Book Notes: New Histories from UBC Press

In order to stay out of the rabbit hole of politics here and to the south of here, for now at least, another round-up of some forthcoming history books from the university presses. McGill-Queen's and Toronto presses, we covered in the last few weeks. Here, from UBC Press forthcoming histories:

Patricia E. Roy, John Hart: A Businessman in British Columbia Politics   A 20th century BC premier, and the rest of his career too.

Patricia A. McCormack, Becoming Métis in Northern Alberta 

Carolyn Strange, Fatal Confession: A Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton Case

Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution 

Patrice Dutil, ed, The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King

Jack Cunningham and John Meehan, ed., Chrétien and the World: Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003.

Robert J. Muckle; Foreword by Karen Rose Thomas, Once upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells

Guy St-Denis, An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal: The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings  -- an unsuccessful commander from the War of 1812 seeks vindication.