Bibliography of emblematic manuscripts

This bibliography provides descriptions of 432 manuscripts from Europe and the United States, of which 341 contain visual imagery in various media. The manuscripts feature tripartite emblems proper, as well as festivity books, hieroglyphic texts, proto-emblematic material, allegories, triumphs, s...

Health insurance and canadian public policy, cls edition

Medicare in Canada is not only this country's most treasured social program, it has become a defining national characteristic. Even with recent concerns over flaws in the system - long wait times, shortages of key service providers - leading to questions about the possible benefits of a two-tiere...

Not quite us

How anti-Catholicism reflected and constructed English Canadian identity in the twentieth century and why it remains important today.

Getting down to business

The year 1919 saw the death of former Prime Minister Laurier, the birth of future Prime Minister Trudeau, and at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, the introduction of Canada's first degree-based program in business, the Bachelor of Commerce by economist and later architect of Canada's publ...

John lehman: a tribute

One of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, two novels and a distinguished literary autobiography. All aspects of Lehmann's work are discussed in this book of recollections and essays...

A border within

A Border Within addresses the question of English Canadian identity by exploring whether a plurality of discourses can lead to other than a fragmented society. Ian Angus examines the relationship between globalizing social movements and the particularities of identity politics by extending the th...

The october crisis, 1970

This first-hand account of a seminal Canadian crisis challenges the notion that civil rights and political liberties were unjustifiably restricted.

The periglacial environment

Joseph de maistre's life, thought, and influence

In Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence leading Maistre scholars offer interpretations of his thought and make available in English recent French scholarship on his life and work. They provide a portrait of Maistre as a significant thinker in numerous fields, upsetting the image of hi...

Brewed in the north

Tracing the evolution of Canada's Labatt brewery from its colonial beginnings until its sale to Belgium-based Interbrew.

Neoliberalism and everyday life

A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008.

Water from dragon's well

Challenging the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism, the century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship continues to transform the United Church of Canada’s mission. This book traces the origins and consequences of this little-known tributary in Korean-Canadian history, giving voice...

Form and transformation

Plotinus, the father of Neoplatonism, lived in Rome during the third century AD. For many scholars -- not only classicists and philosophers but medievalists, renaissance specialists, Islamists, theologians, and students of religion -- he remains a figure

French canadian society, vol.i

Resistance and revolution

This is the story of a special time and some extraordinary people. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the architectural wonder of Prague became the setting for some of the harshest communist repression in the Cold War. Yet this bleak period produced an unusual cast of chara...

Autonomy in subnational income taxes

Subnational tax autonomy is a cornerstone of a viable system of fiscal federalism. The underlying principle is that spending by constituent units in a federal or quasi federal country is paid for by revenues that are under the control of that unit. Economists recommend that the taxation base rema...

The canadian federal election of 2025

An accessible analysis of the remarkable 2025 Canadian federal election, examining campaign strategy, media coverage, public opinion, disinformation, and voting behaviour – and what this portends for future elections.

From barrow to boothia

In 1835 the map of the arctic coast of North America was still far from complete, with unmapped gaps of 280km from Return Reef to Point Barrow in Alaska and 550km from Point Turnagain to Boothia Peninsula in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Hudson's Bay Company developed a plan to fill the gaps a...

Nineteenth-century cape breton

Stephen Hornsby's historical geography of Cape Breton Island is a detailed examination of the patterns of economy, settlement, and society that emerged on the island during the nineteenth century. These patterns, Hornsby argues, were strikingly similar to those created elsewhere in Canada.

How ottawa spends, 1996-1997

The Liberal government's assault on the deficit will reduce program spending by 21 percent by 1998/99 and be accompanied by a reduction of almost 50,000 public employees. Rather than a frantic across-the-board slashing exercise, the cuts have been portrayed as a change in philosophy toward reduci...

Random walks

Random Walks includes fifteen lively essays on general problems of literary theory and academic practice as well as the appreciation and interpretation of specific writers and their works.

From righteousness to far right

An innovative ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden.

Culture, religion, and demographic behaviour

Recent work in demography has shown that economic factors alone do not shape patterns of marriage, childbearing, and mortality. Focusing on the French region of Alsace during the period 1750 to 1870, Kevin McQuillan explores the influence of religious an

Teaching for commitment

Elmer Thiessen provides a comprehensive critical survey of the debate concerning indoctrination, especially in the context of confessional religious education. His central aim is to establish that indoctrination as a result of religious instruction is neither inevitable nor as probable as is ofte...

Women and work

Women and Work is based on the joint John Deutsch Institute and Canadian Workplace Research Network conference held at Queen's University in April 1998. This conference brought together leading academic researchers and policymakers who presented new empirical research on policy issues related to ...

Alexander kennedy isbister

Born of mixed Scottish/Native Indian blood in what is now Saskatchewan, Isbister emigrated to Britain after he found his ambitions thwarted by Hudson's Bay Company policies regarding native-born employees. There he became a respected educator, but more important to this study, he also became the ...

Free trade

Few public policy issues have stirred political passions on both sides of the Canada/US border as free trade did in the late 1980s. Negotiated between Canada and the United States in 1987, the Free Trade Agreement became the dominant issue in the November 1988 Canadian federal election, perhaps t...

Central works of philosophy, volume 2

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon for undergraduate students and general readers.

Grenfell of labrador

The best-selling biography of Wilfred Grenfell, back in print.

Political culture in louis xiv’s canada

Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada examines how the political precepts and practices of seventeenth-century France were translated to the distant settler colony to establish French political legitimacy in this new transatlantic setting.

The global flows of early scottish photography

Tracing the global reach of early photography and the camera's part in cultural encounters across three continents.

Women, work, and coping

Until recently, theories and research about job stress and ways of coping have been based primarily on men's experience. Women's experience of stress and coping has remained unexplored, despite studies which show that women are confronted with more and different work-related stressors than men.

Urdu for children, book 1: work book

Urdu for Children is the first comprehensive instructional package for teaching children Urdu as a second language.

North of athabasca

The fur trade has been an important building block in Canada's history. While much is known about the Hudson's Bay Company, information about the North West Company in the Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Districts has been scattered in various archives. In North of Athabasca Lloyd Keith provides t...

University housing in canada

Ordinary saints

An engaging study of rural women and lived religion that explores the ties between gender, labour, and Christian belief.

Swinging the maelstrom

Swinging the Maelstrom is a collection of new critical essays on the work and life of Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957). An international group of literary critics and artists examines a wide range of Lowry's work from the diverse perspectives of biography, correspondence, translation, manuscript editing...

Mobilizing the will to intervene

Provocative and practical counsel to make governments care about humanitarian crises.

Generating traces in the history of the world

An illuminating work on the Christian experience.

Fragile majorities and education

How groups growing into majority status respond to old conflicts and increasing ethnic diversity in their societies.

Expo 67 and its world

Expo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of ...

The mccord family

In 1921 David Ross McCord (1844-1930) founded the McCord Museum of Canadian History, which first opened in the Jessie Joseph House of McGill University. McCord's ancestors had come from Ireland to settle in Canada after the Seven Years War. Although they were initially merchants, by the late eigh...

Journeys of fear

Understanding democracy, human rights, and development in the conflict-ridden societies of the third world is at the heart of Journeys of Fear, a stimulating collection of papers prepared by Canadian and Guatemalan scholars.

The future's back

Given the likely proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the future, and the failure of "non-proliferation" regimes to provide effective barriers to the spread of nuclear technology in the past, efforts towards greater understanding of nuclear rivalry are crucial. The Future's Back provid...