The birth of new criticism

A groundbreaking account of the origins of the twentieth century's most influential method for studying poetry.

Branding canada

Looking at Canada's public diplomacy abroad through culture, international education, and international broadcasting.

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.

Women who made the news

From the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, the press was the pre-eminent source of information in Canadian society. While the dominant voice of the Fifth Estate was undoubtedly male, a diverse and dispersed group of Canadian women sought and won access to this ...

The canadian founding

A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009)

The end of ethics in a technological society

A critical assessment of the failure of liberal ethics to meet the challenges posed by techno-science.

Zambian crisis behaviour

Rhodesia's racially inspired rebellion and subsequent unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in November 1965 had profound implications for neighbouring Zambia's national security and economic survival. Focusing on landlocked Zambia's response to the economic and military threat pose...

Growing with canada

During the second half of the twentieth century musical life in Canada flourished as never before, due in large measure to a generation of European émigrés who worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of classical music by teaching, performing, and composing "in the key of Canada."

Making policy in turbulent times

Can higher education policy-making be imaginatively theorized?

Blockades or breakthroughs?

Can blockades and occupations be catalysts for positive change in Canada's Aboriginal communities?

Recent social trends in bulgaria, 1960-1995

Since the 1960s Bulgaria has seen many changes, including rapid modernization and the transition from a communist economy to a market economy. It has also faced accelerated social change. Recent Social Trends in Bulgaria, 1960-1995, the seventh volume in the Comparative Charting of Social Change ...

A church with the soul of a nation

"As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the U...

Sods, soil, and spades

French Acadians began settling in the Grand Pré area of Nova Scotia, a region plagued by salt-soaked tidal meadows, in the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, a complex system of sod barriers had enabled them to convert 3,000 acres of what had been tidal marshes into ric...

French-canadian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

We all begin in a little magazine

When Arc began publishing in 1978, it had one aim: to publish the best work by Canada's new and established poets. Celebrating Arc's first two decades, We All Begin in a Little Magazine testifies to how fully the editors realized their aspirations. It provides a rich cross section of Canada's poe...

Storm still

Marked by reflectiveness and mature insight, O'Meara's keen sense of lyric structure and subtle cadences explore in contexts both historical and personal the tension between established knowledge and discovery - the centre and horizon of our unfixed selves. These poems - ambitious, rooted, exuber...

Queen's university, volume iii, 1961-2004

How a national institution steeped in tradition adjusted to the momentous social, pedagogic, and cultural pressures of the late twentieth century.

Canadian social structure

As well as statistical tables, the author has provided a fascinating introduction to the problem of working with statistics and a detailed commentary on the selection of the tables.

In duty bound

An exploration of state records and the forgotten people of Upper Canada.

Hurt thyself

Between The Sexes What is the chance she smiles on this rivalry declared in the unspoken as chivalry, even one glance shot in the glass, while ahead he waits holding the door half-open, half-closed. Andrew Steinmetz's second collection of poetry turns a clinical eye on his favourite subjects - lo...

Carabins ou activistes?

By looking in detail at the attitudes and activities of university students in Quebec from 1950 to 1958, Nicole Neatby provides an important new perspective on social and intellectual transformations during the turbulent fifties. Focusing on a particular group of people - including Hubert Aquin, ...

Labour's apprentices

The three decades before World War I witnessed significant changes in the work life, home life, and social life of adolescent English males. In Labour's Apprentices Michael Childs suggests that the study of such age-specific experiences provides vital clues to the evolving structure and fortunes ...

Perception

Debate about the nature of perceptual knowledge and the objects of perception runs through the history of philosophy, making perception one of the central topics in the philosophical tradition. Barry Maund's account of the major issues in the philosophy of perception highlights the importance of ...

An ambulance on safari

An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage.

David lodge and the tradition of the modern novel

An engaging study of one of the most popular contemporary British novelists.

After auschwitz

Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald's idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. During his incarceration, Gruenwald's instinct for survival helped him live through three concentration camps. In After Auschwitz he recounts his story not o...

The chicago school diaspora

A collection of innovative essays from leading scholars in the Chicago School tradition of sociology.

The world in canada

Just as Canada is increasingly at home in the world, the world is increasingly finding a home in Canada. The World in Canada confronts three questions: What are the implications of the dramatic and sustained shift in the Canadian ethnic mosaic for foreign policy? In what ways do diasporas influen...

Magazine writing from the boonies

No matter where you live, this book explains everything you need to know to break into the challenging and profitable magazine market. In this accessible, informative guide, two experienced freelancers, Mark Zuehlke and Louise Donnelly, explain the basics of writing non-fiction magazine articles....

Canada's balance of international indebtedness, 1900-1913

This volume is a pioneering study of a free school in an eastern Canadian city. The author describes the attempts of a small group of people to set up a school, bound in some ways to the conventional system, yet reaching beyond it with different ideals. One great value of the study is its careful...

Treading fast rivers

This collection of linked poems takes us on a journey where angels ride bicycles, wounds both grieve and heal, and "our will / diving through the shuddering / wet world, carries us." Resonant with "a longing so ardent and spacious," these are poems of place and displacement, sickness and health. ...

The dawn of canada's century

An illuminating look at the people who helped shape the twentieth century in Canada.

Dialogues on distribution of powers and responsibilities in federal countries, booklet 2 english

An exploration of the distribution of powers and responsibilities in eleven federal systems.

Power without law

A close look at the momentous Marshall decision and how the Supreme Court got it wrong.

Sorrows of a century

An intimate analysis of the motives for suicide, set amidst the crises of the twentieth century.

Intelligent citizen's guide to the postal problem

The author of this controversial study takes a multi-disciplinary look at what is wrong with the Canadian postal system. The analysis is based in the fields of economics, politics and philosophy. Anyone concerned with what has happened to the once-excellent Canadian mail service should read this ...

The politics of codification

In this study of a pivotal event in the evolution of Quebec's legal culture, Brian Young shows that codification of the Civil law was an intensely political act as well as a legal phenomenon.

Des pouvoirs et des hommes

The development of Montreal's municipal administration has remained largely unexamined. In Des pouvoirs et des hommes Michèle Dagenais takes a close look at the transformation on municipal administration in the first half of the twentieth century, painting a vivid picture of political patronage a...

Fight, flight, or chill

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to...

The parliaments of autonomous nations

How the parliaments of minority national communities and central parliaments express identities and treat self-determination claims.

Tales and traditions of the eskimo

Approaches to canadian economic history

Focusing mainly on the staple theory, this collection of essays clearly shows the impact the great staple trades from cod and fur to newsprint and oil had upon Canadian history. Other significant frames of reference-the role of government, the development of commercial agriculture, the climate of...

Florida's snowbirds

Every year when the temperature drops below freezing, countless people do as the thermometers do - head south. Since the end of the Second World War, Florida has been one of the most desired vacation and retirement destinations for generations of "snowbirds." Florida's Snowbirds examines the effe...

The canadian corporate elite