Books, Articles and Book Chapters Published or Accepted by Faculty (2008)
Articles and Book Chapters Published or Accepted by Faculty (2007)
Articles and Book Chapters Published or Accepted by Faculty (July 2005-December 2006)
Recent Books by Faculty in the Department of History
Erika Dyck
Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Erika Dyck's Psychedelic Psychiatry challenges some of the spectacular countercultural myths about LSD. In fact, LSD turns out to have been very much a Saskatchewan product. It was invented here when Saskatchewan's reputation as the North American home of universal health care--and the Tommy Douglas government's willingness to spend money on medical research--attracted scientists from Canada and abroad to this campus and to facilities around the province. The ultimate anti-establishment drug came about thanks to earnest and highly skilled medical researchers conducting well-funded research at the leading edge of psychopharmacology.
For more information, visit the publisher’s website.
W.A. (Bill) Waiser
Who Killed Jackie Bates?
Fifth House Publishers; Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2008.
Short-listed for 3 Saskatchewan Book Awards, 2008.
From the publisher:
On the morning of 5 December 1933, a young RCMP constable discovered a grisly scene in the Avalon schoolyard in rural Saskatchewan. A young boy lay dead in a rented car, an apparent victim of carbon monoxide poisoning. In the car with him were his parents, who would survive both the effects of the gas and self-inflicted knife wounds only to face murder charges in their son's death. The subsequent trial of Ted and Rose Bates ranks as one of the most hotly debated in Saskatchewan history.
Waiser examines an incident long held up as an example of the sheer despair and bureaucratic heartlessness of the Depression and shows that the truth is much more complex. Through meticulous research, including letters, police and trial documents, contemporary accounts, and interviews with people who knew Ted, Rose, and Jackie, the author recreates the troubled lives and desperate times of Ted and Rose Bates in order to explain what led them to that isolated schoolyard on a cold December night. The words spoken throughout the book are taken verbatim from the sources and serve to reinforce that the Bates were not simply helpless victims of the Depression, but flawed people with complex personalities. Who Killed Jackie Bates? superbly recreates the Depression ethos to provide insight into a time and place that seem light years away from the Canada of today.
For more information, visit the publisher’s website.
W.A. (Bill) Waiser
Everett Baker’s Saskatchewan: Portraits of an Era
Fifth House Publishers; Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2007.
Saskatchewan Book Awards, Shortlist, 2007.
From the publisher:
Everett Baker’s Saskatchewan is a book filled with photos of the province as Baker saw it starting in 1937, when he traveled from town to town as a field man for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. With his German-made 35mm Leica camera, Baker took Kodachrome colour slide pictures of the people, towns, and farms he visited, immortalizing a unique chapter in Saskatchewan’s history. Professor Waiser has selected and compiled photographs from Everett Baker’s unique vision into the first ever book-form showcase of this exceptional photographer’s work.
“Baker’s photographic documentation of the province in the mid-20th century is a national treasure,” says Waiser. “He set out to photograph the co-operative movement but he did not stop there. During his long days on the road, Baker used his camera to capture the diverse Saskatchewan landscape through the seasons. He coaxed people to pose for him.”
For more information, visit the publisher’s website.
Gary Zellar
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
From the publisher:
Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin.
Professor Zellar’s book tells how people of African heritage came to blend their lives with those of their Indian neighbors and essentially became Creek themselves. Taking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, from the sixteenth century through Oklahoma statehood, Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history.
For more information, visit the publisher’s website.
