Blindfold

Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, "For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have a hundred worlds to create and I am only losing one of them." Blindfold investigates the ways in which disability influences our lives and is...

Distributing status

How awards, decorations, and medals bestow social standing.

Beating against the wind

A study of a popular colonial spirituality confronted by High Anglican church hierarchy.

Northern blood

Groundbreaking in its exploration of the politics of menstruation from a uniquely Canadian perspective, Northern Blood sheds light on the lived experiences, stories, and broader menstruation justice movement in Canada.

Carving a niche

The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.

Lordship and state transformation

Lordship and State Transformation examines the role of lordship in the Habsburgs’ attempts at state formation from the Thirty Years’ War to Charles VI. By foregrounding the interactions of state and non-state actors, the Habsburgs were instrumental in developing early modern composite monarchies.

First nations? second thoughts, second edition

Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property right...

Early modern maritime recipes

Meticulously researched, this important historical work features more than eighty pre-1800 recipes that reveal a wide array of sources, ingredients, and techniques, reflecting a cosmopolitan intellectual and social life shaped – and limited – by eighteenth-century colonialism.

Vox populi

A distinctive and timely history of the idea of “the people” and how the rise of their public voice affected Restoration England and its understanding of national security and individual liberty.

The selected essays of sean o'faolain

The first collection of essays by one of the most important public intellectuals in Ireland.

Curative illnesses

A necessary second opinion on the national implications of an epidemic of sick literary characters.

Mr charlotte brontë

Few people seeking to avoid the glare of publicity have had more of it turned on them than Charlotte Brontë's husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Some critics have implied that he not only put a stop to her writing but might even have inadvertently caused her death.

Ganymede's dog

A collection of prose poems that mingles tales from the classical past with contemporary sexuality and timeless dogs.

The archaeology of bruce trigger

The life and work of a renowned archaeologist.

Twofold

The form of the diptych shapes language and meaning, symmetry and difference. Edward Carson’s twofold delivers a liminal gathering of short diptych poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence, framed within Ovidian and H...

Restless history

Restless History re-examines the post-Stalinist period in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, and beyond – in all its tensions and contradictions – to offer the socialist past as an unfinished history, one that cannot be easily put to rest.

Nightclub

In the last thirty years bouncers have emerged as gatekeepers of contemporary urban cool, exclusivity, and social capital. In this ground-breaking empirical study, George Rigakos looks at the relation between consumption, security, and risk and challenges the idea of nightclubs as places of liber...

Frank underhill and the politics of ideas

A lively and absorbing study of the one of the foremost English Canadian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Wildlife, land, and people

A wide-ranging study of people's diverse and often contradictory relationships with wild animals in the prairie provinces after 1870.

When bad states win

This book challenges the belief that democratic institutions and economic growth are effective tools for defeating an insurgency. Jeffrey Treistman reveals that while moderate violence can lead to government overthrow, bad actors that pursue indiscriminate violence and brutal repression can defea...

Born and raised

Born and Raised explores the contemporary climate of reproductive justice politics in Canada, examining how law, public policy, and other institutions shape who can, and who cannot, make choices about their reproductive lives.

Movingparts

In Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what’s true and what’s not in Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Crow, as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what’s said and what’s not about identity and intimacy in ...

Total defence forces in the twenty-first century

This volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward de...

Democracy in canada

Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was...

Fresh strange music

A new approach to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art through the music of her poetry and its social and political implications.

Minority languages, national languages, and official language policies

An examination of the interdisciplinary field of language policy offering a rich collection of new research on diversity and multilingualism.

The clean body

Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body.

The symbolic state

Karlo Basta’s surefooted treatment of asymmetric federalism to accommodate the presence of more than one nation in a single state is as original as it is sound. Joining the logic of political economy to that of symbolic recognition, he produces a coherent picture of the interplay between central ...

Words in collision

For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores consequences of this tradition of language-mixing, asking why writers employ “foreign” phrases in their English-language texts and how this practice h...

Northern spirits

Canadians have devoted considerable thought to Hegel - a proposition born out by the work of John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor, three major Canadian political philosophers of the last century. In Northern Spirits, Robert Sibley examines how Watson, Grant, and Taylor found in Hegel the...

The leamington italian community

A socio-cultural and historical study of pre- and post-WWII immigration and settlement of three major southern Italian groups in southern Ontario.

Turbulent empires

An examination of global politics, emphasizing American hegemony and the rise of Asian economies.

Censored

A provocative history of literary censorship uncovers the limits of free speech in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The vitality of contradiction

How the fundamental tensions of social and political life teach us to be free.

How it happened

A detailed, first-hand account of the atrocities committed against Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

Grenfell of labrador

The best-selling biography of Wilfred Grenfell, back in print.

Aesthetic dilemmas

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic Dilemmas re-evaluates his place in twentieth-century European Modernism by arguing that his work is not escapist but instead engages the consciousness of readers through dynamic enco...

Speaking truth to canadians about their public service

The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada’s development. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service provides a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting the public service, how the relationship between politicians and career officials has evolved in recent years...

Garden plots

A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature.

The official picture

Capturing a vision of Canadian nationalism.

Fighting over god

Untangling the legal and political history of religion from the cultural fabric of Canada.

Kingston general hospital

Genuine multiculturalism

A provocative look at why multiculturalism could only have originated in the Americas.

Awkward politics

A cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.