometres of borders and coastline. How did China 

become so vast? The state credo describes an 

ancient process of cultural expansion, as border 

peoples gratefully accept high culture in China 

and become inalienable parts of the country. And 

yet, the ‘centre’ also fights against manifestations 

of discontent in the border regions, not only to 

maintain control over the regions themselves, but 

also to prevent a loss of power at the edges of 

the state from triggering a general process of 

devolution in the provinces. These contradictions 

take away from the elegance and simplicity of the 

official credo. The essays in this volume look at this 

relationship over a long span of time, questioning 

whether the process of expansion was a benevolent 

civilizing mission. 

Chapters 

1 The Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory, Past and 

Present, by Alexander Woodside 

2 Ming-Qing Border Defense, the Inward Turn of Chinese 

Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the 

Eighteenth Century, by Benjamin Elman 

3 Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early 

Seventeenth Century, by Nicola Di Cosmo 

4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border, 

by Timothy Brook 

5 Wang Yangming and the Problem of “Non-Chinese”, 

by Leo Shin 

6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing 

Frontier Campaigns, by Peter Purdue 

7 The Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu, 

by Andre Schmid 

8 The Amur, as River, as Border, by Victor Zatsepine 

9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A 

Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland, 

by Van Nguyen-Marshall 

10 A zone of nebulous menace: the Guangxi/Indochina 

border in the Republican period, by Diana Lary 

11 Border Banishment: Political Exile in the Army Farms 

of Beidahuang, by Wang Ning 

12 L’état, c’est nous? or We have met the oppressor and he 

is us? The predicament of minority cadres in the PRC, 

by Stevan Harrell 

13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the 

Periphery in Contemporary China, by Pitman Potter 



Diana Lary is a professor emerita of history at 

the University of British Columbia. 

2007, 352 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1333-4 / 978-0-7748-1333-4 

hc $85.00 

0-7748-1334-2 / 978-0-7748-1334-1 


This book is of great importance in helping 

to reshape our conceptions of “China” as a 

spatial entity... The Chinese State at the Borders 

makes a highly significant contribution to the 

surprisingly scanty literature on China’s borders, 

and extends its reach beyond that through 

comparative examples. 

– Naomi Standen, co-editor of Frontiers in 

Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700-1700 

See also: Scars of War, Page 12 

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Resisting Manchukuo 

Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation 

Norman Smith 

This is a pathbreaking book. Norman Smith paints 

a complex and highly nuanced picture of a colonial 

society, which, for decades, has only been examined 

in starkly nationalist categories. One of the very 

first social histories of the Japanese occupation in 

the cities, Resisting Manchukuo is an artful blend of 

literary analysis and fascinating social history. 

– Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution 

Resisting Manchukuo reveals the literary world 

of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 

1932–45) and examines the lives, careers, and 

literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women 

writers during the occupation. 

In Manchukuo, a complex blend of fear and freedom 

produced an environment in which Chinese women 

writers could articulate dissatisfaction with the 

overtly patriarchal and imperialist nature of the 

Japanese cultural agenda while working in close 

association with colonial institutions. 

Norman Smith is an assistant professor of 

history at the University of Guelph. 

2007, 224 pages, 34 b/w photos, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1335-8 / 978-0-7748-1335-8 

hc $85.00 

0-7748-1336-9 / 978-0-7748-1336-5 


The first book in English on women’s history in 

twentieth-century Manchuria, Resisting Manchukuo 

adds to a growing literature that challenges 

traditional understandings of Japanese colonialism. 

It will be of interest to those who study the history 

of East Asia, imperialism, and women. 

Contents 

1. Introduction: Chinese Women and Cultural Production 

in a Japanese Colonial Context 

2. Foundations of Colonial Rule in Manchukuo and the 

“Woman Question” 

3. Manchukuo’s Chinese-Language Literary World 

4. Forging Careers in Manchukuo 

5. Disrupting the Patriarchal Foundations of Manchukuo 

6. Contesting Colonial Society 

7. The Collapse of Empire and Careers 

8. Conclusions 


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Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier 

Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49 

Hsiao-ting Lin 

China’s policies towards Tibet and other ethnic 

border territories during the political reign of 

Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists are often 

understood as a deliberate exercise of power. In this 

groundbreaking study, Hsiao-ting Lin demonstrates 

that the frontier was the subject neither of 

concerted aggression on the part of a centralized 

and indoctrinated Chinese government, nor of an 

ideologically driven nationalist ethnopolitics. 

Contents 

Maps, Tables, Photographs 

Preface 

Acknowledgements 

Prologue 

Part 1: The Setting 

1. A Localized Regime, National Image, and 

Territorial Fragmentation 

2. Professed Frontier Policy, Policy Planners, 

and Imagined Sovereignty 

Part 2: The Prewar Decade, 1928–37 

3. The Unquiet Southwestern Borderlands 

4. The Mission to Tibet 

5. ‘Commissioner’ Politics 

Part 3: The Wartime Period, 1938–45 

6. Building a Nationalist-Controlled State in 

Southwest China 

7. The Issue of China-India Roadway via Tibet 

8. Rhetoric, Reality, and Wartime China’s 

Tibetan Concerns 

Part 4: The Postwar Period, 1945–49 

9. Postwar Frontier Planning vis-à-vis non-Han 

Separatist Movements 

10.The Sera Monastery Incident 

Epilogue 

Notes 

Glossary of Names and Terms 

Bibliography 

Index 


Hsiao-ting Lin is a Visiting Fellow at the 

Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 

2006, 304 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

2 maps, approx. 10 b/w illustrations 

0-7748-1301-6 / 978-0-7748-1301-3 

hc $85.00 

0-7748-1302-0 / 978-0-7748-1302-0 

pb $32.95 (publishing July 2007) 

This book adds an important Chinese dimension 

to the current scholarly discourse on the Tibet 

question. Lin’s coverage of recently declassified 

Chinese government files and his mastery of 

the literature in both English and Chinese is 

remarkable. His provocative arguments will 

certainly invite serious responses from others in 

the field. 

– Xiaoyuan Liu, author of Frontier Passages 


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UBC Press / Gender and History 

The Manly Modern 

Masculinity in Postwar Canada 

Christopher Dummitt 

How did one act like a modern man in postwar Canada? 

With a great deal of difficulty. During the Great Depression 

and Second World War, many men were first out 

of work and then away from their families. After the war 

came, attempts were made to re-establish the traditional 

gender hierarchy by emphasizing men’s modernity, 

allegedly superior rationality, and ability to handle 

risk, but the strategy had contradictory repercussions. 

The Manly Modern traces the history of what happened 

when men’s supposed modernity became one of their 

defining features. 

Through a series of case studies covering such diverse 

subjects as car culture, mountaineering, war veterans, 

murder trials, and a bridge collapse, Christopher Dummitt 

argues that the very idea of what it meant to be 

modern was gendered. A strong current of anti-modernist 

sentiment bubbled just beneath the surface of postwar 

masculinity, creating rumblings about the state of 

modern manhood that, ironically, mirrored the tensions 

that burst forth in 1960s gender radicalism. 

Christopher Dummitt is Lecturer in Canadian 

Studies at the Institute for the Study of the 

Americas at the University of London. 

2007, 232 pages, 6 x 9” 

1 b/w photo, 

0-7748-1274-5 / 978-0-7748-1274-0 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-0997-3 / 978-0-7748-0997-9 


Contents 


1 Introduction: The Manly Modern 

2 Coming Home 

3 At Work 

4 In the Mountains 

5 Before the Courts and on the Couch 

6 On the Road 

7 Conclusion: Manly Modernism in Hindsight 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index 

SEXUALITY STUDIES SERIES 

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In the 1970s, the women’s movement made wife battering 

a political issue. Women across Canada organized 

transition houses and safe homes to provide a sanctuary 

for women and children who were fleeing violent 

families. Transition houses were more than emergency 

shelters: they were hubs of a movement to change attitudes 

about domestic violence and to lobby for legislation 

and policy to protect women. 

No Place to Go centres on the women’s shelter movement 

in small cities and rural communities across 

Canada. Based on local histories of women’s activism 

in Thunder Bay, Kenora, Nelson, and Moncton, it 

includes Aboriginal women’s activism in northwestern 

Ontario, and examines the political and cultural connections 

between family violence and colonization. Nancy 

Janovicek makes the case for using local histories as 

a foundation to write the history of the contemporary 

women’s movement. 

No Place to Go is the first history of the battered women’s 

shelter movement in Canada. It will appeal to readers 

interested in women’s history, women’s studies, and 

public policy. 

UBC Press / Gender and History 

No Place to Go 

Local Histories of the Battered Women’s 

Shelter Movement 

Nancy Janovicek 

Contents 

To view the contents of No Place to Go, please visit our 

web site at www.ubcpress.ca. 

Nancy Janovicek teaches history at the 

University of Calgary. 

October 2007 

160 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1421-7 / 978-0-7748-1421-8 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1422-5 / 978-0-7748-1422-5 



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UBC Press / Military History 

An Officer and a Lady 

Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War 

Cynthia Toman 

During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian 

nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially-created 

all-female officers’ rank of the Canadian Armed Forces. 

They served in various medical and surgical settings, 

all three armed force branches, and all major theatres 

of war as well as in Canada, Newfoundland, the United 

States and South Africa. Yet, in spite of their importance, 

military nurses and nursing as a form of war 

work have long been under-examined. 

An Officer and a Lady examines nurses’ experiences 

and their contribution toward “winning the war” through 

the salvage of sick and injured soldiers. From feminist 

and social history perspectives, Cynthia Toman explores 

how gender, war, and medical technology intersected 

to create legitimate feminine spaces within the 

masculine environment of the military. She interrogates 

the incongruities and ambivalences involved in military 

nurses’ work, including conflicting gendered expectations 

as “officers and ladies,” and the contingency of 

military nursing “for the duration” only. 

Cynthia Toman is an assistant professor 

of nursing and is Associate Director of the 

Associated Medical Services Nursing History 

Research Unit at the University of Ottawa. 

November 2007 

320 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

Approx. 39 photos, 7 tables 

0-7748-1447-0 / 978-0-7748-1447-8 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1448-9 / 978-0-7748-1448-5 


Contents 

Introduction 

1 “Ready, Aye Ready”: Enlisting Nurses 

2 Incorporating Nurses Into The Military 

3 Shaping Nursing Sisters As “Officers And Ladies” 

4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work 

5 “The Strain Of Peace”: Community And Social Memory 

Conclusion 

Appendix: Nursing Sisters Biographies 

Selected Bibliography 

STUDIES IN CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY 

Published by UBC Press in association with the Canadian War 

Museum 

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While volumes have been written about the Protestant 

missionary movement in China, scant attention has 

been paid to the role of nursing and nurses in these 

missions. Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, 

Healing Henan brings sixty years of missionary nursing 

out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses 

shaped the landscape of health care in the province of 

Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of 

missionary nursing. 

From the time Presbyterian missionaries arrived in China 

in 1888 until the abrupt closure of the North China 

Mission in 1947, Canadian nurses were a ubiquitous 

presence in Henan. As China underwent a tumultuous 

transition from a dynastic kingdom to an independent 

republic, Canadian nurses advanced a version of hospital-based 

nursing education and practice that rivaled 

modern nursing care in Canada. 


Healing Henan 

Canadian Nurses at the North China 

Mission, 1888–1947 

Sonya Grypma 

Contents 


Foreword 


List of Spellings 

List of Abbreviations 

Introduction 

1 The Gospel of Soap and Water, 1888–1900 

2 Visions Interrupted, 1901–20 

3 Modern Nursing at Last, 1921–27 

4 Golden Years, 1928–37 

5 Scattered Dreams, 1937–40 

6 War Years, 1941–45 

7 The Last Days, 1946–47 

Conclusion: Creating a Cloistered Space 

Epilogue 

Bibliography 

Appendices 

Index 

Sonya Grypma is an associate professor at 

the University of Lethbridge School of Health 

Sciences. 

December 2007 

288 pages, est., 6 x 9” 

Approx. 44 b/w photos, 1 map, 1 table 

0-7748-1399-7 / 978-0-7748-1399-0 

cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1400-4 / 978-0-7748-1400-3 



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Clio’s Warriors 

Canadian Historians and 

the Writing of the World Wars 

Tim Cook 

Betrayed 

Scandal, Politics, and Canadian 

Naval Leadership 

Richard O. Mayne 

Clio’s Warriors is a 

lively and impeccably 

researched study that 

confirms how important 

it is to understand, not 

just how history is made, 

but how it is recorded. In 

writing so persuasively 

about Canada’s foremost 

military historians of the 

twentieth century, Tim 

Cook shows why he is 

such a worthy successor 

to their tradition. 

– Jonathan Vance, author of Building Canada: 

People and Projects that Made the Nation 

Clio’s Warriors examines the role of academic 

military history in the writing of the world wars in 

Canada. To elucidate the role of historians in codifying 

the sacrifice and struggle of a generation, Tim 

Cook discusses historical memory and writing, the 

creation of archives, and the war of reputations that 

followed each of the world wars. 

Contents 

Introduction: Writing the World Wars 

1 Documenting War & Forging Reputations, 1914–1918 

2 The War of Reputations, 1918–1939 

3 Clio in the Service of Mars, 1939–1945 

4 History Wars and War History, 1945–1948 

5 Official History, Contested Memory, 1948–1960 

6 Forging the Canon of Canadian World War History, 

1960–2000 

Conclusion: An Ongoing Dialogue 

2006, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1256-7 / 978-0-7748-1256-6 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1257-5 / 978-0-7748-1257-3 paper $29.95 


Published in association with the Canadian War Museum 

In January 1944, Canada’s 

top admiral, Percy 

Walker Nelles, was fired 

from his post as head of 

the Royal Canadian Navy. 

Official accounts maintain 

that Nelles’s termination 

was the result of severe 

operational deficiencies 

within the navy. This 

intriguing history reveals 

the true story behind Vice 

Admiral Nelles’s dismissal: a divisive power struggle 

between two elite groups within the RCN – the navy’s 

regular officers, and a small group of self-appointed 

spokesmen of the voluntary naval reserve. 

Contents 

Preface: The Game and its Players 

1 Confused Seas 

2 Equal Privileges 

3 A Wave of Protest and the Strange Interpretation 

4 Trying to Keep Afloat 

5 Informers, Collaborators, and Promise Breakers 

6 A Loaded Investigation 

7 Covering up the Conspiracy 

Afterword: Game’s End and the Final Score 

Appendices; Bibliography; Index 

2006, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

25 b/w illustrations, 4 figures 

0-7748-1295-8 / 978-0-7748-1295-5 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1296-6 / 978-0-7748-1296-2 

paper $29.95 (available July 2007) 



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Battle Grounds 

The Canadian Military and 

Aboriginal Lands 

P. Whitney Lackenbauer 

“Here Is Hell” 

Canada’s Engagement in Somalia 

Grant Dawson 

In recent years, closures 

of Canadian Forces 

facilities, the military’s 

continued use of airspace 

for weapons testing and 

low-level flying, increased 

environmental awareness, 

and Aboriginal land 

claims have contributed 

to a growing interest in 

the acquisition, use, and 

development of Aboriginal 

lands for military training. A study of these spaces 

and places, and the relationships and activities that 

shaped them, Battle Grounds analyzes a century of 

relationships between government officials and aboriginal 

communities. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 A Road to Nowhere?: The Search for Sites in Mainland 


2 Governmental Uncertainty: The Militia and the Sarcee 

Reserve, 1908–39 

3 “Pay no attention to Sero”: Imperial Flying Training at 

Tyendinaga, 1917–18 

4 The Thin Edge of a Wedge?: The British Commonwealth 

Air Training Plan and Aboriginal Lands, 1940–45 

5 Combined Operation: Creating Camp Ipperwash, 

1942–45 

6 The Cold War at Cold Lake: The Creation of the Primrose 

Lake Air Weapons Range, 1951–65 

7 Into the Driver’s Seat?: The Department of National 

Defence and the Sarcee Band, 1940–1982 

8 Renegotiating Relationships: Competing Claims in the 

1970s and 80s 

9 Closing Out the Century 

Conclusions and Reflections 

Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index 

2006, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

25 b/w illustrations, 21 maps, 

2 tables, 1 figure 

0-7748-1315-6 / 978-0-7748-1315-0 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1316-4 / 978-0-7748-1316-7 paper $32.95 



For many Canadians, 

the actions of Canada’s 

peacekeeping mission 

to Somalia in the early 

1990s remains a stain 

on our reputation as 

one of the world’s most 

respected peacekeeping 

nations. “Here is Hell” is a 

deft investigation into the 

broader context of that 

deployment. 

Drawing on interviews with key participants, along 

with documents made available during the Somalia 

Inquiry and under the Access to Information Act, 

this study shows how media pressure, government 

optimism in the UN, and Canada’s multilateral and 

peacekeeping traditions all played a role in determining 

the level, length, and tenor of Canada’s engagement 

in Somalia. 

