Robert lepage on the toronto stage

How Robert Lepage met, transformed, and transported the Toronto stage.

The body or the soul?

How a Quebec community fashioned a resilient balance between freedom and faith out of their culture and their Catholicism.

Welcome to greater edendale

A mid-sized South African city’s struggle against its legacies of environmental injustice.

George cartwright’s the labrador companion

A newly discovered manuscript that expands our knowledge of the eastern coast of Canada’s Labrador peninsula.

The selected essays of sean o'faolain

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

Network democracy

A unique hybrid of ancient and contemporary conservative thought that offers a radical challenge to Western liberalism.

Trickster chases the tale of education

How Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies can turn teaching and learning upside down and inside out.

The daunting enterprise of the law

Reconsidering the law through the work of a pre-eminent scholar.

The al-baqara crescendo

A study of the poetics and hermeneutics of the Qur?an’s narrative structure, focusing on Surat al-Baqara.

Performance studies in canada

Tracing performance studies paths in Canada.

Tax, order, and good government

The history of Confederation rewritten through the redistribution of wealth.

Stanley's dream

The story of a passionate attempt to capture the entire biosphere of an isolated community facing ecological transformation.

The democracy of suffering

A philosopher's passionate intervention into the meaning of life, and the future of civilization, in the face of catastrophic climate change.

Inuit, oblate missionaries, and grey nuns in the keewatin, 1865-1965

A lively introduction to an encounter between two completely different civilizations in the context of Christianization, hospitalization, and education.

What was history painting and what is it now?

How the most prestigious genre of painting collapsed into obscurity, only to rise again in new guises.

Tender to the world

How pleasure, inversion, and story characterize five decades of connections between the United Church of Canada, Jean Vanier, and L'Arche.

Frontline justice

A thought-provoking and balanced analysis, Frontline Justice seeks to remedy some of the more unfair and arcane proceedings of the Canadian military's summary trial system. Addressing important gaps in legal literature, Pascal Lévesque sets out to examine summary justice in Canada's military and ...

Techno-fixers

Over the past century, the potential of new technology to solve social dilemmas has captivated modern culture. From apps that encourage physical activity to airport scanners meant to prevent terrorism, the concept that clever innovation can improve society is irresistible, but faith in such techn...

Green meat?

It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable. Land is being eroded and destroyed, water resources overdrawn, greenhouse gases overemitted, and energy and crops unnecessarily diverted - all to satiate a growing and inequitable global overconsumption of meat....

Framing risky choices

The majority of policymakers, academics, and members of the general public expected British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum. This perception was based on the well-established idea that voters don't like change or uncertainty. So why did the British public v...

Revolution and intervention

In early 1918 the French government adopted the policy of unremitting hostility that characterized its early relations with the Soviet government. That policy brought about political, economic, and military intervention in the Russian Revolution, and the diverse motives behind that intervention e...

New mecca, new babylon

Three major waves of emigration from Soviet Russia followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War. While emigrants in the first wave have been identified mainly with a vague notion of aristocratic taxi drivers, Robert Johnston, through a collective biography of the roughly 12...

Canadian baptists and christian higher education

Since the late eighteenth century, Canadian Baptists have held sharply divergent views on the efficacy of higher education. For some, higher education undermines Evangelical piety; for others, it is a necessity if contemporary Baptists are to contend effectively with modern doubts about religion....

The callisto myth from ovid to atwood

The Callisto myth demonstrates the vulnerability of women to the power of the patriarchy. Kathleen Wall opens her analysis with a discussion of the classical versions of the Callisto myth. She draws a discrete parallel between Callisto's rape by Zeus and the traditional rape of femininity by the ...

Charles baillairgé

A fourth-generation member of a Quebec City family of artists and architects, Charles Baillargé was encouraged by his family in both artistic and intellectual pursuits. He was proficient not only as an architect but also as a surveyor, engineer, mathematician, and inventor, publishing over 250 bo...

Irving layton and robert creeley

The events covered by the letters collected here start with Robert Creeley's discovery of Irving Layton and focus on the turbulent circumstances surrounding the publication (by Creeley's Divers Press in Majorca) of In the Midst of My Fever, Layton's first book of poems not published at his own ex...

Ideology and class conflict in jamaica

Abigail Bakan argues that there has been a recurrent ideological tradition of resistance to oppression among the black labouring classes in Jamaica. She reveals this pattern through analysis of three periods of mass resistance: the 1831 rebellion led by slaves, the revolt of 1865 in which former ...

Austria in world war ii

Not only does Keyserlingk show that Great Britain and the US recognized the Anschluss both in fact and in law throughout the war, he also reveals the growing importance of propaganda as a tool of government.

Prince michael vorontsov

Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov (1785 1856) is generally acclaimed as one of tsarism's most successful and innovative administrators. After growing up in England, where his father was Russian ambassador, he returned to Russia and became an officer in the army during the Napoleonic wars. In 1823 Alex...

The better part of valour

How much price competition

Milton Moore, who calls this inquiry into an effective Canadian competition policy "a polite polemic," challenges the assumptions upon which combines legislation is based and questions the manner in which free enterprise operates in Canada. He addresses himself, not to the academic economist, but...

A catalogue of the burney family correspondence, 1748-1878

Canadian foreign policy, 1945-1954

Historical essays on the prairie provinces

Perspectives on the north american indians

The poetry of the forties in britain

Our geographic mosaic

Socialization and values in canadian society, volume i

Aboriginal peoples and the law

Ascription and achievement

Migrant labour in south africa's mining economy

This book is a study of the origins of migratory labour and racial discrimination in South Africa's premier industry, the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. Based upon government records and private business archives, it examines the highly competitive world of mine labour recruiting at the turn of...

Spenser and the poetics of pastoral

The Shepheardes Calender (1579) signalled Spenser's desire to assume the role of an English Virgil and at the same time his readiness to leave behind the pastoral world of his apprenticeship and his early persona, Colin Clout. Yet Spenser was twice to return to the pastoral world of Colin Clout, ...

The masks of proteus

In this collection of twelve essays Philip Resnick provides a comparative perspective on the modern state, arguing that the power of the state, like the mythological god Proteus, takes many different forms and cannot be revealed by any single discipline. He delves into political theory, political...

Greek scepticism

The idea that Western philosophy is a footnote to Plato is simplistic and inaccurate. Much of modern and contemporary epistemology owes a debt not so much to Platonism or Aristotelianism as to their antithesis: scepticism. Recent discussions in the history of philosophy have sparked a great deal ...