Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (co-edited with Lara Campbell and Catherine Gidney) revisits and reinterprets second-wave feminism in Canada through the lens of the history of emotion and affect theory. It features twelve chapters examining topics ranging from childbirth and community activism to pornography and prostitution.
Symbols of Canada (co-edited with Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright) boasts over 200 images and 22 chapters exploring the often hidden and surprising histories of some of Canada’s most famous symbols, including Poutine, the Totem Pole, the National Anthem, Hockey, Universal Healthcare, the Beaver, and, of course, Eh?
Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985 explores debates among everyday citizens and politicians regarding the pros and cons of expanding shopping opportunities and challenges the assumption of inevitability surrounding Canada’s emergence as a consumer society.
Worth Fighting For: Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror (co-edited with Lara Campbell and Catherine Gidney) brings together the work of sixteen authors whose chapters explore the history of war resistance in Canada. The chapters document resistance to specific wars (including the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, and Vietnam), the ideology and nature of resistance (national, ethical, political, spiritual), and organized activism against militarization (such as cadet training, the Cold War, and nuclear arms).
E. Maud Graham’s A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902 (edited with Catherine Gidney and Susanne M. Klausen), is part travel memoir, part political treatise. Graham was one of 40 Canadian teachers sent to join their Imperial colleagues in teaching thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps at the end of the South African War.
Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History (co-edited with Christopher Dummitt), explores international, transnational, and comparative approaches to the past and boasts chapters exploring topics such as the Atlantic World, oral history, postcolonialism, public history, historical periodization, Canada’s place in the British Empire, and French-English relations.
Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970 traces the development of tourism promotion in Canada’s westernmost province in order to understand the fully-fledge consumer culture that emerged in Canada after the Second World War. It offers in-depth commentary on the manner in which Indigenous and British cultures were commodified and marketed to potential tourists.
Drawing upon examples ranging from Dudley Do-Right to Sergent Preston of the Yukon to Monty Python, The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney explores English-Canadian identity and the ways in which the image of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been celebrated, challenged, edited, appropriated, and transformed over time. This book is out of print, but a free digital version is available to view or download below.