| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Katie Pickles. Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press: distributed by Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 209. $69.95.
For a historian of gender and imperialism, the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE) is something of a dream come true. An organization of settler women united in their support for the British empire and Canada's place in it, the IODE was founded in the heat of the South African War and has persisted, albeit in changed form, into the present. Given this charged combination of gendered, imperial, and national identities and agendas, it is curious that the IODE has received only scant and episodic scholarly attention. Katie Pickles changes that.	1
Pickles is trained as a geographer, yet her book is very much a work of history and one that, its use of an international secondary literature notwithstanding, is guided by the concerns and questions of English-Canadian historiography. Pickles's sources are the standard stuff of current organizational histories: institutional records augmented by oral interviews with forty-seven members of the IODE.	. . .

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