Contents 

Illustrations; Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1 Food for Thought: Multilateral Humanitarianism and the 

Somalia Crisis to March 1992 

2 The Canadian Forces and the Recommendation to Stay 

out of Somalia 

3 “Do Something Significant”: Government Reconsideration 

of the Somalia Crisis 

4 The Humanitarian Airlift Takes Flight 

5 Sticking with the (Wrong) Peacekeeping Mission 

6 Problems with the Expanded UN Operation 

7 Robust Multilateralism: Support for the Unified Task 

Force 

8 Unified Task Force: Canada’s First Post-Cold War 

Enforcement Coalition 

9 Stay or Go? Weighing a Role in the Second UN Mission 

10 The Canadian Joint Force Somalia: In the Field 

Conclusion 


2006, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

1 map, 1 table, 25 b/w illustrations 

0-7748-1297-4 / 978-0-7748-1297-9 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1298-2 / 978-0-7748-1298-6 paper $29.95 



Fighting From Home 

The Second World War in 

Verdun, Quebec 

Serge Durflinger 

Prisoners of the Home Front 

German POWs and “Enemy Aliens” in 

Southern Quebec, 1940–46 

Martin F. Auger 

Fighting from Home paints 

a comprehensive portrait 

of Verdun and Verdunites 

at war. Serge Durflinger offers 

an innovative interpretation 

of wartime Canadian 

and Quebec social and 

cultural dynamics. 

In Verdun, English and 

French speakers lived 

side by side. Durflinger 

shows that, through their 

home-front activities as much as through enlistment, 

French-speaking Verdunites were partners beside 

their English-speaking neighbours in the prosecution 

of Canada’s war. Shared experiences and class similarities 

facilitated the development of common local 

identities based in pride and belonging. The need for 

social accommodation shaped responses based in a 

sense of local, not necessarily national, identity. They 

were all Verdunites and this is more a story of convergence 

than divergence. 

Contents 

Introduction: Studying War at the Local Level 

1 Forging a Community 

2 Once More Into the Breach 

3 City Hall Goes to War 

4 The People’s Response 

5 Institutions and Industry 

6 Family and Social Dislocation 

7 The Political War 

8 Peace and Reconstruction 

Conclusion 

2006, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

30 b/w photos, 15 tables, 2 maps 

0-7748-1260-5 / 978-0-7748-1260-3 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1261-3 / 978-0-7748-1261-0 paper $32.95 



In the middle of the most 

destructive conflict in 

human history, almost 

40,000 Germans were 

detained in internment 

and work camps across 

Canada. Five internment 

camps were located 

on the southern shores 

of the St. Lawrence 

River in the province of 

Quebec. Prisoners of the 

Home Front details the organization and day-today 

affairs of these internment camps and reveals 

the experience of their inmates. Martin Auger 

shows how internment imposed psychological and 

physical strain in the form of restricted mobility, 

sexual deprivation, social alienation, and lack of 

physical comfort. In response, Canadian authorities 

introduced labour projects and education programs 

to uphold morale, thwart internal turmoil, and 

prevent escapes. These initiatives were also 

intended to expose German prisoners to the values 

of a democratic society and prepare for their 

postwar reintegration. 

Contents 

1 A History of Internment 

2 Organizing and Developing Southern Quebec’s 

Internment Operation 

3 Life behind Barbed Wire 

4 Labour Projects 

5 Educational Programs 

6 Canada’s Internment Experience: A Home Front Victory 

2005, 240 pages, 6 x 9” 

8 tables 

0-7748-1223-0 / 978-0-7748-1223-8 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1224-9 / 978-0-7748-1224-5 paper $32.95 



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The Soldiers’ General 

Bert Hoffmeister at War 

Douglas E. Delaney 

Foreword by J.L. Granatstein 

Commanding Canadians 

The Second World War Diaries of 

A.F.C. Layard 

Edited by Michael Whitby 

Self-doubt so plagued 

him that he suffered a 

nervous breakdown even 

before fighting his first 

combat action. But by 

the end of the Second 

World War, Bert Hoffmeister 

had exorcised 

his anxieties, risen to 

Major-General, and won 

more awards than any 

other Canadian officer in 

the war. Fighting from the invasion of Sicily in July 

1943 to the final victory in Europe in May 1945, 

this native Vancouverite earned a reputation as a 

fearless commander – one who led from the front 

and was well loved by those he commanded. How 

did he do it? 

Contents 

1 Looking at Command 

2 A Young Man before the War 

3 The Years of Company Command and 

Personal Turmoil 

4 Battalion Command: Training For War 

5 Battalion Command: The Battlefield Test 

6 Brigade Command 

7 Division Command and the Liri Valley 

8 The Lessons From Liri 

9 Gothic Line to the End in Italy 

10 Northwest Europe and After 

11 Hoffmeister and Command 

2005, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

21 b/w photos, 15 maps, 11 figures 

0-7748-1148-X / 978-0-7748-1148-4 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1149-8 / 978-0-7748-1149-1 paper $32.95 



There is NOTHING in print 

anywhere that captures 

a sense of the whole war 

at sea from 1939-45, 

let alone the Atlantic 

war, like this book. It is a 

remarkable document, 

revealing the routine 

of daily life for a naval 

officer and providing 

unique insight into the 

later stages of anti-submarine 

warfare in the 

Second World War. 

– Marc Milner, author of Battle of the Atlantic 

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily 

in his diary, in bold, neat script, from the time he 

entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913 until his 

retirement in 1947. The pivotal 1943–45 years of 

this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and 

honest chronicle, revealing Layard’s preoccupations, 

both with the daily details and with the strain and 

responsibility of wartime command at sea. 

Contents 

Prologue: Like Cutting Butter 

Introduction: An Officer and His Diary 

1 One Does Get Tired of Them, September– 

December 1943 

2 Shaking Down, January–March 1944 

3 Overseas, March–May 1944 

4 The Great Endeavour, May–July 1944 

5 Exasperation Inshore, July–October 1944 

6 Deep Open Waters, October–December 1944 

7 Wreck to Wreck, Contact to Contact, January– 

March 1945 

8 Oasis of Comfort and Happiness, March–May 1945 

Epilogue: Respite 

2005, 416 pages, 6 x 9” 


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0-7748-1194-3 / 978-0-7748-1194-1 paper $32.95 





Hometown Horizons 

Local Responses to Canada’s 

Great War 

Robert Rutherdale 

Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers 

Canada’s Second World War 

Jeffrey A. Keshen 

A readable and engaging 

book that adds to our 

understanding of the 

impact of the First World 

War on Canadian society 

and to the important 

place of social discourse, 

images, rituals, 

and imagination in the 

processes of social communication 

and social 

differentiation. 

– Norman Knowles, 

Associate Professor 

of History, St. Mary’s College 

Hometown Horizons considers how people and communities 

on the Canadian home front perceived the 

Great War. Robert Rutherdale examines how farmers 

near Lethbridge, Alberta; shopkeepers in Guelph, 

Ontario; and civic workers in Trois-Rivières, Québec 

took part in local activities that connected their everyday 

lives to a tumultuous period in history. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Places and Sites 

2 Dancing before Death 

3 Hierarchies 

4 Demonizations 

5 Conscription Contested 

6 Gendered Fields 

7 Men Like Us 

8 Beyond Hometown Horizons 

2004, 360 pages, 6 x 9” 

16 b/w illustrations, 10 figures, 3 maps 

0-7748-1013-0 / 978-0-7748-1013-5 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1014-9 / 978-0-7748-1014-2 paper $32.95 

An extraordinary look 

at how Canadians lived, 

loved, and worked on 

the home front during 

the Second World War. 

[Keshen] has produced 

the single best study of 

rapidly changing social 

values in a time of great 

crisis that we have. 

Absolutely first-rate. 

– J.L. Granatstein, author 

of Canada’s Army 

Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers acknowledges the 

underbelly of Canada’s Second World War, showing 

how moral and social changes during the war precipitated 

numerous, and often contradictory, legacies in 

law and society. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Patriotism 

2 Growth, Opportunity, and Strain 

3 The Wartime Prices and Trade Board and the 

Accommodation Crisis 

4 Black Market Profiteering: “More than a fair share” 

5 (Im)moral Matters 

6 Civilian Women: “Two steps forward and one step back” 

7 Women Warriors: “Exactly on a par with the men” 

8 The Children’s War: “Youth Run Wild” 

9 The Men Who Marched Away: “Everyone here is 

optimistic” 

10 A New Beginning: “A very clear tendency to improve 

upon pre-enlistment status” 

2004, 416 pages, 6 x 9” 

31 b/w illustrations, 8 figures, 3 tables 

0-7748-0924-8 / 978-0-7748-0924-5 paper $27.95 



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Fight or Pay 

Soldiers’ Families in the Great War 

Desmond Morton 

[A] beautifully written 

book about the history of 

a society and its government 

in wartime. Not only 

does Morton shed fascinating 

light on the topic 

of soldiers’ dependants, 

but he reveals the much 

broader implications for 

the study of gender, class, 

state power, and race. 

– Jonathan Vance, author 

of Death so Noble 

The First World War is remembered largely for 

the immense sacrifice in life and limb of Canadian 

soldiers. Desmond Morton tells the stories of those 

who paid in lieu of fighting – the wives, mothers, 

and families left behind when soldiers went to 

war. A pan-Canadian story, Fight or Pay brings 

to light the lives of thousands of valiant women 

whose sacrifices have been overlooked in previous 

histories of the Great War. It is an incisive, humane 

look at the beginning of Canada’s social welfare 

system and a compelling addition to the landscape 

of Canadian history. 

Contents 

1 War and Families 

2 Pay and Allowances 

3 The Patriotic Fund 

4 Choices and Responsibilities 

5 Homecomings 

6 Grumbling and Complaining 

7 Victory for Whom? 

8 Never Again 

2004, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 

27 b/w photos, 5 tables 

0-7748-1108-0 / 978-0-7748-1108-8 cloth $39.95 

The Red Man’s on 

the Warpath 

The Image of the “Indian” and 

the Second World War 

R. Scott Sheffield 

Sheffield’s account of how 

the Native community was 

perceived by non-Natives 

has never been duplicated 

or even attempted. This 

book adds a great deal to 

our understanding of the 

war era. 

– Michael D. Stevenson, 

author of Canada’s Greatest 

Wartime Muddle 

The Red Man’s on the Warpath 

explores how wartime 

symbolism and imagery propelled the “Indian problem” 

onto the national agenda, and why assimilation 

remained the goal of post-war Canadian Indian policy 

– even though the war required that it be rationalized 

in new ways. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 The Image of the “Indian” in English Canada, 1930–39 

2 The “Administrative Indian” as Soldier and Conscript, 

1939–45 

3 The “Public Indian” Goes to War, September 1939– 

December 1941 

4 Winning the War Only to Lose the Peace? Reconstructing 

the “Public Indian,” 1943–45 

5 The “Administrative Indian” at the Threshold of Peace, 

January–March 1946 

6 Into the Arena: Marshalling the Competing Indian Images 

in Postwar Canada, 1945–48 

7 Whither the “Indian”? The Special Joint Senate and House 

of Commons Committee to Reconsider the Indian Act, 

1946–48 

Conclusion 

2004, 240 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1094-7 / 978-0-7748-1094-4 cloth $85.00 

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UBC Press / Legal History 

Laws and Societies in the 

Canadian Prairie West, 

1670-1940 

Edited by Louis Knafla and 

Jonathan Swainger 

Despotic Dominion 

Property Rights in British 

Settler Societies 

Edited by John McLaren, 

A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright 



1670-1940 examines 

the legal history of the 

north-west frontier, from 

the earliest years of European-Native 

contact in 

the seventeenth century 

to the mid-1900s. Challenging 

myths about a 

peaceful west and prairie 

exceptionalism, the book 

explores the substance of prairie legal history and 

the degree to which the region’s mentality is rooted 

in the historical experience of distinctive prairie 

peoples. 

The chapters focus on what is distinctive in prairie 

legal culture. By approaching the issue from a 

variety of perspectives – those of colonial administrators, 

fur company employees, Native peoples, 

women, men, entrepreneurs, judges, magistrates, 

and the police, among others – the authors find 

evidence of a conscious effort to apply broad, nonregional 

experiences to seemingly familiar, local 

issues. The ways in which prairie peoples perceived 

themselves and their relationships to a wider world 

were directly framed by notions of law and legal 

remedy shaped by prairie history. 


Louis A. Knafla; Jonathan Swainger; Janice Erion; Hamar 

Foster; Tristan M. Goodman; Sidney L. Harring; Zhiqiu Lin 

and Augustine Brannigan; Greg Marquis; Roderick G. Martin; 

John McLaren; Paul C. Nigol; and Russell C. Smandych. 

2005, 360 pages, 6 x 9” 

2 b/w photos, 7 maps, 9 figures, 3 tables 

0-7748-1166-8 / 978-0-7748-1166-8 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1167-6 / 978-0-7748-1167-5 paper $34.95 

Despotic Dominion brings 

together the work of 

scholars whose study of 

the evolution of property 

law in the colonies recognizes 

the value in locating 

property law and rights 

within the broader political, 

economic, and intellectual 

contexts of those 

societies. The stimulus for 

this new interdisciplinary 

scholarship has emerged from litigation and political 

action for the resolution of questions of Aboriginal 

title and other disputes over property rights in several 

former settler colonies, most notably Australia, 

Canada, and New Zealand. As the essays in this book 

demonstrate, a significant part of the recent explosion 

in interest and speculation about property rights 

relates historically to the securing of a more reliable 

cultural context for assessing these claims. 

For this reason, Despotic Dominion will be of interest 

not only to students and researchers of colonial history, 

but also to scholars of native studies and law, 

as well as those interested in the contested terrain of 

property rights. 


John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright; Rusty 

Bitterman and Margaret McCallum; Alvin J. Esau; Robert 

Foster; Philip Girard; Douglas Harris; Richard Overstall; 

Brian Slattery; John C. Weaver; and Bruce Ziff. 

2004, 396 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1072-6 / 978-0-7748-1072-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1073-4 / 978-0-7748-1073-9 paper $32.95 



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UBC Press / Legal History 

Regulating Lives 

Historical Essays on the State, 

Society, the Individual, and the Law 

Edited by John McLaren, Robert 

Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn 

Our Box Was Full 

An Ethnography for the 

Delgamuukw Plaintiffs 

Richard Daly 

This book will be of great 

interest to those intrigued 

by legal history and, 

more specifically, the 

role the law has played 

in constructing people’s 

lives, perceptions and 

experiences. 

– Lindsay Ferguson, 

Saskatchewan Law 

Review 

This book examines Canadian 

experiences of social 

control, moral regulation, and governmentality during 

the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Informed by the wealth of theoretical and historical 

writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, 

the contributors explore diverse state, social, 

legal, and human encounters with the regulation of 

lives in British Columbia and Canadian history. Incest 

in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions 

of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around 

venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination 

of Doukhobor children, among other issues, are 

examined in these nine original essays. 

This collection will interest scholars, researchers, 

practitioners, and students of a wide range of contexts 

including law, history, sociology, criminology, 

women’s studies, Native studies, social work, and 

political science. 


Robert Adamoski; Mimi Ajzenstadt; Gerry Ferguson; 

Michaela Freund; Renisa Mawani; and Jay Nelson 

2002, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

4 b/w photos, 4 tables 

0-7748-0886-1 / 978-0-7748-0886-6 cloth $29.95 

0-7748-0887-X / 978-0-7748-0887-3 paper $32.95 


For the Gitksan and 

Witsuwit’en peoples of 

northwest British Columbia, 

the land is considered 

both a food box and a 

storage box of history and 

wealth; it plays a central 

role in their culture, survival, 

history, and identity. 

In Our Box Was Full, Richard 

Daly explores the 

centrality of this notion in 

the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular 

reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that 

occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 

1997. Our Box Was Full provides fascinating insight 

into the case and sheds much-needed light on the 

role of anthropology in Aboriginal rights litigation. 

A rich, compassionate, and original ethnographic 

study, the book situates the plaintiff peoples within 

the field of forager studies, and emphasizes the kinship 

and gift exchange features that pervade these 

societies even today. 

Contents 

Foreword by Michael Jackson 

Foreword by Peter Grant 


2 The Reciprocities of a Pole-Raising Feast 

3 A Giving Environment: Nutrition and Seasonal Round 

4 A Kinship Economy 

5 Production Management and Social Hierarchy 

6 Gifts, Exchange, and Trade 

7 Owners and Stewards 

8 Epilogue 

Afterword by Don Ryan, Masgaak 

Notes; References; Index 

2004, 344 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1074-2 / 978-0-7748-1074-6 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1075-0 / 978-0-7748-1075-3 paper $32.95 


UBC Press / Recent Releases 

Longitude and Empire 

How Captain Cook’s Voyages 

Changed the World 

Brian Richardson 

Journey to the Ice Age 

Discovering an Ancient World 

Peter L. Storck 

Before Captain Cook’s 

three voyages, to Europeans 

the globe was uncertain 

and dangerous; after, 

it was comprehensible 

and ordered. Written as a 

conceptual field guide to 

the voyages, Longitude 

and Empire offers a significant 

rereading of both the 

expeditions and modern 

political philosophy. More 

than any other work, printed accounts of the voyages 

marked the shift from early modern to modern 

ways of looking at the world. 

Contents 

Introductions The Story; The Book; The Author 

1 Points Rules of Exploration; Points along a Coast; 

The Coordinate System; Verification of Details; The 

Possibilities of Location 

2 Shapes Grand Divisions; Extreme Places; The Oceanic 

Plane; Cook’s Turn to Islands; Landscapes and Maps; 

The Move to Interiors 

3 Nations The Orient, the Savage, and Europe; The 

Primacy of Place; Studying Nations; Classifying Nations; 

Explaining Nations; The Savage, the Noble Savage, and 

the Nation 

4 States Hobbes; Locke; Rousseau; The Scottish 

Enlightenment; The Native State in Cook’s Voyages; 

Kant; Finding and Creating the Territorial Nation-State 

5 Collections The Cabinets of Curiosities; Collecting 

Nations; The Practices of the Collection; Boredom 

and the Collection; The Dangers of Relativism; The 

Persistence of Extreme Otherness; The Transcendence 

of the Collector 

6 Empires Cook and Empire; Empire As Collection; Empire 

As Exchange; Empire As Cultivation; Empire 

As Panopticon 

Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index 

This is two books in one: 

a journey through time to 

meet the people living on 

the beaches of Ice Age 

lakes, and a personal journey 

of the scientist who 

found them. Storck’s narrative 

is a delightful tale 

of science in action and a 

lifetime dedicated to the 

people of long ago. It has 

forever changed my view 

of the Ontario landscape. 

