Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.
***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***
N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.
July 1
Elizabeth Miller, Edward Little & Steven High, Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)
Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create, to actively involve the public in research, and to reconceptualize research for public consumption. As researchers are increasingly taking their research from the campus to the public arena, what are the ethics of, and expectations for, social impact? New technologies, platforms, and methods are challenging community-engaged artists, academics, and media makers to rethink their approaches to collaboration.
This book encourages practitioners to spend their time not only on “production,” but also on finding ways to use what is produced to open spaces of dialogue and action. Drawing on conversations with over thirty researchers and artists across multiple cultures and disciplines, it examines the ways in which oral historians, media producers, and theatre artists use art, stories, and participatory practices to engage creatively with their publics. The authors provide an overview of community-engaged practices and present case studies that grapple with issues of class struggle, gentrification, violence against women, and Indigenous rights.
Going Public offers insights into long-standing concerns around voice, aesthetics, appropriation, privilege, power dynamics, and the ethics of participation. It reveals that the shift towards participatory research and creative practices requires a commitment to asking tough questions about oneself and the ways that people’s stories are used.
Going Public is for researchers interested in collaborative approaches across a range of disciplines, including theatre, communications, history, education, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practitioners interested in collaborative approaches to performance, documentary media, and oral history.
Available Formats: Paperback (other formats will be available in the fall)
Publisher’s Link: https://www.ubcpress.ca/going-public
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Going-Public-Art-Participatory-Practice/dp/0774836636/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529590563&sr=1-7
Richard Goette, Sovereignty and Command in Canada–US Continental Air Defence, 1940–57 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)
The 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement entrenched a formal defence relationship between Canada and the United States – but was Canadian sovereignty protected in this seemingly unequal partnership?
Sovereignty and Command in Canada–US Continental Air Defence, 1940–57 documents the close and sometimes fractious air defence relationship between the two countries. Drawing on untapped archival material, Richard Goette challenges prevailing perceptions of eroded Canadian sovereignty. He argues instead that a functional military transition from an air defence system based on cooperation to one based on integrated and centralized command and control under NORAD allowed Canada to retain command of its forces and thus protect its sovereignty. Compromises between Canadian, American, and British military cultures, operational and doctrinal factors, Canadian sensitivities, and cordial professional working relationships all had roles to play in this transition.
Goette combines historical narrative with a conceptual analysis of sovereignty, command and control systems, military professionalism, and civil-military relations. In the process, he provides essential insights into the Royal Canadian Air Force’s paradigm shift away from its Royal Air Force roots toward closer ties with the United States Air Force and the role of the nation’s armed forces in safeguarding its sovereignty.
This book will appeal to military and air force historians in the Five Eyes nations; military educators; military and civilian students; military professionals; and aviation and air force enthusiasts. More broadly, those interested in war and society, military history, and Canadian-American relations will find it illuminating.
Available Formats: Hardcover
Publisher’s Link: https://www.ubcpress.ca/sovereignty-and-command-in-canada-us-continental-air-defence
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Sovereignty-Command-Canada-US-Continental-Defence/dp/0774836873/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529590563&sr=1-11
July 6
Brenden W. Rensink, Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018)
In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and react differently to Native identity and offers new insights into what it has meant to be “indigenous” or an “immigrant.”
Rensink’s findings counter a prevailing theme in histories of the American West—namely, that the East was the center that dictated policy to the western periphery. On the contrary, Rensink employs experiences of the Yaquis, Crees, and Chippewas to depict Arizona and Montana as an active and mercurial blend of local political, economic, and social interests pushing back against and even reshaping broader federal policy. Rensink argues that as immediate forces in the borderlands molded the formation of federal policy, these Native groups moved from being categorized as political refugees to being cast as illegal immigrants, subject to deportation or segregation; in both cases, this legal transition was turbulent. Despite continued staunch opposition, Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis gained legal and permanent settlements in the United States and successfully broke free of imposed transnational identities.
Accompanying the thought-provoking text, a vast guide to archival sources across states, provinces, and countries is included to aid future scholarship. Native but Foreign is an essential work for scholars of immigration, indigenous peoples, and borderlands studies.
Available Formats: Hardcover
Publisher’s Link: http://www.tamupress.com/product/Native-but-Foreign,9092.aspx
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Native-but-Foreign-Brenden-Rensink/dp/1623496551/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529590563&sr=1-9
July 27
Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, & Syrus Marcus Ware, eds., with Río Rodríguez, Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) as geographic subjects who model different ways of inhabiting and sharing space?
The volume describes city spaces as sites where bodies are exhaustively documented while others barely register as subjects. The editors and contributors interrogate the forces that have allowed QTBIPOC to be imagined as absent from the very spaces they have long invested in. From the violent displacement of poor, disabled, racialized, and sexualized bodies from Toronto’s gay village, to the erasure of queer racialized bodies in the academy, Queering Urban Justice offers new directions to all who are interested in acting on the intersections of social, racial, economic, urban, migrant, and disability justice.
Available Formats: Hardcover (other formats will be available in the fall)
Publisher’s Link: https://utorontopress.com/us/queering-urban-justice-2
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Queering-Urban-Justice-Formations-Toronto/dp/1487522851/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529592985&sr=1-1&keywords=queering+urban+justice
July 31
John H. Brumley, & James Marshall, Lookout Cave: The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2018)
In the mid-1960s as a young high school student John Brumley visited Lookout Cave for the first time and knew immediately that the site was exceptional. The cave, located in north central Montana, was initially discovered in 1920 but it wasn’t until 1969 that a field crew from the University of Montana excavated a large portion of the remote site. The materials recovered in that excavation resulted in a substantial collection of more than one thousand items of normally perishable wood, feathers, and sinew. The material was stored in cardboard boxes and paper field collection bags until the year 2000 when Brumley turned his attention to Lookout Cave once again to provides an analysis of the lithic, faunal, and organic material collected from this unique site.
