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Book Notes
Compiled and written by Ken DuBois
| Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse, by Julie Rak (UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C., 2004. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 192 pages. $29.95 paper)
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| The first Doukhobor immigrants arrived in Halifax in 1899 as refugees from religious persecution in Russia and, the author contends, their community has resisted assimilation ever since. Rak shows how the Doukhobors, faced with widespread misunderstanding and resentment of their culture, have used a variety of autobiographical forms to successfully pass along traditions and beliefs to successive generations. |
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| Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment, by Brian Masaru Hayashi (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2004. Notes, index. 339 pages. $35.00 cloth)
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| Racism, wartime hysteria, and poor leadership are often cited as the reasons Japanese Americans were removed from their homes during World War II and held against their will in concentration camps. But Brian Hayashi contends that the U.S. government was also acting on a long-term plan for land development in the American West and the American occupation of Japan. |
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| A Common Ground: Erb Memorial Union 1950 to 2000, by Adell McMillan (Erb Memorial Union, Eugene, Ore., 2003. Photographs, notes. 718 pages. $31.99 paper)
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| McMillan chronicles the history of the Erb Memorial Union at the University of Oregon and its changing student cultures. The building opened in 1950 but was in the planning stages for over twenty-five years, fueled by the notion that it would promote "an appreciation of the other fellow's point of view." |
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| Chiefs and Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West, edited by Richard W. Etulain and Glenda Riley (Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colo. 2004. 256 pages. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. $17.95 paper)
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| The latest book in Richard Etulain and Glenda Riley's Notable Westerners Series, Chiefs and Generals focuses on Indian and U.S. military figures and the cultures around them. Nine historians contributed pieces on Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, Apache Chief Victorio, Geronimo, George Armstrong Custer, Lakota Chief Red Cloud, O.O. Howard, George Crook, Ranald Mackenzie, and Nelson A. Miles. |
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| Marmes Rockshelter: A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use, edited by Brent A. Hicks (Washington State University Press, Pullman, Wash., 2004. Charts, tables, photographs, bibliography. 466 pages. $65.00 paper)
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| Excavation at the Marmes Rockshelter took place over thirty years ago, but this report is the first detailed analysis readily available. Also included is the story behind the remarkable dig. Despite the discovery of a human presence dating from early Holocene times, archaeologists had to race to complete their study before the area was flooded, in 1969, by the opening of the Snake River's Lower Monumental Dam. |
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