– Bob McDonald, host of 

CBC’s Quirks and Quarks 

Now available in paperback, Journey to the Ice Age is 

the winner of several awards, including: 

• The 2004 Floyd S. Chalmers Award for the 

best book written on the history of Ontario, 

awarded by the Champlain Society. 

• The Clio Award for Ontario, presented by the 

Canadian Historical Association for the best book 

on Ontario regional history. 

• The Public Communication Award of the Canadian 

Archaeological Association. 

Peter L. Storck is Senior Curator Emeritus at the 

Department of Anthropology, Royal Ontario Museum. 

2004, 376 pages, 6.5 x 9.5” 

41 b/w photos, 21 maps, 3 tables 

0-7748-1028-9 / 978-0-7748-1028-9 cloth $39.95 

0-7748-1029-7 / 978-0-7748-1029-6 paper $29.95 

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 

2005, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1189-7 / 978-0-7748-1189-7 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1190-0 / 978-0-7748-1190-3 paper $32.95 

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Selling British Columbia 

Tourism and Consumer Culture, 

1890-1970 

Michael Dawson 

Imagining Difference 

Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in 

a Canadian Mining Town 

Leslie A. Robertson 

Selling British Columbia is 

an entertaining examination 

of the development 

of the tourist industry in 

British Columbia between 

1890 and 1970. Dawson 

draws upon promotional 

pamphlets, newspapers, 

advertisements, and films, 

as well as archival sources 

regarding government, 

civic, and international 

tourism organizations. Central to his book is an examination 

of the representation of popular imagery 

and of how aboriginal and British cultures were commodified 

and marketed to potential tourists. He also 

looks at the gendered aspect of these promotional 

campaigns, particularly during the 1940s, and challenges 

earlier interpretations regarding the relationship 

between tourism and nature in Canada. 

Contents 

Introduction: Tourism and Consumer Culture 

1 Boosterism and Early Tourism Promotion in British 

Columbia, 1890–1930 

2 From the Investment to the Expenditure Imperative: 

Regional Cooperation and the Lessons of Modern 

Advertising, 1916–35 

3 Entitlement, Idealism, and the Establishment of the 

British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, 1935–39 

4 The Second World War and the Consolidation of the 

British Columbia Tourist Industry, 1939–50 

5 Differentiation, Cultural Selection, and the Post–war 

Travel “Boom” 

6 Tourism as a Public Good: The Provincial Government 

Manages the Post–war “Boom,” 1950–65 

Conclusion: From Tourist Trade to Tourist Industry 

Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index 

2004, 280 pages, 6 x 9” 

30 tables, 7 figures, 2 maps 

0-7748-1054-8 / 978-0-7748-1054-8 cloth $80.00 

0-7748-1055-6 / 978-0-7748-1055-5 paper $32.95 

Imagining Difference is an 

ethnography about historical 

and contemporary 

ideas of human difference 

expressed by residents of 

Fernie, BC – a coal-mining 

town transforming into an 

international ski resort. 

Its starting point is a local 

legend about an indigenous 

curse cast on the 

valley and its residents in 

the 19th century. Successive interpretations of the 

story reveal a complicated landscape of memory 

and silence, mapping out official and contested 

histories, social and scientific theories as well as 

the edicts of political discourse. Cursing becomes 

a metaphor for discursive power resonating in political, 

popular, and cultural contexts, transmitting 

ideas of difference across generations and geographies. 

Although situated in Fernie, BC, this work will 

appeal to those in anthropology, women’s studies, 

Native studies, and history. 

Contents 

Preface: Knowing Who Your Neighbours Are 

Introduction: Ideas Make Acts Possible 

Part 1 Politics of Cursing 

1 Conversations among Europeans and 

Other Acts of Possession 

2 Constructing the “Foreign” 

3 “The Story As I Know It” 

Part 2 Imagining Difference 

4 A Moment of Silence 

5 Getting Rid of the Story 

6 Development, Discovery, and Disguise 

7 One Step Beyond 

Epilogue: Waiting 

2004, 348 pages, 6 x 9” 

2 maps, 20 figures 

0-7748-1092-0 / 978-0-7748-1092-0 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1093-9 / 978-0-7748-1093-7 paper $32.95 



Negotiated Memory 

Doukhobor Autobiographical 

Discourse 

Julie Rak 

This is a pioneer work 

in the area of literary 

studies and criticism in 

Canada, but perhaps 

more important, it is 

the first time... that 

Doukhobor literature has 

been exposed to such 

searching examination 

and interpretation. 

– John McLaren, co-editor, 

Regulating Lives 

Using aspects of cultural 

studies and autobiography studies, Julie Rak examines 

how the Doukhobors of Canada employed 

standard and alternative forms of autobiography to 

create and sustain their own subjectivity and identity. 

An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will appeal 

to those interested in autobiography studies as well 

as to historians, literary critics, and students and 

scholars of Canadian cultural studies. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Beyond Auto-Bio-Graphe: Autobiography and 

Alternative Identities 

2 Doukhobor Beliefs and Historical Moments 

3 Vechnaiia Pamit in the Diaspora: Community Meanings 

of History and Migration 

4 Negotiating Identity: Doukhobor Oral Narratives 

5 Witness, Negotiation, Performance: Freedomite 

Autobiography 

Conclusion: Negotiating the “I” and “We” in Autobiography 

Notes; References; Index 

2004, 172 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-1030-0 / 978-0-7748-1030-2 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1031-9 / 978-0-7748-1031-9 paper $32.95 

The Dominion and 

the Rising Sun 

Canada Encounters Japan, 

1929–41 

John D. Meehan 

itself in world affairs. 

The Dominion and the Rising 

Sun is the first major 

study of Canada’s diplomatic 

arrival in Japan and, 

by extension, East Asia. 

It examines the political, 

economic, and cultural 

relations forged during this 

seminal period between 

the foremost power in Asia 

and the young dominion 

tentatively establishing 

An overview of Canada’s initial foray into Pacific 

affairs, it begins with the opening in 1929 of the 

Canadian legation in Tokyo – Canada’s third such 

office overseas – and concludes with the outbreak 

of hostilities in 1941. The Dominion and the Rising 

Sun charts Canada’s relationship with Japan, 

and is essential reading for those interested in 

Canadian history, international relations, and Asia- 

Pacific studies. 

Contents 

Prologue: Raising the Flag 

1 A Window on the Orient 

2 From Grand Beginnings to Depression Diplomacy 

3 Manchuria Erupts 

4 Failure at Geneva 

5 The Calm before the Storm 

6 A Bitter National Spirit 

7 A Rude Awakening 

8 The Road to War 

9 Pacific Promise 

2004, 272 pages, 6 x 9” 

20 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 2 tables 

0-7748-1120-X / 978-0-7748-1120-0 cloth $85.00 

0-7748-1121-8 / 978-0-7748-1121-7 paper $34.95 

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Undelivered Letters to 

Hudson’s Bay Company Men 

on the Northwest Coast of 

America, 1830–57 

Edited by Helen M. Buss and 

Judith Hudson Beattie 

In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson’s 

Bay Company (HBC) sent men to posts along the 

coast of North America’s Pacific Northwest, letters 

for those men followed them in the Company’s supply 

ships. Sometimes, these letters missed their objects 

– the men had returned to Britain, or deserted their 

ships, or died. These letters tell the stories of people 

whose lives are recounted in traditional histories. We 

are introduced to the lives of the letter writers and 

their would-be recipients. Their commentaries frame 

the words of early nineteenth-century working and 

middle class British folk, as well as letters to “voyageurs” 

from Quebec. 

2003, 512 pages, 6 x 9” 

38 b/w illustrations, 4 maps 

0-7748-0974-4 / 978-0-7748-0974-0 paper $32.95 

A War of Patrols 

Canadian Army Operations in Korea 

William Johnston 

This is far and away the most valuable study of the 

Canadians in Korea. Johnston’s work has the depth 

of archival research characteristic of the best official 

historians, while his iconoclastic, analytical approach 

yields new insights and new ways of looking 

at old questions. There will be considerable interest 

in this book in the United States, Britain, Australia, 

and New Zealand, as well as Canada. 

– Terry Copp, author of Fields of Fire: 

The Canadians in Normandy 

2003, 448 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1008-4 / 978-0-7748-1008-1 paper $34.95 



Making Native Space 

Colonialism, Resistance, and 

Reserves in British Columbia 

R. Cole Harris 

Avoiding Armageddon 

Canadian Military Strategy and 

Nuclear Weapons, 1950–63 

Andrew Richter 

As the first comprehensive account of the reserve 

system in British Columbia, the book is an important 

contribution to regional history, the history of 

aboriginal-white relations, and colonialism. Perhaps 

most unexpectedly, because it puts aboriginal-white 

relations in the context of the federal-provincial 

wrangling that has shaped the Canadian political 

landscape since 1867, it also manages to breathe 

new life into an old historical chestnut. 

– Tina Loo, American Historical Review, April 2003 

Winner of the 2002 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, 

awarded by the Canadian Historical Association, and 

the 2003 Massey Medal, awarded by the Royal 

Canadian Geographical Society. 

2002, 448 pages, 6 x 9” 

28 b/w photos, 52 figures 

0-7748-0901-9 / 978-0-7748-0901-6 paper $34.95 

Andrew Richter examines Canadian military thinking 

on key issues of the nuclear age, such as deterrence, 

arms control, strategic stability, air defence, 

and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons. 

Avoiding Armageddon illustrates Canada’s considerable 

latitude for independent defence thinking while 

providing key historical information that helps make 

sense of the contemporary Canadian defence debate. 

2002, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0889-6 / 978-0-7748-0889-7 paper $32.95 



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Murdering Holiness 

The Trials of Franz Creffield and 

George Mitchell 

Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner 

Telling Tales 

Essays in Western Women’s History 

Edited by Catherine A. Cavanaugh 

and Randi R. Warne 

Murdering Holiness explores the captivating story 

of the “Holy Roller” sect led by Franz Creffield in the 

early twentieth century. 

In this fascinating micro-history, Phillips and Gartner 

explore the relationships among formal and informal 

law, gender relations, and religious repression. It will 

interest scholars in law, religion, and gender studies, 

as well as anybody interested in the history of Oregon 

and Washington in the early twentieth century. 

2003, 360 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-0906-X / 978-0-7748-0906-1 cloth $34.95 


Telling Tales integrates women into the shifting 

power matrix of class, race, and gender that undergirded 

colonization and settlement. This book 

covers a range of topics – including African-American 

settlement on Vancouver Island, prairie childbirth 

narratives, and Mennonites as domestic servants. 

They focus on women of both minority and dominant 

cultures and reflect the West’s characteristically 

mixed population. 

Telling Tales challenges founding myths of the region 

and invites a retelling of the story of western Canadian 

colonization and settlement. 

2000, 372 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0795-4 / 978-0-7748-0795-1 paper $32.95 

People and Place 

Historical Influences on Legal Culture 

Edited by Jonathan Swainger and 

Constance Backhouse 

People and Place demonstrates the fascinating ways 

in which personality and locale interact to shape the 

law, and how location influences legal cultural history. 

The essays allow readers to explore law’s various 

meanings across communities and time and to develop 

a more profound awareness of the complexity 

of human society. 


0-7748-1033-5 / 978-0-7748-1033-3 paper $29.95 


The Indian Association 

of Alberta 

A History of Political Action 

Laurie Meijer Drees 

The Indian Association of Alberta represented the 

interests of Alberta’s reserve communities. Its rich 

history reveals much about First Nations’ perspectives 

on the place of Indian peoples in Canada before 

the emergence of civil rights movements and federal 

funding of Native organizations. This book outlines 

the significance of treaty rights discussions before 

their constitutional entrenchment and documents the 

political philosophies of First Nations leaders in the 

prairie provinces and will be welcomed by those with 

an interest in Native studies, political science, and 

Canadian history. 

2002, 272 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0877-2 / 978-0-7748-0877-4 paper $32.95 

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Women and the 

White Man’s God 

Gender and Race in the Canadian 

Mission Field 

Myra Rutherdale 

A Trading Nation 

Canadian Trade Policy from 

Colonialism to Globalization 

Michael Hart 

Between 1860 and 1940, Anglican missionaries 

were very active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, 

and the Northwest Territories. Based on diaries, letters, 

and mission correspondence, Women and the 

White Man’s God is the first comprehensive examination 

of women’s roles in northern domestic missions. 

Arguing that the mission encounter challenged 

colonial hierarchies, Rutherdale expands our understanding 

of colonization at the intersection of gender, 

race, and religion. This book is a critical addition to 

a growing body of literature on gender and empire in 

Canada and elsewhere. 

2002, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0905-1 / 978-0-7748-0905-4 paper $32.95 

A Trading Nation, Michael Hart’s brilliantly crafted 

overview and analysis of the historical foundations of 

modern Canadian trade policy, is the first survey to 

address the history of Canadian commercial policy 

in over fifty years. Taking the view that to understand 

the present and better prepare for the future, we 

must first comprehend the past, Hart skilfully guides 

readers through more than three centuries of Canadian 

trade history. Close attention to trade and related 

economic policy choices, he argues, is crucial if 

Canada intends to adapt to the challenges of the new 

globalized economy. 

2002, 576 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0895-0 / 978-0-7748-0895-8 paper $34.95 

Modern Women 

Modernizing Men 

The Changing Missions of Three 

Professional Women in Asia and 

Africa, 1902–69 

Ruth Compton Brouwer 

Shortlisted for the 2002 Sir John A. Macdonald 

Prize by the Canadian Historical Association 

Using women’s experiences in colonial India, Korea, 

and sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, Modern 

Women Modernizing Men explores how professionalism, 

religion, and feminism came together to enable 

missionary women to become the colleagues and 

mentors of Western and non-Western men. This book 

will be of interest to scholars engaged in gender, 

women’s, and postcolonial studies, as well as to 

readers interested in the history of the international 

missionary movement. 

2002, 212 pages, illustrations, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0953-1 / 978-0-7748-0953-5 paper $32.95 

When Coal Was King 

Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining 

Industry on Vancouver Island 

John R. Hinde 

The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important 

coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island 

during the early twentieth century. 

This book explains the origins of the 1912–14 strike 

by examining the development of the coal industry 

on Vancouver Island, the founding of Ladysmith, the 

experience of work and safety in the mines, the process 

of political and economic mobilization, and how 

these factors contributed to the development of identity 

and community. Informed by current academic 

debates, this readable history draws on extensive 

archival research, and will appeal to historians and 

others interested in the history of Vancouver Island. 

2003, 288 pages, 6 x 9” 


0-7748-0936-1 / 978-0-7748-0936-8 paper $29.95 



Colonizing Bodies 

Aboriginal Health and Healing in 


Mary-Ellen Kelm 


awarded by the Canadian Historical Association 

Using post-modern and post-colonial conceptions 

of the body and the power relations of colonization, 

Kelm explores the effect of Canada’s Indian policy on 

Aboriginal bodies and considers how humanitarianism 

and colonial medicine were used to encourage assimilation.Kelm’s 

cross-disciplinary approach results in an 

important and accessible book that will be of interest 

to academic historians and medical anthropologists 

as well as but also to those concerned with Aboriginal 

health and healing today. 

1998, 272 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0678-8 / 978-0-7748-0678-7 paper $32.95 

Parties Long Estranged 

Canada and Australia in the 

Twentieth Century 

Edited by Margaret MacMillan and 

Francine McKenzie 

Margaret MacMillan and Francine McKenzie bring 

together recent and original work to illuminate comparisons 

and contrasts between two former colonies 

of the British Empire. 

Parties Long Estranged covers the entire twentieth 

century and examines different aspects of Canadian- 

Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, 

military, constitutional, imperial, and diplomatic relations. 

The comparisons include Aboriginal rights, nation-building, 

middle powers, and attitudes towards 

the Empire. 

2003, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0976-0 / 978-0-7748-0976-4 paper $32.95 

The Burden of History 

Colonialism, and the Frontier Myth 

in a Rural Canadian Community 

Elizabeth Furniss 

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of 

Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city 

– Williams Lake – at the height of land claims conflicts 

and tensions. Furniss analyses contemporary 

colonial relations in settler societies, arguing that ‘ordinary’ 

rural Euro-Canadians exercise power in maintaining 

the subordination of aboriginal people through 

‘common sense’ assumptions and assertions about 

history, society, and identity, and that these cultural 

activities are forces in an ongoing, contemporary 

system of colonial domination. 

1999, 237 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0711-3 / 978-0-7748-0711-1 paper $32.95 

A Voyage to the North 

West Side of America 

The Journals of James Colnett, 

1786–89 

Edited by Robert Galois 

James Colnett, a veteran of James Cook’s second 

voyage to North America, was an early participant 

in the maritime sea otter trade. Between 1786 and 

1789 his two-vessel expedition traversed the Northwest 

Coast from Prince William Sound to Vancouver 

Island and wintered on the Hawaiian Islands. Colnett’s 

journal of this expedition is published here for the 

first time, along with illustrations from Colnett’s 

journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary 

and historical. Robert Galois provides extensive 

annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing 

the geopolitical context of the voyage and 

the intellectual background that shaped the writing of 

the journal. 

