Inspired by the CBC’s Canada Reads competition, the Canadian Historian Association (CHA) has shortlisted five books for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history published in the last year. Genealogists may find good reading material on the list.
Based on the format of CBC’s Canada Reads, five scholars have agreed to champion a book this week and explain why it should win. They will be defending the books this week.
Historian Andrea Eidinger will moderate the discussion on her blog, Unwritten Histories.
The shortlisted books are:
Carter, Sarah. Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016.
McKay, Ian and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2016.
Mills, Sean. A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Québec. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Perry, Adele. Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Rudin, Ronald. Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
The first book up to bat yesterday was The Vimy Trap, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War, defended by Mary-Ellen Kelm.
To see the books, publisher blurbs, and arguments, visit the blog, Unwritten Histories.
