Canada among nations, 1989

This is the sixth volume on Canada in international affairs produced by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. As in the past the book is organized around the most recent calendar year and contains an analysis and assessment of Canadian foreign policies as wel...

Struggling for social citizenship

How Canadian citizens strive to access income support when they are disabled.

Dread talk, revised edition

In Dread Talk Velma Pollard describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how it is distinct both from Creole and Standard English. She demonstrates that dread talk must be understood in ter

Contract workers, risk, and the war in iraq

Understanding why low-skilled workers in developing countries migrated to Iraq to support the US War on Terror.

Beyond the indian act

Should Canada's First Nations have full ownership of reservation lands?

The montreal children's hospital

Anatomy of the spy thriller

The philosophy of agamben

You're not dead until you're forgotten

The irreverent and insightful story of Canada's unknown movie mogul.

Strangers in arms

A penetrating study of why soldiers fight and what sustained Canadians in battle during the Second World War.

This strange loneliness

This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and as a model for the fortifying po...

Keynesian economics

A history of transportation in canada, volume 2

First published in 1938, Volume two deals with Canadian transportation from 1867 to the late 1930s, and includes what is regarded as one of the best short discussions of the Canadian "railway problem."

Homosexuality and literature

The government of edward schreyer

The Government of Edward Schreyer offers a challenging reassessment of the extent to which political parties can and do bring about changes in fundamental social relations.

The grow home

In The Grow Home, Avi Friedman, winner of the United Nations World Habitat Award and internationally acclaimed architect, recounts the genesis and development of his innovative project. Like the auto industry's approach to the economy car, Friedman's Grow Home gives people what they need in a hou...

Ethico-religious concepts in the qur'an

A revelation of the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code.

Around 1945

How novels expanded human and legal rights in the age of the atomic bomb.

Beating against the wind

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

The making of the northern ontario school of medicine

Rural and remote communities have long been challenging health care settings that rely on distant metropolises to supply their health workforce. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine, a pioneering faculty of medicine founded in 2005, was established to realize the potential of the rich learning...

Native liberty, crown sovereignty

It is generally assumed in Canada that native liberty and crown sovereignty are antagonistic and mutually exclusive forces. In this penetrating study, Bruce Clark shows that they are in fact complementary. The British government exercised its sovereignty in the eighteenth century in order to prot...

A certain difficulty of being

A Certain Difficulty of Being provides an English-speaking audience with an account of some of the most interesting narrative problems which mark the development of the Quebec novel. Anthony Purdy uses the tools of contemporary narratology to go beyond the more formal studies of the sixties and s...

The artisan republic

Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works is an exploration of the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas. Ann Mayer examines Thomas's changing conceptions of language and the creation of meaning as revealed in his numerous self-referential acts of writing and telling.

A history of transportation in canada, volume 1

First published in 1938, A History of Transportation in Canada is regarded as the standard work on the subject. Its great merit lies in the way in which it skillfully links advances in transportation with the course of Canadian political and economic history. Volume 1 covers the history of transp...

The making and unmaking of a university museum

In The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum Young elucidates the relationship between museums and communities by examining the nineteenth-century social context of the family who bequeathed their collection to McGill University and the collection's fate in an academic institution. Tracing t...

The campbell revolution?

Assessing British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell’s tenure and political legacy.

Guerrilla aesthetics

A bold rumination on 1970s West German urban terrorism and its haunting traces in contemporary art and memory.

Democracy burning?

The history of Russia's urban fire departments and the authoritarian elements of a growing public sphere.

Leading constitutional decisions, fourth edition

Doctor to the north

Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad,...

Canadian commercial revolution, 1845-1852

Multiculturalism and religious identity

An examination of how religious identity is recognized and managed politically in two multicultural nations.

Studies in literature and the humanities

Blacks in canada

The definitive history of the African-Canadian experience, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution adds a necessary critical lens through which twenty-first-century readers sho...

The frontier and canadian letters

A blend of social sciences, history and literary analyses of contemporaries such as A.G. Bailey and E.K. Brown. this work was a turning point in Canadian literary criticism at the very time of an unprecedented expansion in Canadian studies.

A canadian climate of mind

Looking at climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a state of the human spirit.

Class, ethnicity, and social inequality

In Class, Ethnicity, and Social Inequality Christopher McAll discusses the increased juxtaposition of ethnically distinct groups in the same social environments which has resulted from labour migration since the Second World War. He shows that, in the co

Canada’s victorian oil town

In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explores the ways in which the industry provided a common cultural identification that helped Petrolia change from a rough shanty-town of disreputable land speculators and "wildcatter...

The western interior of canada

This volume consists of excerpts from journals, diaries and reports of geographical explorations into the western interior of Canada from the first known journeys of Jens Munck and Luke Foxe up to the scientific surveys undertaken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The white man's gonna getcha

In The White Man's Gonna Getcha Toby Morantz examines threats to the cultural and economic independence of the Crees in eastern James Bay. She argues that while their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fur-trading relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company had been mutually beneficial, Canada's t...

Distance and duties

An illustrated history of canada's native people, fourth edition

The history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today.

Family and community life in northeastern ontario

How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visit.

Cirque global

Essays examine the innovative and influential circus scene as a creative, entrepreneurial, and cultural force that spans the globe.