Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy's foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as an original and profound cultural critic, and in particular as a great scholar of the process of secularization that took place in the West during the 1960s. A collection of eleven essays and lectures by Del Noce that originally appeared between 1964 and 1969, and which the author published as a book in 1971, The Age of Secularization quickly became recognized as one of the most original and penetrating attempts to interpret the cultural and political turmoil of the period. In its pages Del Noce discusses, among other topics, the student protests of 1968, the counterculture of the 1960s, the significance of the sexual revolution, the nature of the technological society, and the relationship between Christianity and modern culture. The Age of Secularization documents the encounter between a key period of contemporary history and the full intellectual maturity of one of its most perceptive observers. It makes available to English-language readers a lasting reflection on the philosophical roots of contemporary culture, and it is just as illuminating and topical today as it was nearly fifty years ago.
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• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Maps
• Introduction: Better Britains?: Settler Societies Within the British Empire 1783-1920
• 1. Colonial Frontiers and Contact Zones: Indigenous Peoples and Settler Encounters
• 2. "Peopling, " Settling, and Governing
• 3. Settler Economies: Local Contexts and Imperial Networks
• 4. Creating Civil Society
• 5. Creating Settler Identities
• Conclusion: Better Britains?
• Select Bibliography
• Index.
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The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century. This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Australia. In Building Better Britains?, Cecilia Morgan examines how imperial powers reshaped the lives and landscapes of millions through colonial relationships with Indigenous peoples, and the processes of migration and settlement that facilitated the British Empire's global expansion. Identity and culture in geographically diverse settler societies are compared, highlighting shared histories and the nuances that differentiated them. Morgan encourages readers to consider settler societies from multiple perspectives, including those of the colonists themselves. Eight maps and eight illustrations enhance the text, along with a bibliography and index.
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"Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. The Burgess Shale is not all about writerly pursuits, though. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of the times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today--from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals."-- Provided by publisher.

• Lawren Stewart Harris, Europe, and the Bodhisattva in the next room
• Discovering David Milne
• Emily Carr and the wordless speech of things
• The Spanish Civil War and the moral duty of artists
• Defending art vivant in Montreal
• The war and new cultural order
• The automatistes, true poets
• Cold war culture.

"A window onto the perspectives of Canadian artists during three eventful decades of local and global history. From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change. With an interweaving of historical narrative, lavish illustrations, and writings by many of Canada's most revered cultural figures, Lora Senechal Carney illuminates the lives, perspectives, and works of the era's painters and provides glimpses of the sculptors, poets, dancers, critics, and filmmakers with whom they associated. Canadian Painters in a Modern World gives readers direct access to a carefully curated selection of writings, artwork, photos, and other documents that help to reconstruct the public spheres in which artists including Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Alex Colville, Lawren Harris, David Milne, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod circulated. Each of the book's eight chapters consists of a narrative about a key issue or debate, consistently focusing on the relationship of art to politics and society, and on how these are negotiated in an individual's life. Relating artistic engagement with and responses to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Senechal Carney discovers a common desire for new connections between art and life before the atomic era. Revealing continuities, ruptures, and watershed moments, Canadian Painters in a Modern World showcases artistic production within specific socio-political contexts to shed new light on Canadian art during three decades of conflict and crisis."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: "This is the Face of Obesity": Race, Class, Gender, and the Feminization of Fat
• Chapter 2: The "Kitchen Demon" and the "Tubby Hubby": Reproductive labour and the nuclear family in obesity discourse
• Chapter 3: "Of Missiles and Muscles": Fitness, Masculinity, and Obesity during the Cold War
• Chapter 4: "The White Man's Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the Developing North Conclusion: Asking Different Questions Bibliography.
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The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period. Contours of the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others. She reveals how the articulation of obesity contributed to the Canadian colonial project in the North; where Indigenous peoples were viewed as modern Canadians due to their obesity, thereby negating any special claims to northern lands. Contours of the Nation successfully demonstrates how histories can trace the actual materialization of bodies through relations of power, particularly those pertaining to race, gender, and nation.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: "This is the Face of Obesity": Race, Class, Gender, and the Feminization of Fat
• Chapter 2: The "Kitchen Demon" and the "Tubby Hubby": Reproductive labour and the nuclear family in obesity discourse
• Chapter 3: "Of Missiles and Muscles": Fitness, Masculinity, and Obesity during the Cold War
• Chapter 4: "The White Man's Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the Developing North Conclusion: Asking Different Questions Bibliography.
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The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period. Contours of the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others. She reveals how the articulation of obesity contributed to the Canadian colonial project in the North; where Indigenous peoples were viewed as modern Canadians due to their obesity, thereby negating any special claims to northern lands. Contours of the Nation successfully demonstrates how histories can trace the actual materialization of bodies through relations of power, particularly those pertaining to race, gender, and nation.
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• Ecological subjectivity : Guattari and Darrieussecq
• Ecological dwelling : Serres and Lafon
• Ecological politics : Latour and Rufin
• Ecological ends : Schaeffer and Houellebecq.

