Political choices and electoral consequences

The creation of the NDP out of the CCF in 1961 was intended to strengthen Canada's left-wing political party through a closer alliance with organized labour. This strength has failed to materialize. In Political Choices and Electoral Consequences, Keith Archer reveals why.

Ethnography and development

An insightful exploration of the work and continued influence of a groundbreaking anthropologist.

The jena system, 1804-5

Translated into English for the first time in this edition, The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics is an essential text in the study of the development of Hegel's thought. It is the climax of Hegel's efforts to construct a neutral theory of the categories of finite cognition ("logic") as ...

Achieving inner balance in anxious times

Whether our anxiety arises because of uncertain tough economic times or as a result of our own struggle with workaholism, obsession, or depression, too often we lose touch with our feeling side, experience numb flat affect, and gradually become immobilized by fear. Constructive and easy-to-follow...

Strangers with memories

Like estranged best friends, two democracies go from sharing their dreams to forgetting what they had in common – and wondering if they can still trust one another.

Mobilizing mercy

An engaging history that follows Canada’s leading humanitarian organization through decades of war, peace, and social change.

The native peoples of atlantic canada

These selections date from early contact of the native peoples of Atlantic Canada with, among others, Norse sailors, and a French priest in 1612. Some excerpts look at the now-extinct Beothuk people of Newfoundland, but most pertain to the Micmac peoples.

Neoliberal governance and health

A critical dissection of the politics of health in neoliberal society.

Mental health and canadian society

In 1860, inmates built a brick wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with mental health, injecting tragic, almost gothic overtones of geographical isolation, medical experiment...

Canada and the idea of north

A comprehensive overview of the role of the idea of North in Canadian thought, art, and popular culture.

The canadian brothers

The Canadian Brothers or the Prophecy Fulfilled is a fictionalized narrative of events, people and places from the author's childhood and adolescence in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, that reflects foundation myths about Ontario and Canada and reveals their d

Governance in the twenty-first century

Numerous administrative reforms during the past several decades, referred to as the "New Public Management," have altered government in a number of fundamental ways. These changes have, in turn, produced the need for even greater change if the public sector is to be capable of governing efficient...

Distributing status

How awards, decorations, and medals bestow social standing.

The mackenzie pipeline

This volume focuses mainly on the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline proposal, the most gigantic resource undertaking ever considered by Canadians.

Cowboys, gentlemen, and cattle thieves

Prostitution, gunfights, barroom brawls, and cattle rustling - prevailing images from the American old West - have typically been absent from histories of a gentler Canadian frontier. In Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves Warren Elofson argues that the Canadian frontier was less restrained, l...

Peopling the north american city

Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal through the eyes of a thousand couples to ...

In armageddon's shadow

The important and long-standing economic, social, and kinship ties between the United States and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island were profoundly shaken by the Civil War. In this engaging and accessible account, Greg Marquis explores the shadow cast on the Maritimes and its pe...

Milton's leveller god

David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Milton's epics to show they are more relevant than ever. He traces echoes between Milton's texts and Leveller writings that advocated for popular rule, extended suffrage, and religious tolerance, arguing that Milton's God is s...

Democracy in kingston

In a society where people are unequal, how do the less powerful try to make democracy work? Richard Harris attempts to answer this question by looking in detail at the development of a movement for democratic social change in Kingston, Ontario in the 1960s.

The limits of boundaries

With city-regions becoming increasingly important as sources of innovation and wealth in our society, does it follow that their institutions of government will become increasingly autonomous, allowing them to become self-governing?

Maturing in hard times

From the management of Canada's fledgling economy to the complex economic structures created to deal with the Great Depression, Robert Bryce's history of the Canadian Department of Finance traces the growth of one of the federal government's most important and complex departments.

Inventing tom thomson

An examination of Canadian identity through our cultural obsession with iconic painter Tom Thomson.

In search of political stability

In Search of Political Stability offers a detailed comparison of society and politics in New Brunswick and Northern Ireland.

Aki-wayn-zih

Aki-wayn-zih is one man's story of growing up in the hunting and gathering society of the Ojibways and surviving the residential school system, woven together with traditional legends in their original language. A story about the land and its relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginnin...

The agricultural economy of manitoba hutterite colonies

The Hutterite way of life originated in central Europe nearly 450 years ago. Today, Hutterite colonies are unique features of the agricultural landscape of Manitoba. This pioneering study, based on years of field research, presents a thorough account of every aspect of the agricultural base of th...

Canadian confederation

The Canadian federal system is a product of a complex decision taken by the Fathers of Confederation in the 1860s. That decision, the political elite who took it, and the milieu in which it was taken are the focus of this volume.

Institutions of isolation

Until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the Soviet Union was one of the most restrictive and powerful states in the world, and border controls were one of the most important symbols of the Soviet repressive apparatus - as the phrase "Iron Curtain" attests. In Institutions of Isolation Andr...

A.b. simpson and the making of modern evangelicalism

Understanding the formation of conservative evangelical identity, through the life of one of its leading figures.

Coming to canada

In a record breaking "hat trick," Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel,The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. Carleton University Press is pleased to release a newly designed ...

Realism and anti-realism

An introduction to realism and anti-realism - a major subject in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

A critical spirit

This volume contains the major writings of this neglected figure in the intellectual history of Canada: his defence of the intellectual life; his advocacy of a scientific, evolutionary ethos; his indictment of the political morality and popular government of his day; and his application of the cr...

Lives in transition

An examination of mobility, inequality, and the unfolding of lives on three continents during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Tug of war

Lifting the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games.

Abenaki daring

The life and work of an Abenaki man illuminate the troubled history of Indigenous peoples.

Social reproduction

Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the ...

Jewish roots, canadian soil

In 1931, ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue. In the succeeding decades, Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape. In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil

State, class, and bureaucracy

Recent explanations of public policy have increasingly focused on "state-centred" theories which emphasize internal state dynamics, as opposed to "society-centred" theories which concentrate on external forces such as interest group pressure. State, Class, and Bureaucracy assesses the fruitfulnes...

Against the current and into the light

An examination of historical performances in an iconic Vancouver park demonstrating how it remains an Indigenous place despite colonial efforts.

Russian entrepreneur

Not only did Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin build Sytin & Co. into the largest publishing concern in Russia prior to the Revolution, he also transformed Russian Word from an obscure, conservative newspaper into Russia's leading daily, with a circulation of over o

A foremost nation

Petworth emigration set

This set is comprised of the following 2 volumes: Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada: The Petworth Project, 1832-1837 English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s

Sacred ritual, profane space

A reassessment of earliest Christian worship spaces as a crucible of sanctity, identity, and cultic affiliation.

Barbarous dissonance and images of voice in milton's epics

Elizabeth Sauer brings a new perspective to Milton scholarship through her examination of the relative status and authority of the multiple narrative voices in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. She argues that Milton's epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices, episodes, and dramatic ...

Universals

Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence that is distinct from that of particular things? And what is their nature if they do? In Universals J.P. Moreland addresses these questions, in particular those issues that have been a crucial part of t...