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The circle of rights expands
The Circle of Rights Expands explores ideas of limit on political authority through a fresh reading of the political philosophy of the fifteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including the work of representative thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, Athusius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Hume. Arth...
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A practice of anthropology
Eminent anthropologists explore the nature of culture in essays honoring a colleague and teacher.
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The adventurer's glossary
The Adventurer’s Glossary takes readers on their own semantic exploration. Through more than 500 terms, sourced from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, and beyond, Joshua Glenn considers meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations ...
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Like everyone else but different, second edition
A timely analysis of the possibilities and challenges of multiculturalism as seen in the iconic case of Canada’s Jewish community.
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Canadians under fire
Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century, but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall, for instance, famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all, even w...
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Shakespeare on stage and off
Essays for all readers on new directions in Shakespearean performance, adaptation, and criticism.
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The embattled general
A re-evaluation of a controversial Canadian general that overturns much of what is known about him.
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Memoirs and madness
A critical study of Leonid Andreev as a "mad literary genius."
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Connected struggles
How cultural and religious diplomacy influenced Canada-Mexico relations.
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Knots
Poems sculpted from the persuasive mind, erratic heart, and enigmatic art of love’s most devious puzzles.
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Safe haven
The wartime experience of one British evacuee child in London, Ontario.
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The decline and fall of the chatty empire
Chatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire chronicles her later career and luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say.
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The politics of canadian foreign policy, fourth edition
This book analyses the deeply political context of how foreign policy is made in Canada. Taking a broad historical perspective, it provides the key foundations for the analysis of Canadian foreign policy. It argues that foreign policy is forged in the nexus of politics at three levels-the global,...
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Republicanism and responsible government
An exploration of the radical ideas and violent struggles that shaped colonial Australia and Canada.
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The absolute violation
State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises.
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Write to return
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right to return. Write to Return shows that by presenting themselves as loyal French subjects, Huguenots were at the foref...
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For blood and soil
Canada is no stranger to homegrown hate. For Blood and Soil shows how Canadian hate movements – far from an imported problem – have evolved historically and been rebranded, with extremist ideas moving seamlessly between online spaces and real-world violence.
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What it means to write
An intimate and worldly adventure into the heart of language, learning, and getting lost.
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Nazi germany, canadian responses
Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.
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All shook up
The first full-length study of natural and man-made disasters in the Soviet Union.
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Collapse of a country
A rare first-hand account of the violent implosion and ongoing humanitarian tragedy of the world’s youngest state.
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Teaching anticommunism
Fred C. Schwarz (1913–2009) was an Australian-born medical doctor and evangelical preacher who settled in the United States in the early 1950s, where he founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. In Teaching Anticommunism Hubert Villeneuve sheds light on Schwarz's fascinating career and organi...
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Patrician families and the making of quebec
An analysis of two elite families in the shaping of English and French Quebec.
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Telecom tensions
Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko considers the tensions inherent to this role – betw...
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The shady side of fifty
A breakthrough study of age and old age in North America - both as a concept and as lived experience.
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L'homme blessé
Robert Payne guides readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L’Homme blessé, giving the cinematic milestone the critical attention it deserves. Combining formal analysis, historical research, and original interviews, this book cements L’Homme blessé in its rightful place within queer c...
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Whatever happened to the music teacher?
An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa's expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.
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The practice of her profession
Florence Carlyle (1864-1923), born in Galt, Ontario, emerged as one of the most successful Canadian artists of her time. Trained in Paris, she lived and worked in New York City and in Canada, cultivating a career as a popular portrait and genre painter. Known for her masterful use of colour, Carl...
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The social cost of cheap food
How labour exploitation in the British distribution system was key to cheaper food between 1830 and 1914.
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Ordinary people, extraordinary times
A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery ...
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Mad flight?
How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.
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Marina warner and the ethics of telling silenced stories
A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales.
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Power and subsistence
A lively exploration of the nature of power in New France, as enacted within the grain economy.
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Women in british imperial airspace
The romance of flying the airways that developed above the British empire between the two world wars seduced young women with the promise of independence, glamour, and adventure.
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Morals and consent
An evolutionary defence of contractarian ethics as applied to social norms.
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A silent revolution?
This book explores how urban women managed wealth at a time when they were thought to have little independence, showing that women were in fact important players in the world of capital. It situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well as broader legal, financial, s...
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Leadership under fire, second edition
An insightful commentary on the leadership challenges faced by university presidents and a comprehensive survey of the changing university landscape.
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Period art
Foregrounding visual analysis alongside cultural and political context, this work of art history explores how artists have used menstruation as both subject and material, transforming a taboo into a site of creativity, critique, and political engagement.
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The blue banner
On 10 June 1925, the date the United Church of Canada was founded, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Canada - including every Presbyterian congregation in Halifax - vanished. Even before the United Church came into existence, however, non-uniting Presbyterians were for...
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On the house
A former House of Commons official’s personal account – a learning experience that will surprise.
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Particles
"There's a gap between where / an electron is and where it might be / and that's the only real work-place. / You occupy that office of possibility." Where are you in that space between the electron and the galaxy, and how do you find yourself there? Particles asks this question and answers it by ...
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The teeth of time
Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tension...
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Unveiling the nation
Party politics and the production of nationhood in the Islamic signs debate.
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Techniciens de l'organisation sociale
How experts, businessmen, and volunteers reorganized Catholic charities in twentieth-century Quebec.
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