2003, 448 pages,6 x 9” 


0-7748-0855-1 / 978-0-7748-0855-2 cloth $95.00 

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At Home with the Bella Coola 

Indians 

T.F. McIlwraith’s Field Letters, 1922–4 

Edited by John Barker and 

Douglas Cole 

This volume is a rich complement to McIlwraith’s 

classic work The Bella Coola Indians (1948), incorporating 

his letters from the field as well as previously 

unpublished essays on the Nuxalk. Vivid and lively, 

the letters show the human side of the anthropologist, 

and provide a fascinating insight into the famous 

Northwest winter ceremonials and potlatch – events 

in which McIlwraith was one of the few white men 

privileged to participate as a dancer and partner. 


0-7748-0980-9 / 978-0-7748-0980-1 paper $34.95 

Making Vancouver 

Class, Status, and Social 

Boundaries, 1863 – 1913 

Robert A.J. McDonald 

Making Vancouver is a solid piece of historical 

research and writing that asks and answers the fundamental 

questions necessary to understanding the 

social evolution of Vancouver; [. . .] this book will 

now serve as the standard against which to measure 

any serious history of Vancouver. 

– Carlos A. Schwantes, Bookshelf 

1996, 335 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0570-6 / 978-0-7748-0570-4 paper $32.95 

Game in the Garden 

A Human History of Wildlife in 

Western Canada to 1940 

George W. Colpitts 

Game in the Garden examines grassroots conservation 

activities and identifies early slaughter rituals, 

iconographic traditions, and subsistence strategies 

that endured into the interwar years in the twentieth 

century. Drawing on local and provincial sources, 

Colpitts analyzes popular meanings and booster 

messages discernible in taxidermy work, city nature 

museums, and promotional photography. 


0-7748-0963-9 / 978-0-7748-0963-4 paper $32.95 

Tales of Ghosts 

First Nations Art in British Columbia,1922–61 

Ronald W. Hawker 

The years between 1922 and 1961, the “Dark Ages 

of Northwest Coast art,” have largely been ignored 

by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic 

decline. Tales of Ghosts reclaims this era, arguing 

that it was instead a critical period during which art 

played an important role in public discourses on the 

status of First Nations people in Canadian society. 


0-7748-0955-8 / 978-0-7748-0955-9 paper $29.95 

The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945–80 

The Pursuit of Identity and Power 

Wing Chung Ng 

Ng’s analysis allows for a poignant human dimension 

to frame the inevitable passing of the oldtimers’ 

generation, and also explains why these 

organizations continues to exist... This book is 

a welcome addition to studies of the Chinese in 

Vancouver, as this community continues to thrive 

on Canada’s west coast. 

– Paul Yee, British Columbia Historical News 

1999, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0733-4 / 978-0-7748-0733-3 paper $32.95 



Stepping Stones to Nowhere 

The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and 

American Military Strategy, 1867–1945 

Galen Perras 

In Stepping Stones to Nowhere, Galen Perras shows 

how efforts to make the Aleutian Islands a theatre of 

war rivalling Europe or the South Pacific foundered. 

This clash demonstrated problems with the way 

that American civilian and military decision makers 

sought to incite a global conflict. 

2004, 288 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0990-6 / 978-0-7748-0990-0 paper $32.95 

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Frigates and Foremasts 

The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia 

Waters, 1745–1815 

Julian Gwyn 

The first comprehensive study of naval operations 

involving North American squadrons in Nova Scotia, 

Frigates and Foremasts offers a masterful analysis 

of the motives behind the deployment of Royal Navy 

vessels between 1745 and 1815, and the navy’s role 

on the Western Atlantic. 

2003, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0911-6 / 978-0-7748-0911-5 paper $32.95 



Death So Noble 

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War 

Jonathan F. Vance 


awarded by the Canadian Historical Association, Death 

So Noble examines Canada’s collective memory of the 

First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. Taking 

an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience, it 

deals with cultural history, and considers the Great War 

as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a 

political and military event. 

1997, 334 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0600-1 / 978-0-7748-0600-8 paper $32.95 

Not the Slightest Chance 

The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941 

Tony Banham 

The book assembles a phase-by-phase, day-by-day, 

hour-by-hour, and death-by-death account of the 1941 

battle of Hong Kong. It considers the individual actions 

that made up the fighting, and the strategies, plans, 

and the many controversies that arose. It is a vital addition 

to the history of World War II and Hong Kong. 

2004, 280 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1045-9 / 978-0-7748-1045-6 paper $32.95 

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No Place to Run 

The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare 

in the First World War 

Tim Cook 

This acclaimed study provides a challenging re-examination 

of the function of gas warfare in the First 

World War, including its important role in delivering 

victory in the campaign of 1918 and its curious 

post-war legacy. It will be of interest both to historians 

and military buffs. 

1999, 304 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0740-7 / 978-0-7748-0740-1 paper $32.95 

Objects of Concern 

Canadian Prisoners of War Through 

the Twentieth Century 

Jonathan F. Vance 

This book provides a comprehensive account of how 

the Canadian government and non-governmental 

organizations like the Red Cross have dealt with 

the problems of prisoners of war. Vance examines 

Canada’s role in the formation of an important aspect 

of international law, traces the activities of a number 

of philanthropic agencies, and recounts the efforts 

of ex-prisoners to secure compensation for the longterm 

effects of captivity. 

1997, 330 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0520-X / 978-0-7748-0520-9 paper $25.95 

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The Halifax Explosion and 

the Royal Canadian Navy 

Inquiry and Intrigue 

John Griffith Armstrong 

This detailed exposition is a fascinating tale, rivalling 

the best courtroom drama, with a denouement 

that confounds the reader and explains why the 

Canadian Navy is still at odds with Haligonians. 

– Charles Godfrey, Literary Review of Canada 

2002, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0891-8 /978-0-7748-0891-0 paper $29.95 



Canada and Quebec 

One Country, Two Histories 

Robert Bothwell 

Relations between Canada and Quebec have never 

been easy. There has always been conflict between 

the two governments and between two points of 

view. The issue of separation continues to be complicated 

by the division of the huge national debt, 

the possibility of further territorial partition within a 

separate Quebec, the rights of First Nations people, 

and the spectre of separatist movements in Eastern 

Europe in recent years. 

1998, 296 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0653-2 / 978-0-7748-0653-4 paper $29.95 

Ancient People of the Arctic 

Robert McGhee 

Ancient People of the Arctic traces the lives of the 

Palaeo-Eskimos, the bold first explorers of the Arctic. 

McGhee ingeniously reconstructs a picture of this 

life at the margins. He discusses how the Palaeo-Eskimos 

spread across the entire Arctic, explains how 

they dealt with sharp climate changes that drastically 

altered their environment, offers glimpses into their 

spiritual practices and world view, and speculates 

about their eventual demise. 

2001, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-08543 / 978-0-7748-0854-5 paper $29.95 

Potlatch at Gitsegukla 

William Beynon’s 1945 Field Notebooks 

Edited by Margaret Anderson and 

Marjorie Halpin 

William Beynon attended and participated in five days 

of potlatches and totem pole raisings at the Gitksan 

village of Gitsegukla in 1945. His written records 

of Northwest coast potlatching are unsurpassed in 

documenting these activities among the Gitksan. 

This rare, first-hand, ethnographic account reveals 

the wonderful complexities of potlatch events. 

2000, 296 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0744-X / 978-0-7748-0744-9 paper $39.95 

A Pioneer Gentlewoman in 

British Columbia 

The Recollections of Susan Allison 

Edited by Margaret A. Ormsby 

In 1860, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British 

Columbia. Her record of the voyage, of Victoria, New 

Westminster, and Hope as they were in the 1860s, 

and her memories of the isolated but fulfilling life 

she, her husband, and their fourteen children led in 

the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys provide a 

unique view of the he pioneer mind and spirit. 

1991 (orig. pub. 1976), 205 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0392-4 / 978-0-7748-0392-2 paper $24.95 

The Klondike Stampede 

Tappan Adney 

This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally 

published in 1900 and has long been out of print. 

Tappan Adney, a New York journalist, was dispatched 

to the Yukon in 1897, at the height of the gold fever, 

to ‘furnish news and pictures of the new gold fields.’ 

The pages contain excellent descriptions of the people, 

places, events, and experiences of the Klondike 

stampede. 

1994, 496 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0490-4 / 978-0-7748-0490-5 paper $25.95 



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Beyond the City Limits 

Rural History in British Columbia 

R.W. Sandwell 

1999, 304 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0695-8 / 978-0-7748-0695-4 paper $32.95 

The Canadian Department of Justice 

and the Completion of Confederation, 

1867–78 

Jonathan Swainger 

2000, 176 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0793-8 / 978-0-7748-0793-7 paper $32.95 

Couture and Commerce 

The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s 

Alexandra Palmer 


0-7748-0826-8 / 978-0-7748-0826-2 cloth $75.00 

Published in association with the Royal Ontario Museum 

The Fort Langley Journals, 1827–30 

Morag Maclachlan 

1999, 288 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0665-6 / 978-0-7748-0665-7 paper $24.95 

A History of Domestic Space 

Privacy and the Canadian Home 

W. Peter Ward 

1999, 192 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0684-2 / 978-0-7748-0684-8 cloth $39.95 

Scars of War 

The Impact of Warfare on Modern China 

Edited by Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon 

2001, 222 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0841-1 / 978-0-7748-0841-5 paper $32.95 

Trading Beyond the Mountains 

The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793–1843 

Richard Somerset Mackie 

1997, 440 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0613-3 / 978-0-7748-0613-8 paper $32.95 

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and to view our complete backlist, please 

visit www.ubcpress.ca 

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» CLASSICS FROM THE PIONEERS OF 

BRITISH COLUMBIA SERIES 

Alex Lord’s British Columbia 

Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915–1936 

Edited by John Calam 

1991, 200 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0385-1 / 978-0-7748-0385-4 paper $24.95 

Hobnobbing with a Countess and 

Other Okanagan Adventures 

The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891–1900 

Jo Fraser Jones 


0-7748-0853-5 / 978-0-7748-0853-8 paper $29.95 

Letters from Windermere, 1912–1914 

Edited by Cole Harris and Elizabeth Phillips 

1984, 277 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0394-0 / 978-0-7748-0394-6 paper $22.95 

Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island 

Exploring Expedition 

Edited by John Hayman 

1989, 216 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0395-9 / 978-0-7748-0395-3 paper $24.95 

They Call Me Father 

Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola 

Edited by Margaret Whitehead 

1988, 222 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0396-7 / 978-0-7748-0396-0 paper $24.95 

This Blessed Wilderness 

Archibald McDonald’s Letters from the Columbia 

Jean Murray Cole 

2001, 308 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0833-0 / 978-0-7748-0833-0 paper $24.95 

To the Charlottes 

George Dawson’s 1878 Survey of the Queen 

Charlotte Islands 

Edited by Douglas Cole and Bradley Lockner 

1993, 222 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0415-7 / 978-0-7748-0415-8 paper $22.95 

The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund 

Hope Verney, 1862–65 

Edited by Allan Pritchard 

1996, 323 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-0573-0 / 978-0-7748-0573-5 paper $29.95 


Royal British Columbia Museum 

Up-Coast 

Forests and Industry on British 

Columbia’s North Coast, 

1870–2005 

Richard A. Rajala 

Up Coast offers the first 

comprehensive history of 

British Columbia’s centraland-north-coast 

forest 

industry. Rajala integrates 

social, political, and 

environmental themes in 

depicting the relationship 

of coastal people and 

communities to the forest 

from the late 19th century 

to the present. 

Relating these themes to a tradition of activism 

against capitalist inequities, Up Coast discusses 

First Nations, union and community protests against 

corporate exploitation of labour and resources. In addressing 

the modern era of land claims, environmentalism 

and capital-flight, Rajala turns to the complex 

and unresolved struggle for a more equitable and 

sustainable human relationship with British Columbia’s 

forests. 

Richard A. Rajala teaches history at the University 

of Victoria. His book Clearcutting the Pacific Rain 

Forest won the Forest History Society’s Charles A. 

Weyerhaeuser Award. 

Contents 

Preface 

Introduction 

1 Shallow Roots: Early Forest Industrialization, 1880–1914 

2 The Spruce Drive: World War 1 and the Forest Economy 

3 The Twenties: Pacific Mills Take Control 

4 From Slump to Boom: Depression, War and Changing 

Patterns in Froest Exploitation 

5 “No Camp Large or Small Will Be Missed”: The IWA and 

the Loggers’ Navy, 1935–70 

6 “Era of Error”: Sustained Yield and the Dynamics of 

Development, 1945–70 

7 Winding Down: Up-Coast Forests and Communities After 

the Boom 

Afterword: Up-Coast Up to Now 

Endnotes; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index 

Surveying Central British 

Columbia 

A Photojournal of Frank Swannell 

1920-1928 

Jay Sherwood 


Columbia traces the 

career of Frank Swannell, 

one of British Columbia’s 

most famous surveyors, 

following his return from 

World War I. Considered 

one of BC’s most famous 

surveyors, Swannell’s 

journals and outstanding 

photographs of central 

BC show the changes 

beginning to occur in this 

largely wilderness region. Swannell photographed 

First Peoples, settlers, various methods of transportation, 

and the daily life of a surveying crew. He 

took about 1500 photographs from 1920 to 1928, 

and the author has selected the best for this book; 

many are previously unpublished and have historical 

significance. In particular, Swannell’s photographs of 

the landscape of the Coast Mountains are especially 

relevant in demonstrating climate change in British 

Columbia. 

Surveying Central British Columbia is based 

primarily on Swannell’s diaries and photographs. 

It is supplemented by interviews with descendants 

of some members of Swannell’s surveying crew, 

research, and the author’s personal visits to several 

places where Swannell surveyed. It includes a list of 

Swannell’s photographs, which are archived at the 

BC Archives. 

Jay Sherwood, a historian and former surveyor, is 

the author of Surveying Northern British Columbia, a 

2005 BC Book Prize finalist. Sherwood now lives in 

Vancouver, where he works as a teacher-librarian. 

November 2007 

192 pages, 150 Illustrations, maps, 9.5 x 10.5” 

0-7726-5742-4 / 978-0-7726-5742-8 paper $39.95 

2006, 294 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7748-1054-8 / 978-0-7748-1054-8 cloth $49.95 


UBC Manchester Press University Press 

Beginning Postcolonialism 

John McLeod 

Beginning Theory 

An Introduction to Literary and 

Cultural Theory 

SECOND EDITION 

Peter Barry 

Postcolonialism has 

become one of the most 

exciting, expanding and 

challenging areas of literary 

and cultural studies 

today. Yet the variety of 

approaches, the range of 

debate and the technical 

language can make it difficult 

for new students to 

establish a firm foothold in 

this area. Designed especially 

for those studying the topic for the first time, 

Beginning Postcolonialism introduces the major areas 

of concern in a clear, accessible and organised 

fashion. It provides an overview of the emergence of 

postcolonialism as a discipline and closely examines 

many of its important critical writings. In particular, 

John McLeod demonstrates in practice how many of 

the ideas and concepts in the subject can be usefully 

applied when reading texts, as well as inviting students 

to develop their own views of postcolonialism. 

The third in the very successful Beginnings series, 

Beginning Postcolonialism will prove an invaluable 

to anyone studying english, history, philosophy, and 

theory. 

Contents 

1 From “Commonwealth” to “Postcolonial” 

2 Reading Colonial Discourses 

3 Nationalistic Representations 

4 The Nation in Questions 

5 Re-reading and Rewriting English Literature 

6 Postcolonialism and Feminism 

7 Diaspora Identities 

8 Postcolonialism and the Critics 

2000, 288 pages, 5 x 8” 

0-7190-5209-2 / 978-0-7190-5209-5 


The success of Beginning 

Theory has shown 

that there is no better 

introduction for students 

encountering literary and 

cultural theory for the 

first time. 

Expanded and updated 

from the original edition 

first published in 1995, 

Peter Barry has incorporated 

all of the recent 

developments in literary theory, adding two new 

chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and 

the re-emerging Narratology. They complement the 

original chapters on liberal humanism, Marxism, new 

historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonialism, 

feminism, deconstruction, queer theory, structuralism, 

poststructuralism, postmodernism, stylistics, 

and psychoanalytic theory. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Theory before “theory” – liberal humanism 

2 Structuralism 

3 Post-structuralism and deconstruction 

4 Postmodernism 

5 Psychoanalytic criticism 

6 Feminist criticism 

7 Lesbian/gay criticism 

8 Marxist criticism 

9 New historicism and cultural materialism 

10 Postcolonial criticism 

11 Stylistics 

12 Narratology 

13 Eco-criticism 

Appendices 

Where do we go from here? 

2002, 304 pages, 5 x 8” 

0-7190-6268-3 / 978-0-7190-6268-1 


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Manchester University UBC Press 

Art History 

A Critical Introduction to 

Its Methods 

Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk 

Joan of Arc 

La Pucelle 

Craig Taylor 

Art History: A Critical 

Introduction to Its Methods 

provides a lively and 

stimulating introduction to 

methodological debates 

within art history. Offering 

a lucid account of approaches 

from Hegel to 

post-colonialism, the book 

provides a sense of art 

history’s own history as a 

discipline from its emergence 

in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary 

debates. By explaining the underlying philosophical 

and political assumptions behind each method, along 

with clear examples of how these are brought to bear 

on visual and historical analysis, the authors show 

that an adherence to a certain method is, in effect, a 

commitment to a set of beliefs and values. The book 

makes a strong case for the vitality of the discipline 

and its methodological centrality to new fields such 

as visual culture. 

