The Canadian Historical Association has released its shortlist for the Best Scholarly Book prize (formerly the John A Macdonald prize) for 2019. Winner of this and its other awards to be announced at the CHA annual meeting in Vancouver in early June.
Nominees are
- Le Piège de la liberté: Les peuples autochtones dans l'engrenage des régimes coloniaux par Denys Delage et Jean-Philippe Warren Boreal.
- Panser le Canada: Une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton par Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon (Boreal
- Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century by Jean-François Lozier McGill-Queen's)
- Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent by Joshua MacFadyen (McGill-Queen's)
- Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy by Shirley Tillotson (UBC Press).
