Unveiling new works

- March 31, 2006

FASS book launch
(Abriel photo)
Gender and globalization. The history of the 20th century world. An examination of South African gangs. These are just a few of the subjects faculty and researchers at Dalhousie University have covered in recently published books. The annual Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences book launch celebrated the publication of 33 books (up from 14 last year) on March 8 in the Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building.

This year's impressive list of titles includes:

Driss A•ssaoui. Ed. DiversitŽ culturelle et dŽsir d'autobiographie dans lâespace francophone. Special Issue of Dalhousie French Studies 70 (Spring 2005).

Jerry Bannister and William R. Keylor, The Twentieth-Century World: An International History.  First Canadian Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Jerry Bannister. "Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Christopher English, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX. Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2005.

Jerry Bannister. "Law and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Douglas Hay and Paul Craven, eds., Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Pauline Gardiner Barber. "Ethnography's Edge in Development." In Auto-Ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices.  Ed. Anne Meneley and Donna J. Young.  Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.

Pauline Gardiner Barber. No/Ma(i)ds: Silenced Subjects in Philippine Migration. In Silence: The Currency of Power.  Ed. Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb.  Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005.
 
Jerome H. Barkow.  "Biology is Destiny Only if We Ignore It."  In Global Survival: The Challenge And Its Implications for Thinking And Acting.  Ed. Ervin Laszlo and Peter Seidel.  New York: Select Books, 2005. 63-83.

Christopher M Bell. "The Royal Navy, War Planning and Intelligence Assessments of Japan Between the Wars."  In Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society, ed. Peter Jackson and Jennifer Siegel, Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005. 139-55.

Christopher M. Bell and Bruce A. Elleman, eds.  N‡moên’ vzpoury ve dvac‡tŽm stolet’: Mezin‡rodn’ souvislosti. Trans. Zdenek Hron.  Prague: BB Art, 2005. Translation of Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

Lyn Bennett. Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer. Duquesne: Duquesne UP, 2004.

Marian Binkley, Barbara Neis, Siri Gerrard and Christina Maneschy, eds. Changing Tides: Gender, Globalization, and World Fisheries.  Halifax: Fernwood Press/Zed Press. 2005.

Claire Campbell. Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 2005

Jane V. Curran. and Christopher Fricker, eds. Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2005. 231 pp.

Ivana Djordjevic. Original and Translation: "Bevis's Mother in Anglo-Norman and Middle English." In Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England. Ed. Corinne Saunders. Cambridge: Brewer, 2005. 11-26.

Lindsay DuBois. The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005.

Katherine Fierlbeck, ed. The Development of Political Thought in Canada: An Anthology. Peterborough, ON:  Broadview Press, 2005.

Judith Fingard.  and Janet Guildford, eds., Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.  2005.

Vittorio Frigerio. NaufragŽ en terre ferme. Editions Prise de Parole. Sudbury, 2005.

Philip Girard.  Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2005.

Bruce Greenfield. Exploration and Discovery In American History through Literature, 1820-1870.  Eds. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer. Gale, 2005.

Wayne Hankey. Pantokrator, the Cosmic Christ:  A Christian Theology of Nature. Charlottetown, Prince Edward, Island: St. Peter Publications, 2005.

Wayne Hankey and Douglas Hedley, eds. Deconstructing Radical Orthodoxy: Postmodern Theology, Rhetoric and Truth. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2005.

Wayne Hankey. Philosophical Religion and the Neoplatonic Turn to the Subject in Deconstructing Radical Orthodoxy: Postmodern Theology, Rhetoric and Truth.  Ed. Wayne J. Hankey and Douglas Hedley (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2005. 17-30.

Wayne Hankey. "Self and Cosmos in Becoming Deiform: Neoplatonic Paradigms for Reform by Self-Knowledge from Augustine to Aquinas."  In Reforming the Church Before Modernity: Patterns, Problems and Approaches.  Ed. Christopher M. Bellitto and Louis I. Hamilton. Aldershot, England/ Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Press, 2005. 39-60.

Wayne Hankey. "Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in Medieval Europe, Difference and Unity: The Religions of the Bookâ and Their Assimilation of Hellenistic Philosophical Theology." In Multiculturalism and Religious Freedom, ed. Susan Harris.  Charlottetown: St. Peter Publications, 2005. 72-114.

Jason Haslam. Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005.

Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright, eds. Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005.

Julian Hermida. Legal basis for a national space legislation. Publisher: Dordrecht; Boston : Kluwer Academic, 2004.

Dean Irvine, ed. The Canadian Modernists Meet. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005.

Gary Kynoch. We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa 1947-1999. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Pietermaritzburg: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2005.

Christopher Murphy. "Communities of Policing and Policing Communities: A Comparative Study of Policing in Two Urban Communities" (with C. Clark).  In Re-Imagining Policing in Canada. Ed. D. Cooley. University of Toronto Press, 2005. 209-259.

Cynthia J. Neville. Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140-1365. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2005.

Shirley Tillotson. "'Dollars, Democracy, and the Children's Aid Society: the Eclipse of Gwendolen Lantz." In Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work and Social Policy in Halifax since 1945. Ed. Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 76-109.