"French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus's ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of "French ecocriticism." Working across contemporary philosophy and literature, the book defines the concept of the ecological as an attentiveness to specific nature-culture contexts and to a text's many interdiscursive connections. Posthumus identifies four key concepts, ecological subjectivity, ecological dwelling, ecological politics, and ecological ends, for changing how we think about human-nature relations. French Écocritique highlights the importance of moving beyond canonical ecocritical texts and examining a diversity of cultural and literary traditions for new ways of imagining the environment."-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Jewish Clinton 1920-1952: "Well To The Fore Among Toronto Schools"
• Chapter 3: At Clinton You're a Somebody: Religion and the Idea of Citizenship
• Chapter 4: European Clinton, 1950-1965: "Ruth Beside the Alien Corn"
• Chapter 5: European Clinton, 1965-1975: From Mungie Cakes to Multiculturalism
• Chapter 6: Global Clinton, 1975-1990: "We Have Children From Lots of Countries"
• Chapter 7: Global Clinton and Heritage Languages
• Chapter 8: Conclusion: Remembering the Answers.
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Half of Toronto's population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada - and many other western nations - has to face head on. Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990. From the swift and seismic shift from a Jewish to southern European demographic in the 1950s to the gradual globalized community starting in the 1970s, Vipond eloquently and clearly highlights the challenges posed by multicultural citizenship in a city that was dominated by Anglo-Protestants. Contrary to recent well-documented anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, Making a Global City celebrates one of the world's most multicultural cities while stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal democracies.
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• The beginnings of the modern school
• The new poetry : a manifesto
• The early forties
• Signs of reaction, new and old
• Resurgence
• Points of vue
• The little magazines
• Wder horizens.

The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada gathers together primary literary documents including manifestos, reviews, critical essays, and recollections to illustrate the most significant developments in the rise of modernist English Canadian poetry. Rather than present exclusively academic criticism, the editors have carefully selected original texts by the principal figures of modernism to offer readers a behind-the-scenes look at twentieth-century poetry in Canada. Collecting several decades of writings by luminaries beginning with pivotal essays by John Sutherland and A.J.M. Smith, and including George Bowering, Northrop Frye, Irving Layton, P.K. Page, F.R. Scott, Raymond Souster, and William Carlos Williams, this volume also provides explanatory notes to guide the reader and to evaluate the significance of each piece in its literary and historical context. This classic work of Canadian literary studies is now back in print with a substantial new introduction and appendices by Michael Gnarowski, who explains and interprets the essence of key initiatives in the unfolding of a modernist point of view. The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada offers a comprehensive chronological path from the earliest examples of Canadian modernism to the beginning of the postmodern period.
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• Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies
• A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets
• "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain
• "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation
• "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation
• "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers
• Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping malls.

In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana from the late nineteenth century through to the political turmoil of the 1970s. Murillo brings sales clerks, market women, and everyday consumers in Ghana to the center of a story that is all too often told in sweeping metanarratives about what happens when African businesses are incorporated into global markets. By emphasizing the centrality of human relationships to Ghana's economic past, Murillo introduces a radical rethinking of consumption studies from an Africa-centered perspective. The result is a keen look at colonial capitalism in all of its intricacies, legacies, and contradictions, including its entanglement with gender and race.
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• Introduction : Saving Germany : not your typical mission field
• 1. Ecumenical Protestants and the reconstruction of Germanay 1945-1974 : mainline Protestants offer relief and rehabilitation
• 2. Denominational Protestantant missions to Germany, 1945-1974 : Mennonites and Baptists reusucitate and rehabilitate the Freikirchen
• 3. Conservative evangelical mission to Germany, 1945-1974 : two case studies
• 4. Billy Graham's mission to Germany, 1945-1974 : from Cold War crusader to good Samaritan
• 5. Mission to Germany after 1974 : responding to post-Christendom secularism
• Conclusion : saving Germany : the significance of the mission.