This book will be of enormous value to undergraduate 

and graduate students, and also makes its own 

contributions to ongoing scholarly debates about 

theory and method. 

Contents 


2 A variety of interpretations: a preview 

3 Hegel and the birth of art history 

4 Connoisseurship 

5 Formalism: Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl 

6 Iconography – Iconology: Erwin Panofsky 

7 Marxism and the social history of art 

8 Feminism 

9 Psychoanalysis 

10 Semiotics 

11 Postcolonialism 

12 Conclusion 

This sourcebook collects 

together for the first time 

in English the major documents 

relating to the life 

and contemporary reputation 

of Joan of Arc. For 

many, Joan represents the 

voice of ordinary people in 

the fifteenth century; the 

victims of high politics and 

warfare that devastated 

France. Her story ended 

tragically in 1431 when she was put on trial for 

heresy and sorcery by an ecclesiastical court and 

was burned at the stake. This book shows how the 

trial, which was organised by her enemies, provides 

an important window into late medieval attitudes 

towards religion and gender, as Joan was effectively 

persecuted by the established Church for her supposedly 

non-conformist views on spirituality and the 

role of women. 

Presented within a contextual and critical framework, 

this book encourages scholars and students to rethink 

this remarkable story. It will be invaluable reading for 

those working in the fields of medieval society and 

heresy, as well as the Hundred Years’ War. 

Contents 

Chronological table 

Introduction 

1 The life of Joan of Arc 

2 The trial of condemnation (February to May 1431) 

3 Debating Joan of Arc (1431–1450) 

4 The nullification trial (1455–1456) 

5 The memory of Joan of Arc 


2006, 392 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6847-9 / 978-0-7190-6847-8 

paper $35.95 

2006, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 

1 colour and 28 b/w illustrations 

0-7190-6959-9 / 978-0-7190-6959-8 




Exploring History 

1400–1900 

An Anthology of Primary Sources 

Peter J. Davies 

Chartism 

A New History 

Malcolm Chase 

Exploring history 1400– 

1900: An Anthology of 

Primary Sources reaches 

out to the reader across 

an expanse of 500 years. 

It offers a broad sweep 

of history in the light of 

three key themes: consumers 

and producers; 

beliefs and ideologies; and 

state-formation. Spanning 

continents and genres, the 

selection of documents illuminates the links between 

concurrent events in diverse places and illustrates 

the legacies of important social, religious and political 

trends. Previously unpublished accounts and newly 

translated material reveal new perspectives on both 

familiar and less well-known events. 

In capturing this spectrum of human activity and endeavour 

the book uniquely provides insights into the 

daily concerns and critical debates of the day, and 

the opportunity to engage with primary sources as 

tools for the knowledge creation and critical evaluation. 

It will be an essential companion to a wide range 

of courses in historical study and an engaging read 

for anyone interested in researching, reviewing or 

relating more closely to a rich historical past. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 England, France and Burgundy on the fifteenth century 

2 The European Reformation, 1500–1600 

3 The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1640–1690 

4 Slavery and Freedom 

5 Creating Nations, 1789–1871 

6 Nations and Empire, 1870–1914 

Index 

2006, 496 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-7588-2 / 978-0-7190-7588-9 

paper $29.95 

This is just what the subject 

has needed: a strong 

intertwined narrative and 

analysis, pulling out new 

themes as well as old and 

providing the human touch 

through brief biographies 

that link into and enhance 

the overall argument. 

A very important book 

combining scholarship 

with readability. 

– Professor John Walton, 

University of Central 

Lancashire 

Contents 

Illustrations 


Abbreviations 

1 May–September 1838: “I have in my hand a charter – the 

people’s charter” 

Chartist lives: Abram and Elizabeth Hanson 

2 October–December 1838: “The people are up” 

Chartist lives: Patrick Brewster 

3 January–July 1839: “The People’s Parliament” 

Chartist lives: Thomas Powel 

4 July–November 1839: “Extreme excitement and 

apprehension” 

Chartist lives: John Watkins 

5 November 1839–January 1840: After Newport 

Chartist lives: Samuel Holberry 

6 February 1840–December 1841: “The Charter and 

nothing less” 

Chartist lives: Elizabeth Neesom 

7 1842: “Toasting muffins at a volcano” 

Chartist lives: Richard Pilling 

8 1843–1846: Doldrums Years 

Chartist lives: Ann Dawson 

9 July 1846–April 1848: “A time to make men politicians” 

Chartist lives: William Cuffay 

10 April 1848 –1852: “Decent revolutionaries”? 

11 Chartist lives: “Ever present to the progressive mind” 

Money, prices and wages: a note 

A note on sources and further reading 

Index 

2007, 464 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6087-7 / 978-0-7190-6087-8 

paper $39.95 

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Manchester University Press 

The Debate on the Rise of 

British Imperialism 

Anthony Webster 

The Debate on the French 

Revolution 

Peter J. Davies 

This fascinating and highly 

useful book examines the 

rise of the British empire 

and the various debates 

among historians of imperialism 

over the past 

two hundred years. It discusses 

why the empire is 

so attractive to historians, 

why there is so much debate 

and controversy surrounding 

the subject, and 

how different generations of historians have read the 

various episodes in the history of the empire often 

radically differently. 

An engaging and useful work of historiography, this 

book will be essential reading for students of British 

imperialism attempting to get to grips with the 

subject. 

Contents 

1 The British Empire: an enduring fascination 

2 Justifying British imperialism: the changing rationale of 

the empire builders 

3 Capitalism’s critics and defenders: early twentieth 

century economic explanations of Victorian British 

imperial expansion 

4 Metropole, periphery and informal empire: the Gallagher 

and Robinson controversy of the 1950s and after 

5 Cultural explanations of British imperialism I: post 

colonial theory and its critics 

6 Cultural explanations of British imperialism II: religion, 

race, gender and class 

7 The metropole strikes back: the new debate about 

gentlemanly capitalism and empire 1980-2004 

8 The future of Britain’s imperial history? 

Index 

2006, 208 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6793-6 / 978-0-7190-6793-8 

paper $29.95 

This book explores and expounds 

the various types 

of revolutionary history 

and the various schools of 

historical thought on the 

French Revolution. The 

survey of writings is both 

‘chronological’ and, at 

the same time, ‘thematic’ 

- essentially, a vertical 

cross-section of historians 

from the early nineteenth 

century right up to the present day. From liberals to 

conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists. 

The Debate on the French Revolution focuses on 

those individuals who are generally perceived to be 

the ‘major’ or ‘pre-eminent’ figures within revolutionary 

historiography. For those students studying the 

French Revolution as part of a survey module on 

modern French history or world revolutions, or for 

those students studying the French Revolution as a 

special subject, this book will be an ideal startingpoint. 

In a rigorous but concise style, the book considers 

the main eras and phases of historiography. 

Contents 

Preface 

Introduction 

1 Immediate Responses 

2 Nineteenth Century – The Liberal Perspective 

3 Nineteenth Century – Idealist and Romantic Views 

4 Nineteenth Century – Tocqueville 

5 Nineteenth Century – Third Republic Historians 

6 Twentieth Century – Marxist ‘Orthodoxy’ 

7 Twentieth Century – “Soft Revisionism” 

8 Twentieth Century – “Hard Revisionism” 

9 Twentieth Century – Bicentenary Re-evaluations 

Postscript 


2006, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-7177-1 / 978-0-7190-7177-5 

paper $29.95 



The Healing Arts 

Health, Disease and Society in 

Europe, 1500–1800 

Edited by Peter Elmer 

The period from the Renaissance 

to the Enlightenment 

constitutes a vital phase 

in the history of European 

medicine. This volume contains 

a comprehensive selection 

of classical writing 

and up-to-date research in 

the field, providing vivid and 

detailed accounts of key 

aspects of medical thought 

and practice in the period. 

Contents 

Introduction / Peter Elmer 

1 Medicine in western Europe in 1500 / Sachiko Kusukawa 

2 The sick and their healers, 1500–1700 / Silvia De Renzi 

3 The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: 

Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting / Sachiko 

Kusukawa 

4 Medicine and religion in sixteenth–century Europe / Olé 

Peter Grell 

5 Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: the 

legacy of Paracelsus, 1560–1700 / Peter Elmer 

6 Policies of health: diseases, poverty and hospitals, 

1500–1800 / Silvia De Renzi 

7 New models of the body, 1600–1800 / Silvia De Renzi 

8 Women and medicine, 1500–1800 / Silvia De Renzi 

9 ‘The mad, the bad, and the sad’: the experience and 

treatment of mental illness in early modern Europe / 

Peter Elmer 

10 War and medicine in early modern Europe: the effects of 

the military revolution / Olé Peter Grell 

11 Healing places: environment, health and population, 

1500–1800 / Mark Jenner 

12 Medicine and health in the age of European colonialism / 

Andrew Wear 

13 Organization, training and the medical marketplace in 

eighteenth–century Europe / Laurence Brockliss 

Glossary; Acknowledgements; Index 

2004, 400 pages, 7½ x 9¾” 

0-7190-6734-0 / 978-0-7190-6734-1 


Health, Disease, and Society 

in Europe, 1500–1800 

A Source Book 

Edited by Peter Elmer and 

Ole Peter Grell 

The period from the 

Renaissance to the Enlightenment 

constitutes a 

vital phase in the history 

of European medicine. 

This volume contains a 

comprehensive selection 

of classical writing and 

up-to-date research in 

the field, providing vivid 

and detailed accounts 

of key aspects of medical 

thought and practice in the period. These are 

arranged by themes and so complement the companion 

volume of essays in The Healing Arts: Health, 

Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800. They 

are also accompanied by brief, scholarly introductions 

to ensure that they are readily accessible to 

both the specialist and general reader. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Medical practice and theory: The classical and 

medieval heritage 

2 The sick body and its healers, 1500–1700 

3 The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: 

Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting 

4 Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe 

5 Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: 

The legacy of Paracelsus 

6 Charity, the state and public health in early modern 

Europe 

7 New models of the body, 1600–1800 

8 Women and medicine in early modern Europe 

9 The care and cure of the insane in early modern Europe 

10 War and medicine in early modern Europe 

11 Environment, health and population, 1500–1800 

12 European medicine in the age of colonialism 

13 Medical organisation, training and the medical 

marketplace in eighteenth-century Europe 

Index 

2004, 400 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6737-5 / 978-0-7190-6737-2 


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Medicine Transformed 

Health, Disease, and Society in 

Europe, 1800–1930 

Edited by Deborah Brunton 

Health, Disease, and Society 

in Europe, 1800-1930 

A Source Book 

Edited by Deborah Brunton 

During the nineteenth century, 

medicine underwent 

a radical transformation. 

New understandings of 

the body opened up surgery 

and treatments, and 

hospitals became centres 

for care, research, and 

training. 

In Medicine Transformed, 

original essays by established 

scholars in the social 

history of medicine explore these developments 

and examine topics such as the military and colonial 

medicine, the role of women, and access to care. 

The essays provide an accessible introduction, setting 

nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine 

in its political, cultural, intellectual, and economic 

contexts. 

Contents 

Introduction / Deborah Brunton 

1 The localisation of disease / Laurence Brockliss 

2 The changing shape of the hospital / Hilary Marland 

3 Medical reform and medical practice / Deborah Brunton 

4 Gender and medicine: Midwives, nurses and women 

doctors / Maxine Rhodes 

5 The development of surgery / Thomas Schlich 

6 Public health: Dealing with disease in populations / 

Deborah Brunton 

7 Colonial and imperial medicine / Michael Worboys 

8 Asylums, psychiatry and mental disorder c.1815–1914 / 

Jonathan Andrews 

9 Motherhood and the state / Maxine Rhodes 

10 The fortunes of eugenics / James Moore 

11 The patient’s perspective: Access to care / 

Deborah Brunton 

12 Medicine in war / Roger Cooter 

13 The laboratory revolution / Harmke Kamminga 

Index 

2004, 440 pages, 7½ x 9¾” ” 

0-7190-6735-9 / 978-0-7190-6735-8 


Health, Disease and 

Society in Europe, 1800- 

1930 provides readers 

with unrivalled access to 

a comprehensive range of 

sources on major themes 

in nineteenth- and early 

twentieth-century medicine. 

The book covers issues 

such as the changing role 

of the hospital, disease, 

colonial and imperial 

medicine, women, war, the emergence of modern 

surgery, welfare and the state, and the growth of 

asylum. Extracts from contemporary writings vividly 

illustrate key aspects of medical thought and practice, 

while a selection of classic historical research 

and up-to-date work in the field gives a sense of our 

understanding of medical history. Introductions make 

the sources accessible both to the student and the 

interested general reader. The extracts are arranged 

by topic and thus complement the essays in the 

companion volume Medicine Transformed: Health, 

Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 The localisation of disease 

2 The changing role of the hospital 

3 The emergence of modern surgery 

4 The laboratory revolution 

6 Women in Medicine 

7 Disease in populations 

8 Colonial and Imperial medicine, 1800–1930 

9 Welfare and the state 

11 The growth of the asylum 

12 War and medicine 

13 Access to health 

2004, 328 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6739-1 / 978-0-7190-6739-6 




Power and the People 

A Social History of Central European 

Politics, 1945–56 

Edited by Eleonore Breuning, Jill Lewis 

and Gareth Pritchard 

This book covers various 

aspects of the social history 

of politics on both 

sides of the Iron Curtain in 

the period 1945 to 1956. 

Contents 

Introduction 

Workers 

1 Social protest in the 

Ruhr, 1945–1949 / Dick 

Geary 

2 Young workers, the 

Free German Youth (FDJ) and 

the June 1953 uprising / Alan McDougal 

3 Worker protest and the origins of the Austrian Social 

Partnership / Jill Lewis 

4 Workers in Hungary / Mark Pittaway 

Ethnic and linguistic minorities 

1 Between “Heimat” and “Expulsion”: The construction of 

the Sudeten German ‘Volksgruppe’ in post-war Germany 

/ Eva Hahn 

2 The Sorbs of Lusatia, the Socialist Unity Party and the 

Soviet Union (1945–1953) / Peter Barker 

3 The Carinthian Slovenes / Robert Knight 

4 Historical trauma in ethnic identity / Dagmar Kusá 

Youth 

1 ‘Reforming mentalities’: The Allies, young people, and 

‘new music’ in Western Germany, 1945–1955 / Toby 

Thacker 

2 Saints and devils: Youth in the SBZ/GDR, 1945–1955 / 

Mark Fenemore 

3 Austrian youth in the 1950s / Karin Schmidlechner 

4 Sokol and the Communists: The Battle for Czech Youth, 

1945–1948 / Mark Dimond 

Women 

1 Women, work and unemployment in post-war Germany / 

Vanessa Beck 

2 Women and the Left in post–war Germany / Gareth 

Pritchard 

3 Gender and abortion after the Second World War / Maria 

Mesner 

4 Hungarian women in politics / Andrea Petõ 

Glossary; List of Contributors; Index 

2005, 320 pages, 9 x 6 ” 

0-7190-7069-4 / 978-0-7190-7069-3 

paper $37.95 

Reflections on the Marxist 

Theory of History 

Paul Blackledge 

Paul Blackledge opens this 

study with a defence of the 

Marxist approach to the 

study of history against 

what he argues as being 

the naive empiricism of 

traditional historians and 

the relativism of the postmodernists. 

He moves on 

to outline Marx and Engels 

analyses of concrete historical 

processes and their 

critiques of the alternative 

historiographic methodologies of their contemporaries. 

He then discusses neglected historical works 

produced by Marxists in the half-century or so after 

Marx and Engels’ deaths. Two central chapters 

survey recent Marxist debates on, first, the nature 

of modes of productions, including slave, feudal and 

tributary systems, and the revolutionary transitions 

between them; and, second, the methodological 

debate over the issue of structure and agency in the 

movement of history. Finally, he shows the political 

relevance of these debates through a concluding 

survey of competing Marxist attempts to periodise 

the present, postmodern, conjuncture. 

This book is perfect for historians, students of cultural, 

social and political theory and anti-capitalist 

activists. 

Contents 

Preface and acknowledgements 

1 Marxism and history 

2 Marx, Engels and historical materialism 

3 Historical materialism: From the Second to the Third 

Internationals 

4 Modes of production and social transitions 

5 Structure, agency and the struggle for freedom 

Conclusion; Index 

2006, 232 pages, 9 x 6” 

0-7190-6957-2 / 978-0-7190-6957-4 

paper $29.95 

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Women in Italy, 1350–1650 

Ideals and Realities 

Edited by Mary Rogers and 

Paola Tinagli 

The Towns of Italy in 

the Later Middle Ages 

Edited by Trevor Dean 

This enlightening book aims to fill the gap in the 

literature on women’s lives from the mid-fourteenth 

to the mid-seventeenth century, a time in which Italian 

urban societies saw much debate on the nature 

of women. Indeed these were debates which would 

in subsequent years resonate throughout Europe 

as a whole. 


0-7190-7209-3 / 978-0-7190-7209-3 


The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages presents 

over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully 

selected and coordinated from the richest, most 

innovative and most documented society of the European 

Middle Ages: the urban civilization of Italy. 

