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CANADA’S HISTORY BOOK & GIFT GUIDE 2015 The Diplomat Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis By Antony Anderson
Pearson’s diplomacy throughout the Suez Crisis launched a bold experiment in international security and cemented Canada’s reputation as “a moderate, mediatory, middle power.” Yet, until now, no one has told the full story of how this Canadian diplomat led the world back from the brink of war. $32.95. Hardcover. 400 pgs. 9 illustrations and b&w photographs Published September 2015 ISBN 9780864928740 Goose Lane Editions
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Canoe Country The Making of Canada By Roy MacGregor
Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor’s celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around. Drawing on MacGregor’s own decades spent whenever possible with a paddle in his hand, this is a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum presents authors from diverse fields and critically assesses the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through “ideas” museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, this collection will encourage us to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits. $27.95. PAPERBACK. 386 PGS. ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2015 ISBN 978-0-88755-782-8 (PRINT) ISBN 978-0-88755-467-4 (EBOOK) UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA PRESS
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Immortal Air A Novel By Tracey Rombough
Award-winning historian Dr. Maria Tippett delves into the careers of eight groundbreaking artists to reveal the connection between British Columbia’s unique identity and the cultural producers that formed it. These pivotal artists — Emily Carr, Bill Reid, Arthur Erickson and others — made an enduring mark on Canadian culture and left behind them a legacy.
Biographical fiction. At odds with the demands of his mother, Confederation poet George Cameron struggled to establish his own identity. Born in Nova Scotia, educated in Boston, George’s various careers as a law clerk, teacher and journalist fell short of the dreams he secreted in his private journals, poetry ever-present in a mind churning with words and feelings.
$32.95. Hardcover. 272 pgs. 16-page colour insert Published September 2015 ISBN 978-1-55017-729-9 Harbour Publishing
$19.95. Paperback. 274 pgs. Published September 2015 ISBN 978-1-77206-032-4 Cape Breton University Press
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Edited by Karen Busby, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford
$32. Hardcover. 320 pgs. Published September 8, 2015 ISBN 978-0-307-36141-7 Random House Canada
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Prairie Bohemian Frank Gay’s Life in Music By Trevor W. Harrison
Long-overdue biography of the enigmatic Western Canadian luthier, musician, and guitar virtuoso Frank Gay. $24.95. Paper. 248 pgs. 25 B&W photographs, bibliography, notes, appendix, index 6 x 9 inches ISBN 978-1-77212-047-9 Biography/Music History University of Alberta Press
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The Canadian Oral History Reader Edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly Cloth • Paperback • 400pp
An indispensable collection of state-of-the-art work in oral history by Canadian scholars.
Encounters An Anthropological History of Southeastern Labrador John C. Kennedy Cloth • Paperback • 472pp
A detailed history that challenges conventional understandings of southeastern Labrador.
The Forgotten Labrador Kegashka to Blanc-Sablon Cleophas Belvin New in Paperback • 224pp
An intimate look at the lifestyle, living conditions, and activities of a people whose lives were shaped by the uncertainties of the seal, salmon, and cod fisheries.
Giving the Best of History
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919 Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War G.W.L. Nicholson Introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries Cloth • 672pp
“More than fifty years after it was first published, Nicholson’s official army history still remains the definitive account of the Canadian Expeditionary Force’s operations during World War I.” –Mark Zuehlke, author of The Canadian Battle Series
The Embattled General Sir Richard Turner and the First World War
Empire and Ireland The Transatlantic Career of the Canadian Imperialist Hamar Greenwood, 1870–1948 Roy MacLaren Cloth • 420pp
“A fine work of historical scholarship written to a high literary standard, Empire and Ireland brings to life an important transat“Through a balanced, chronological narrative, lantic Canadian who, like many others before the Second World War, made his Stewart not only effectively relates the warmark at the centre of the British Empire.” time career of his subject, but also studies –Neville Thompson, author of Canada and the evolution of the Canadian Army in the the End of the Imperial Dream course of the conflict.” –William Rawling, author of Surviving TrenchWarfare William F. Stewart Cloth • 396pp
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CANADA’S HISTORY BOOK & GIFT GUIDE 2015 In Flanders Fields: 100 Years
This Benevolent Experiment
Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance Edited by Amanda Betts
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada By Andrew Woolford
A beautifully designed collection of essays on war, loss and remembrance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Canada’s most famous poem. Canada’s finest historians, novelists and poets contemplate the evolving meaning of the poem; the man who wrote it; its themes of valour, grief and remembrance; and the iconic image of the poppy. Gorgeously designed in full colour with archival and contemporary images.
