Newfoundland modern

The architecture of Newfoundland typically evokes images of spare but colourful houses and outbuildings by the sea. Newfoundland Modern reveals another dimension that challenges this impression.

Adolescent health

Why youth health policy lacks coherence.

Getting used to the quiet

How citizens in small town New Brunswick mobilize community resources to encourage improved integration of young immigrants.

Places of last resort

Tens of thousands of Canadian settlers faced the challenge of starting a farm in the near North in the 1910s, twenties, and thirties. In Places of Last Resort David Wood documents this last significant expansion of farm settlement in Canada and the often painful process of discovering that there ...

Four historical definitions of architecture

Definitions of architecture and other disciplines from ancient Greece to the eighteenth century.

The challenge of class analysis

Clement uses class analysis to explore the complexities of contemporary Canadian society in this revealing study. He also explores the relationship between class and gender, ethnicity and region, comparing illustrations from Canada with those from countries such as Sweden and the U.S. An extensiv...

Law, ideology, and collegiality

In a ground-breaking study on the nature of judicial behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada, Donald Songer, Susan Johnson, C.L. Ostberg, and Matthew Wetstein use three specific research strategies to consider the ways in which justices seek to make decisions grounded in "good law" and to show h...

King edward ii

Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by ...

Setting all the captives free

A new interpretation of the nature of the eighteenth century's Anglo-French wars, focusing on those taken captive.

These mysterious people

The story of how the Musqueam First Nation have used cultural objects to take control of their history and land.

Prayers, petitions, and protests

How the Ontario Schools Crisis turned into a violent public protest within the Catholic Church.

Tin-pots and pirate ships

The title Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships reflects a common Canadian attitude during the First World War: Canada's "Tin-Pot Navy" was maligned while the "Kaiser's Pirates" were feared. Not since Gilbert Tucker's classic, The Naval Service of Canada, has there been so comprehensive a study of the origin...

Paradigm freeze

Thirty case studies of health care reform across the country.

The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900

The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 describes the appropriation and distribution of land by Europeans in the new world. By integrating the often violent history of colonization of this period and the ensuing emergence of property rights with an examination of the dec...

Arctic bibliography

Imposing their will

In 1931, Toronto's Jews could be found in areas as varied as the stalls of squawking chickens and vegetable vendors in Kensington Market and grand houses in far north Forest Hill. Over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, they were transformed into an organ

The ship in the medieval economy, 600-1600

Stello

Brian moore

Brian Moore is exceptional among contemporary novelists in the breadth and consistency of his work. His fiction ranges from thrillers and gothic adventures through historical subjects. He remains one of the few writers of serious fiction who appeals to academic critics and the general reader alike.

A sceptical guide to meaning and rules

Kusch argues that the apparent simplicity of Kripke's text is deceptive and that a fresh reading gives Kripke's overall argument a new strength.

Kierkegaard

Ideological perspectives on canada

In Ideological Perspectives on Canada, Patricia Marchak builds on her earlier descriptions of Canadian reality - its liberalism and socialism - to argue that today's corporatism differs from its forerunners in both its values and its definition of society.

To will one thing

On the political economy of social democracy

The late J.C. Weldon is recognized as one of North America's most respected economists. The twelve papers selected by Allen Fenichel and Sidney Ingerman highlight Weldon's investigation of the economic foundation of social democratic theory and policy as well as his examination of the role of the...

The emerging worker

Bernard williams

From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams' ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams' many significant contribut...

Faulkner's women

Barbaric civilization

Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred years? Why have European colonizers so often denied the humanity of the colonized? In Barbaric Civilization, Christopher Powell advances a radical thesis to answer these questions: that civilization produces genoci...

The eternal slum

A city of farmers

Urban agriculture, until now largely neglected, is of increasing economic significance in many African cities. Agriculture in the heart of the city is critical to the survival of very poor families and, especially, women and landless or unemployed rural migrants.

Social security and national policy

The life of the reverend george trosse

The philosophy of husserl

As the founding father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. In The Philosophy of Husserl, Burt Hopkins shows that the unity of Husserl's philosophical entreprise is found in its investigation of the origns of cogni...

Victory harvest

Based on the diary Marion Kelsey kept while in the Women's Land Army during World War II, Victory Harvest is a personal remembrance of wartime Britain through the eyes of a young Canadian woman. Financed by a kind cousin (who gave Kelsey money for a boat ticket instead of making a donation to the...

Vancouver's chinatown

Popular wisdom maintains that the colourful Chinese quarters of Canadian, American, and Australian cities owe their existence to the generations of Chinese immigrants who have made their lives there. The restaurants, pagodas, and neon lights are seen as intrinsically connected to the Chinese and ...

Agnes

Agnes Macdonald's private papers are used for the detailed study of Canada's "first lady," who became Sir John A. Macdonald's second wife on the eve of Confederation. The author's well-researched telling of Agnes's story paints a picture of a politically astute, naturally adventurous woman who ha...

The quest for rananim

The unemployment crisis

High unemployment dominates the Canadian social reality of the 1990s. Lay-offs, cutbacks, and corporate downsizings during the 1990-93 recession created a pervasive economic insecurity that remains a problem. The Unemployment Crisis, a collection of essays based on the first annual economic polic...

The evangelical century

The Evangelical Century will undoubtedly transform the way Canadian intellectual history is interpreted. Michael Gauvreau reassesses the explanations of the role of religion in English-Canadian society put forth in the last twenty years by Ramsay Cook, A

Anarchism in france

A gentleman of pleasure

John Glassco (1909-1981) holds a unique position in Canadian letters and a somewhat notorious reputation throughout the world. He is best known for his Memoirs of Montparnasse, the controversial chronicle of his youthful adventures and encounters with celebrities in the Paris of James Joyce, Gert...

The virtual marshall mcluhan

Marshall McLuhan was a satirist and prophetic poet who explored subjects from the occult and the esoteric to everyday popular culture and the emerging digital revolution. Written in an accessible, engaging manner, The Virtual Marshall McLuhan sheds new light on McLuhan's goals and the background ...

The provincial towns of georgian england

Governance in a changing environment

Fiscal cutbacks, the public's declining confidence in government, and new ideologies are forcing the public sector in industrialized democracies to undertake major reforms. In these essays contributing authors examine changes to the political and economic environment and the ways in which governm...