2000, 300 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-5204-1 / 978-0-7190-5204-0 


The Kiss in History 

Edited by Karen Harvey 

An eminent group of cultural historians explore the 

kiss through sources as diverse as religious texts, 

popular prints, court depositions, periodicals, diaries 

and poetry. They demonstrate how cultural history 

has been shaped by a broad concept of culture, 

encompassing more than just the canons of art and 

literature, and integrating both ‘historical’ and ‘nonhistorical’ 

sources. 


0-7190-6595-X / 978-0-7190-6595-8 


Fascist Italy 

John Whittam 

Fascist Italy is a lively and concise introduction to the 

phenomenon of Italian Fascism and its impact. The 

author balances a re-evaluation of political, diplomatic 

and military developments with a full assessment 

of the more neglected domestic and cultural dimensions 

of the subject. 

1995, 174 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-4004-3 / 978-0-7190-4004-7 


Masculinities in Politics and War 

Gendering Modern History 

Edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, 

and John Tosh 

Building on three decades of research in women’s and 

gender history, this book opens up new avenues in the 

history of masculinity. The essays by social, political 

and cultural historians therefore map masculinity’s part 

in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and 

constructing welfare states. 

2004, 352ages, 6 x 9” 

5 b/w illustrations 

0-7190-6521-6 / 978-0-7190-6521-7 


Late Imperial Russia 

Problems and Prospects 

Edited by Ian D. Thatcher 

This volume offers a detailed examination of the stability 

of the late imperial regime in Russia. Accessible 

yet insightful, contributions cover the historiography 

of complex topics such as peasants, workers, revolutionaries, 

foreign relations, and Nicholas II. Each 

chapter also highlights a unique interpretation, suggesting 

new lines of inquiry and research. 

2005, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6787-1 / 978-0-7190-6787-7 




Munitions of the Mind 

A History of Propaganda 

THIRD EDITION 

Philip M. Taylor 

Munitions of the Mind 

forces us to fundamentally 

rethink how we popularly 

regard propaganda… it 

transcends traditional 

disciplines and is in a real 

sense a multidisciplinary 

tour de force. 

– Professor David Welch, 

University of Kent 

This classic work traces 

how propaganda has 

formed part of the fabric 

of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its 

broadest definition it has also been part of a process 

of persuasion at the heart of human communication. 

Stone monuments, coins, broadsheets, paintings 

and pamphlets, posters, radio, film, television, computers 

and satellite communications – propaganda 

has had access to ever more complex and versatile 

media. This third edition has been revised and expanded 

to include a new preface, new chapters on 

the 1991 Gulf War, information age conflict in the 

post-Cold War era, and the world after the terrorist 

attacks of September 11. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 Propaganda in the Ancient World 

2 Propaganda in the Middle Ages 

4 Propaganda in the Age of Revolutionary Warfare 

5 Propaganda in the Age of Total War and Cold War 

6 The New World Information Disorder 

2003, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6767-7 / 978-0-7190-6767-9 


The Vietnam Wars 

Kevin Ruane 

This lively source book chronicles the history of one 

of the bloodiest and most controversial conflicts 

of the twentieth century, beginning with the birth of 

the Vietnamese communist party in 1930 and ending 

with the triumph of the Vietnamese revolution in 

1975. Through a series of short essays, but most 

especially through the documents themselves, the 

book illustrates and illuminates both the conflict and 

the main historical debates about its origins, course 

and consequences. 

2000, 212 pages, 5 x 8” 

0-7190-5490-7 / 978-0-7190-5490-7 


The Rise of the Nazis 

SECOND EDITION 

Conan Fischer 

How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? 

Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated, 

and important discoveries continue to challenge 

long-standing assumptions. In this new edition of The 

Rise of the Nazis, Conan Fischer takes stock of the 

current debates and concludes that certain orthodoxies 

require rethinking. 

2002, 208 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6067-2 / 978-0-7190-6067-0 


The Black Death 

Rosemary Horrox 

This source book traces, through contemporary 

writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death 

in Europe, with particular reference to its spread 

across England from 1345 to 1349. 

1994, 384 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-3498-1 / 978-0-7190-3498-5 


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Marxism and History 

A Critical Introduction, SECOND EDITION 

S. H. Rigby 

Marx’s theory of history is often regarded as the 

most enduring and fruitful aspect of his intellectual 

legacy. This book establishes Marx’s claims about 

social structure and historical change, discusses 

their use in his own and his followers’ writings, and 

assesses the validity of his theories. Marxism and 

History is firmly established as an essential guide to 

this field of recent historiographical debate. 

1998, 336 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-5612-8 / 978-0-7190-5612-3 


Londinopolis, c.1500– c.1750 

Essays in the Cultural and Social History of 

Early Modern London 

Edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S.R. Jenner 

Events such as the Fire of London and the Plague, 

and historic locations like the Globe Theatre, are part 

of London’s heritage. Yet until recently, the history 

of the city between 1500 and 1750 has been little 

studied. The essays in this volume cover the themes 

of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space 

and place, and material culture. 

2000, 296 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-5152-5 / 978-0-7190-5152-4 


The Templars 

Translated by Malcolm Barber and 

Keith Bate 

This is a unique collection of translated sources, 

which in addition to documenting the origins of the 

Order and the circumstances of its suppression and 

dissolution, examines the many and varied facets 

of its activities during the twelfth and thirteenth 

centuries. It will be of interest to anyone interested in 

the medieval period, and is an invaluable source for 

those wanting to find out more about this most fascinating 

and enigmatic of institutions. 

2002, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-5110-X / 978-0-7190-5110-4 


Celtic Identity and the British Image 

Murray G H Pittock 

Celtic Identity and the British Image explores the 

idea of the Celt and definition of the so-called “Celtic 

Fringe” over the last 300 years. It is the only in-depth 

study of the literary and cultural representation of 

Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is 

based on an extremely wide-ranging grasp of issues 

of national identity and state formation. 

1999, 192 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-5826-0 / 978-0-7190-5826-4 


The Life-cycle in Western Europe, 

c.1300-c.1500 

Deborah Youngs 

This is the first study to examine the entire life-cycle 

in the late medieval period. Drawing on a wide 

range of secondary and primary material, the book 

explores the timing and experiences of infancy, childhood, 

adolescence and youth, adulthood, old age 

and, finally, death. 

2005, 176 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-5916-X / 978-0-7190-5916-2 


Popular Protest in 

Late-Medieval Europe 

Italy, France and Flanders 

Translated and annotated by Samuel Cohn Jr. 

The documents in this stimulating volume span from 

1245 to 1424 but focus on the “contagion of rebellion” 

from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of 

the plague. They tell gripping and often gruesome 

stories of personal and collective violence, anguish, 

anger, terror, bravery, and foolishness. 

2005, 176 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7190-6731-6 / 978-0-7190-6731-0 



UBC Transaction Press Publishers 

Besieged 

Seven Cities Under Siege 

J. Bowyer Bell 

History of Political Parties 

in Twentieth-Century Latin 

America 

Torcuato S. Di Tella 

J. Bowyer Bell’s Besieged 

is built on the premise that 

as long as men have constructed 

walls, other men 

have tried to scale them. 

From ancient Jericho 

and Joshua’s trumpet to 

London and the onslaught 

of the Luftwaffe, people 

have always devised cunning 

weapons, with all the 

skills at their command, to 

breach such barriers and invade the camps and fortified 

places of their enemies. 

Besieged is the story of seven great modern sieges: 

Madrid in the Spanish Civil War; London, Warsaw, 

Singapore and Stalingrad in World War II; Berlin 

during the Post World War II Airlift; and Jerusalem 

under Arab attack from four sides in 1947. Bell, a 

veteran historian, describes in detail the actual battles 

involved, clearly demonstrating the universality 

of sieges and siegecraft and showing that all these 

beleaguered places have things in common and obey 

certain basic laws or principles. Besieged is a mustread 

for those interested in modern conflict pondering 

the enigma of human endeavor in wall building 

and breaking involved in siegecraft. 

Contents 

Madrid, 1936–1939 

London, 1940–1941 

Singapore, 1941–1942 

Stalingrad, 1942–1943 

Warsaw, 1939, 1943, 1944 

Jerusalem, 1947–1949 

Berlin, 1945–1949. 

This heavily documented 

volume with an extensive 

bibliography would prove 

valuable to researchers 

and advanced students 

of Latin America. 

Recommended. 

– J.A. Rhodes, Luther 

College, Choice 

The general perception of 

modern Latin American political 

institutions emphasizes 

a continuing and random process of disorder 

and crisis, continually out of step with other regions 

in their progress toward democracy and prosperity. 

In History of Political Parties in Latin America, 

Torcuato S. DiTella demonstrates that this common 

view lacks context and comparative nuance, and is 

deeply misleading. Looking behind the scenes of 

modern Latin American history, he discerns its broad 

patterns through close analysis of actual events and 

comparative sociological perspectives that explain 

the apparent chaos of the past and point toward the 

more democratic polity now developing. 

History of Political Parties in Latin America is rich in 

historical description, but also in its broad review of 

social structures and of the strengths and weaknesses 

of political institutions. It is an important volume 

for Latin America area specialists and historians, 

political scientists, and sociologists. 

2003, 176 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0510-4 / 978-1-4128-0510-0 


2006, 335 pages 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0586-4 / 978-1-4128-0586-5 


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Transaction Publishers UBC Press 

Mirrors of a Disaster 

The Spanish Military Conquest 

of America 

Gerard Chaliand 

Nomadic Empires 

From Mongolia to the Danube 

Gerard Chaliand 

In Mirrors of a Disaster, 

Gérard Chaliand narrates 

the major events that 

followed the Spanish conquest 

of Mexico and Peru 

with the scope and rhythm 

of an epic poem. He seeks 

to make meaningful the 

strict chronicle of a conquest 

through those who 

lived it. Human details and 

the broader political background 

bring to life one of history’s great tragedies. 

A new introduction by the author is included in this 

paperback edition. The comprehensive work is organized 

into three parts: “The Conquest of Mexico,” 

“The Conquest of Guatemala and Yucatan,” and 

“The Conquest of Peru.” In each section, the author 

provides a summary prior to, in many cases, a 

day-by-day account of the events as they unfolded. 

Enriched by significant contemporary documents 

Mirrors of a Disaster relates the many facets of the 

conquest, presenting the Indians’ perception of their 

defeat by the Spaniards, the conquerors’ narratives 

of the same events, and the author’s own retelling of 

a tragedy in which, he says, “the vanquished could 

not, ultimately, but be vanquished.” 

Contents 

Maps 

Introduction to the Transaction Edition 

Preface 

1 The Conquest of Mexico 

2 The Conquest of Guatemala and Yucatan 

3 The Conquest of Peru 

Conclusion 

Bibliography; Chronology; Index 

2005, 257 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0471-X / 978-1-4128-0471-4 


The book’s conciseness, 

coupled with its ample time 

lines and chronologies, 

makes it an ideal introduction 

to Inner Asian history. 

But its masterful grasp of 

the disparate impact of 

steppe nomad incursions 

on various Eurasian civilizations 

through time also 

renders it a worthy read for 

seasoned historians. 

– E. J. Vajda, Choice 

Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years 

of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire 

of Genghis-Khan and his heirs, as is well known, 

was the greatest empire in world history. For 2,000 

years, the steppe areas of Asia, from the borders 

of Manchuria to the Black Sea, were a “zone of 

turbulence,” threatening settled peoples from 

China to Russia and Hungary, including Iran, India, 

the Byzantine empire, and even Syria. It was a true 

world stage that was affected by these destructive 

nomads. 

Contents 

1 Introduction. 

The impact of the nomads; Nomads and settled peoples; 

The nomadic model: the Scythians 

2 The military fronts of the Altaic nomads 

The Chinese front; The Indo-Iranian front; The Byzantine 

front; The Russian front; The exception of western 

Europe 

3 The apogee of the nomads: Mongols and Turkic-speakers 

The Mongols; The Turkic-speakers; The eyewitnesses 

4 The revenge of the sedentary peoples 

Russia after the Mongols; China after the Mongols 

Epilogue 

Appendices; Chronology; Bibliography; Index 

2006, 147 pages 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0555-4 / 978-1-4128-0555-1 




Memory, History, Nation 

Contested Pasts 

Edited by Katharine Hodgkin and 

Susannah Radstone 

The Meaning of History 

Nikolai Berdyaev 

With a new introduction by Maria Banerjee 

In the last decade, a focus 

on memory in the human 

sciences has encouraged 

new approaches to the 

study of the past. The 

chapters in this volume offer 

a complex awareness 

of the workings of memory, 

and the ways in which 

different or changing histories 

may be explained. 

They explore the relation 

between individual and social memory, between real 

and imaginary, event and fantasy, history and myth. 

Contradictory accounts, or memories in direct contradiction 

to the historical record are not always the 

sign of a repressive authority attempting to cover 

something up. The tension between memory as a 

safeguard against attempts to silence dissenting 

voices, and memory’s own implication in that silencing, 

runs throughout the book. 

Topics covered range from the Basque country to 

Cambodia, from Hungary to South Africa, from the 

Finnish Civil War to the cult Jim Jarmusch movie Dead 

Man, from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Australia. 

“Transforming Memory” is concerned primarily 

with the social and personal transmission of memory 

across time and generations. “Remembering Suffering: 

Trauma and History” brings the after-effects 

of catastrophe to the fore. “Patterning the National 

Past,” the relation between nation and memory is 

the central issue. “And Then Silence” reflects on the 

complex, multiple meaning of silence and oblivion, 

wherein amnesia is often used as a figure for the 

denial of shameful pasts. 

In her brilliant new opening 

essay, Maria Banerjee 

says of Berdyaev, “he was 

never more than a curious 

but unwelcome guest 

in history. He fearlessly 

engaged it on the level of 

ideas while remaining alien 

to its means and ends, 

gifted with an incurable 

longing for transcendence.” 

Witness to two 

world wars, Berdyaev observed the destruction of 

established cultures in the traumatic birth of new 

systems. Arrested on political suspicion – by Czarist 

and then by Bolshevik police – he died in exile in 

France in 1948, carrying forth his intellectual work 

until the end. 

Berdyaev considered the philosophy of history as a 

field that laid the foundations of the Russian national 

consciousness. Its disputes were centered on 

distinctions between slavophiles and Westerners, 

East and West. The Meaning of History was an early 

effort, following World War I, that attempted to revive 

this perspective. With the removal of Communism as 

a ruling system in Russia, that nation returned to an 

elaboration of a religious philosophy of history as the 

specific mission of Russian thought. This volume thus 

has contemporary significance. The book is remarkable 

for its powerful stylistic grace and astonishingly 

contemporary feeling. 

2005, 274 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0497-3 / 978-1-4128-0497-4 


2004, 264 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0488-4 / 978-1-4128-0488-2 


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Transaction Publishers UBC Press 

Living Through the 

Soviet System 

Edited by Daniel Bertaux, Paul 

Thompson, and Anna Rotkirch 

The Chinese Machiavelli 

3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft 

Dennis Bloodworth and 

Ching Ping Bloodworth 

For a period of over seventy 

years after the 1917 

revolutions in Russia, 

talking about the past, 

either political or personal, 

became dangerous. The 

situation changed dramatically 

with the new policy 

of glasnost at the end of 

the 1980s. The result was 

a flood of reminiscence, 

almost nightly on television, 

and more formally collected by new Russian 

oral history groups and also by Western researchers. 

Daniel Bertaux and Paul Thompson both began collecting 

life story and family history interview material 

in the early 1990s, and this book is the outcome of 

their initiative. 

Living Through the Soviet System analyzes, through 

personal accounts, how Russian society operated 

on a day-to-day level. It contrasts the integration 

of different social groups: the descendents of the 

pre-revolutionary upper classes, the new industrial 

working class, or the ethnically marginalized Russian 

Jews. Because of its basis in direct testimonies, the 

book reveals in a highly readable and direct style 

the meaning for ordinary men and women of living 

through those seven dark decades of a great European 

nation. 

Because of the centrality of Soviet Russia to the 

history of the twentieth-century world, this book will 

be of interest to a wide range of readers. It will be of 

importance to students, researchers and teachers of 

history and sociology, as well as specialists in East 

European and other communist societies. 

2005, 277 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0487-6 / 978-1-4128-0487-5 


Machiavelli drew on 2000 

years of history to develop 

theories on how to make 

war, how to win battles, 

and how to gain power and 

keep it. Using Machiavelli 

as a springboard, Dennis 

and Ching Ping Bloodworth 

boldly and adroitly 

map out 3000 years of 

Chinese political-military 

history – from Confucius to 

Mao Zedong – using Machiavell’s discourse of power 

politics. They reveal a pageantry of Chinese historical 

figures, from wise strategists, heroic generals, crafty 

statesmen, and ruthless emperors to brave knightserrant, 

and from stately Confucian philosophers to 

shrewd, cunning Legalist thinkers, without the usual 

Confucian restraint. 

The Chinese Machiavelli intends to help Western 

readers, who may be puzzled by Chinese diplomatic 

and military strategy, understand the principles that 

have guided both past and present Chinese leaders. 

Within the framework of a chronological history concentrating 

on power politics and using the social and 

cultural scene as a backdrop, the Bloodworths use 

China’s long history to find answers. 

Although The Chinese Machiavelli is authored for the 

general public rather than for the specialist, the latter 

will also benefit from reading this history. The authors 

describe the continuity of Chinese history and reveal 

how knowledge of China’s past sheds light on the 

political behavior of China’s rulers today. 

