One of the boys, second edition

A new edition of a book that has changed the way we think about sexual conduct and combat.

The russian military intervention in syria

The Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia’s foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Soviet territory. Providing historical context and revealing the causes of Russia’s use of military power, this book is an authoritative overview of Russ...

Town house, country house

In Town House, Country House, Hazel Boswell delightfully recounts many adventures from her mother's childhood more than a century ago. Her mother, Julie, is fourteen at the time of the story and the eldest of seven children: Edmond, Tilly, Alain, Mic, Ethel, and six-year-old Henri. Among those we...

The sum of the satisfactions

In our age of measurement, economic numbers - productivity, inflation, unemployment, gross domestic product - inform the decisions of both citizen and state. Since World War II, Canada has been at the global forefront in developing a set of national accounts that measure every beat of our economi...

The indian muslims

The unreformed senate of canada

Le carré's landscape

The reality of espionage isn't easily disentangled from its mythology - and somewhere at the uneasy confluence of these dimensions is the fiction of John le Carré. A former British intelligence officer, le Carré has captured the shadows and textures of the covert world with a sure eye for its nua...

Inco in paradise

Against the turbulence of the global nickel market between 1960 and 1980, INCO’s experiences in French-controlled New Caledonia expose the entangled forces of colonial power, global capital, and local resistance that marked the late twentieth century.

Recent social trends in canada, 1960-2000

Canadian society has changed dramatically since 1960. This work captures the scope and range of these changes through a systematic documentation of seventy-eight social trends.

Nature as landscape

Human interaction with the natural world has created serious environmental problems. In Nature as Landscape Kraft von Maltzahn examines the "unnatural" relationship that has developed between human beings and nature. Drawing on evidence from philosophy and the history of science, he argues that h...

Classical music

A passionate appeal from an acclaimed artist for the relevance of classical music in today's torn world.

A bibliography of john rastell

John Rastell is most likely to be recognised today for his connection to Thomas More, whose son-in-law and friend he was. In A Bibliography of John Rastell E.J. Devereux shows that he was much more than this - a lawyer, explorer, humanist, trust servant of the crown, and, most importantly, printe...

Milton acorn

In the first major biography of Milton Acorn, the voice of one of Canada's leading poets resounds across the years since it was first raised, impassioned and protesting, in the 1950s and 1960s. This compelling study traces Acorn's essential patriotism to his roots in Prince Edward Island and show...

Battle exhaustion

Battle Exhaustion introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army's experience during the Second World War. Terry Copp and Bill McAndrew examine the behaviour of soldiers under the extreme stress of war and the medical and military attempts to man...

The political thought of lord durham

Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America is usually discussed only in terms of its historical context - the events that brought Durham to Canada and the consequences of the Report's reform proposals. In a markedly different approach, Janet Ajzenstat treats the Report as a text...

Blood and religion

In Blood and Religion Ronald Love explores the symbiosis of religion and politics in the early career of Henri IV of France, examining the king's strong religious beliefs - imbibed in early youth from his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre - and the profound effect they had not only on his...

Early modern naval health care in england, 1650–1750

*Early Modern Naval Health Care in England *follows the transformation of organized health care for Royal Navy seamen from 1650 to 1750. Matthew Neufeld finds that these changes relied on the relationship between naval officials and the ordinary people of coastal areas, especially the women who t...

A gentleman in the outports

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume ii, 1774-1777

The second volume of this critical edition of the early journals and letters of Fanny Burney brings us to the eve of her sudden fame as the author of Evelina. With the publication of each volume of this edition, the full texts of Burney's early journals and letters are, for the first time, made a...

A sadly troubled history

A comparative history of suicide, consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.

Iroquois in the west

Intriguing tales of Indigenous peoples who made their homes across the North American West.

Provincial battles, national prize?

A far-reaching analysis of the 2015 Canadian federal election through three different provincial lenses, drawing upon polls and candidate, media, and voter data.

