Dr. Michael Dawson
Associate Professor and Acting Chair
Department of History
BA (UBC), MA (Queen's), PhD (Queen's)
Office: Edmund Casey Hall 316
Phone: 506-460-0369
email: mdawson@stu.ca

Courses
History 4816: Research Seminar in Canadian History
History 4126: Topics in Global History
History 3963: Modernity and the Rise of Consumerism in Canada, 1880-1980
History 3863: Modern Tourism in World History
History 3763: Modern Sport In World History
History 2913: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Canada
History 2003: Exploring History


Publications
i) Books

(co-edited with C. Dummitt) Contesting Clio's Craft: New Directions & Debates in Canadian History (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2009). Pp. xix, 186.

Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 274.

The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney. Toronto: Between The Lines, 1998. Pp. xii, 214.


ii) Articles and Book Chapters

(co-written with C. Gidney) "Persistence and Inheritance: Rethinking Periodisation and English Canada's 'Twentieth Century,'" in Dummitt and Dawson, Contesting Clio's Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History, 2009 (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2009):47-74.

"Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria during the Cold War," in Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale, eds., Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007):193-216.

“Victoria Debates its Postindustrial Reality: Tourism, Deindustrialization, and Store-Hour Regulations, 1900-1958,” Urban History Review 35,2 (Spring 2007):14-24.

"Acting Global, Thinking Local: 'Liquid Imperialism' and the Multiple Meanings of the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games," The International Journal of the History of Sport 23, 1 (February 2006): 3-27.

"From 'Business As Usual' to 'Salesmanship in Reverse': Tourism Promotion in British Columbia During the Second World War," Canadian Historical Review 83, 2 (June 2002): 230-254.

"'Taking the 'D' out of 'Depression': The Promise of Tourism in British Columbia, 1935-1939," BC Studies 132 (Winter 2001/2002): 31-56.

"'That Nice Red Coat Goes to My Head Like Champagne': Gender, Antimodernism and the Mountie Image: 1880-1960," Journal of Canadian Studies 32, 3 (Fall 1997): 119-139.



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