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TRADE Spring /Summer 2010 FEATURING SELECTIONS FROM OUR PUBLISHING PARTNERS British Columbia Publisher of the Year 2009 Contents Aboriginal Studies 5 African American Studies 9 Archaeology 17 Art History 11 Biography / Memoir 8-9 Business 20 Business & Economics 18 Business & Sustainability 19 Cover image: Jennifer Macklem, excavated accumulations Climate Change 17-18 Education / Travel 20 PUBLISHERS REPRESENTED IN CANADA Environment 15-16 Brookings Institution Press Film 10 Earthscan Publishers Fishing 17 Hong Kong University Press Gardening 15 Island Press Health 12-13 Jessica Kingsley Publishers Left Coast Press History 1-4 Manchester University Press Natural History 16 Michigan State University Press Parenting 14-15 Oregon State University Press Poetry 11 Paradigm Publishers Politics 5-8 Transaction Publishers University of Arizona Press Popular Culture 10 University Press of New England Psychology 14 (includes Wesleyan and Tufts University Presses) Quotations 10 University of Washington Press Religion 12 (includes Hong Kong UP, National Gallery of Australia Urban Planning 4 Press, Silkworm Books, UCLA, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and Waanders Publishers) Recent & Noteworthy 21 PUBLISHERS REPRESENTED WORLDWIDE Recent Releases 22-23 AU Press Backlist Highlights 24 Canadian Forest Service UBC Press – New in Paperback 24 Canadian Wildlife Service - Pacific Region Environmental Training Centre UBC Press – New Scholarly Titles 25 Laval University Press [English Language Books] Index 27 Western Geographical Press Ordering Information 28 UBC Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program; and the assistance of the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council. order online @ www.ubcpress.ca | SPRING 2010 1 HISTORY The Canadian War on Queers National Security as Sexual Regulation Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile For nearly fifty years, from the 1950s to as recently as the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. The Canadian War on Queers traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance that raise questions about just whose security was being protected. • Documents the spy tactics, intimidation Beautifully realized, this is an unbelievable methods, and technological tools – such fifty-year journey documenting a critical as the notorious “Fruit Machine” – used part of queer Canadian history. Not only is it by the RCMP and other enforcements impeccably researched but it’s told through groups. the voices of our community. – Janine Fuller, manager of Little Sister’s • Describes the forms of resistance to Bookstore and co-author of Restricted these measures, from non-cooperation Entry: Censorship on Trial and letter campaigns to rallies and public protests in Montreal, Ottawa, and Passionately written and thoroughly Toronto. researched … This book not only deserves • Examines for the first time official to be read, it needs to be read. security documents obtained through – Steve Hewitt, author of Snitch! A History Access to Information requests. of the Modern Intelligence Informer GARY KINSMAN is a professor in the Sociology Department at Laurentian • Presents many interviews with gays, Compelling personal stories illuminate this University. PATRIZIA GENTILE is assistant lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking impeccably researched analysis of the use professor in the Pauline Jewett Institute of officials who were involved in and directly of national security legislation to wage a war Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton affected by the national campaigns. against lesbian and gay Canadians during University. the Cold War years. • Offers ways of understanding, and – Lynne Fernie, filmmaker, co-director of NEW IN PAPERBAck resisting, contemporary rationales for Forbidden Love and Fiction and Other March 2010, 584 pages, 6 x 9" similar types of security campaigns, Truths 19 b&w photos, 1 map like the “war on terror” and the “war 978-0-7748-1628-1 PB $34.95 on drugs,” showing how the State can A powerful chronicle of the appalling 978-0-7748-1627-4 HC $95.00 create an “enemy” or “threat” within campaigns of fear and lies that shattered HISTORY / GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES its own citizenry through particular and destroyed the lives of countless gay SEXualitY Studies series ideologies and discourses. and lesbian Canadians in the name of national security. – Svend Robinson, former NDP Member of Parliament for Burnaby RELATED BOOKS IN THE SEXUALITY STUDIES SERIES Sapphistries Queer Youth in the The Manly Modern A Global History Province of the Masculinity in of Love between "Severely Normal" Postwar Canada Women Gloria Filax Christopher Leila J. Rupp 2007, 200 pp., 6 x 9" Dummitt 2009, 320 pp., 6 x 9" 978-0-7748-1246-7 2007, 232 pp., 6 x 9" 978-0-7748-1782-0 PB $29.95 978-0-7748-1275-7 HC $34.95 CRO PB $29.95 order online @ www.ubcpress.ca | SPRING 2010 1 HISTORY Canada's Voice The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes Adam Chapnick It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the Canada's post-1945 diplomatic practice and how ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more it came to be interpreted by government officials than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the and independent observers alike. foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian – Denis Stairs, Professor Emeritus of Political Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to Science, Dalhousie University 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation of students and scholars. ADAM CHAPNIck is the deputy director of educa- This book charts the life of a diplomat and public tion at the Canadian Forces College and an as- intellectual who influenced both how scholars sistant professor of defence studies at the Royal and statespeople abroad viewed Canada and how Military College of Canada. Canadians saw themselves on the world stage. NEW IN PAPERBAck November 2009, 384 pages, 6 x 9" John W. Holmes had more impact on the thinking 15 b&w photos of careful observers of Canada's foreign policy 978-0-7748-1672-4 PB $32.95 than any other Canadian "scholar-diplomat." Adam 978-0-7748-1671-7 HC $85.00 Chapnick's balanced, thoughtful, and highly HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY readable account of his "public life" tells us why. It UBC Press is essential reading for anyone with an interest in HISTORY Kiss the kids for dad, Don't forget to write The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916–18 Edited by Y.A. Bennett Between 1916 and 1918, Lance-Corporal George civilian-soldier in war, the horror and brutality Timmins, a British-born soldier who served in the of trench warfare, the boredom and banality Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote faithfully of military service. Timmins's letters, framed to his wife and children. Sixty-three letters and within a solid historical background, also reveal four fragments survived. These letters tell the his personal struggle with having left his family compelling story of a man who, while helping behind to fend for themselves in Canada. his fellow Canadians make history at Vimy, Lens, – Tim Cook, author of Shock Troops: Canadians Passchendaele, and Amiens, used letters home Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 (volume 2) to remain a presence in the lives of his wife and children, and who drew strength from his family Y.A. BENNETT is an associate professor of history to appreciate life’s simple pleasures. Timmins’s at Carleton University. letters offer a rare glimpse into the experiences NEW IN PAPERBAck and relationships, the quiet heroism, of ordinary January 2010, 224 pages, 6 x 9" soldiers on the Western Front. 24 b&w photos 978-0-7748-1609-0 PB $32.95 Kiss the kids for dad offers us new insight into 978-0-7748-1608-3 HC $85.00 the multiple themes and narratives that underpin HISTORY / MILITARY the First World War experience: the role of the UBC Press HISTORY Pearson's Peacekeepers Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–67 Michael K. Carroll, Foreword by Robert Bothwell In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace "classic" example of peacekeeping, UNEF has Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency far more relevance to current Canadian operations Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched in response to international crises than is Canada’s love affair with, and reputation for, generally thought. peacekeeping. Pearson’s Peacekeepers explores – W.A.B. Douglas, official historian of the the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a de- Canadian Armed Forces tailed account of the UNEF’s decade-long effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border. This MICHAEL CARROLL is a SDF Postdoctoral Fellow at nuanced account of Canada’s participation in the the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the UNEF challenges perceived notions of Canadian University of Calgary. identity and history. NEW IN PAPERBAck January 2010, 254 pages, 6 x 9" Pearson's Peacekeepers brilliantly sums up the 21 b&w photos, 1 map significance of the UNEF experience, which was 978-0-7748-1582-6 PB $29.95 both a failure and a wonderful achievement. 978-0-7748-1581-9 HC $85.00 Carroll's book is a major original contribution to HISTORY / CANADA / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS the field. He shows that, although a so-called UBC Press 2 SPRING 2010 | order online @ www.ubcpress.ca order online @ www.ubcpress.ca | SPRING 2010 3 HISTORY Veterans with a Vision The History of Canada's War Blinded in Peace and War Serge Marc Durflinger We know something about our war dead but almost nothing about our war wound- ed. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada’s war-blinded veterans and of the organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded.