Dr. Michael Dawson
Associate Professor
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 (Institute for the Study of the Americas). London: University of London, 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

“A ‘Civilizing’ Industry: Leo Dolan, Canadian Tourism Promotion, and the Celebration of Mass Culture,” American Review of Canadian Studies  (Forthcoming).

“‘Travel Strengthens America’? Tourism Promotion in the United States During the Second World War,” Journal of Tourism History (Forthcoming).

“Putting Cities “on the map”: the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Comparative and Historical Perspective,” Urban Geography  (Forthcoming).

(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: 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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