Books For Review

TOPIA reviews books in Cultural Studies and related fields, with an emphasis on subjects related to the journal’s mandate. TOPIA prioritizes the review of titles by Canadian authors, publishers and titles exploring subjects related to Canada, Quebec and the First Nations, and to cultures of globalization. TOPIA does not publish reviews of films or exhibits but occasionally publishes extended critical commentaries on cultural productions and cultural events in its Offerings section.

Reviews are normally 1500 to 2000 words and review essays (focusing on one or more titles) are normally 2500 to 3500 words. Reviews and review essays take the form of critical engagements with one or more texts and strive to place these text(s) in a broader theoretical, social and/or political context. TOPIA does not accept unsolicited reviews, so please contact us through the links below to arrange a review.

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	First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship By Sophie McCall 2011 \| UBC Press Copy Available: No In this innovative exploration, told-to narratives, or collaboratively produced texts by Aboriginal storytellers and (usually) non-Aboriginal writers, are not romanticized as unmediated translations of oral documents, nor are they dismissed as corrup ...


	One Native Life By Richard Wagamese 2008 \| Douglas & McIntyre Copy Available: No In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he’d seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he’d grown up feeling there was nowher ...


	David Alexander: The Shape of Place Edited By Liz Wylie 2012 \| McGill-Queens UP Copy Available: No In Canada, it can be easy to consider landscape painting as cliché, an art form whose time has passed. David Alexander's vibrant, large-scale works show the wonder and possibility that remain undiminished in paintings of the natural environment and b ...


	For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War By Timothy C. Winegard 2012 \| University of Manitoba Press Copy Available: Yes When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s First Nations pledged their men and money to the Crown to honour their long-standing tradition of forming military alliances with Europeans during times of war, and as a ...


	Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron Edited By Ann Davis 2011 \| University of Calgary Press Copy Available: Yes ric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. Over t ...


	Intensive Culture: Social Theory, Religion & Contemporary Capitalism By Scott Lash 2010 \| Sage Copy Available: No Contemporary culture, today’s capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterized as intensive.


	Spacesuit: Fashining Apollo By Nicholas de Monchaux 2011 \| MIT Press Copy Available: No In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other thi ...


	Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics By Jacques Rancière 2011 \| Columbia University Press Copy Available: No Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many ...


	Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader Edited By Michael Hames-Garcia, Ernesto Javier Martínez 2011 \| Duke University Press Copy Available: No The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential pr ...


	Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 By Dan Azoulay 2011 \| University of Calgary Press Copy Available: No What was romance like for Canadians a century ago? What qualities did men and women look for in prospective mates? How did they find suitable partners in difficult circumstances such as frontier isolation and parental disapproval? How did courtship p ...


	Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World By R.T. Naylor 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No Why do those who are extremely well off spend their money in socially and environmentally damaging ways? How do crooks, con artists, and counterfeiters function in the hypercharged markets catering to the whims and fancies of the very rich? And why d ...


	Disability Aesthetics By Tobin Siebers 2010 \| University of Michigan Press Copy Available: No Disability Aesthetics is the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolvin ...


	Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 By Stan Persky 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses and gave rise to a paradox: writing flourished, but reading d ...


	The Political Economy of Media and Power Edited By Jeffery Klaehn 2010 \| Peter Lang Copy Available: No The Political Economy of Media and Power is a highly interdisciplinary and innovative edited collection, bringing together a diverse range of chapters that address some of the most important issues of our times. Contributors cut through medi ...


	American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970 By David L. Chapman, Brett Josef Grubisic 2009 \| Arsenal Pulp Press Copy Available: No The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in Ameri ...


	Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives Edited By Cheryl Krasnick Warsh 2011 \| Wilfred Laurier University Press Copy Available: No Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media ...


	Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope Edited By Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park, Rob Shields 2011 \| Wilfred Laurier University Press Copy Available: No Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and ...


	Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular By Bishnupriya Ghosh 2011 \| Duke University Press Copy Available: No A widely disseminated photograph of Phoolan Devi, India's famous bandit queen, surrendering to police forces in 1983 became an emotional touchstone for Indians who saw the outlaw as a lower-caste folk hero. That affective response was re-ignited in 1 ...


	Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada By Paulette Regan 2011 \| UBC Press Copy Available: No In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler societ ...


	Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity By Raymond Tallis 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No In Aping Mankind Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made about the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture, and society and shows that human beings are infinitely more interesting ...


	Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide By Christopher Powell 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions o ...


	Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s By Isolde Standish 2011 \| Continuum Copy Available: No Out of a background of war, occupation and the legacies of Japan’s post-defeat politics there emerged a dissentient group of avant-garde filmmakers who created a counter-cinema that addressed a newly constituted, politically conscious audienc ...


	The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas Edited By François-Marc Gagnon 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex ...


	Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America Edited By Keith Gessen, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz 2011 \| Verso Copy Available: No In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-ha ...


	Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics Edited By Lincoln Dahlberg, Sean Phelan 2011 \| Palgrave Macmillan Copy Available: No A systematic examination ofthe relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory -- as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- through an engagement with major approaches ...


	Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture By Sheryl N. Hamilton 2009 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social r ...


	A New Type of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America By Natasha Kirsten Kraus 2008 \| Duke University Press Copy Available: Yes In "A New Type of Womanhood", Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman's rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society's very conception of 'womanhood' in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of cont ...


	Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast By Ian M. Thom 2009 \| Douglas & McIntyre Copy Available: Yes Forty top Northwest Coast artists whose work highlights the contemporary vitality of their cultural heritage. Contemporary First Nations artists of the Northwest Coast have long been among the most dynamic, important artists working in No ...


	Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 By Ian McKay 2008 \| Between the Lines Copy Available: Yes In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of “reconnaissance” first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. ...


	National Performance: Representing Quebec From Expo 67 to Celine Dion By Erin Hurley 2011 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to defi ...


	Triquet's Cross: A Study of Military Heroism By John MacFarlane 2009 \| McGill-Queen's University Press Copy Available: Yes In "Triquet's Cross", John MacFarlane tells the story of Paul Triquet, a French-Canadian soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the battle for Casa Berardi during the Second World War. One of only thirteen members of the Canadia ...


	Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir By Rhona Richman Kenneally, Johanne Sloan 2010 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived ...


	Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature By Justyna Sempruch 2008 \| Purdue University Press Copy Available: Yes In her book Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, Justyna Sempruch analyses contemporary representations of the "witch" as a locus for the cultural negotiation of genders. Sempruch revisits some of the most prominent ...


	Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada By Jennifer Reid 2008 \| University of New Mexico Press Copy Available: Yes Since he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the abor ...


	Allan King's A Married Couple By Zoe Druick 2010 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes Long before 'Reality TV,' Canadian filmmaker Allan King caused a stir by mixing people's private and public lives in his 1969 documentary A Married Couple. This observational cinema piece, which took an unscripted look at the urban Edward ...


	Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood By Shirley R. Steinberg 2011 \| Westview Press Copy Available: Yes America is a corporatized society defined by our culture of consumerism, and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By marketing directly to children, through television, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and f ...


	Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years By Francoise Noel 2009 \| McGill-Queen's University Press Copy Available: Yes Françoise Noël explores the social context of Canada’s most famous family to show how family ritual and communal events structured everyday life between the wars. ...


	Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges By Stephen Manning 2009 \| McGill-Queen's University Press Copy Available: Yes Manning’s account of the final battle on the Plains of Abraham is a detailed analysis of General Wolfe's genius and the reasons for his success. But the conflict didn't end with Wolfe's victory: at the battle of St Foy in 1760, the French beat the ...


	The Free People - Li Gens Libres By Diane P. Payment 2009 \| University of Calgary Press Copy Available: Yes Revised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature since the publication of the first edition in 1990, The Free People – Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of t ...


