CANADA’S HISTORY BOOK & GIFT GUIDE 2020

TREASURING THE TRADITION The Story of The Military Museums by David Bercuson and Jeff Keshen

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta, is Western Canada’s only triservice museum and military education centre. It is dedicated to preserving the memories and traditions of the countless Canadians who proudly served their country through war and conflict. Discover how The Military Museums came to be in this story of perseverance, cooperation, and community. $29.99 CAD / $29.99 USD PAPERBACK. 138 PGS

ISBN 978-1-77385-058-0 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS

THE KU KLUX KLAN IN CANADA

A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom by Allan Bartley

Allan Bartley traces the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada through the turbulent years of the 1920s and ’30s to their small but violent resurgence in the 1980s. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada tells the little-known story of how Canadians adopted the Klan’s image and ideology to express the racism that has played so large a role in Canadian society for the past hundred years — right up to the present. $24.95. PAPERBACK. 320 PGS B&W PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2020

ISBN 9781459506138 (PRINT) ISBN 9781459506145 (EBOOK) FORMAC PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD.

ON THE CUSP OF CONTACT Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia essays by Jean Barman, edited by Margery Fee

Working to recognize past actors that have been underrepresented in mainstream histories, Barman’s focus is B.C. on “the cusp of contact.” The sixteen essays in this collection piece together stories of individuals and groups disadvantaged in white settler society because of their gender, race, and social class. Copies are available from Black Bond Books and Book Warehouse — www.bookwarehouse.ca $34.95. PAPERBACK. 496 PGS HISTORY, 6 X 9 INCHES, 30 B&W PHOTOS PUBLISHED MARCH 2020

ISBN 978-1-55017-896-8 HARBOUR PUBLISHING

LEO TOLSTOY AND THE CANADIAN DOUKHOBORS A Study in Historic Relationships. Expanded and Revised Edition. by Andrew Donskov

Donskov’s expanded study presents an outline of Doukhobor history and beliefs, their harmony with Tolstoy’s lifelong aim of “unity of people,” and the portrayal of Doukhobors in Tolstoy’s writings. This edition features Tolstoy’s complete correspondence with Doukhobor leader Pëtr Vasil’evich Verigin. Three guest essays by prominent Canadian Doukhobors are also included. $39.95. PAPERBACK. 520 PGS PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 19, 2019 ISBN 9780776628509 UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESS

BURDEN by Douglas Burnet Smith

A collection of poems that tell the story of a British soldier during the First World War who was shot for desertion but was retrospectively understood to have suffered from PTSD. Burden is a reminder of the misconceptions around PTSD and the complex injustices of wartime. $19.95. PAPERBACK. 72 PGS 5.5 X 8.5 INCHES

ISBN 9780889777729 UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS

FIREBIRD by Glen Huser

A crossover novel about a Ukrainian boy during the First World War who learns that his brother has been sent to an internment camp for enemy aliens. Will he save his brother from the camp’s deadly conditions? $12.95. PAPERBACK. 280 PGS 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 INCHES

ISBN 978-1-55380-587-8 (PRINT) ISBN 978-1-55380-588-5 (EBOOK) RONSDALE PRESS

THE BOMB IN THE WILDERNESS Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada by John O’Brian

Photographs provide a link between the nuclear past and present, and they play a significant role in shaping the public’s perception of nuclear events.

The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that photography is one of the principal ways, if not the primary way, that Canadians have represented, interpreted, and remembered nuclear activities since 1945. $32.95. PAPERBACK. 244 PGS 124 PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2020 ISBN 9780774863889 UBC PRESS

“LIVING LIGHTLY ON THE EARTH” Building an Ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974–76 by Steven Mannell

Built in 1976 by Solsearch Architects and the New Alchemy Institute, the Ark bioshelter integrated ecological design features to provide a selfreliant life for a family and a model of sustainable living for the world. Illustrated with dozens of original drawings and period photographs, the book traces the history, context, research, and construction of this stillrelevant experiment. $34.95. SOFTCOVER. 116 PGS ILLUSTRATIONS

ISBN 9780929112695 DALHOUSIE ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

DAMMED

The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby

Dammed explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. $27.95. PAPERBACK. 256 PGS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2020 ISBN 978-0-88755-8740 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA PRESS

SETTING A FINE TABLE Historical Desserts and Drinks from the Officers’ Kitchens at Fort York by Elizabeth Baird and Bridget Wranich

Setting a Fine Table contains 32 recipes for desserts and drinks from cookbooks that are hundreds of years old. $19.95. PAPERBACK. 144 PGS 6 X 8 INCHES

ISBN 9781770501942 WHITECAP BOOKS

THE TASTE OF LONGING

Ethel Mulvany and her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook by Suzanne Evans

Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during WWII. She beats back pangs of hunger by writing down recipes filled with cream, chocolate, butter, ripe fruit — the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. This novelistic, immersive biography is a testament to the often-overlooked strength of women in wartime. $28.95. PAPERBACK. 335 PGS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2020 23 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS ISBN 978-1-771-13489-7 BETWEEN THE LINES

THE DIARY OF DUKESANG WONG

A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong edited by David McIlwraith, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe

Dukesang Wong’s remarkable diary tells of the appalling conditions while constructing the treacherous British Columbia section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It places this part of Canadian history into context as Wong gradually, painfully establishes a new life in a new land — moving from his early years in an unstable China, to his decision to emigrate to “the Land of the Gold Mountains,” his becoming a tailor in New Westminster, B.C., and the joys of family life. $18.95. PAPERBACK. 144 PGS PUBLISHED FALL 2020 ISBN 9781772012583 TALONBOOKS