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The American Western in Canadian literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25703
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Deshaye, Joel
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 D45t
- Author
- Deshaye, Joel
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
- Abstract
- The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.
- ISBN
- 9781773852676
- Accession Number
- P2023.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 D45t
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Cigarette nation : business, health, and Canadian smokers, 1930-1975
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Robinson, Daniel J.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 R56c
- Author
- Robinson, Daniel J.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Health
- Health and Social Development
- Health and wellness
- Drugs
- Marketing
- Abstract
- In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson examines the vibrant and contentious history of smoking to discover why Canadians continued to light up despite the publicized health risks. Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Robinson explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful. The persistence of smoking owes to such factors as product development, marketing and retailing innovation, public relations, sponsored science, and government inaction. Domestic and international tobacco firms worked to furnish Canadian smokers with hope and doubt - hope in the form of reassuring marketing, as seen with light and mild cigarette brands, and doubt by means of disinformation campaigns attacking medical research and press accounts that aligned cigarettes with serious disease. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including thousands of industry records released during a landmark tobacco class-action trial in 2015, Cigarette Nation documents in rich detail the history of one of Canada's foremost public health issues. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Depression-era cigarette marketing and smoking culture -- The gift of wartime cigarettes -- The incomparable cigarette -- Taxes, public smoking, and lung cancer -- Hope and doubt -- Marketing bonanza -- The view from Ottawa.
- ISBN
- 9780228005322
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 R56c
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Dark days at noon : the future of fire
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 27 cm
- Abstract
- The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires--intentionally or unintentionally--fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of political urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management, and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly. By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Prelude to the dark days at noon -- 2. The fire triangle -- 3. More dark days coming -- 4. The big burn -- 5. Big burns in Canada -- 6. Paiute forestry -- 7. Fire suppression -- 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 9. Canada's Conservation Corps -- 10. The fall of the Dominion Forest Service -- 11. The royal commission into wildfire -- 12. White man's fire -- 13. International co-operation -- 14. Blue moon and blue sun -- 15. Nuclear winter -- 16. Yellowstone: A turning point -- 17. Big and small grizzlies -- 18. Climate and the age of megafire -- 19. The holy shit fire -- 20. The Pyrocene -- 21. Nuclear winter: Part two -- 22. Owls and clear-cuts -- 23. Water on fire -- 24. The Arctic on fire -- 25. The big smoke -- 26. Fire news -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780228012092
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
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Decolonizing sport
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26241
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
- Responsibility
- Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Education
- Sport
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Customs
- Abstract
- The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization? -- Provided by publisher.
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- Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.
- ISBN
- 9781773636344
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
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Educating the body : a history of physical education in Canada
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Hall, M. Ann, Kidd, Bruce and Vertinsky, Patricia
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- The thesis of this work sets out a history of physical education in Canada with a focus on the major advocates, innovators, and institutions that helped shaped it. This work places the historical narrative within the social, economic, and political conditions that impacted institutions, advocates, and innovators as they influenced the formulation of state physical education schooling in Canada between the Ryerson era (1803-1882) and ending with the early decades of the 21st century. The title of the work, "Educating the Body" recognizes that "the body" has its own unique vocabulary and analysis, and as such, reflects the authors' belief that physical education curriculum should ideally enable the learner to direct their own discovery of body agency (and the joy of movement) in ways that are creative, self-expressive and true to their lived body experience. As the work demonstrates, however, waves of state-directed physical education curriculum each held their own agenda about how the "ideal" child and adolescent body should be trained within the context of hegemonic paradigms of dominance and control. The work is framed around three major developments that shape the analysis: a) the significant growth of critical, social scientific research about physical education and sport during the last 50 years (through the lens of social, material, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theory); b) the tensions underlying the evolution of kinesiology and the "displacement" (p. 13) of physical education as a school subject; and c) evidence from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Ryerson and His Vision -- Towards a Pan-Canadian Curriculum -- The Margaret Eaton School: Forty Years of Women's Physical Education -- Fit for Living -- Setting a Heroic Agenda--Realizing the Possibilities -- Changing Times and New Initiatives -- Seeking Optimism in a Contested Field.