	One Native Life By Richard Wagamese 2008 \| Douglas & McIntyre Copy Available: Yes In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he’d seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he’d grown up feeling there was nowher ...


	Make the Night Hideous By Pauline Greenhill 2010 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the ...

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	First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship By Sophie McCall 2011 \| UBC Press Copy Available: No In this innovative exploration, told-to narratives, or collaboratively produced texts by Aboriginal storytellers and (usually) non-Aboriginal writers, are not romanticized as unmediated translations of oral documents, nor are they dismissed as corrup ...


	One Native Life By Richard Wagamese 2008 \| Douglas & McIntyre Copy Available: No In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he’d seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he’d grown up feeling there was nowher ...


	David Alexander: The Shape of Place Edited By Liz Wylie 2012 \| McGill-Queens UP Copy Available: No In Canada, it can be easy to consider landscape painting as cliché, an art form whose time has passed. David Alexander's vibrant, large-scale works show the wonder and possibility that remain undiminished in paintings of the natural environment and b ...


	For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War By Timothy C. Winegard 2012 \| University of Manitoba Press Copy Available: Yes When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s First Nations pledged their men and money to the Crown to honour their long-standing tradition of forming military alliances with Europeans during times of war, and as a ...


	Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron Edited By Ann Davis 2011 \| University of Calgary Press Copy Available: Yes ric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. Over t ...


	Intensive Culture: Social Theory, Religion & Contemporary Capitalism By Scott Lash 2010 \| Sage Copy Available: No Contemporary culture, today’s capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterized as intensive.


	Spacesuit: Fashining Apollo By Nicholas de Monchaux 2011 \| MIT Press Copy Available: No In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other thi ...


	Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics By Jacques Rancière 2011 \| Columbia University Press Copy Available: No Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many ...


	Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader Edited By Michael Hames-Garcia, Ernesto Javier Martínez 2011 \| Duke University Press Copy Available: No The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential pr ...


	Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 By Dan Azoulay 2011 \| University of Calgary Press Copy Available: No What was romance like for Canadians a century ago? What qualities did men and women look for in prospective mates? How did they find suitable partners in difficult circumstances such as frontier isolation and parental disapproval? How did courtship p ...


	Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World By R.T. Naylor 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No Why do those who are extremely well off spend their money in socially and environmentally damaging ways? How do crooks, con artists, and counterfeiters function in the hypercharged markets catering to the whims and fancies of the very rich? And why d ...


	Disability Aesthetics By Tobin Siebers 2010 \| University of Michigan Press Copy Available: No Disability Aesthetics is the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolvin ...


	Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 By Stan Persky 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses and gave rise to a paradox: writing flourished, but reading d ...


	The Political Economy of Media and Power Edited By Jeffery Klaehn 2010 \| Peter Lang Copy Available: No The Political Economy of Media and Power is a highly interdisciplinary and innovative edited collection, bringing together a diverse range of chapters that address some of the most important issues of our times. Contributors cut through medi ...


	American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970 By David L. Chapman, Brett Josef Grubisic 2009 \| Arsenal Pulp Press Copy Available: No The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in Ameri ...


	Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives Edited By Cheryl Krasnick Warsh 2011 \| Wilfred Laurier University Press Copy Available: No Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media ...


	Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope Edited By Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park, Rob Shields 2011 \| Wilfred Laurier University Press Copy Available: No Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and ...


	Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular By Bishnupriya Ghosh 2011 \| Duke University Press Copy Available: No A widely disseminated photograph of Phoolan Devi, India's famous bandit queen, surrendering to police forces in 1983 became an emotional touchstone for Indians who saw the outlaw as a lower-caste folk hero. That affective response was re-ignited in 1 ...


	Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada By Paulette Regan 2011 \| UBC Press Copy Available: No In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler societ ...


	Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity By Raymond Tallis 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No In Aping Mankind Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made about the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture, and society and shows that human beings are infinitely more interesting ...


	Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide By Christopher Powell 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions o ...


	Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s By Isolde Standish 2011 \| Continuum Copy Available: No Out of a background of war, occupation and the legacies of Japan’s post-defeat politics there emerged a dissentient group of avant-garde filmmakers who created a counter-cinema that addressed a newly constituted, politically conscious audienc ...


	The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas Edited By François-Marc Gagnon 2011 \| McGill-Queens Copy Available: No Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex ...


	Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America Edited By Keith Gessen, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz 2011 \| Verso Copy Available: No In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-ha ...


	Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics Edited By Lincoln Dahlberg, Sean Phelan 2011 \| Palgrave Macmillan Copy Available: No A systematic examination ofthe relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory -- as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- through an engagement with major approaches ...


	Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture By Sheryl N. Hamilton 2009 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social r ...


	A New Type of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America By Natasha Kirsten Kraus 2008 \| Duke University Press Copy Available: Yes In "A New Type of Womanhood", Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman's rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society's very conception of 'womanhood' in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of cont ...


	Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast By Ian M. Thom 2009 \| Douglas & McIntyre Copy Available: Yes Forty top Northwest Coast artists whose work highlights the contemporary vitality of their cultural heritage. Contemporary First Nations artists of the Northwest Coast have long been among the most dynamic, important artists working in No ...


	Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 By Ian McKay 2008 \| Between the Lines Copy Available: Yes In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of “reconnaissance” first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. ...


	National Performance: Representing Quebec From Expo 67 to Celine Dion By Erin Hurley 2011 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to defi ...


	Triquet's Cross: A Study of Military Heroism By John MacFarlane 2009 \| McGill-Queen's University Press Copy Available: Yes In "Triquet's Cross", John MacFarlane tells the story of Paul Triquet, a French-Canadian soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the battle for Casa Berardi during the Second World War. One of only thirteen members of the Canadia ...


	Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir By Rhona Richman Kenneally, Johanne Sloan 2010 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived ...


	Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature By Justyna Sempruch 2008 \| Purdue University Press Copy Available: Yes In her book Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, Justyna Sempruch analyses contemporary representations of the "witch" as a locus for the cultural negotiation of genders. Sempruch revisits some of the most prominent ...


	Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada By Jennifer Reid 2008 \| University of New Mexico Press Copy Available: Yes Since he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the abor ...


	Allan King's A Married Couple By Zoe Druick 2010 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes Long before 'Reality TV,' Canadian filmmaker Allan King caused a stir by mixing people's private and public lives in his 1969 documentary A Married Couple. This observational cinema piece, which took an unscripted look at the urban Edward ...


	Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood By Shirley R. Steinberg 2011 \| Westview Press Copy Available: Yes America is a corporatized society defined by our culture of consumerism, and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By marketing directly to children, through television, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and f ...


	Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years By Francoise Noel 2009 \| McGill-Queen's University Press Copy Available: Yes Françoise Noël explores the social context of Canada’s most famous family to show how family ritual and communal events structured everyday life between the wars. ...


	Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges By Stephen Manning 2009 \| McGill-Queen's University Press Copy Available: Yes Manning’s account of the final battle on the Plains of Abraham is a detailed analysis of General Wolfe's genius and the reasons for his success. But the conflict didn't end with Wolfe's victory: at the battle of St Foy in 1760, the French beat the ...


	The Free People - Li Gens Libres By Diane P. Payment 2009 \| University of Calgary Press Copy Available: Yes Revised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature since the publication of the first edition in 1990, The Free People – Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of t ...


	One Native Life By Richard Wagamese 2008 \| Douglas & McIntyre Copy Available: Yes In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he’d seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he’d grown up feeling there was nowher ...


	Make the Night Hideous By Pauline Greenhill 2010 \| University of Toronto Press Copy Available: Yes The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the ...

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