In the absence of moisture and direct sunlight, the interior of the cave created excellent conditions for preservation. This fully illustrated volume features these artifacts and sheds new light on Plains culture and the centuries old use of this well-hidden space.
Available Formats: Paperback, PDF, ePub
Publisher’s Link: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120270
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Lookout-Cave-Archaeology-Perishable-Northern/dp/1771991798/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529591222&sr=1-1&keywords=lookout+cave
Better Late than Never
Valerie J. Korinek, Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985.
Challenging the preconceived narratives of queer history, Valerie J. Korinek argues that the LGBTTQ community has a long history in the prairie west, and that its history, previously marginalized or omitted, deserves attention. Korinek pays tribute to the prairie activists and actors who were responsible for creating spaces for socializing, politicizing, and organizing this community, both in cities and rural areas. Far from the stereotype of the isolated, insular Canadian prairies of small towns and farming communities populated by faithful farm families, Prairie Fairies historicizes the transformation of prairie cities, and ultimately the region itself, into a predominantly urban and diverse place.
Available Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, ePub
Publisher’s Link: https://utorontopress.com/us/prairie-fairies-2
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Prairie-Fairies-History-Communities-1930-1985/dp/0802097774/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528387850&sr=1-1&keywords=prairie+fairies
Marie-Eve Ouellet, Le Métier d’intendant en France et en Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe siècle (Québec: Septentrion, 2018)
L’intendant fait partie de ces personnages que l’on croit connaître du fait de leur omniprésence. Néanmoins, il subsiste une certaine confusion quant à la nature de son pouvoir: est-il un juge, un politicien, un administrateur? Même s’il fut au coeur des événements marquants du Régime français, on en sait finalement peu sur l’exercice de ses fonctions, sur son «métier d’intendant», pour reprendre la célèbre expression de Louis XIV. Quelles sont les tâches qui l’occupent concrètement? Que nous révèlent les documents produits par l’intendant sur sa pratique?
Personnage clé de l’administration monarchique au XVIIIe siècle, l’intendant est le sujet idéal pour observer la portée réelle de ce régime sur le terrain, tant dans la métropole que dans la colonie. Comparer l’intendance au Canada, en Bretagne et à Tours permet de voir émerger les traits communs, mais aussi les disparités liées à la proximité ou à l’éloignement de Versailles. C’est toute l’histoire d’une institution qui se révèle et, avec elle, les rapports entre gouvernants et gouvernés.
Available Formats: Paperback, PDF, ePub
Publisher’s Link: https://www.septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/metier-d-intendant-en-france-et-en-nouvelle-france-au-xviiie-siecle-le
Anny Morissette, La Lutte se poursuivit en cachette: Le pouvoir des chefs et des leaders de la bande algonquine de Kitigan Zibi (Québec: Septentrion, 2018)
Malgré les tentatives de l’État canadien de briser la structure politique traditionnelle des autochtones, ceux-ci sont loin d’avoir été des victimes passives. L’analyse des acteurs de la communauté algonquine de Kitigan Zibi montre une variété de leadership, malgré l’imposition d’une fonction de chef par la Loi sur les Indiens.
L’enquête de terrain dévoile que les manifestations et les actions politiques menées par les Anishinabeg s’avèrent être des stratégies du pouvoir dans la marge, une forme quotidienne de résistance, de ruses et de tactiques employées pour tenter de changer le système formel. Les Algonquins ont su préserver une identité politique, basée sur diverses représentations traditionnelles, spirituelles ou symboliques, malgré certaines ruptures et transformations introduites dans leur société par les colonisateurs.
Available Formats: Paperback, PDF, ePub
Publisher’s Link: https://www.septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/lutte-se-poursuivit-en-cachette-la
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Lutte-poursuivit-cachette-Pouvoir-algonquine/dp/2894489617/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529600587&sr=1-1&keywords=Lutte+se+poursuivit+en+cachette+%28La%29
Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard & Linda M. Turner, New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program: History Through a Social Work Lens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Prior to the implementation of the Equal Opportunity program in the 1960s, most New Brunswickers, many of them Francophone, lived with limited access to welfare, education, and health services. New Brunswick’s social services framework was similar to that of nineteenth-century England, and many people experienced the patronizing attitudes inherent in these laws. New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program examines the observations and experiences of New Brunswick’s early social workers, who operated under this system, and illuminates how Premier Louis J. Robichaud’s Equal Opportunity program transformed the province’s social services.
Authors Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard and Linda Turner, describe more than a century of social work history, including the work of the earliest Acadian social workers. They also address the fact that the federal government did not take responsibility for social welfare of the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet people, planning for assimilation instead. Clan structures continued to be relied on while subsisting upon inadequate relief provisions.
Available Formats: Hardcover, ePub
Publisher’s Link: https://utorontopress.com/ca/new-brunswick-before-equal-opportunity-program-1
Buy it from Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Brunswick-Before-Equal-Opportunity-Program/dp/1487502532/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529593173&sr=1-1&keywords=new+brunswick+before+the+equal+opportunity+program
That’s all for this month! I hope you enjoyed this blog post. If you did, please consider sharing it on the social media platform of your choice! Are there any books in particular that you are looking forward to? Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments below! And don’t get to check back on Sunday for a brand new Canadian history roundup! See you then!
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