Canada among nations, 1993-94

This year's volume of Canada Among Nations addresses the following key issues: Canada's role in international peacekeeping The aftermath of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Sustainable Development Canada and the Pacific International migration and refugees International securi...

Canadian universities in china’s transformation

How Canada contributed to China’s remarkable transformation through university partnerships and knowledge diplomacy.

The road to egdon heath

Many people spend considerable sums of money on arduous trekking holidays in frozen wastelands or through scorched deserts. These places, which would once have been considered cursed and avoided at all cost, are now sought out or seen as the epitome of a

Human rights in canadian foreign policy

Concern for international human rights is well entrenched in the rhetoric of Canadian foreign relations. This book is one of the first comprehensive efforts to present, assess, and explain the actual effect which this concern has had on Canada's foreign policy.

The higgs years

Drawing on original data from the Polimeter, a non-partisan tool that measures whether politicians keep the promises they make, contributors assess Blaine Higgs and his Progressive Conservative Party’s record in New Brunswick.

The greater glory

Stephen Casey was twenty-one when he entered the Jesuit Order in Canada in 1947. The striving for Christian perfection eventually led him to depression and a complete breakdown - he almost lost his ability to speak. After thirty-seven years as a Jesuit he left the priesthood.

Aboriginal music in contemporary canada

Contemporary Aboriginal music from powwow to hip hop, the people that make it, and the issues that shape it.

Materialist ethics and life-value

A timely re-thinking of "the good life" that reveals its grounds in human life-requirements and identifies key social threats to happiness.

À la recherche d'expo 67

Retour sur Expo 67 avec des artistes et des chercheurs contemporains.

A bibliography of the writings of henry e. sigerist

Stages and playgoers

Stages and Playgoers demonstrates the long, vital tradition of dialogue between stage and audience from medieval, through Tudor, to Jacobean drama. Janet Hill offers new insights into techniques of addressing playgoers from the stage and how they might have operated under particular staging condi...

Fearful asymmetry

The history of research into the function of the brain and language in nineteenth-century France.

Norwegian resistance, 1940-1945

Kierkegaard as humanist

Arnold Come draws on Kierkegaard's major works, journals, and papers to reveal the humanist dimensions of his thought, highlighting the importance of the self as the central theme of all his writings.

Contesting the moral high ground

How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

René lévesque and the parti québécois in power, second edition

Nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec history. Graham Fraser paints a vivid portrait of one o

A new lease on life

A New Lease on Life is a study of two sets of individuals - landlords and tenants - whose aspirations, opportunities, and destinies spanned the Atlantic. In this richly detailed history of migration and adaptation in the nineteenth century, Catharine Wi

Valparaíso school

The School of Architecture at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile, underwent a transformation in 1952 when a group of young architects led by Alberto Cruz began teaching at the school.

Shouting, embracing, and dancing with ecstasy

An impressive study of the important role common people play in reviving faith.

Reimagining illness

Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women’s accoun...

Le canada

Donald J. Savoie avance que le Canada continue à prospérer parce que les Canadien.ne.s et leurs leaders politiques ont su contourner les défauts des institutions politiques du pays. Ces défauts ont poussé les leaders politiques à trouver des solutions à l’extérieur des institutions pour répondre ...

In translation

An homage to Canada's pre-eminent literary translator and a tribute to the connections created through translation.

Laurier and a liberal quebec

Putin kitsch in america

How the image of Russian president Vladimir Putin permeates contemporary American material, political, and digital culture.

Flexible faces

Flexible Faces traces the long history of facial recognition. It argues that the significance of current facial recognition technologies is not technical prowess but the sustained desire to render all subjects legible to the state.

Experience and identity

Enabling engagements

An insightful reading of Edmund Spenser, demonstrating his poetic and political stance through his engagements with patrons.

Nuclear fallacies

The world changed irrevocably after Hiroshima, in ways we are only now beginning to understand. Our perceptions of life have been dramatically altered. The polemics of various factions around the nuclear issue often serve only to obscure further the realities of life in the nuclear age.

Mediated associations

Mediated Associations builds upon current debates over the relationship between society and the cinema, and extends the critical dialogue that has been emerging between cinematic concepts and methods of social analysis. Drawing from a broad range of philosophical, sociological, cultural, media, a...

The shifting terrain

Why nonprofit sector advocacy persists in Canada, despite the ongoing threat of regulation.

The form of politics

A study of Aristotle’s and Plato’s interpretations of friendship and their significance for political life.

From liberal to labour with women's suffrage

Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major su...

Newton's dream

In 1687, Isaac Newton published "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" (the "Principia") a work which represents the greatest single advance in the history of science and human thought. In 1987, Queen's University, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Royal Society of Canada spon...

The illegitimate age

Through an analysis of the katechon myth – a withholding power that contains the very evil it restrains – The Illegitimate Age reveals an aesthetic lens through which to interpret the legitimacy of political power, the appeal of populism, and the role of the image in current society.

Wet apples, white blood

In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the baby's demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.

Populism and ethnicity

A groundbreaking interpretation of Juan Perón's regime that challenges assumptions of fascism and antisemitism.

Constitutional dynamics in federal systems

How sub-national constitutions influence constitutional change and adaptation in federations.

Where to from here?

The importance of universal healthcare in Canada and possible areas for improvement.

Wrestling with life

A story of survival and renewal from Auschwitz to success in sport and business.

Chemotaxonomy of flowering plants

Problems and prospects of economic integration in west africa

Wives and mothers, school mistresses and scullery maids

Arguing that the role of Upper Canadian women in the overall economy of the early colonial period has been greatly undervalued by contemporary historians. Jane Errington illustrates how the work they did, particularly as wives and mothers, played a significant role in the development of the colony.

The enigma of perception

An innovative exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the principle on which that theory depends.

Centring the periphery

Patrick Baker's post-modern approach uses ideas from chaos theory and world systems theory to interpret the prehistory and history of Dominica. During its prehistory Dominica served as an occasional stepping-stone for small-scale, independent foraging and horticultural peoples migrating up the An...