Cottage country in transition

The cottage is a powerful image of rural Canada. This image, however, often ignores the rural community that surrounds it, producing a geographically and socially divided landscape and creating friction between cottage owners and rural communities. Cottage Country in Transition is a wide-ranging ...

Left and right

How left/right ideology has evolved in the postwar era and changed Canadian politics.

John rawls

Fragile truths

States without people

States Without People argues that the major consequence of the failed revolts and civil wars in the Middle East has been the emergence of a culture of the right.

North atlantic triangle

Canada-australia

This volume is the result of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) 1995 conference held at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. A special feature of the conference, though not its exclusive focus, was trade relations. But as with all ACSANZ conferences...

The public work of christmas

A frank conversation about how Christmas spurs conflict and compromise in multicultural societies.

Entrepreneurship and community economic development

One of the goals of regional policies is to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the nation's smaller and more remote communities. Policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in the Community Economic Development approach as a way of achieving this aim. In Entrepreneurship and Communit...

Flexible design

Vala or The Four Zoas is one of William Blake's few surviving manuscripts and affords a unique opportunity to examine a significant evolution in his poetic practice. While the poem itself exhibits a consistent thematic interest, the modes and methods of representing these interests underwent a ra...

Small theatres

Marshalling minimalist and objectivist techniques and a relentless attention to the fissures running through every moment of our lives, Small Theatres gives shape to a reality constantly on the verge of collapse.

Studies in christian existentialism

Facts of life

Facts of Life is the first historical study of any Canadian civil registration statistics since 1930 and the first study, for any jurisdiction, that extends into the twentieth century. George Emery examines Ontario's vital statistics from 1869, when civil registration for births, marriages, and d...

St mary's

An invaluable collection of major thinkers for students and teachers of film and philosophy.

La guerre d’indépendance des canadas

Longtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l’ensemble de l’Amérique du Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d’inaugurer une expérience républicaine différente. La révolution a échoué, mais...

Asia today

Village politics and the mafia in sicily, second edition

Sicily has long been seen as an island whose people are plagued by governmental failings and general social disintegration, as well as the home of the mafia. In Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily Filippo Sabetti examines more than two hundred years

Canada in the soviet mirror

This is an original, thoroughly researched account of the image of Canada in Soviet writings - political, jounalistic and academic - over the entire course of Soviet history. A study of the role of ideology in Soviet foreign affairs, the book traces the influence of an adjusting Marxist-Leninist ...

Hungochani, first edition

Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.

The politics of postal transformation

In The Politics of Postal Transformation Robert Campbell investigates and analyses the most important policy innovations in recent years as countries struggle to create a postal regime that matches domestic political expectations with international and technological realities.

Federalism in a changing world

Federalism in a Changing World contains the scientific background papers, proceedings, and plenary speeches presented at the International Conference on Federalism 2002 held in St Gallen, Switzerland, in August 2002.

Different gods

The complex role religion plays in immigrant adaptation and integration.

Climate change in the 21st century

Understanding the world's biggest crisis - and why it's not just an environmental problem.

Braver canada

A broadscale study of the many challenges Canada faces internationally in its global economic, political, and security engagements, with recommendations for future prosperity.

Implied consent and sexual assault

Revisiting the doctrine of implied consent in Canadian sexual assault law.

Our subversive voice

Our Subversive Voice establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England’s history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that give rise to th...

Social justice and the constitution

Death

Nato and the bomb

During the Cold War, the Canadian government's approach to NATO and nuclear weapons raised eyebrows, provoked newspaper headlines, and angered Americans and Europeans alike as new ways of thinking among Canadian leaders competed with traditional attitudes and approaches. In NATO and the Bomb Erik...

Four contemporary novelists

Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; identified dominant themes, controlling techniques, and informing sensibility; explained what each has tried to accomplish...

Canadian marxists and the search for a third way

Literature on Marxist socialists in Canada has usually been written by those within the social democratic or Marxist-Leninist traditions and has generally failed to break free of the political biases of the defenders of these traditions. Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way steps outs...

Church, state, and the control of schooling in ireland, 1900-1944

This volume is an important contribution to educational theory and to the cultural history of modern Ireland.

Recasting history

How the CBC recast Canadian history for television and influenced what we know and how we think about the Canadian past.

Dystopian fiction east and west

In Dystopian Fiction East and West Erika Gottlieb offers an original and comprehensive exploration of dystopian fiction. She discusses Western classics such as Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,...

Tides of empire

Remaking liberalism

Barry Ferguson considers the thinking of four major Canadian political economists who developed their ideas while building the discipline of political economy at Queen's University. In doing so they reinterpreted Canada's prospects for future economic development and the place of the individual i...

The race question in canada

Written about the Canada of Laurier's day, Siegfried's book is a witty and sophisticated report on the elements in the Canadian dilemma, a profound analysis of Canadian politics, churches, education and attitudes to external affairs.

Imagined nations

An in-depth look at the effects of change in modes of communication on imagined forms of political community through an examination of a series of Canadian novels and film adaptations.

Beyond the global city

Looking beyond the smoke screen of Toronto's rapid and costly growth to re-envision sustainable planning in Ontario's neglected regions.

The ordinary people of essex

An overview of agricultural practices and land use in early Canada.

The history of the black watch (royal highland regiment) of canada: volume 2, 1939–1945

Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada in three volumes, tracing its history from the roots to present day. Through diaries, letters, classified documents, and the regimental archive, he weaves the strands of a complex story into an epic narrative.

Canada and the great war

Canada and the Great War explores the military and socio-cultural history of World War I, adding new dimensions not only to the history of Canadas role in the war but to the wars role in shaping Canada.

Reclaiming indigenous planning

How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming community planning practices and ideologies.

The dominion bureau of statistics

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics, precursor to Statistics Canada, was founded in 1918 as a centralized national agency to replace the piecemeal arrangements that had developed over time and were no longer capable of satisfying twentieth-century statistical needs. David Worton traces the Bureau's...