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Pictorial illusionism
Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) was a major North American theatre artist - a director, actor, inventor, painter, theorist, and writer - best known for advancing a unified vision of pictorial illusionism, the central aesthetic of late nineteenth-century drama, by transforming grand theatres into jewel...
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Lives in transition
An examination of mobility, inequality, and the unfolding of lives on three continents during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Jane austen's transatlantic sister
A revealing account of a naval officer's young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen's fiction.
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Zoo studies
An interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.
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Struggling for effectiveness
A critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries.
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Anxious days and tearful nights
The everyday struggles of war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. This book highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts.
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Common ground
What happens when two prolific religious scholars sit down and, together, read sacred texts of their different religions?
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Vlarf
In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd internet searches. In Vlarf Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion strange, sad, and funny forms and ...
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The rough poets
A rallying cry for climate justice, The Rough Poets introduces the reader to poetry that is ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest, and to oil-worker poets who grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the future of their communities, and desire job...
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I'm from bouctouche, me
Donald Savoie grew up in a small Acadian village and went on to become an accomplished writer and academic whose books have profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public administration. I'm from Bouctouche, Me is not only his story but a story about Canada, the Acadian people, and the evo...
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The politics of refugee policy in the global south
While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the Global South make refugee policy, including a decade-long account of how two small states responded to the Sy...
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Transatlantic methodists
How Methodism in nineteenth-century central Canada became British.
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Whiny baby
Expansive in form and voice, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites, meadows, waiting rooms, beaches, alleys, gardens, and frozen rivers. They ask us to live in the moment, despite the moment. At turns frank, peevish, in...
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Harold innis and the north
Exploring a celebrated Canadian political economist through a northern lens.
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Making ei work
Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Mak...
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Nourrir la machine humaine
A study of foodways and food advice in a modernizing Quebec.
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Telling the flesh
An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies.
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More richly in earth
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differe...
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Back to the stone age
Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, better people. Back to the Stone Age explores how ideas about race are tightly woven into the prehistoric imagination, revealing insights into present-day anxieties and sho...
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Welcome to greater edendale
A mid-sized South African city’s struggle against its legacies of environmental injustice.
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The daunting enterprise of the law
Reconsidering the law through the work of a pre-eminent scholar.
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Attending
Moral theory has been agonized by dualism – motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative ge...
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Recesses of the mind
Recesses of the Mind explores Guðbergur Bergsson's aesthetics of life and literature. Bergsson - like so many writers whose language is not widely spoken or read - is scarcely known outside his homeland, but the psychological depth of his vision reveals the minds of his characters in ways that ar...
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The oil has not run dry
A Catholic theologian - praised by some and denounced by others - tells the story of his involvement in the renewal of the Catholic Church.
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What women represent
What Women Represent, the first large-scale analysis of the substantive representation of women in Canadian politics, adds depth to our understanding of issues of gender in parliamentary institutions. Using cutting-edge methodologies, Erica Rayment examines which members of parliament represent w...
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Beyond tragedy and eternal peace
As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. This book provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between his critique of metaph...
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Catharine parr traill’s the female emigrant’s guide
A guidebook for women immigrants to nineteenth-century Canada in a deluxe edition that shows why it is still relevant today.
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Thumper
A political life well-lived that propelled Canada forward for the ages.
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Negotiations in a vacant lot
Opening discussions about the possible futures of Canadian art history in a time of global analyses.
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Terra invicta
This volume presents intellectual and creative responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, with an eye toward the future of Ukrainians’ relationship to the land they are defending.
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Behind valkyrie
A collection of writings by those who fought Hitler from within Nazi Germany.
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Feelings of structure
How places, objects, fantasies, histories, and memories get under our skin and how we understand their affective connections.
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New leaders, new dawns?
In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised...
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Firekeepers of the twenty-first century
A quiet revolution is occurring in Canada's First Nations communities, with changes taking place on social, political, and economic fronts and a significant redistribution of power. Changes to the Indian Act in 1951 paved the way for women to become officially involved in reserve politics, and wi...
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The right to an age-friendly city
A detailed and timely examination, The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers both broad and tangible insights into the intermingled political, economic, cultural, and administrative changes needed to protect the rights of senior citizens to access urban space in Toronto and beyond.
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Liberal nationalisms
A revealing comparative history of nationalist politics in Scotland and Quebec.
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Illustrating el cid, 1498 to today
The first critical examination of a literary hero and complex historical figure through book illustration.
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Canada in the age of rum
Canada in the Age of Rum charts the history of rum drinking in New France, Newfoundland, the Maritimes, Upper and Lower Canada, and the West from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.
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The education of african canadian children
A crucial study of the education of African Canadian children as it reflects their citizenship and lives in their chosen country.
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Dal & rice
In 1914 Godfrey Davis arrived in India, a junior officer in the Indian Civil Service. By the time he reluctantly returned to England thirty years later he was a high court judge with a knighthood. Sir Godfrey fell in love with India. He sympathized with the independence movement and shared a grea...
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On the divine things and their revelation
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic nihilism of modern philosophy. In this first English translation, Paolo Livieri provides readers with a history of the debates that preceded and followed it, a...
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Letters from rupert's land, 1826-1840
James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on t...
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International perspectives
How the rising tide of international migration is impacting state policy across the globe.
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Hungochani, first edition
In the vivid tapestry of global queer cultures Africa has long been neglected or stereotyped. In "Hungochani," Marc Epprecht seeks to change that by tracing the history and traditions of homosexuality in southern Africa, modern gay and lesbian identities, and the vibrant gay rights movement that ...
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