- ISBN
- 9781487508562
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
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- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Responsibility
- Ayesha Clough (author)
- Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
- Abstract
- Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781999108786
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
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- Archives Library
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Liquor and the liberal state : drink and order before prohibition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26245
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Malleck, Dan
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29l
- Author
- Malleck, Dan
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xiv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Prohibition
- Law
- Law enforcement
- Abstract
- Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces the takeover of liquor regulation by the Ontario provincial government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to an active prohibitionist movement and equally active liquor industry. While the liquor licensing regime helped build a vast patronage base for the governing Liberal Party, some believed it exceeded the constitutional authority of the provinces. The drink question became as political as it was moral - a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights, and, ultimately in the crafting of the modern state. Liquor and the Liberal State demonstrates the challenges governments faced when dealing with the seemingly simple, but tremendously complicated, alcoholic beverage. This lively and meticulous work shows how commentators of all stripes fit the liquor question into a complex conception of liberalism, typically seeing either prohibition or excessive consumption of liquor as an infringement of personal liberty and a threat to the fundamental values of the nation. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Introduction: Arguing over liquor and liberalism -- The place of the government in the drinks of the people -- Centralization, I: The Crooks act -- Power and influence in the new system -- Politics, law, and the license branch -- How drinking affects the constitution, 1864-83 -- McCarthy and Crooks enter a tavern, 1883-85 -- Attempting to water down the Scott Act, 1884-92 -- Plebiscites as tools for change? 1883-94 -- Talking and blocking national prohibition, 1891-99 -- Dodging decisions at the end of the liberals' era, 1894-1905 -- Drinking in Whitney's conservative liberal state, 1905-07 -- Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907-16 -- Conclusion: liquor, liberalism, and the legacy of the Crooks act.
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- 9780774867177
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 08.1 M29l
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North of America : Canadians and the American century, 1945-60
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26238
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M19n
- Responsibility
- Edited by Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Abstract
- In 1941, influential publishing magnate Henry Luce wrote a stirring essay on American global power, declaring that the world was in the midst of the first great American century. What did a newly outward-looking and hegemonic United States mean for its northern neighbour? From constitutional reform to transit policy, from national security to the arrival of television, Canadians were ever mindful of the American experience. This sharp-eyed volume provides a unique look at postwar Canada, bringing to the fore the opinions and perceptions of a broad range of Canadians--from consumers to diplomats, jazz musicians to urban planners, and a diverse cross-section in between. -- Provided by publisher.
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- "A Natural Development": Canada and Non-Alignment in the Age of Eisenhower / David Webster -- Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus! Lester Pearson's Visit to the Soviet Union and the West's Détente Dilemma / Susan Colbourn -- Living Dangerously: Canadian National Security Policy and the Nuclear Revolution / Timothy Andrews Sayle -- From Normandy to NORAD: Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle in the Age of Eisenhower / Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson -- An Emerging Constitutional Culture in Canada's Postwar Moment / P.E. Bryden -- Rethinking Postwar Domesticity: The Canadian Household in the 1950s / Bettina Liverant -- Racial Discrimination in "Uncle Tom's Town": Media and the Americanization of Racism in Dresden, 1948-56 / Jennifer Tunnicliffe -- Between Distrust and Acceptance: The Influence of the United States on Postwar Quebec / François-Olivier Dorais and Daniel Poitras -- Living the Good Life? Canadians and the Paradox of American Prosperity / Stephen Azzi -- Make Room for (Canadian) TV: Print Media Cover the Arrival of Television in the Shadow of American Cultural Imperialism, 1930-52 / Emily LeDuc -- Getting Off the Highway: Frederick Gardiner and Toronto's Transit Policy in the Age of the Interstate Highway, 1954-63 / Jonathan English -- Talking Jazz at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956-58 / Eric Fillion.
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- 9780774868846
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 M19n
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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26244
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ab3n
- Responsibility
- Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 239 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
- ISBN
- 9781771993777
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
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- 08.1 Ab3n
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Pleasure and panic : new essays on the history of alcohol and drugs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Malleck, Dan and Krasnick Warsh, Cheryl
- Publisher
- Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29p
- Publisher
- Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Health
- Health and Social Development
- Health and wellness
- Drugs
- Prohibition
- Law
- Abstract
- Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called problems of drug and alcohol use. -- Provided by publisher.
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- The transgressive woman: gender, class, alcohol, and drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- "To find out the best men and to try to get them in": Women, temperance, and politics in Manchester, 1873-1919 / Cynthia Belaskie -- Youth, drugs, and surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion -- John Lennon, the Le Dain Commission, and the rise of the celebrity activist / Greg Marquis -- Manhood, drink, and the "medical heresy" of US Army surgeon James Mann (1812-16) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany -- Medicinal purposes: pharmacists, professionalism, and liquor laws in victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck -- A new perspective on harm reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD rescue service / Chris Elcock -- Flogging a dead horse? Adulteration and brewing in nineteenth-century England / Jonathan Reinarz -- Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The story of the first Chinese-Canadian hotel licensee in Post-prohibition Alberta / Sarah E. Hamill -- The rise of the "Big Three": The emergence of a Canadian brewing oligopoly, 1945-62 / Matthew J. Bellamy.
- ISBN
- 9780774867528
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 M29p
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