New Issue Available: The Northern Review, Number 32 (Spring 2010)
The Spring 2010 issue of The Northern Review, a multidisciplinary journal of the arts and social sciences of the North, is now available. Book reviews, article abstracts, and a table of contents are available on the journal website at: http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/review
Articles
The True Northwest Passage: Explorers in Anglo-Canadian Nationalist Narratives, by Janice Cavell
Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Damage in Northern Native Communities: A Practical School-Based Approach, by Steven Jacquier, Judith Kleinfeld & David Gilliam
The Historical Roots of a Frontier Alcohol Culture: Alaska and Northern Canada, by Mary Ehrlander
Alaska Highway Mythology: Bulldozers to RVs, by Laura Pitkanen
Humble Dreams: An Historical Perspective on Yukon Agriculture Since 1846, by Sally Robinson
Book Reviews
Jen Hill, White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Reviewed by Janice Cavell.
Ken S. Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, William R. Morrison & Greg Poelzer, Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008. Reviewed by Douglas Clark.
Ed Struzik, The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2009. Reviewed by Ross Coen.
Lennard Sillanpää, Awakening Siberia. From Marginalization to Self-Determination: The Small Indigenous Nations of Northern Russia on the Eve of the Millennium. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2008. Reviewed by William J. Couch.
Jerry McBeath, Matthew Berman, Jonathan Rosenberg & Mary F. Ehrlander, The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. Reviewed by Richard A. Fineberg.
Karim Aly-Kassam, Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009. Reviewed by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox.
Sonja Luehrmann, Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. Reviewed by Nadia Jackinsky-Horrell.
Françoise Noël, Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2009. Reviewed by Peter V. Krats.
Gary Holthaus, Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Reviewed by S. Craig Gerlach and Philip A. Loring.
T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard (eds.), Health Transitions in Arctic Populations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Reviewed by Darlene Perkins.
Frances Abele, Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle & France St-Hilaire (eds.), Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy and McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. Reviewed by Jonathan Peyton.
Robert C. Paehlke, Some Like It Cold: The Politics of Climate Change in Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2008. Reviewed by Jerald Sabin.
Hans M. Carlson, Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. Reviewed by John Sandlos.
Jessica M. Shadian and Monica Tennberg (eds.), Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences: Historical, Legal and Political Reflections on the International Polar Year. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2009. Reviewed by Adam M. Sowards.
John L. Steckley, White Lies about the Inuit. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2008. Reviewed by Frank Tester.
Dawn Martin-Hill, The Lubicon Lake Nation: Indigenous Knowledge and Power. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Reviewed by Clinton N. Westman.
The Northern Review is published by Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
Contact:
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Managing Editor, The Northern Review
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