The courts and the canadian constitution

Russia and ukraine

Drawing on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory to reinterpret key writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Myroslav Shkandrij shows how the need to legitimize expansion gave rise to ideas of Russian political and cultural hegemony and influenced Russian attitudes toward Ukraine. ...

Bounty and benevolence

The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Regina v. Marshall regarding the treaty rights of the Mi'kmaq dramatically underscored our need to understand the history of treaty relationships between Canada's First Nations and the Crown. The numbered treaties covering Canada's prairie provinces ...

Ontario hydro at the millennium

A collection of ten papers presented at the University of Toronto Electrical Power Project Conference in 1995, Ontario Hydro at the Millennium is a review of the electrical power industry in Ontario and its future. Legal experts, policy makers, economists, and stakeholders in the industry express...

Postal censorship, surveillance, resistance

Throughout twentieth-century Ukraine, letters were lifelines. A comprehensive study of censorship and epistolary culture in Ukraine under totalitarian rule, this groundbreaking work reveals how correspondence functioned simultaneously as an emotional artifact, a political instrument, and a histor...

Revolutions across borders

A surprising and innovative analysis of the continental dimensions of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38.

The beaver bites back?

Canadians have demonstrated a remarkable sense of unity about protection of their "cultural industries" during the continuing national debate over free trade. This study of the effect of American popular culture on Canada is therefore particularly relevant.

The war against the seals

Controversy arises whenever and wherever the sealing industry is discussed. But the modern-day anti-sealing movement is very new in comparison with the industry it opposes. This comprehensive history begins with the opening of American trade with China, and follows the industry wherever North Ame...

Recent social trends in russia 1960-1995

Recent Social Trends in Russia is a collection of statistical and sociological data on trends in Russian society that have never before been assembled in a comprehensive and systematic manner.

A bridge built halfway

From 1925 until shortly after Newfoundland's entry into Confederation, Memorial University College, the forerunner of Memorial University of Newfoundland, set down roots as a new national institution amid the discouragements of adverse economic conditions during the 1930s and the upheavals and di...

Between literature and science

In Between Literature and Science Peter Swirski examines the true intellectual scope of Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem. Using a genuinely interdisciplinary approach he shows that they propose far-reaching hypotheses in aesthetics, epistemology, cognitive science, philosophy of science, literar...

Central works of philosophy, volume 5

Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion to the study and reading of philosophy. Central Works of Philosophy provides both an overview of particular works and clear and authoritative expositions of their central ideas, giv...

The return of the sphinx

The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.

On the divine things and their revelation

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic nihilism of modern philosophy. In this first English translation, Paolo Livieri provides readers with a history of the debates that preceded and followed it, a...

Connecting the dots

An intellectual memoir by one of Canada's leading legal scholars. Copublished with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

The german peasants' war and anabaptist community of goods

James Stayer argues that Anabaptist community of goods continued the popular radicalism of the early Reformation and the Peasants' War of 1525. During the German Reformation hundreds of thousands of commoners were mobilized by the hope that established clerical and aristocratic order could be rep...

The french-canadian outlook

Dark age

A gripping political biography of one of Africa's most controversial leaders.

Canadian pacific

The thin smoke of the heart

It is that sort of morning for the heart; the living are giving the dead an honest test. A man has walked out to be alone with the earth. A man of his age, he equates time with grief most days, but now he has decided to wait. In the silence, where do his raised eyes fit? --from Vow

Leading from between

How the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants make a difference in Canada and Australia.

The christie seigneuries

In The Christie Seigneuries, Françoise Noël provides a detailed case study of the Christie Seigneuries in the Upper Richelieu Valley (in what is now Quebec) during the period from the French surrender to the British in 1760 to the commutation act of 1854 ending seigneurial tenure. While most seig...

Congo solo

Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers at The New Yorker - her first byline appeared there in 1929, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir, Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days o...

The love queen of malabar

An astonishing adventure into the heart of one of India's most controversial writers.

