Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Book Notes: Some recent history from UBC Press

 

Veronica Strong-Boag, A Liberal-Labour Lady: The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith.  A biography of "British Columbia’s first female MLA and the British Empire and Commonwealth’s first female cabinet minister" who "strove to shift Liberal parties leftward to benefit women and workers, while still embracing global assumptions of British racial superiority and bourgeois feminism’s privileging of white women."

Ronald Rudin, Against the Tides: Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands  The campaign in the 1940s to preserve the dykelands originally created by Acadian settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- and some of the consequences.

Robert A.J. McDonald, A Long Way to Paradise: A New History of British Columbia Politics How British Columbia became "Canada's most fractious province."

Adam J. Barker, Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America  "From the imperial colonization of Turtle Island in the 1500s to contemporary contexts that include problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies."
  
 
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