The buried astrolabe

A critical introduction to contemporary Canadian playwriting.

The new world order

The New World Order seeks to reveal the reality and limitations of "the New World Order," the term U.S. President George Bush Sr used to describe the emerging political reality. Since the early 1990s there has been a fundamental but covert shift in the value system of world politics. The post–Wor...

Landscapes of injustice

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold.The d...

Stauffenberg, second edition

Walter gordon and the rise of canadian nationalism

From the 1950s to the 1970s Walter Gordon was the voice of English Canadian nationalism, first as chair of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, then as a minister in Lester B. Pearson's cabinet, and finally as founder and honorary chair of the Committee for an Independent Canada. ...

Population control

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this v...

Violence and militants

The first comprehensive analysis of the use of violence by militant groups across time and space.

A two-edged sword

An examination of the Royal Canadian Navy and its promotion of sovereignty through collective defence.

Cities of drugs

The first sustained historical study of global ports and urban crossroads, and their long-overlooked relationship to modern drugs, this volume explores how twelve cities both shaped and were reshaped by the global drug trade.

Skellig

Rule-following and meaning

A selection of readings on a central topic in contemporary philosophy of language, mind, and metaphysics.

Ulster's men

Heroism, propaganda, unionism, and violence in Ireland during the Great War.

La création de l'école de médecine du nord de l'ontario

Addressing the rural health workforce shortage through distributed community engaged medical education - the story of Canada's first new medical school for the twenty-first century.

Canada's greatest wartime muddle

In this exhaustively researched and carefully documented account, Michael Stevenson argues that National Selective Service (NSS) - the agency responsible for controlling the nation's military and civilian mobilization apparatus - failed in its attempts to regulate Canadian society. He challenges ...

The national gallery of canada

In this first critical history of the National Gallery of Canada, Douglas Ord explores how, in the gallery's development, art has consistently been linked to notions of religious truth, national spirit, and hallowed atmosphere, culminating in Moshe Safdie's design for the institution's current bu...

Authors and audiences

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr ch...

Stephen leacock

Gerald Lynch offers new insights into the work of a popular Canadian humourist in Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity. He considers Leacock's satire to be the result of a combination of two traditions - toryism and humanism - and examines the relation between Leacock's theory of humour and his v...

War memories

Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.

In defence of open-mindedness

William Hare believes that open-mindedness - the disposition to form a belief, and if necessary to revise or reject it, in the light of available evidence and arguement - stands in need of a defence because it is under widespread attack. In this sequel to his highly regarded Open-mindedness and E...

Canada

Donald J. Savoie asserts that Canada continues to thrive because Canadians and their political leaders have been able to work around shortcomings in the country’s political institutions. These shortcomings have pushed political leaders to find solutions outside institutions to meet Canada s polit...

Apparition fever

Apparition Fever examines a series of Marian apparitions that swept over Belgium in the 1930s and ’40s, tracing how knowledge of the apparitions was formed among bystanders, medical experts, and church authorities as they decided if the visionaries were worthy of belief.

Fous, prodigues et ivrognes

Vivre avec un individu alcoolique, dérangé dans son esprit ou dépensier à l’excès pouvait s’avérer désastreux pour les familles montréalaises forcées de s’adapter aux exigences et aux risques du capitalisme industriel. Craignant de perdre leur statut social et leur respectabilité, plusieurs d’ent...

The social history of ideas in quebec, 1760-1896

The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

The pause

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of be...

Becoming bamboo

The many problems we face in today's world -- among them war, environmental destruction, religious and racial intolerance, and inappropriate technologies -- demand that we carefully re-evaluate such issues as our relation to the environment, the nature of progress, ultimate purposes, and human va...

Anxiety and depression

In first gear

The secrets of a vatican cardinal

A first-hand account of the Eternal City in wartime Italy from within the Vatican's inner circle.

Educating the neglected majority

A history of the heroic and sometimes abortive efforts to provide education for farmers and tradespeople in Victorian central Canada.

Toward the charter

At the end of the Second World War, a growing concern that Canadians' civil liberties were not adequately protected, coupled with the international revival of the concept of universal human rights, led to a long public campaign to adopt a national bill of rights. While these initial efforts had b...

From bourassa to bourassa, second edition

The story of the Quebec Liberal Party during its wilderness years between the 1976 election of the Parti Québécois and its return to power in 1985.

Interpreting modernity

There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our understanding of action, language, and mind, and he has had a lasting impact on our understanding of the way in which the social sciences should be practise...

Critical humanism and the politics of difference

The most influential theories of oppression have argued that belief in the existence of a shared human essence or nature is ultimately responsible for the injustices suffered by women, First Nations peoples, blacks, gays and lesbians, and colonised people and have insisted that struggles against ...

Giuliano de' medici

Unfairly maligned for over five centuries, Giuliano de’Medici at last receives his first major and sustained biography.

The transcultural streams of chinese canadian identities

Investigating the conditions that shape Chinese Canadian identities from various historical, social, and literary perspectives.

A single nation

A narrative history of Angola’s first fifty years of nationhood, integrating the development of its major modern prose writers, this work charts the challenges authors faced as they imagined a national literature after independence.

Ink and light

A bridge between the recognized and accepted truths of Claude Lorrain's art and his lesser known, yet equally masterful, graphic works.

Cultural ecology

The newfoundland national convention, 1946-1948

The history of the Newfoundland National Convention is of key importance for understanding how Newfoundland became a Canadian province in 1949. In 1946 forty-five convention delegates were elected to consider the condition and prospects of Newfoundland and Labrador, and make recommendations to th...

Knowledge

What is it about knowledge that makes us value it more highly than mere true belief? This question lies at the heart of epistemology and has challenged philosophers ever since it was first posed by Plato. By examining the historical and contemporary answers, Michael Welbourne provides an excellen...

Refereeing identity

What "national pastime" novels tell us about our country.

Social and political bonds

Profound analysis of potential ways to better balance governmental power and the freedom of the people.

Montreal after dark

Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisure and consumption, were reorganized to suit the desires of politicians who envisioned Montrea...

Race and racism

According to reliable forecasts, by the year 2016 visible minorities will comprise 20 per cent of the Canadian population; the proportion of people of colour to whites is already higher than that in some metropolitan centres. At a time when governments across Canada are seeking information and gu...