Historians have mainly concentrated on the significance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and exports of pop culture to describe the role of North Americans in the development of West Germany after the devastation of the Second World War. In Saving Germany, James Enns brings an entirely new focus to West Germany's recovery by demonstrating how North American missionaries played a formative role in cultivating the humanitarian and spiritual conscience of postwar Germany. Enns begins by categorizing the kinds of Protestant missionary agencies active in West Germany, which ranged from mainline churches overseeing ecumenical humanitarian and church reconstruction projects to independent evangelical mission agencies working alongside local church groups. He then identifies notable themes that contextualize the spectrum of missionary responses, including the degree to which missionaries intentionally functioned as agents of Western democracy. In addition to discussions of well-known figures such as US evangelist Billy Graham, Enns highlights the important contributions of the Janz Quartet from the Canadian prairies and Robert Kreider of the Mennonite Central Committee. Tracking thirty years of transnational Christian missionary work, Saving Germany demonstrates the significant role of North American missionary agencies in the reconstruction of Germany.
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• Keen propagandists for Canadian art : establishing art galleries in Western Canada
• Managing the periphery : the National Gallery and regional museums
• From Kingston to Massey : developing a policy for culture in Canada
• Resisting the centre : the Western Canada art circuit
• Buildings, collections, and curators : professionalizing the art gallery
• The perils of decentralization : federal funding and art museums in Western Canada.

When the Edmonton Museum of Arts opened in 1924 it was only the second art gallery in Canada west of Toronto. Spaces and Places for Art tells the story of the financial and ideological struggles that community groups and artist societies in booming frontier cities and towns faced in establishing spaces for the cultivation of artistic taste. Mapping the development of art institutions in western Canada from the founding of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1912 to the 1990s heyday of art museums in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, Anne Whitelaw provides a glimpse into the production, circulation, and consumption of art in Canada throughout the twentieth century. Initially dependent on paintings loaned from the National Gallery of Canada, art galleries across the western part of the country gradually built their own collections and exhibitions and formed organizations that made them less reliant on institutions and government agencies in Ottawa. Tracing the impact of major national arts initiatives such as the Massey Commission, the funding programs of the Canada Council, and the policies of the National Museums Corporation, Whitelaw sheds light on the complex relationships between western Canada and Ottawa surrounding art. Building on extensive archival research and in-depth analysis of government involvement, Spaces and Places for Art is an invaluable explanation of the roles of cultural institutions and cultural policy in the emergence of artistic practice in Canada.
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• Introduction Part I Nineteenth-Century Roots
• 1. The Empire Strikes Back: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Canadian Secret Service (1999)
• 2. The Origins of Political Policing in Canada: Class, Law and the Burden of Empire (2003), with Andy Parnaby Part II The Origins of the Long Cold War
• 3. State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War (1992)
• 4. The Surveillance State: The Origins of Domestic Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in Canada, 1914-1920 (1992)
• 5. The Early Years of State Surveillance of Labour and the Left in Canada: The Institutional Framework of the RCMP Security and Intelligence Apparatus, 1918-1928 (1993)
• 6. Spymasters, Spies, and their Subjects: The RCMP and Canadian State Repression, 1914-1939 (2000)
• 7. 'A War on Ethnicity?': The RCMP and Second World War Internment (2000), with Reg Whitaker Part III The Archival Trail
• 8. Filing and Defiling: The Organization of the State Security Archives in the Interwar Years (1998)
• 9. The RCMP, CSIS, the Public Archives of Canada, and Access to Information: A Curious Tale (1988).
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Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States. Spying on Canadians brings together over twenty five years of research and writing about political policing in Canada. Through itse use of the Dominion Police and later the RCMP, Canada repressed the labour movement and the political left in defense of capital. The collection focuses on three themes; the nineteenth-century roots of political policing in Canada, the development of a national security system in the twentieth-century, and the ongoing challenges associated with research in this area owing to state secrecy and the inadequacies of access to information legislation. This timely collection alerts all Canadians to the need for the vigilant defence of civil liberties and human rights in the face of the ever increasing intrusion of the state into our private lives in the name of countersubversion and counterterrorism.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject
• Chapter 1 - Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer's Charter and Oscar Wilde's Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism
• Chapter 2 - Law's Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad
• Chapter 3 - High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce
• Chapter 4 - Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity Works Consulted.
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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce. By tracing the relationships between the literature, authors, media, and judicial procedure of the time, Barleben illuminates the somewhat macabre element of modern British trial process, which still enacts and re-enacts itself throughout contemporary judicial systems of the British Commonwealth. Using little seen legal documents, like Ford's contempt trial decision, Staging the Trials of Modernism uncovers the conversations between the interior style of British Modern authors and the ways in which law began rethinking concepts like intent and the subconscious. Barleben's fresh insights offer a nuanced look into the ways in which law influences literary production.
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• Historical context : séances and mediumship in Canada
• Framework : interpreting mediums' discourses as unconscious communications
• Healing : mediums and medicine
• Writing : mediums and literary creativity
• Speaking : mediums in the public sphere
• Performing : mediums, science, and the speaking mody.

Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual seances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada - and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from seances - Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women's religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.
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• The machinery of civil-military command and control
• Planning for aid to the civil power, 1968-1969
• Troops on the streets, 1969
• Operation Demetrius : internment, 1971
• Bloody Sunday, 1972
• The army and direct rule, 1972
• Operation Motorman, 1972
• The army and the Ulster Workers' Council Strike, 1974.

"Who ran the war in Northern Ireland--the politicians or the generals? This book presents evidence that the answer is: neither--by themselves. Utilizing scholarly secondary sources on the Troubles as well as official records held at the National Archives at Kew and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, the author examines the two-way process of consultation between government and military officials that tasked the military with turning political objectives into viable military operations. By presenting six case studies of key events from 1968-1974, the author illustrates the complex and dynamic balance of civil-military objectives that informed security policy and operations during the conflict."-- Provided by publisher.

• A contagious notion of trauma
• Community and poetry's maps
• Compassion across contexts : substitution, incorporation, and juxtaposition
• Accumulating suffering : waiting without end
• Signing skeletons : relational structures of the actual and artistic.

While trauma theory has been adopted by contemporary literary and cultural studies as an ethical way to study depictions of suffering, there is a risk that its present use could cause more harm than good. By emphasizing inaccessible histories, unspeakable suffering, and unconscious witnessing, trauma theory may lead readers to claim others' suffering through empathic identification. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry offers an alternative approach to engage with not only suffering in art but suffering in general. Examining the strategies of witness poetry, Tracy interrogates and reformulates the dominant models of trauma studies in which readers take over the witnessing position by identifying with the speaker as a witness. If the purpose of reading such poetry is to contribute to a chain of witnesses, what is the distinct role of a reader, and how does it differ from the role of the poem's speaker? Tracy proposes that metonymy - a logic of nearness rather than likeness - is compassion's formal manifestation. Analyzing poetry that emphasizes the contiguity of metonymy over the substitution of metaphor, she attends to the positions into which witnessing speakers invite readers. Poems that respond to diverse national and transnational contexts of atrocity, conflict, and marginalization guide With the Witnesses toward a compassionate response to suffering that involves feeling with - not as - another. Following each poem as a unique theory of compassion, With the Witnesses demonstrates that poems hold suffering signed as art, not claimable traces of suffering.
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• Figures
• Note on landscapes of injustice
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction and reflections / Jordan Stanger-Ross
• Translator's note / Matsuki Masutani
• Editor's note / Jordan Stanger-Ross
• Memoir:
• Kishizo Kimura, translated by Matsuki Masutani and Jane Masutani
• Part 1: The Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee
• Part 2: Unusual and exceptional cases
• Part 3: Concluding the forced sale of fishing vessels
• Part 4: A message to younger Japanese Canadians
• Part 5: The forced sale of Vancouver property
• Part 6: Recollections
• Part 7: Property-owners in protest
• Commentaries:
• 1. A difficult past: Kodomono tame ni
• for the sake of the children / Masako Fukawa
• 2. Kishizo Kimura and the articulations of a society structured in dominance / Timothy J. Stanley
• 3. Resistance and accommodation to racism and discrimination / Vic Satzewich
• 4. Citizen beings, being citizens: Reflections on Japanese-Canadian experiences in war and peace / Laura Madokoro
• Afterword / Pamela Sugiman
• Appendix:
• Key individuals and legal enactments / Will Archibald, Monique Ulysses, and Jordan Stanger-Ross
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index.

