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The making of a museum

In The Making of a Museum Judith Nasby recalls the century-long history of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre/Art Gallery of Guelph, informed by her long career as gallery director and curator. The book is beautifully illustrated with eighty images of artworks in the permanent collection, beginning...

Crisis and war

Using an analysis of patterns of international crisis and war from 1948 to 1975, Patrick James suggests why some international crises result in war while others do not. Over one hundred cases are used to assess the three most prominent explanations for crisis escalation to war: (1) war is the res...

Popular music in england, 1840-1914

Nineteenth-century England was dismissed by foreign commentators as "the land without music." Focusing on popular music in the urban and industrial areas of England between 1840 and 1914, Dave Russell shows how untrue this was. Britain was an extraordinarily musical place during the Victorian and...

Récoltes des forêts publiques au québec et en ontario, 1840-1900

In Les récoltes des forêts publiques au Québec et Ontario, Guy Gaudreau, the son and grandson of forest industry workers, provides the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of one of the industries that laid the foundations of Canadian economic development throughout the nineteenth century

What the world might look like

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought.

Marion

Mysteries of identity and the trials of working girls from the first published Asian North American novelist.

The notion of tolerance and human rights

Former colleagues of distinguished philosopher Raymond Klibansky examine tolerance from a number of perspectives, including historical roots in Bayle and Locke, the plea for tolerance in literature and poetry, as well as judicial, cultural and societal aspects.

British businessmen and canadian confederation

Without pressure from a small but influential group of London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification of the British North American colonies because they believed it would rescue their under-performing investments and keep B...

No ordinary school

One hundred years of history at a private school for girls that occupies a unique place in Quebec's educational sphere.

Financing infrastructure

Why it is best that users, instead of the federal or provincial taxpayers, pay for public infrastructure.

Griffith taylor

Drawing upon an extensive collection of private papers, the author brings to life the colourful story of Taylor, Canada's premier geographer. He founded Canada's first Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, and Australia's first Geography Department at Sydney University. Taylor als...

Twenty-first century democracy

According to a recent feature in The Economist, democracy has been only half achieved this century and should flower in the next. In preparation for new forms of democracy, well-known political theorist Philip Resnick addresses some of the fundamental questions surrounding the practice of democra...

The re-invention of the european radical right

Political commentators were surprised at the re-emergence of right-wing parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and early 1980s given that right-wing extremists had largely disappeared from successful electoral politics after the end of the Second World War. Since their resurgence, such parties ha...

Mordecai richler

"I didn't want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive…From now on, nobody can write about Richler without reading this book." The Globe and Mail

Morals and consent

An evolutionary defence of contractarian ethics as applied to social norms.

The flying tiger

Storytelling bridges culture, history, and spirituality. In The Flying Tiger Kira Van Deusen takes us into the world of the female shamans of the Amur, presenting over fifty traditional stories she recorded in the 1990s from the people of the taiga forest in the Russian Far East. More than a coll...

Cheap wage labour

Using the fishing industry in British Columbia as a case study, Alicja Muszynski examines how Marx's labour theory of value can be applied to a specific industry and the creation of a specific labour force. She reworks Marx's theory in order to incorporate race and gender as principles that not o...

Education in new france

Although much has been written on developments in learning in New France, a comprehensive treatment of education during this period is lacking. In Education in New France, Roger Magnuson redresses the balance by examining seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canadian education in all its forms, in...

Rites of privacy and the privacy trade

Technological advances have made the right to privacy an important issue. Most discussions of privacy focus largely on methods and standards for the protection of specific privacy rights. In contrast, Elizabeth Neill addresses the need to re-evaluate what it means for us to possess a right to pri...

The night chorus

Poems that give voice and agency to marginal figures in rural places and cityscapes.

Sport and politics in canada

Active Canadian government in sport is recent. Even after the passage of the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act in 1961, government activity was limited to small grants to national sport governing bodies and cost-sharing agreements with the provinces aimed at increasing participation in sport. By the ...

Between damnation and starvation

In 1997 the Canadian constitution was amended to remove the denominational rights of Newfoundland churches regarding education, erasing the last vestiges of a uniquely organized society. Until the 1950s and 1960s Newfoundland had been characterized by an

Fissured ground

This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola, tracing how intellectuals, writers, and citizens imagined the future nation in their literature.

Philosophy of language, second edition

Alexander Miller's accessible survey shows that philosophy of language is at the centre of the energetic philosophical activity of this century. By interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of radically different approaches to theories of meaning he gives rea...

History of macdonald college of mcgill university

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Religion and greater ireland

Stimulating essays that break new ground on religion and Irish identity in modern world history.

Canada among nations, 2009-2010

Marking the 25th anniversary of the series, Canada Among Nations 2009 focuses on how leading foreign and Canadian thinkers and doers assess Canada's prospects in a world in which the US will become more pre-eminent and predominant. The rise of China, India, Russia, and Brazil as well as the incre...

Chronic aftershock

Combining approaches from intellectual history, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Chronic Aftershock explores the legacy of 9/11 in France and recent instances of transatlantic divide to provide an innovative and timely assessment of the radicalized violence that remains a major threat in...

A house of words

Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli

Business and politics

This is the first comprehensive study of the origins, structure, membership, and resources of interest groups representing business firms in Canada. William Coleman shows how Canadian businesses have used such associations to acquire special privileges within the policy process and to avoid assum...

Origin and evolution of the universe

Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Evidence of Design? not only raises important questions about our understanding of the world and its origins, but also provides a fascinating view of the different perspectives on this topic.

Angel in the sun

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered himself particularly a painter of historical landscapes. His distinctive landscapes were often enriched with symbolism and allegory that set them apart from those of his artist co...

More richly in earth

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differe...

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume v, 1782-1783

A brilliant portrait of eighteenth-century English life and manners from the pen of a major British novelist.

Giving canada a literary history

Carl Klinck's autobiography is combined with a history of the development of Canadian literature as a

The politics of development

A reprint of the classic work on political economy and environmental history.

Precarious visualities

The transformation of our relation to images in contemporary visual culture.

Human security and the new diplomacy

With civilians around the world increasingly at risk from virulent internal conflicts within states, traditional foreign policy instruments have often failed to prevent violence, to protect civilians when conflict breaks out, or to encourage the rebuilding of war-torn societies. The human securit...

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume i, 1768-1773

Fanny Burney was best known in her own time as the author of Evilina and other novels. Her modern reputation, however, rests primarily on her extensive journals and letters. The third of eleven children of Charles Burney, an eminent musician, author, and composer, she began keeping a journal of h...

James cook

Explore the voyages of James Cook through the artwork, charts, and journals created on the voyage.

Tecumseh's bones

A historical mystery about the deception behind the death, burial, and legacy of the great Shawnee chief, Tecumseh.

Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925–1955

A window onto the perspectives of Canadian artists during three eventful decades of local and global history.