The disturbed state of the russian realm

This translation of the memoirs of a German mercenary who lived in Russia throughout the first decade of the seventeenth century makes available a unique eyewitness account of the Time of Troubles (1598-1613).

Signature

Our son a stranger

The emotionally compelling experiences of couples who adopted native children in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Quest for an american sociology

People, state, and war under the french regime in canada

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary...

Habitants and merchants in seventeenth-century montreal

Louise Dechêne uses the island of Montreal in the seventeenth century as a case study for an analysis of the establishment of colonial society, placing her findings in a broad historiographical context that also takes account of developments in Europe and

The return of feminist liberalism

A major issue in recent English-language feminist political thought has been whether liberalism can continue to serve feminist purposes or should be relegated to the past.

Native peoples and water rights

The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.

Just fodder

Just Fodder addresses ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters rather than as foodstuffs. Josh Milburn offers a novel theory of animal rights that insists that figuring out the full range of our obligations to animals requires asking questions about the nature...

The polish exile

This first full account of Chabad’s interwar transformation in Poland explores how a turbulent era forced the movement to adapt and redefine itself within the context of modernity, laying the groundwork for postwar global outreach and enduring influence.

Ethnicity in the mainstream

English Canadians seldom see themselves - and are seldom seen by other Canadians - as an ethnic group. Pauline Greenhill suggests that this is because Canadians believe that the expressive culture of both mainstream English and English-origin groups lacks

Schools of sympathy

Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim. Nancy...

To the spring, by night

An evocation of childhood, a lost world, and a lost time.

This distant and unsurveyed country

In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic. Wives of British captains rarely sailed with their husbands and Margaret Penny was one of the few wome...

The communitarian third way

Ordre Nouveau's "neither right nor left" movement, based on personalism and revolutionary federalism, helped shape modern Catholic political culture in France, the National Revolution instituted by the Vichy regime, the post-war European movement, and the contemporary European New Right. It influ...

Istvan anhalt

Istvan Anhalt, born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1919, studied with Zoltán Kodály before being conscripted into a forced labour camp during World War II. In the late 1940s he studied under Nadia Boulanger and Soulima Stravinsky before emigrating to Canada in 1949, where he has been an impo...

L' université laurentienne

L'histoire fascinante de la croissance de l'Université Laurentienne et de ses innovations en l'éducation postsecondaire canadienne.

The christian moses

How ancient Christian debates concerning Moses' ability to see God embroiled social rivalries and defined the limits of humanity.

Mad cows and mother's milk, first edition

Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democracies. Given the perceived risks associated with the food we eat, chemicals in the environment, and modern t

A different point of view

Misao Dean argues convincingly that Duncan's "point of view" was largely informed by nineteenth-century Canadian idealism. Making excellent use of the latest insights of feminist criticism and post-colonial literary theory, Dean explores the "double marginalisation" of Duncan as both a colonial a...

Fresh strange music

A new approach to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art through the music of her poetry and its social and political implications.

Now: images of present time/maintenant: images du temps présent, bilingual edition

How can history be depicted, bearing in mind that the media (mainly photojournalism and the electronic press) have claimed a monopoly of the genre unto themselves?

How ottawa spends, 2006-2007

The priorities of the Harper government analyzed in the context of the policies of the defeated Liberal minority government.

Slow train to arcadia

The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of comm...

The theatre of apollo

Literary critics have consistently marginalized the role of Apollo in Sophocles' Oedipus the King: some declare him to be inscrutable, others ignore him, and still others deny his existence altogether. In defiance of this long-standing critical consensus, Drew Griffith offers a new interpretation...

They shot, he scored

The remarkable story of Eldon Rathburn, prolific Canadian composer, legendary NFB collaborator, railway enthusiast, and chronicler of his life and times.

Joseph howe

Arctic bibliography

Values in conflict

An impassioned defence of the liberal arts.

Games of discontent

Describing a range of protest activities preceding and surrounding the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, Games of Discontent shines light on the world during a politically transformative time when discontents were able, for the first time, to globalize their protests.

In the chamber of risks

Through a new set of detailed case studies William Leiss shows that while industry and governments have made much progress in responsibly managing risks to health and environment, they generally remain quite poor at managing their involvements with risk issues, that is, with the often intense con...

Motivational dimensions in social movements and contentious collective action

For years, students of social movements and other forms of contentious action have been sharply divided over what motivates people to engage in protest. Early on, analysts generally agreed that participation in acts of protest was motivated by various deprivations pushing toward action. Newer per...

Counterweights

Focusing on Canadian-German defence relations from 1955 to 1995, Roy Rempel examines the evolution of Canada's bilateral relationship with Germany in the context of the broader goals and objectives of Canadian foreign policy. He argues that Canadian decision makers have often been ignorant of the...

Law, life, and the teaching of legal history

Using the life and intellectual heritage of Blaine Baker, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History is both biographical study and important exploration into contemporary issues in Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building, criminal law, an...

Canada in the global village

This text provides an inter-disciplinary critique of the new global economy and information society, tracing its roots in the infrastructures of Canada's development from the canoes and ships of the fur trade, through the railways and telegraph of industrialization, to mass-print media, radio, te...

The ill-made alliance

Divided into three parts, The Ill-Made Alliance examines the roots and course of the Anglo-Turkish rapprochement in the years 1934-38; the economic, military, and politic factors in 1938-39 that inhibited development of the emerging alliance to the point where it might have been fully functional;...

Kleist on stage, 1804-1987

Until now, there has been no general reference work that describes the various stagings of Kleist's plays since the first performance of Die Familie Schroffenstein in 1804. Several dissertations dealing with the stage history of individual works appeared between 1920 and 1932 and some articles di...

Songs for fat people

During this period estrada - which includes comedy, literary readings, and circus arts as well as popular song - saw the birth of tangos, foxtrots, waltzes, and big bands. MacFadyen shows how a nomadic art form survived the pressures of business before the 1917 Revolution and those of politics af...

Canadian medicare

A rousing call to continue Canada's public health insurance program rather than rely on private insurance.

Unequal democracy

Drawing on lessons from Latin America, this volume demonstrates that democratic breakdown lies in the failure to extend citizenship beyond formal political rights to civil and social rights, necessary for equal participation.

Euripides' use of psychological terminology

Building on her previous works, Shirley Darcus Sullivan takes an in-depth look at Euripides' use of psychological terms - phr?n, nous, prapides, thumos, kardia, kear, and psych? - and compares his usage to that of both earlier and contemporary poets, most notably Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Gabor szilasi

Presenting twenty years of Gabor Szilasi's candid and personal documentation of Montreal art openings.

Laurentian university

Linda Ambrose, Matt Bray, Sara Burke, Donald Dennie, et Guy GaudreauThe fascinating story of Laurentian University's growth and innovations in post-secondary education.

Organizing rural women

In Organizing Rural Women Margaret Kechnie looks at the history of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, popularly known as the Women's Institutes (WI), from the time the first branch was formed at Stoney Creek in 1897 until federation in 1919. Kechnie challenges the popular mythology that...