Recent Publications Relating to Canada

This bibliography is intended to provide as complete coverage as possible of newly available material useful in the study of any aspect of Canadian history. In keeping with the diverse backgrounds and interests of our readers, both scholarly and well-researched popular sources are regularly listed. It should be noted that items of a purely contemporary or speculative nature and lacking appreciable historical content are normally excluded. Furthermore, accessibility considerations logically dictate that materials cited have appeared in published form, theses traditionally being the sole exception. Suggestions for possible inclusion in ‘Recent Publications’ are welcomed and should be forwarded with the necessary technical information to the compiler at the Canadian Historical Review offices.

See also the ‘New Books Service,’ a monthly online list of Canadian publications prepared by Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa; International Perspectives; Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth, issued quarterly by the General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; and in the University of Toronto Quarterly, ‘Letters in Canada,’ published in the January issue. Regionally oriented bibliographies are included in each issue of Acadiensis, bc Studies, and Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française. Any ma and PhD theses listed in the current bibliography were reported as recently completed in a range of sources, including America: History and Life and Dissertation Abstracts International.

Users of this bibliography should bear in mind that all titles are listed only once. Because of subject overlap, alternative categories should be consulted.

Aboriginal History

Belanger, Yale D., and Billy Wadsworth. ‘It’s My Duty . . . to Be a Warrior of the People’: Kainai Perceptions of and Participation in the Canadian and American Armed Forces. Prairie Forum 33, no. 2 (2008): 297–322

Bourque, Bruce J., and Laureen A. Labar. Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costumes. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. Pp. 256, illus. $49.95

Brownlie, Robin Jarvis. ‘Living the Same as the White People’: Mohawk and Anishinabe Women’s Labour in Southern Ontario, 1920–1940. Labour / Le Travail 61 (2008): 41–68

Caldwell, Mary Channen. ‘The Place of Dance in Human Life’: Perspectives on the Fieldwork and Dance Notation of Gertrude P. Kurath. Ethnologies 30, no. 1 (2008): 21–40

Dawn, Leslie. Cross-border Trading: Mungo Martin Carves for the World of Tomorrow. BC Studies 159 (2008): 7–44

Garon, Alexandre. Occupation iroquoienne à Chicoutimi. Saguenayensia 50, no. 1 (2008): 29–35

Kelly, Brendan. Three Uses of Christian Culture in the Numbered Treaties, 1871–1921. Prairie Forum 33, no. 2 (2008): 357–84

Labelle, Ronald. Native Witchcraft Beliefs in Acadian, Maritime, and Newfoundland Folklore. Ethnologies 30, no. 2 (2008): 137–52

MacDougall, Brenda. ‘The Comforts of Married Life’: Métis Family Life, Labour, and the Hudson’s Bay Company. Labour / Le Travail 61 (2008): 9–39

Matsui, Kenichi. Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. Pp. 256. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper

Menzies, Charles R., and Caroline F. Butler. The Indigenous Foundation of the Resource Economy of bc’s North Coast. Labour / Le Travail 61 (2008): 131–49

Miller, J.R. Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 448, illus. $85.00 cloth, $35.00 paper

Morin, Jesse, Ryan Dickie, Takashi Sakaguchi, and Jamie Hoskins. Late Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Population Dynamics along the Mid-Fraser. BC Studies 160 (2008/9): 9–34

Parnaby, Andrew. The Cultural Economy of Survival: The Mi’kmaq of Cape Breton in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Labour / Le Travail 61 (2008): 69–98

Pulla, Siomonn. ‘Would You Believe That, Dr Speck?’: Frank Speck and the Redman’s Appeal for Justice. Ethnohistory 55, no. 2 (2008): 183–201

Quick, Sarah. The Social Poetics of the Red River Jig in Alberta and Beyond: Meaningful Heritage and Emerging Performance. Ethnologies 30, no. 1 (2008): 77–101

Ronaghan, Allen. Big Hill and the Blackfoot. Alberta History 56, no. 2 (2008): 25–6

Schreiber, Dorothee. ‘A Liberal and Paternal Spirit’: Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada. Ethnohistory 55, no. 1 (2008): 88–118

Willow, Anna J. Clear-Cutting and...