Health care federalism in canada

Rethinking the future of health care in Canada.

Transatlantic subjects

A reinterpretation of the place of colonial Canada within a reconstructed British Empire that focuses on culture and social relations.

We still here

We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders.

An american by degrees

A personal and cultural portrait of Ambassador Jules Jusserand who provided a vital link between France and the United States before, during, and after the First World War.

A history of the mcgill dental school

Friendly remainders

Theodor Adorno's writings on Western music and the culture industry, always provocative and acerbic, have made his critical position on popular music well known, if not well understood. In Friendly Remainders Murray Dineen examines and extends Adorno's critical method.

The fall and rise of the market in sandinista nicaragua

The Fall and Rise of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua is an insightful look at the difficulties that arise when a particular vision of socialism is applied in a country such as Nicaragua. Phil Ryan argues that the Sandinistas pursued a project of social transformation inspired by a Marxism much...

The weariness, the fever, and the fret

An ancient disease which predates man, tuberculosis was one of the earliest chronic life-threatening diseases faced by Canadians. By 1900 "The White Plague" was the number one cause of death for Canadians between fifteen and forty-five years of age. Racked by incessant coughing, barely able to ca...

From liberal to labour with women's suffrage, second edition

Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major su...

Judicial administration in canada

The philosophy of hegel

Guide des pays fédéraux, 2005

Depuis plus de deux siècles, le fédéralisme montre comment les gens peuvent vivre ensemble tout en conservant leur diversité. Le Guide des pays fédéraux, 2005 perpétue la tradition amorcée par l'édition de 2002; il se fonde sur les travaux de Ronald Watts et de Daniel Elazar et les met à jour, of...

Thomas d'arcy mcgee, volume 2

After a tumultuous career as a revolutionary in Ireland and an ultra-conservative Catholic in the United States, Thomas D'Arcy McGee moved to Canada in 1857, where he became a force for moderation and the leading Irish Canadian politician in the country. Determined that Canada should avoid the et...

Socialization and values in canadian society, volume ii

God's assassins

Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta. Most were imprisoned and tortured before being murdered by the military. In the two years preceding 1976, another 2,000 were assassinated by paramilitary death squads loosely organized by the Argentine go...

Turkey in the global economy

A rising power takes its place in an economically precarious world.

Hindu monastic life

Push!

In the 1980s there were few midwives in Canada and their practice was neither legal nor officially recognized. Ontario midwives and their supporters pushed to integrate midwifery into provincial health care systems and by 1993 had established an internationally renowned model. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault...

Independent foreign policy for canada?

Public passion

Whether in the reception of rousing political oratory like that of de Gaulle or Martin Luther King or in the motivations of demonstrators in popular uprisings like those in Tunisia and Egypt, there is no denying that emotion and politics are connected. No

Discovering confederation

A scholar's appreciation of the magnificent achievement that is the Canadian political constitution.

The persistence of unemployment

In The Persistence of Unemployment Stephen Jones presents a comprehensive assessment of persistent unemployment, specifically hysteresis, in Canadian labour markets.

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.

Philosophy and personal relations

Satanic purses

In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11, exposing the official story - and the resulting global War on Islamic Terror - as based on myth and misinformation. Satanic Purses examines how misguided notions about the structure and...

Dialogues on diversity and unity in federal countries

These lively, timely, and accessible dialogues on federal systems provide the reader with highlights of each topic, serving as an entry point to the corresponding book, which offers a more in depth, comprehensive exploration of the theme. Whether you are a student or teacher of federalism, workin...

Telecom nation

Governments around the world have found the massive expansion of telecommunications systems and the breathless pace of innovation too important to be left to the market alone. In Canada, telecommunications became an important object of public policy. Telecom Nation focuses on how governments and ...

Charting the russian northern sea route

Living and learning in the free school

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...

Knots

Poems sculpted from the persuasive mind, erratic heart, and enigmatic art of love’s most devious puzzles.

Power and authority in british universities

Interactive realism

It is commonplace in our digitized world to think that technology is the primary agent of psychological and social change. In Interactive Realism Daniel Downes argues that it continues to be people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the tranformative turn in media...

Diary of a european tour, 1900

Drawing on the diary Margaret Addison kept while travelling in Europe, Jean O'Grady makes available the experiences of the woman who would become the first dean of Annesley Hall at Victoria College.

No place for fairness

Examining the Bear Island land claim case as a benchmark in Aboriginal land rights and land policy.

Tanzanian doctor

Canada's origins

Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article...

Cigarette nation

Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Cigarette Nation explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canad...

Confessions of a young man

Rules and unruliness

A ground-breaking study of how governments both regulate and fail to regulate the economy and society.

Violence and the female imagination

An interdisciplinary study of violent female characters in the works of Quebec women writers.

Growth and the canadian economy

Reviewing several theories of economic growth, the contributors discuss a wide range of policy suggestions. The liveliness of their thought disproves the old maxim that economics is the "dismal science."

Reinhold niebuhr

During a lifetime of active involvement in American political life, Reinhold Niebuhr did much good and a certain amount of mischief. Both the good and the mischief are traceable to the same source: his faith. For too long, Niebuhr has been misrepresented by the political theorists and the histori...

The neutral yankees of nova scotia

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.