"When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver during the Second World War, Kimura participated in the dispossession of his own community. In Witness to Loss, Kimura's previously unknown memoir--written in the last years of his life--is translated from Japanese to English and published for the first time. This remarkable document chronicles a history of racism in British Columbia, describes the activities of the committees on which Kimura served, and seeks to defend his actions. Diverse reflections of leading historians, sociologists, and a community activist and educator who lived through this history give context to the memoir, inviting readers to grapple with a rich and contentious past. More complex than just hero or villain, oppressor or victim, Kimura raises important questions about the meaning of resistance and collaboration and the constraints faced by an entire generation. Illuminating the difficult, even impossible, circumstances that confronted the victims of racist state action in the mid-twentieth century, Witness to Loss reminds us that the challenge of understanding is greater than that of judgment."-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover; ABORIGINAL RIGHTS CLAIMS AND THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF HISTORY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Figures and Text Boxes ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; 1 Taking Indigenous Peoples' Lands ; 2 The United States Indian Claims Commission ; 3 Litigating and Negotiating Native Title and Treaty Rights in Canada.

• 4 Anthropologists, Historians, and the Title Claims of Aborigines in Australia 5 The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History ; 6 Redressing Race-Based Dispossessions in South Africa ; 7 The Métis in Court: Problems of Discrimination, Identity, and Community.

• 8 Courts, Commissions, and Tribunals as Forums for Interpreting and Making History Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

"The forums that were established during the second half of the twentieth century to address Aboriginal land claims have led to a particular way of engaging with and presenting Aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that comes out of these land claim forums is often attacked for being "presentist": interpreting historical actions and actors through the lens of present day values, practices, and concerns. In Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History, a comparative study encompassing five former British colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States), Arthur Ray examines how claims-oriented research is framed by existing Indigenous rights law and claims legislation and how, in turn, it has influenced the development of laws and legislation. Ray also explores the ways in which the procedures and settings for claims adjudication--the courtroom, claims commissions, and the Waitangi Tribunal--have influenced the use of historical evidence, stimulated scholarly debates about the cultural/historical experiences of Indigenous people at the time of European contact and afterward, and have provoked reactions from politicians and scholars. While giving serious consideration to the arguments of presentism and the problems that overly presentist histories can create, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History provides Aboriginal, academic, and legal communities with an essential perspective on how history is used in the Aboriginal claims process."-- Provided by publisher.

• 1 A Girl from New England
• 2 A Young Heiress in the Making
• 3 One Life, Two Worlds
• 4 Prince Roffredo and the Caetani
• 5 A Strained Courtship with a Happy Outcome
• 6 A Family in War and Peace
• 7 Villa Romaine and the Genesis of Commerce
• 8 A Unique Vocation: Fostering the Commerce of Ideas
• 9 The Move to Rome, and Ninfa
• 10 War and Tragedy
• 11 New Beginnings: Botteghe Oscure
• 12 The Fullness of Time
• 13 A Legacy for the Future.

"In An American Princess, Laurie Dennett relates the remarkable story of a New England girl whose wealth, intelligence, and charm took her to the heart of aristocratic and intellectual Europe. Marguerite Chapin (1880-1963) was the product of two cultures: her father's enterprising American one, and her mother's French heritage, which enabled her to move to Paris when she inherited a fortune at age twenty-one. There, she studied singing with the greatest tenor of the age, commissioned paintings from artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, and André Derain, and drew upon her many friendships with writers to found and edit the pioneering literary review Commerce."-- From publisher's website.
"Her marriage, in 1911, to the composer Prince Roffredo Caetani, a member of one of Italy's oldest dynasties, added a whole new dimension to her life. Not only did it bring her a title, but happiness, two children, and a set of extraordinarily talented in-laws. When Marguerite and Roffredo moved to Rome in 1932, Ninfa, the estate where the Caetani family had created a garden among the ruins of a medieval town, offered a refuge from fascism and an outlet for creativity. At age sixty-eight, having survived the death of her son, the war and the occupation, Marguerite launched the international review Botteghe Oscure. Its aim was to reclaim respectability for Italian writing, but through her discerning and generous editorial vision, it became a showcase for writers everywhere."-- From publisher's website.