The guardianship of best interests

A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia

A sensitive independence

For nearly half a century, the Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) of the Methodist Church of Canada provided a rare opportunity for more than 300 single women to work in Japan, West China, and Canada. The all-female administrative structure of the WMS and

Shades of green

Is there a real community of interest on the state of the environment that transcends national boundaries? An answer to this vital question will ultimately determine the success or failure of initiatives where international co-operation and co-ordination are essential, such as atmospheric or wate...

Pierre-esprit radisson: the collected writings, volume 1

A vivid and illuminating view of the New World through the eyes of a seventeenth-century explorer, trader, and adventurer.

Collections and objections

A nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.

Sars unmasked

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontl...

Alone in silence

It has been estimated that over 500 European women travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940. They came as visiters, journalists, and artists, or worked as nurses, scientists, and missionaries. In Alone in Silence Barbara Kelcey describes the women who lived and worked in t...

Families in transition

Economic and social conditions in Saint-Hyacinthe changed dramatically in the later nineteenth century with the arrival of the railway and the emergence of manufacturing industry. In Families in Transition Peter Gossage shows how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the town...

Finding safe harbour: supporting the integration of refugee youth

The UN Refugee Agency reported 79.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2019, and over half of all displaced persons were under eighteen. This book investigates Canada's current response to refugee youth, highlighting how Halifax, NS, as a mid-sized urban centre, has mobilized services and...

Political unrest in upper canada, 1815-1836

First published in 1927, this account of the political struggles of Upper Canada prior to the Rebellion of 1837 remains a classic piece of Canadian historical scholarship.

Edgar allan poe

Critics have often charged Edgar Allan Poe with sloppy writing. Using stylistics and classical rhetorical theory, Brett Zimmerman demonstrates that Poe was in fact a brilliant and deliberate lexical technician who varied his prose style according to genre and the world views and the mental health...

The history of the german resistance, 1933-1945, third edition

The History of the German Resistance is the most comprehensive and authoritative account ever published of the German opposition's struggle against Hitler, covering all the serious attempts to overthrow or assassinate him leading up to the failed attempt of 20 July 1944. Extensive notes, a full b...

Amateurs, professionals, and serious leisure

For fifteen years, Robert Stebbins has conducted extensive research on amateurs and professionals in theatre, music, archaeology, astronomy, baseball, football, magic, and stand-up comedy. His publications are the only ones to give the theme of serious leisure such in-depth scholarly attention. I...

From multilateral failures to unilateral successes?

For decades Canadian constitutional debate seemed largely dormant. But since 2021 provincial initiatives and amendments have reignited change, challenging assumptions, reshaping federalism, and offering new insights into unilateral and multilateral pathways of constitutional reform.

The development of secularism in turkey

L' acadie de 1686 a 1784

Polar pioneers

During the first half of the nineteenth century British explorers eagerly sought the Northwest Passage, making great advances in exploring and charting polar regions. Polar Pioneers is the story of John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross, British naval officers who made important contributions ...

At the wilderness edge

Exploring the beginnings of the antidevelopment protest movements in British Columbia's Lower Mainland.

Bank of canada/la banque du canada

Originally published in the Bank of Canada Review, these articles are valuable for anyone interested in the history, evolution and rationale of central banks, and the Bank of Canada in particular. Articles are in English and French.

Benedict arnold

General, soldier, businessman, traitor: these are all words associated with the name Benedict Arnold. One of America's greatest soldiers and most reviled traitors, he was also a significant and intriguing player in Canada's history. In Benedict Arnold Barry Wilson takes a fresh look at this contr...

Finding molly johnson

In Finding Molly Johnson, Mark McGowan traces what happened to the many orphaned children who fled Ireland's Great Famine and made the long voyage to Canada. Most were not considered members of their placement families, but rather sources of cheap labour. The book revisits an important chapter of...

Water into wine?

Two possible or actual occurrence of miracles has been vigorously debated since the concept was first introduced. In Water into Wine? Robert Larmer re-examines significant issues in this cross-disciplinary debate and attacks two basic assumptions governing it.