This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered comparative analysis of Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States and Canada. $27.95. PAPERBACK. 448 PGS. B&W PHOTOS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2015 ISBN 978-0-88755-786-6 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA PRESS
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
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About Canada: Women’s Rights By Penni Mitchell
Edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick
If reliance on oil production undermines democratic participation and governance in Canada, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in other industrialized nations? $37.95. Paperback. 436 pgs. ISBN 9781771990295 Politics/Environment AU Press
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Owen Wister’s Virginian and the CanadianAmerican Frontier By John Jennings
Before Owen Wister’s publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel — a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter. John Jennings makes a unique contribution to western history and literature by melding a realistic study of the cowboy frontier with an intriguing account of Wister’s creation of the cowboy mystique. $39.95. Paperback. 448 pgs. 82 b&w illustrations Published November 2015 ISBN 9781552385289 University of Calgary Press
$35. Hardcover. 272 pgs. Published September 28, 2015 ISBN 978-0-345-81025-0 Knopf Canada
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About Canada: Women’s Rights introduces readers to some of the many women who changed Canada through their efforts to secure greater equality. While a few are well-known, many of these women and the battles they won have been forgotten. They deserve a place in Canada’s history. $17.95. Paperback. 234 pgs. 21 b&w photographs Published July 2015 ISBN 9781552667378 Fernwood Publishing
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Rogues and Rebels Unforgettable Characters from Canada’s West By Brian Brennan
Rogues and Rebels introduces us to dozens of larger-than-life Westerners who dared to be different. Some may be familiar: Jack Webster. Nellie McClung. Tommy Douglas. Others, such as the mysterious cult leader Brother XII, are less well-known. Whether infamous or obscure, the iconoclasts and adventurers threw away the rulebook — and made Canada’s West. $19.95. Paperback. 244 pgs. 5 x 8 inches, 29 b&w photographs Published September 2015 ISBN 978-0-88977-398-1 University of Regina Press
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Death in the Peaceable Kingdom Canadian History since 1867 through Murder, Execution, Assassination, and Suicide By Dimitry Anastakis
White Eskimo Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic By Stephen R. Bown
The Bastard of Fort Stikine The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr. By Debra Komar
Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring. Using the “hooks” of murder, execution, assassination, and suicide, Dimitry Anastakis introduces readers to the full scope of post-Confederation Canadian history.
Knud Rasmussen was one of the most intriguing and often overlooked of the early Arctic explorers, and in the first full-length biography, acclaimed historian Stephen R. Bown brings the rich, inspiring story of Rasmussen to life, covering his feats of athleticism, daring exploration and scientific intellect.
Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin Jr. — chief trader at Fort Stikine — was shot to death by his own men in what they claimed was self-defence. Using modern forensic science, Debra Komar unlocks the mystery of what really happened the night McLoughlin died.
$39.95. Paperback. 336 pgs. 24 b&w images Published May 2015 ISBN 978-1-4426-0636-4 University of Toronto Press
$34.95. Hardcover. 384 pgs. b&w photos and line art 16-page photo insert Published October 2015 ISBN 978-1-77162-001-7 Douglas & McIntyre
$19.95. Paperback. 288 pgs. 11 illustrations and b&w photographs Published May 2015 ISBN 9780864928719 Goose Lane Editions
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Old Enough to Fight Canada’s Boy Soldiers in the First World War By Dan Black & John Boileau Foreword by Romeo Dallaire
Now in paperback. Dan Black and John Boileau tell the compelling story of the nearly 20,000 underage soldiers who fought for Canada in the First World War. This meticulously researched book includes emotional passages from letters sent home by the boy soldiers, striking photographs and paintings, and specially commissioned detailed battlefield maps. “Powerful stories of service and sacrifice from these young soldiers.” — Tim Cook, Canada’s History $24.95. Paperback. 320 pgs. 150 visuals and 16 maps Paperback fall 2015 ISBN 9781459409552 James Lorimer & Company
The Great Blackfoot Treaties By Hugh A. Dempsey
Training for Armageddon Niagara Camp in the Great War, 1914–1919 By Dr. Richard Merritt
This timely volume, the product of over sixty years of research by Canada’s most prolific writer of Blackfoot history, offers a moving account of the Blackfoot peoples’ centurieslong experience of territorial negotiations that will challenge common assumptions and add vital perspective to our understanding of present-day Canada-First Nations relations.
Learn the compelling story of historic Niagara Camp that trained 50,000 men and women for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 23,000 volunteer Polish Americans and Canadians for the repatriation of Poland, ‘volunteers’ for Canada’s ill-fated Siberian Expedition and was the first location in Canada to fight the ravages of the Spanish flu pandemic.