Patterns of plague

Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors tha...

Keeping the dream alive

Keeping the Dream Alive examines a crucial era in the evolution of the CCF/NDP in Ontario when, after almost a decade of unprecedented popularity, the party experienced a significant decline in support. Dan Azoulay chronicles the party's difficult but inspiring struggle to survive and regain its ...

Reimagining canada

At times the deep disagreements surrounding Canada's constitutional debates have led Canadians to wonder whether the country can - or should - survive. In Reimagining Canada Jeremy Webber argues that there is a viable basis for a Canadian community, one which would enjoy the robust allegiance of ...

Urdu for children, book 1: volume 2

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

Perceptions of a monarchy without a king

How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.

The last french and indian war

In the summer of 1760, ten months after the fall of Quebec City, British forces under the command of General Amherst were converging on Montreal, which would capitulate to the British by early September. Somehow Amherst had managed to break the complex network of French-Native alliances on which ...

Grounded in eire

Off-course after a failed mission over Frankfurt in 1941, Bobby Keefer, a former McGill football star, and his best friend Jack Calder found themselves forced to bail out of their twin-engine Wellington over Southern Ireland. Much to their surprise, rather than being returned to their squadron in...

Postcards of skopje

Christina Kramer uses a rich archive of picture postcards to read and make visible political history, revealing how the Macedonian city of Skopje evolved over the course of the twentieth century.

Rewind and search

Taking the reader behind the cameras, Mary Jane Miller traces the history of television drama on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) English network over four decades. She combines interviews with forty CBC personnel with her own commentary to explore how programs were made and why.

Tracings of gerald le dain's life in the law

The life and work of a leading Canadian legal academic, university administrator, law reformer, and judge.

Plunder, profit, and paroles

The War of 1812 is often credited with having aroused fierce anti-American sentiment among Upper Canadians, creating a unity which ensured continued loyalty to Britain and played an important role in the defence of the colony. It is also claimed that all of Upper Canada benefited from British mil...

Canada among nations, 1997

Asia Pacific Face-Off is the thirteenth in the Canada Among Nations series published by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. In recognition of the government's designation of 1997 as Canada's Year of Asia Pacific, the volume focuses on aspects of Canada's relations with the countr...

National survival in dependent societies

Both Quebec and Poland have undergone considerable change in the past few decades, change that can be described as a "quiet revolution." This collection of essays by Polish and Canadian sociologists provides comparative analyses of the two societies and highlights institutional, political, cultur...

Sherlock holmes

Craftsman or copyist? Genius or journeyman? Artist or artisan? Of these, what was Conan Doyle? Does anyone take Conan Doyle seriously? Who can explain the phenomenon which makes Sherlock Holmes the instantly recognizable stock figure, probably the only such stereotype and standby in late Victoria...

Canada's early nuclear policy

The advent of nuclear weapons introduced a complex new factor into world politics, drawing a line through history and ensuring that international relations would never be the same. By both accident and design, Canada was a central player in the new nuclear era, as countries grappled with the impl...

History of canadian business, new edition

R.T. Naylor traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and World War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation. He tells the often sordid story of the emergence and development of corporate capitalism in Can...

What really matters

Home resonates in this collection. Heart longs for the Prince Edward Island birthplace left behind, memory building like early frost on fresh laundry. But there is another sense of home for this poet of the Irish diaspora, deep down in legacies of poetry and family lore, bred-in-the-bone, read in...

Of lost cities

In Of Lost Cities Nizar Hermes explores the poetic representation of the Maghribī city and sheds light on the Maghribī manipulation of the classical Arabic (sub)genres of city elegy and nostalgia for one’s homeland.

Harper's team, second edition

In five years, Stephen Harper went from private citizen to prime minister of Canada. Tom Flanagan was his chief campaign organizer for most of that period. In Harper's Team, Flanagan tells the story of Harper's rise to power - how a small group of colleag

Undiplomatic history

Inviting readers to reconsider Canada's place in the world.