Thursday, November 05, 2020

New History from McGill-Queen's


McGill-Queen's has a very long list of Canadian history titles for 2020 (though the website does seem to be repackaging some older publications as new releases). An enormous range of books, and books on subjects you never actually imagined would be books. Some highlights:

    • Scott Rutherford, Canada's Other Red Scare     Reacting to indigenous activism in the global sixties.
    • Francois Furstenburg and Olliver Hubert, Enlarging the Quebec Act     More than just a date in early Canadian constitutional history, they argue.
    • Erika Dyck, Challenging Choices     Seventies population control and the survival of eugenic ideas.
    • Natasha Sumner and Aiden Doyle, North American Gaels    Culture, song, story.  
    • Sean Mullaly and David Wright, Foreign Practices      Immigrant doctors and shaping medicare
    • Martha Hanna,  Anxious Days and Tearful Nights   Canadian war wives in the First World War
    • Michael Wilkinson and Linda Ambrose, After the Revival    History of Pentecostalism
    • Francois-Marc Gagnon, Jean-Paul Riopelle and the Autonomiste Movement
    • E. A. Heaman and David Tough, Who Pays for Canada?    tax policy as nation building
    • Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone,  In Search of Expo 67   mostly art/design history of the world's fair.
    • Jordan Stanger-Ross, Landscapes of Injustice    New analysis of the Japanese internment of the 1940s.
    • Hutching, Transatlantic Upper Canada    Literary/cultural history.
    • Mary Janigan, The Art of Sharing    History of rich provinces, poor provinces and transfers.
    • Alan MacEachern, The Mirimichi Fire   New study of the greatest fire you never heard of
    • Dan Horner, Taking to the Streets    Street politics in 19th century Montreal
    • Brian Gettler, Colonialism's Currency Indigenous people and colonizers' ideas of money.
    • John Campbell, Haldane     Biography of the judge, civil servant, shaper of the Canadian constitution.
This link to the McGill Queen's University Press website, subsection Browse Books, subsection History, subsection Canada, may be the longest URL I have ever encountered.  And it leads to many more books than I have listed here.

 
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