The Northern Review, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences based at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Canada, seeks reviewers for recent books in northern studies. The journal publishes reviews and original scholarship from around the circumpolar North in a wide range of fields, including history, anthropology, archeology, political science, sociology, law, environmental studies, literary studies, and the visual arts. Reviews are generally in the range of 800-1200 words in length.
If you are interested in reviewing one of the books below, please send a note to the Book Reviews Editor describing your qualifications and areas of expertise.
For more information on the Northern Review, please visit: http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/review/
Contact:
Brad Martin
Book Reviews Editor
The Northern Review
bookreviews@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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Shelagh D. Grant. Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America. Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.
Louis-Jacques Dorais. The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
Heather E. McGregor. Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
Lassi Heininen and Chris Southcott, eds. Globalization and the Circumpolar North. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010.
Valerie Alia. The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication. Berghahn Books, 2010.
Brenda Macdougall. One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
John R. Bockstoce. Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Paul Nicklen. Polar Obsession. Washington, DC: Focal Point/National Geographic, 2009.
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Shirleen Smith. People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders/Googwandak Nakhwach'ànjòo Van Tat Gwich'in. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009.
Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840: James Hargrave of the Hudson's Bay Company. Edited with an introduction by Helen E. Ross. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.
Kenneth L. Pratt, ed. Chasing the Dark: Perspectives on Place, History and Alaska Native Land Claims. Anchorage, AK: United States Department of the Interior, 2009.
Matthew A. Henson. Matthew A Henson's Historic Arctic Journey: The Classic Account of One of the World's Greatest Black Explorers. Foreward by Robert E. Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington. Introduction by Deirdre C. Stam. The Lyons Press, 2009.
Kira Van Deusen. Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and his Siberian Cousins. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.
As Affecting the Fate of My Absent Husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Erika Behrisch Elce. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.
Richard J. Preston, ed. A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.
Mary Hilson. The Nordic Model: Scandinavia Since 1945. Reaktion Books, 2008.
Hew Lewis-Jones. Face to Face: Polar Portraits. Foreward by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Afterward by Hugh Brody. The Scott Polar Research Institute with Polarworld, 2008.
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