2004, 369 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7658-0568-5 / 978-0-7658-0568-3 




Before the Fall 

An Inside View of the 

Pre-Watergate White House 

William Safire 

The Stasi Files Unveiled 

Guilt and Compliance in 

a Unified Germany 

Barbara Miller 

In Before the Fall, William Safire discusses Richard 

Nixon as president, covering the Vietnam War, foreign 

policy, economics, and race relations. He describes 

Nixon as a partisan working to form an alignment 

across party lines, successful in many respects 

before the president tolerated the excesses that 

eventually corrupted his administration. Finally, he 

reveals Nixon, the person, as a mixture of Woodrow 

Wilson, Machiavelli, Theodore Roosevelt, and Shakespeare’s 

Cassius – an idealistic conniver evoking the 

strenuous life while he thinks too much. 

2005, 735 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-4128-0466-3 / 978-1-4128-0466-0 


In 1992 the massive files of East Germany’s infamous 

Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, were 

made publicly available and thousands of former East 

Germans began to confront their contents. Finally it 

was possible for ordinary citizens to ascertain who 

had worked for the Stasi, either on a full-time basis 

or as an “unofficial employee,” the Stasi’s term for 

an informer. The revelations from these documents 

sparked feuds old and new among a population 

already struggling through enormous social and 

political upheaval. Drawing upon the Stasi files and 

upon interviews with one-time informers, this book 

examines the impact of the Stasi legacy in united 

Germany. 

2004, 166 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-7658-0811-0 / 978-0-7658-0811-0 


Classical Islam 

A History, 600 A.D. to 1258 A.D. 

G. E. von Grunebaum 

Historical Sketch of 

the Cherokee 

James Mooney 

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty 

appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens 

by reminding us that “the essence of a society is in 

a sense identical with its history.” Classical Islam 

also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam, 

despite its triumphs on the fields of battle, telling 

its history is the only way open to us to render that 

essence accessible and show it from all sides. The 

work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers 

an interpretation of the world, a way of life, and a 

style of thinking, that goes far beyond institutional 

or political supports. The relevance of this historical 

perspective is beyond dispute. 

2005, 243 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-202-30767-0 / 978-0-202-30767-1 


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When James Mooney studied the Cherokee 

from1887 to 1900, they were the largest and most 

important Indian tribe in the United States. His account 

of their history from the time of their first 

contact with whites until the end of the nineteenth 

century is more than a sequence of battles won and 

lost, treaties signed and broken, towns destroyed 

and people massacred. There is humanity along with 

inhumanity in the relations between the Cherokee 

and other groups, Indian and non-Indian; there is fortitude 

and persistence balanced with disillusionment 

and frustration. In these respects, the history of the 

Cherokee epitomizes the experience of most Native 

Americans. 

2004, 287 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-202-30817-0 / 978-0-202-30817-3 



Michigan State University UBC Press 

Quebec During the American 

Invasion, 1775–1776 

The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel 

Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams 

Edited by Michael P. Gabriel et al. 

Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal 

of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin 

Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite 

rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. 

While other sources have shown how British soldiers 

and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the 

seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 

1775–1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian 

peasants (les habitants) who made up the vast majority 

of the population; in other words, the journal helps 

explain why Quebec did not become the “fourteenth 

colony.” 

2005, 192 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87013-740-9 / 978-0-87013-740-2 

cloth $34.95 CRO 

Transatlantic Rebels 

Agrarian Radicalism in 

Comparative Context 

Edited by Thomas Summerhill and 

James C. Scott 

This collection examines agrarian radicalism in 

comparative context from 1500 to the present. What 

unifies the studies is an interest in the ways agrarian 

people in the Atlantic world interacted with each 

other, shared ideas, developed new crops or methods, 

or formulated critiques of the existing order. All 

agree, to varying extents, that the Atlantic world is 

best conceptualized not as a rigid barrier between 

nations, peoples, and cultures, but rather a frontier, a 

permeable space with eddies and currents of ideas, 

cultivars, and human beings. In addition, “radicalism” 

can be found not only in the political realm, but also 

in the rate and extent of social, economic, and environmental 

change. 

2004, 192 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87013-727-1 / 978-0-87013-727-3 


Bending Spines 

The Propagandas of Nazi Germany 

and the German Democratic Republic 

Randall L. Bytwerk 

La Nouvelle France 

The Making of French Canada – 

A Cultural History 

Peter N. Moogk 

In many ways, modern totalitarian movements 

present worldviews that are religious in nature. Nazism 

and Marxism-Leninism presented themselves 

as explanations for all of life: culture, morality, science, 

history, and recreation. They provided people 

with reasons for accepting the status quo. Bending 

Spines examines the full range of persuasive 

techniques used by Nazi Germany and the German 

Democratic Republic, and concludes that both systems 

failed in part because they expected more of 

their propaganda than it was able to deliver. 

2004, 192 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87013-710-7 / 978-0-87013-710-5 


Peter Moogk’s La Nouvelle France is a candid exploration 

of the troubled historical relationship that 

exists between the inhabitants of French- and Englishspeaking 

Canada. It is a long- overdue study of the 

colonial social institutions, values, and experiences 

that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws 

on a rich body of evidence and traces the roots of 

the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth 

century. In so doing, he discovers a New France 

vastly different from the one portrayed in popular 

mythology. 

2001, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87013-528-7 / 978-0-87013-528-6 



UBC University Pressof Washington Press 

Native Seattle 

Histories from the 

Crossing-Over Place 

Bringing Indians to the Book 

Albert Furtwangler 

Coll Thrush 

This is the best book, by 

far, that I have ever read 

about Indians and cities. 

Thrush’s excavation and 

analysis are deep and 

wide-ranging, his narrative 

impassioned and 

engaging. A fantastic 

contribution. 

– Ned Blackhawk, author 

of Violence over the Land: 

Indians and Empires in 

the Early American West 

In Seattle, the strands of urban and Indian history 

have always been intertwined. Including an atlas of 

indigenous Seattle created with linguist Nile Thompson, 

Native Seattle is a new kind of urban Indian history, 

a book with implications that reach far beyond 

the region. 

Contents 

Preface 

1 The Haunted City 

2 Terra Miscognita 

3 Seattle Illahee 

4 Mr. Glover’s Imbricated City 

5 City of the Changers 

6 The Woven Coast 

7 The Changers, Changed 

8 On the Cusp of Past and Future 

9 Urban Renewal in Indian Territory 

10 The Returning Hosts 

An Atlas of Indigenous Seattle, by Coll Thrush and Nile 

Thompson; maps by Amir Sheikh 


2007, 376 pages, 6 x 9” 

32 illustrations 

0-295-98700-6 / 978-0-295-98700-2 

cloth $34.95 

Albert Furtwangler tackles 

a complicated subject 

and makes it understandable 

and a pleasure to 

read. Bringing Indians 

to the Book provides 

a compelling window 

through which to view the 

first contacts that took 

place between whites 

and Indians in the Pacific 

Northwest. 

– Journal of the West 

Bringing Indians to the Book recounts the experiences 

of 19th-century missionaries to the Pacific Northwest 

and of the explorers on the Lewis and Clark 

Expedition who preceded them. Though they differed 

greatly in methods and aims, missionaries and 

explorers shared a crucial underlying cultural characteristic: 

they were resolutely literate, carrying books 

not only in their baggage but also in their most commonplace 

thoughts and habits, and they came west 

in order to meet, and attempt to change, groups of 

people who for thousands of years had passed on 

their memories, learning, and values through words 

not written, but spoken or sung aloud. 

Contents 

Introduction 

1 On the Authority of William Clark 

2 Columbia Rediviva 

3 The Bookish Invaders 

4 Denying the Salmon God 

Appendix: The Disosway and Walker Letters 

Notes; Works Cited; Index 

2005, 248 pages, 6 x 9” 

10 illustrations, map 

0-295-98523-2 / 978-0-295-98523-7 


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University of Washington UBC Press 

A Life Disturbed 

My Pacific War Revisited 

Merrel Clubb 

Alaska, An American Colony 

Stephen Haycox 

An exceptional storyteller 

with an analytical 

eye, Merrel Clubb has 

gathered the letters he 

sent his parents from the 

Pacific Theater of World 

War II and his subsequent 

reflections on that war 

and on his life into a kind 

of then-and-now memoir. 

The letters are a treasure 

trove of humor, anxiety, 

and hope, revealing a young man thrust into a war 

that he does not understand. Through this exceptional 

portal on the past, we learn of the tragic absurdity 

of war; of a soldier trained for naval warfare and then 

sent into land battle with weapons he’d never before 

fired; of command post latrines at which even commanding 

officers were sitting ducks; of the ghoulish 

trophies and mementos that soldiers collected from 

the battlefields. 

For Clubb, as for so many veterans, the war does not 

end with the victory over Japan. Despite the intervening 

years, Clubb finds that the haunting experiences 

of over half a century ago echo still. Even in the solitude 

of the forest, in the hunting parties he meets, in 

the animals he himself kills, he hears again the sound 

of battle, and sees again the faces of the victims of 

war. Part letters, part memoir, and part scholarly 

analysis, this volume ranges over a vast, colorful, 

and weighted territory, exploring the psychological 

terrain of a life disturbed, and forever changed, by 

war. 

Contents 

Preface; The Life Disturbed; Preparation for Battle; Kiska; 

Makin; Honolulu Interlude; Guam; Iwo Jima; San Diego; Sixty 

Years After; The War and My Life; Abbreviations; Notes 

2005, 252 pages, 5.5 x 8.5” 

0-295-98536-4 / 978-0-295-98536-7 


Having read every general 

history of Alaska from 

Bancroft to the present, 

and many studies of special 

Alaskan topics, and 

having lived in Alaska for 

more than forty years – I 

have only one comment: 

Alaska: An American 

Colony is by far the finest 

history of Alaska yet 

produced. 

– Wallace M. Olson, 

Professor of Anthropology, 

Emeritus, University of Alaska 

Contents 

Introduction: Alaska Geography and the Anthropology of 

Its Native Peoples 

Part 1: Russian America 

1 Russian America, an Introduction 

2 ussian Eastward Expansion and the Kamchatka 

Expeditions 

3 Exploitation and the Origins of the Contest of Sovereignty 

4 Grigorii Shelikhov and the Russian American Company 

5 Aleksandr Baranov 

6 Russian America 

7 The Sale of Russian America 

Part 1: American Alaska 

8 American Alaska, an Introduction 

9 Taking the Measure of Alaska: The Alaska Purchase and 

the Politics of the Early Economy 

10 National Currents in Alaska: The Gold Rush and 

Progressive Reform 

11 Pioneer Alaska: The Last Frontier 

12 War and the Transition to Statehood 

13 Modern Alaska: The Last Wilderness 

Epilogue 


2006, 392 pages, 6 x 9” 

38 illustrations; maps 

0-295-98629-8 / 978-0-295-98629-6 



UBC Washington Press State University Press 

The Mapmaker’s Eye 

David Thompson on 

the Columbia Plateau 

Jack Nisbet 

Lewis and Clark Trail Maps 

A Cartographic Reconstruction 

VOLUME III 

Martin Plamondon II 

Between 1801 and 1812, 

North West Company fur 

trader, explorer, and cartographer 

David Thompson 

established two 

viable trade routes across 

the Rocky Mountains in 

Canada and systematically 

surveyed the entire 

1,250-mile course of the 

Columbia River. In The Mapmaker’s Eye, Jack Nisbet 

utilizes fresh research to convey how Thompson 

experienced the sweep of human and natural history 

etched across the Columbia drainage. He places 

Thompson’s movements within the larger contexts 

of the European Enlightenment, the British fur trade 

economy, and American expansion as represented 

by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 

Contents 

1 A Mathematical Boy 

2 Lure of the Columbia 

3 Across the Divide 

4 Among the Kootenai and Salish 

5 A Critical Situation 

6 A Voyage Down the Columbia 

7 Legacy 

8 Appendices 

Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Illustration List; Map List; 

Artists’ Bios; Index 

2005, 192 pages, 9 x 10 ½” 

0-87422-285-0 / 978-0-87422-285-2 

paper $36.95 

After crossing the Bitterroot 

Range and canoeing 

down the cataract-filled 

Snake River, the Corps of 

Discovery finally reached 

the long-sought Columbia 

River in the autumn of 

1805. Lewis and Clark 

Trail Maps Volume III continues 

the cartographic 

reconstruction of the 

explorers’ trek as they set out from the Snake-Columbia 

junction on the final leg of their journey to 

the sea. 

In addition to intricately mapping the Columbia’s 

great rapids, desert and rain-forest shorelines, spectacular 

mountain gorge, and broad estuary, Volume III 

reveals the vast number of Native American villages 

that lined the River of the West in Lewis and Clark’s 

time. Additional maps and illustrations depict Fort 

Clatsop, Cascade volcanoes, coastal explorations, 

and compare the modern beds of streams to their 

courses at the time of the exploration. 

2004, 240 pages, 9 x 12” 

0-87422-266-4 / 978-0-87422-266-1 



A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume I 


2000, 206 pages, 9 x 12” 

0-87422-233-8 / 978-0-87422-233-3 



A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume II 


2002, 240 pages, 9 x 12” 

0-87422-243-5 / 978-0-87422-243-2 


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Oregon State University UBC Press 

American Sportsmen and 

the Origins of Conservation 

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED 

John F. Reiger 

Skookum 

An Oregon Pioneer Family’s 

History and Lore 

Shannon Applegate 

John Reiger’s work has been hailed as an authoritative 

look at early conservationists; now his landmark 

book is available in an expanded edition that broadens 

its historic sweep. In this new edition, Reiger 

traces the antecedents of the sportsmen’s conservation 

movement to the years before the Civil War. He 

extends his coverage into the present by demonstrating 

how the nineteenth-century sportsman’s code 

– with its demand for taking responsibility for the 

total environment – continues to be the cornerstone 

of the sporting ethic. 

20050, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87071-487-2 / 978-0-87071-487-0 


With the skill of a historian and the craft of a novelist, 

Shannon Applegate recounts the story of her 

prominent pioneer family over several generationstheir 

dreams, hardships, mysteries, and joys. Skookum 

is an intimate, imaginative history that looks 

beyond the well-known lives of the Applegate men 

to give voice to the amazing women of the family. 

Selected for the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission’s 

Literary Oregon: 100 Books 1800–2000. 

2005, 464 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87071-119-9 / 978-0-87071-119-0 


A Majority of Scoundrels 

An Informal History of the Rocky 

Mountain Fur Company 

Don Berry 

Introduction by Stephen Dow Beckham 

Berry’s fresh and invigorating narrative captures 

the peak years of the fur trade in the Mountain 

West. These were heady times in which trappers 

and traders explored the far corners of the country, 

disputed territory with Native American tribes and the 

Hudson’s Bay Company, learned the lore of the land, 

and perfected their drinking, brawling, yarn-spinning, 

and boasting at the annual rendezvous. A new introduction 

by historian Stephen Dow Beckham looks 

beyond the romantic legends of the mountain men to 

set A Majority of Scoundrels in the context of recent 

scholarship on the American West. 

Oregon Indians 

Voices from Two Centuries 

Stephen Dow Beckham 

After forty years of research and writing on Native 

Americans and the American West, historian Stephen 

Dow Beckham has compiled a rich documentary 

history that strives to let Oregon Indians tell their own 

story. From “first encounters” in the late eighteenth 

century to modern tribal economies, this volume 

presents first-person accounts of events threatening, 

changing, and shaping the lives of Oregon Indians. 

This deeply researched volume gives fuller voice and 

greater clarity to Oregon’s complex past. 

2006, 608 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87071-088-5 / 978-0-87071-088-9 


2004, 456 pages, 6 x 9” 

0-87071-089-3 / 978-0-87071-089-6 



Left Coast Press 

Curating Oral Histories 

From Interview to Archive 

Nancy MacKay 

Shared Histories 

A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue 

Edited by Paul Scham, Walid Salem, 

and Benjamin Pogrund 

I found this to be one 

of the most helpful and 

reader-friendly books I 

have seen in a long time. 

MacKay very correctly 

makes the point that, 

while the focus often is 

placed on creating oral 

histories, there has not 

been enough discussion 

about caring for the 

materials once they have 

been created. This manuscript takes the complex 

archival and curatorial issues involved in caring for 

the materials and puts them into easy-to-understand 

language. In doing so, it helps not only archivists 

and curators, but oral historians working in all steps 

of the oral history process. 

– Barbara W. Sommer, author of The Oral History 

Manual 

Contents 

Preface 

Introduction 

1 Setting the Stage 

2 Archives Administration 

3 Legal & Ethical Issues 

4 Recording Technology 

5 Transcribing 

6 Cataloging 

7 Preservation 

8 Oral histories on the Internet 

9 Challenges of the 21st Century Notes 

Appendix A: Profiles of oral history programs 

Appendix B: Forms 

Appendix C: Glossary 

Appendix D: Resources 

Appendix E: Organizations and Professional Associations 

Index 

About the Author 

2006, 184 pages, 8.5 x 11” 

1-59874-058-X / 978-1-59874-058-5 


There is no single history 

of the Israeli-Palestinian 

conflict. There are two. 