$22.95. Paperback. 264 pgs. b&w photo insert Published September 2015 ISBN 978-1-77203-078-5 Heritage House
$40. Special edition soft cover. 307 pgs. Published April 2015 ISBN 978-1-4602-6137-8 (PRINT) ISBN 978-1-4602-6139-2 (EBOOK) NIAGARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY www.niagarahistorical.museum
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CANADA’S HISTORY BOOK & GIFT GUIDE 2015 Canadian Battlefields of the First World War A Visitor’s Guide, Revised Second Edition By Terry Copp, Mark Humphries, Nick Lachance, Caitlin McWilliams, and Matt Symes
A brief, critical history of the war and of Canada’s contribution. Focuses on the Ypres Salient, Passchendaele, Vimy, and the “Hundred Days” battles and considers lesser-known battlefields as well. $29.99. Paper. 171 pgs. 91 images, 31 maps 6 x 9 inches Published June 2015 ISBN 978-1-92680-416-3 Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies Distributed by WLU Press www.wlupress.wlu.ca
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Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947–1955 By Adara Goldberg
Researched in basement archives as well as at survivors’ kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada is the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. $24.95. PAPERBACK. 312 PGS. 18 B&W PHOTOS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2015 ISBN 978-0-88755-776-7 (Print) ISBN 978-0-88755-494-0 (EBOOK) UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA PRESS
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Through Blood & Sweat
A Canadian Girl in South Africa
A Remembrance Trek across Sicily’s World War II Battlegrounds by Mark Zuehlke
A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902
From the author of the Canadian Battle Series comes the moving account of a 2013 expedition in remembrance of Canadian soldiers in WWII Sicily. Using the arduous and poignant trip as a focal point, Zuehlke takes a look at the culture of remembrance and the experience of war. $36.95. Hardcover. 248 pgs. b&w illustrations and maps 16-page colour insert Published October 2015 ISBN 978-1-77162-009-3 Douglas & McIntyre
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By E. Maud Graham Edited by Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney & Susanne M. Klausen
A Canadian woman writes of teaching in concentration camps following the South African War in 1902. $34.95. Paper. 264 pgs. 31 B&W photographs, 2 maps, bibliography, notes, index ISBN 978-1-77212-046-2 Wayfarer Series British History/South African War/ Travel Memoir University of Alberta Press
Crossings A Thomas Pichon Novel By A.J.B. Johnston
Historical fiction. In this third Thomas Pichon novel, life remains complicated and Thomas longs for the higher social station he once enjoyed. Returning to Paris, work life initially stalls, but a new lover offers help. The best position he has ever had requires him to go overseas. The crossing is a voyage no one aboard will soon forget. $19.95. Paperback. 252 pgs. Published September 2015 ISBN 978-1-77206-020-1 Cape Breton University Press
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In Search of Canada’s Ancient Heartland By Barbara Huck & Doug Whiteway
In Search of Canada’s Ancient Heartland is the third in Heartland’s series of national bestsellers on the geology, paleontology and archaeology of Western Canada. Revealing Manitoba’s subtle and primeval landscape, its nearly 400 colour photographs, maps and drawings make it an indispensable guide for today’s time travellers. And watch for a new edition of In Search of Ancient Alberta in April 2016. $29.95. Softcover. 320 pgs. 375+ photographs, illustrations & maps Published May 2015 978-1-896150-81-9 Heartland Associates Inc. www.heartlandbooks.ca
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You Will Wear a White Shirt
Fight to the Finish
From the Northern Bush to the Halls of Power By Senator Nick Sibbeston
Canadians in the Second World War, 1944–1945 By Tim Cook
Growing up in the remote North, Nick Sibbeston eventually became a lawyer, a distinguished member of the Canadian Senate and a premier. In this memoir, he reveals his beginnings in the ordeal of residential school and traces the trajectory to his current advocacy of Aboriginal rights. $32.95. Hardcover. 344 pgs. 8-page colour insert Published September 2015 ISBN 978-1-77162-055-0 Douglas & McIntyre
Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in his second volume of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at sea and in the air. Featuring dozens of black-and-white photographs, plus moving excerpts from letters and diaries of servicemen, this is a memorable account of Canadians who fought abroad.
We’re Going to Run This City Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike By Stefan Epp-Koop
Stefan Epp-Koop explores the dynamic municipal politics that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. $24.95. PAPERBACK. 216 PGS. B&W PHOTOS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2015 ISBN 978-0-88755-784-2 (PRINT) ISBN 978-0-88755-473-5 (EBOOK) UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA PRESS
$45. Hardcover. 576 pgs. Published September 29, 2015 ISBN 9780670067688 Penguin Canada
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A RICH MILITARY HERITAGE Till the Boys Come Home Life on the Home Front in Queens County, NB, 1914-1918 By Curtis Mainville
The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 By John R. Grodzinski
As war brewed across the Atlantic, the people of Queens County found themselves caught between tradition and change. Linking the experiences of those on the home front to those of their brothers and sisters serving overseas, Till the Boys Come Home paints a rich portrait of a community at war.
Using rare period correspondence, reports, diaries, and journals, John R. Grodzinski reconstructs the tale of the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot, best known for their perilous Winter March through the wilderness to the battlegrounds in Upper Canada.
$17.95. PAPERBACK. 176 PGS. 42 ILLUSTRATIONS AND B&W PHOTOS ISBN 9780864928795
$18.95 PAPERBACK. 220 PGS. 34 ILLUSTRATIONS AND B&W PHOTOS ISBN 9780864924476
Steel Cavalry The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign By Lee Windsor Founded in 1848 as the first volunteer cavalry regiment in British North America, the Hussars exchanged horses first for motorcycles and later for tanks, becoming one of Canada’s most famous armoured regiments in the Second World War. $18.95 PAPERBACK. 200 PGS. 45 ILLUSTRATIONS AND B&W PHOTOS ISBN 9780864926579
For a list of books in this series, please visit unb.ca/fredericton/arts/centres/gregg or gooselane.com The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society & Goose Lane Editions.
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