This volume attempts to 

present both histories 

with parallel narratives 

of key points in the 19th 

and 20th centuries to 

1948. The histories are 

presented by 14 Israeli 

and Palestinian experts, 

joined by other historians, 

journalists, and activists, who then discuss the differences 

and similarities between their accounts. The 

reader has the opportunity to witness, at first hand, 

a respectful confrontation between the competing 

versions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Contents 

Foreword by Michael Burckhard Blanke 

Introduction 

1 Napoleon to Allenby: Processes of change in Palestine, 

1800-1918 / Ruth Kark; Continuity and change in 

Palestine: The last Ottoman period, 1856–1918 / 

Adel Manna 

2 The beginnings of Jewish settlement and Zionism, 

to World War I / Ran Aaronsohn; The prehistory of 

Palestinian nationalism / Issam Nassar 

3 The Palestinian national movement, 1919–1939 / 

Manuel Hassassian; Zionist diplomacy, 1914–1939 / 

Norman Rose 

4 The Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, and the 

shaping of Israeli society / Dalia Ofer; The Holocaust in 

the Palestinian perspective / Ata Qaymari 

5 The UN Partition resolution of 1948: Why wasn’t it 

implemented / Moshe Ma’oz; The paradox of the UN 

1947 partition plan / Walid Salem 

6 Israeli historiography of the 1948 War / Avraham Sela; 

The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1947–48 

/ Adel Yahya 

7 Holiness and conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / 

Moshe Amirav; Jerusalem refugees and property claims 

since the 1948 War / Salim Tamari; 

Discussion; Glossary; Map; Further Reading; Index 

2006, 304 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-59874-013-X / 978-1-59874-013-4 


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Paradigm Publishers 

Contentious Politics 

Charles Tilly and Sidney Tarrow 

Popular Contention in Great 

Britain, 1758–1834 

Charles Tilly 

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic 

conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational 

movements are forms of contentious politics that 

combine in Contentious Politics. The book presents 

a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, 

comparison, and explanation of these very different 

sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and 

contemporary cases, the book shows that similar 

principles describe and explain a wide variety of 

struggles as well as many more routine forms of 

politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written the book to 

introduce readers to an exciting new program of 

political and sociological analysis. 

June 2006, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-59451-246-9 / 978-1-59451-246-9 


Social Movements, 

1768–2004 

Charles Tilly 

Charles Tilly provides rich and often surprising 

insights into the origins of contemporary social 

movement practices, relations of social movements 

to democratization, and likely futures for social 

movements. 

Contents 

1 Social Movements as Politics 

2 Inventions of the Social Movement 

3 Nineteenth Century 

4 Adventures 

5 Twentieth-century Expansion and Transformation 

6 Social Movements 

7 Enter the Twenty-first Century 

8 Democratization and Social Movements 

9 Futures of Social Movements 

2005, 262 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-59451-043-1 / 978-1-59451-043-4 


Tilly has provided 

sociologists and historians 

with a magnificent 

empirical resource 

accompanied by a subtle 

and powerful framework 

of interpretation . . . It is 

not often that historical 

scholarship is so effectively 

harnessed to the 

sociological imagination. 

– American Journal of 

Sociology 

Between 1750 and 1840, ordinary British people 

abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as 

collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, 

public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of 

marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other 

sanctioned routines of social movement politics. The 

change created -- perhaps for the first time anywhere 

-- mass participation in national politics. 

Contents 

Preface 

Abbreviations 

1 From Mutiny to Mass Mobilization 

2 Contention Under a Magnifying Glass 

3 Capital, State, and Class in Britain, 1750–1840 

4 Wilkes, Gordon, and Popular Vengeance, 1758–1788 

5 Revolution, War, and Other Struggles, 1789–1815 

6 State, Class and Contention, 1816–1827 

7 Struggle and Reform, 1828–1834 

8 From Donkeying to Demonstrating 

Appendix 1. Sources and Methods 

Appendix 2. Major Acts by the British Government Directly 

Affecting Popular Association and Collective Action, 

1750–1834 

References; Index 

2005, 504 pages, 6 x 9” 

1-59451-120-9 / 978-1-59451-120-2 



UBC Author Press Index 

Adney, Tappan 55 

Anderson, Margaret 55 

Applegate, Shannon 77 

Armstrong, John Griffith 55 

Auger, Martin F. 40 

Ayukawa, Michiko Midge 28 

Backhouse, Constance 8, 50 

Backhouse, Nancy L. 8 

Banerjee, Maria 70 

Bangarth, Stephanie 29 

Banham, Tony 54 

Barber, Malcolm 67 

Barker, John 53 

Barman, Jean 25 

Barry, Peter 58 

Bate, Keith 67 

Beattie, Judith Hudson 49 

Beckham, Stephen Dow 77 

Bell, J. Bowyer 68 

Benidickson, Jamie 16 

Berdyaev, Nikolai 70 

Berry, Don 77 

Bertaux, Daniel 71 

Binnema, Ted 21 

Blackledge, Paul 64 

Bloodworth, Ching Ping 71 

Bloodworth, Dennis 71 

Bothwell, Robert 1, 55 

Bradbury, Bettina 11 

Breuning, Eleonore 64 

Brouwer, Ruth Compton 51 

Brunelle, Dorval 2 

Brunton, Deborah 63 

Buck, A.R. 44 

Buckner, Phillip 4 

Buss, Helen M. 49 

Bytwerk, Randall L. 73 

Calam, John 56 

Campbell, Claire Elizabeth 17 

Cavanaugh, Catherine A. 50 

Chaliand, Gerard 69 

Chapnick, Adam 8 

Chunn, Dorothy E. 45 

Clarkson, Chris 3 

Clubb, Merrel 75 

Cohn, Samuel Jr. 67 

Cole, Douglas 53, 56 

Cole, Jean Murray 56 

Colpitts, George W. 53 

Cong, Xiaoping 30 

Cook, Tim 38, 54 

Cruikshank, Julie 9 

Daly, Richard 45 

Darnell, Regna 9 

Davies, Peter J. 60, 61 

Dawn, Leslie 7 

Dawson, Grant 39 

Dawson, Michael 47 

Dean, Trevor 65 

Delaney, Douglas E. 41 

Di Tella, Torcuato S. 68 

Drees, Laurie Meijer 50 

Dudink, Stefan 65 

Dummitt, Christopher 34 

Durflinger, Serge 40 

Elmer, Peter 62 

Fischer, Conan 66 

Francis, R. Douglas 4 

Furniss, Elizabeth 52 

Furtwangler, Albert 74 

Gabriel, Michael P. 73 

Galois, Robert 52 

Gartner, Rosemary 50 

Geller, Peter 10 

Gillespie, Greg 15 

Goutor, David 5 

Granatstein, J.L. 41 

Grell, Ole Peter 62 

Griffiths, Paul 67 

Grypma, Sonya 37 

Gwyn, Julian 54 

Hagemann, Karen 65 

Haig-Brown, Celia 24 

Hak, Gordon 6 

Halpin, Marjorie 55 

Hare, Jan 25 

Harris, R. Cole 49, 56 

Harrison, Julia 9 

Hart, Michael 51 

Harvey, Karen 65 

Hatt, Michael 59 

Hawker, Ronald W. 53 

Haycox, Stephen 75 

Hayman, John 56 

Hinde, John R. 51 

Hodgkin, Katharine 70 

Horrox, Rosemary 66 

Howard, Richard 2 

Igartua, José 7 

Janovicek, Nancy 35 

Jenner, Mark S.R. 67 

Johnston, William 49 

Jones, Jo Fraser 56 

Kelm, Mary-Ellen 52 

Keshen, Jeffrey A. 42 

Klonk, Charlotte 59 

Kluckner, Michael 12 

Knafla, Louis 44 

Kulchyski, Peter 23 

Lackenbauer, P. Whitney 39 

Lary, Diana 31, 56 

Layman, William D. 12 

Lewis, Jill 64 

Lin, Hsiao-ting 33 

Lockner, Bradley 56 

Loo, Tina 16 

Lutz, John Sutton 18, 19 

MacKay, Nancy 78 

Mackie, Richard Somerset 56 

MacKinnon, Stephen 56 

Maclachlan, Morag 56 

MacMillian, Margaret 52 

Malcolm Chase 60 

Manore, Jean 17 

Mayne, Richard O. 38 

McDonald, Robert A.J. 53 

McGhee, Robert 55 

McKenzie, Francine 52 

McLaren, John 44, 45 

McLeod, John 58 

Meehan, John D. 48 

Menzies, Robert 45 

Miller, Barbara 72 

Miller, Bruce Granville 20 

Miner, Dale 17 

Moogk, Peter N. 73 

Mooney, James 72 

Moray, Gerta 25 

Morton, Desmond 43 

Murton, James 14 

Myers, Tamara 11 

Neylan, Susan 21 

Ng, Wing Chung 53 

Nisbet, Jack 76 

Nock, David A. 24 

Ormsby, Margaret A. 55 

Ostry, Aleck S. 6 

Palmer, Alexandra 56 

Perras, Galen 54 

Phillips, Elizabeth 56 

Phillips, Jim 50 

Pickles, Katie 24 

80 


Author / Title UBC Press Index 

Pittock, Murray G.H. 67 

Plamondon, Martin, II 76 

Pogrund, Benjamin 78 

Pritchard, Gareth 64 

Pyne, Stephen J. 13 

Quiring, David M. 10 

Radstone, Susannah 70 

Rajala, Richard A. 57 

Rak, Julie 48 

Reiger, John F. 77 

Richardson, Brian 46 

Richter, Andrew 49 

Rigby, S.H. 67 

Robertson, Leslie A. 47 

Rogers, Mary 65 

Roy, Patricia E. 26-27 

Ruane, Kevin 66 

Rutherdale, Myra 24, 51 

Rutherdale, Robert 42 

Safire, William 72 

Salem, Walid 78 

Sandlos, John 15 

Sandwell, R.W. 56 

Scham, Paul 78 

Scott, James C. 73 

Sheffield, R. Scott 43 

Sherwood, Jay 57 

Smith, Norman 32 

Stewart, W. Brian 22 

Storck, Peter L. 46 

Summerhill, Thomas 73 

Swainger, Jonathan 44, 50, 56 

Tarrow, Sidney 79 

Taylor, Craig 59 

Taylor, Philip M. 66 

Tester, Frank 23 

Thatcher, Ian D. 65 

Thompson, Paul 71 

Thrush, Coll 74 

Tilly, Charles 79 

Tinagli, Paola 65 

Toman, Cynthia 36 

Tosh, John 65 

Turkel, William J. 14 

Vance, Jonathan F. 54 

Von Grunebaum, G.E. 72 

Wagner, Jonathan 11 

Ward, W. Peter 56 

Warne, Randi R. 50 

Webster, Anthony 61 

Whitby, Michael 41 

Whitehead, Margaret 56 

Whittam, John 65 

Wright, Nancy E. 44 

Youngs, Deborah 67 

Titles 

Alaska, An American Colony 75 

Alex Lord’s British Columbia 56 

Alliance and Illusion 1 

American Sportsmen and the 

Origins of Conservation 77 

Ancient People of the Arctic 55 

Archive of Place 14 

Art History 59 

At Home with the Bella Coola 

Indians 53 

Avoiding Armageddon 49 

Awful Splendour 13 

Battle Grounds 39 

Be of Good Mind 20 

Before the Fall 72 

Beginning Postcolonialism 58 

Beginning Theory 58 

Bending Spines 73 

Besieged 68 

Betrayed 38 

Beyond the City Limits 56 

Black Death 66 

Bringing Indians to the Book 74 

Burden of History 52 

Canada and Quebec 55 

Canada and the British World 4 

Canada and the End of Empire 4 

Canadian Department of Justice 

and the Completion of 

Confederation, 1867–78 56 

Capital and Labour in the British 

Columbia Forest Industry, 

1934–74 6 

CCF Colonialism in Northern 

Saskatchewan 10 

Celtic Identity and the British 

Image 67 

Chartism 60 

Chinese in Vancouver, 1945–80 

53 

Chinese Machiavelli 71 

Chinese State at the Borders 31 

Classical Islam 72 

Clio’s Warriors 38 

Colonizing Bodies 52 

Commanding Canadians 41 

Contact Zones 24 

Contentious Politics 79 

Couture and Commerce 56 

Creating a Modern Countryside 

14 

Culture of Flushing 16 

Culture of Hunting in Canada 17 

Curating Oral Histories 78 

Death So Noble 54 

Debate on the French Revolution 

61 

Debate on the Rise of British 

Imperialism 61 

Despotic Dominion 44 

Do Glaciers Listen? 9 

Domestic Reforms 3 

Dominion and the Rising Sun 48 

Ermatingers 22 

Exploring History 1400–1900 60 

Fascist Italy 65 

Fight or Pay 43 

Fighting from Home 40 

Fort Langley Journals, 1827–30 

56 

Frigates and Foremasts 54 

From World Order to Global 

Disorder 2 

Game in the Garden 53 

Good Intentions Gone Awry 25 

Guarding the Gates 5 

Halifax Explosion and the Royal 

Canadian Navy 55 

Healing Arts 62 

Healing Henan 37 


Europe, 1500–1800 62 


Europe, 1800–1930 63 

Heiress vs the Establishment 8 

“Here is Hell” 39 

Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 

1891–1941 28 

Historical Sketch of the 

Cherokee 72 

Historicizing Canadian 

Anthropology 9 

History of Domestic Space 56 

History of Migration from 

Germany to Canada, 1850– 

1939 11 


UBC Title Press Index 

History of Political Parties 

in Twentieth-Century Latin 

America 68 

Hobnobbing with a Countess and 

Other Okanagan Adventures 

56 

Hometown Horizons 42 

Hunters at the Margin 15 

Hunting for Empire 15 

Imagining Difference 47 

Indian Association of Alberta 50 

Joan of Arc 59 

Journey to the Ice Age 46 

Kiss in History 65 

Kiumajut [Talking Back] 23 

Klondike Stampede 55 

Late Imperial Russia 65 



1670–1940 44 

Letters from Windermere, 

1912–1914 56 

Lewis and Clark Trail Maps 76 

Life Disturbed 75 

Life-cycle in Western Europe, 

c.1300–c.1500 67 

Living Through the Soviet System 

71 

Londinopolis, c.1500–c.1750 67 

Longitude and Empire 46 

Majority of Scoundrels 77 

Making Native Space 49 

Making Vancouver 53 

Makúk 19 

Manly Modern 34 

Mapmaker’s Eye 76 

Marxism and History 67 

Masculinities in Politics and War 

65 

Meaning of History 70 

Medicine Transformed 63 

Memory, History, Nation 70 

Middle Power Project 8 

Mirrors of a Disaster 69 

Modern Women Modernizing 

Men 51 

Munitions of the Mind 66 

Murdering Holiness 50 

Myth and Memory 18 

National Visions, National 

Blindness 7 

Native Seattle 74 

Negotiated Memory 48 

Negotiating Identities in 19th and 

20th Century Montreal 11 

New Histories for Old 21 

No Place to Go 35 

No Place to Run 54 

Nomadic Empires 69 

Northern Exposures 10 

Not the Slightest Chance 54 

Nouvelle France 73 


1870–1939 6 

Objects of Concern 54 

Officer and a Lady 36 

Oregon Indians 77 

Oriental Question 26 

Other Quiet Revolution 7 

Our Box Was Full 45 

Parties Long Estranged 52 

People and Place 50 

Pioneer Gentlewoman in British 

Columbia 55 

Popular Contention in Great 

Britain, 1758–1834 79 

Popular Protest in Late-Medieval 

Europe 67 

Potlatch at Gitsegukla 55 

Power and the People 64 

Prisoners of the Home Front 40 

Quebec During the American 

Invasion, 1775–1776 73 

Red Man’s on the Warpath 43 

Reflections on the Marxist Theory 

of History 64 

Regulating Lives 45 

Resisting Manchukuo 32 

Rise of the Nazis 66 

River of Memory 12 

Robert Brown and the Vancouver 

Island Exploring Expedition 56 

Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers 42 

Scars of War 56 

Selling British Columbia 47 

Shaped by the West Wind 17 

Shared Histories 78 

Skookum 77 

Social Movements, 1768–2004 

79 

Soldiers’ General 41 

Stasi Files Unveiled 72 

States of Nature 16 

Stepping Stones to Nowhere 54 


Columbia 57 

Tales of Ghosts 53 

Teachers’ Schools and the 

Making of the Modern Chinese 

Nation-State, 1897–1937 30 

Telling Tales 50 

Templars 67 

They Call Me Father 56 

This Blessed Wilderness 56 

Tibet and Nationalist China’s 

Frontier 33 

To the Charlottes 56 

Towns of Italy in the Later Middle 

Ages 65 

Trading Beyond the Mountains 

56 

Trading Nation 51 

Transatlantic Rebels 73 

Triumph of Citizenship 27 

Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s 

Bay Company Men on the 

Northwest Coast of America, 

1830–57 49 

Unsettling Encounters 25 

Up-Coast 57 

Vancouver Island Letters of 

Edmund Hope Verney, 

1862–65 56 

Vanishing British Columbia 12 

Vietnam Wars 66 

Voices Raised in Protest 29 

Voyage to the North West Side of 

America 52 

War of Patrols 49 

When Coal Was King 51 

White Man’s Province 26 

With Good Intentions 24 

Women and the White Man’s 

God 51 

Women in Italy, 1350–1650 65 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

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Scholarly Publications Programme). 

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to the Canada Council for the Arts in grateful 

recognition of its major contribution to all aspects of 

Canadian culture. 

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Design, layout, and production by Erin Gibbs, 

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2007 Sir John A. 

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for British Columbia 

2007 Clio Award 

for the Northern Region 

States of Nature 

Conserving Canada’s 

Wildlife in the Twentieth 

Century 

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Encounters, and Social 

Imagination 

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The Crosby family with their Tsimshian charges, 1884 (courtesy of Helen 

and Louise Hager), from Good Intentions Gone Awry, by Jan Hare and Jean 

Barman, page 25. 


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