Life through a lens

In Life through a Lens Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999) describes his pioneering, globe-trotting career in the motion picture industry, from the silent stages of early Hollywood to dramatic locations on every continent. Edited by his daughter, Anita Borradaile Hadley, Life through a Lens spans the c...

The waning of the green

Most historical accounts of the Irish Catholic community in Toronto describe it as a poor underclass of society, ghettoized by the largely British, Protestant population and characterized by the sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics that ea

The fate of canada

The Fate of Canada introduces readers to poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, activist and law professor F.R. Scott’s biography, puts his diary entries into the political context of the time, and identifies the people he met and the places he visited during the hearings of the Royal Commiss...

Urdu for children, book ii, 3 book set, part one

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

The work of words

Susanna Moodie has long been acknowledged as a key figure in pre-Confederation Canadian literature but most of her work has been overlooked or ignored by scholars and readers. The Work of Words not only provides the first comprehensive examination of the whole of Moodie's writing but also revolut...

Governance, conflict, and natural resources in africa

Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa puts forward a novel framework for understanding the role of private economic actors in extractive industries in Africa and sheds new light on foreign private-sector contributions to capacity building and economic development.

Our rural selves

Painting a picture of childhood and memory in rural Canada.

Fernand dumont

The innovative theological thought of a sociologist and public intellectual who turned to theology late in his life.

Au risque de la conversion

A pioneering study of twentieth-century Quebec missionary work as an experience of intercultural encounter.

First on the antarctic continent

Countering violent extremism and terrorism

How to improve responses to extremism and terrorism while avoiding past mistakes.

The canadian bill of rights

Dialogues on intergovernmental relations in federal systems

Honouring a son of Thunder Bay who helped to recreate Canada - twice.

Unravelling the franklin mystery, second edition

David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition has taken on new importance in light of the recent discovery of the HMS Erebus wreck, the ship Sir John Franklin sailed on during his doomed 1845 quest to find the Northwest Passage to Asia....

Colonialism's currency

A revealing analysis of money and politics in the Canadian colonial project.

A war with a silver lining

On 11 October 1899, Britain was officially at war in South Africa against the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State. While the war was thousands of kilometres away, and Canada's contribution of over 7,000 troops to the imperial cause was relatively small, the war is considered to be one of...

Letters from the grand tour

Nostalgic virility as a cause of war

Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War argues that world leaders react to status decline by going to war, guided by a nostalgic, virile understanding of what it means to be powerful. Consulting newly declassified documents at the highest levels of decision-making, Grandpierron uses the framework of...

Canada: the state of the federation 2015

Renewing and expanding national infrastructure is critical to the wellbeing and productivity of Canadians and is one of the foremost challenges confronting our federal, provincial and municipal governments. Not only are the required investments dauntingly large for all three levels of government,...

Canada, the provinces, and the global nuclear revival

A timely contribution to understanding the policy challenges of relying on nuclear power.

Une mort très digne

Une mort très digne est l'histoire sociale de la mort, de la sépulture et du cimetière Mont-Royal de Montréal. Lieu de grande beauté, le cimetière Mont-Royal a inspiré Henry Law Olmsted lors de la création du parc voisin du Mont-Royal et a joué un rôle notable dans le développement de Montréal. B...

The cross of gold

An intriguing view of the Canadian economy before WWI, this study fills a gap in the existing literature on the economic history of Canada. Using improved monetary statistics, the author explains how the business cycle worked under the gold standard, and takes an in-depth look at the roles the ba...

Carving a niche

The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.

Assassination, politics, and miracles

On 13 February 1820 the Duke of Berry, the only Bourbon prince capable of siring an heir, was assassinated. Seven months later the Duchess of Berry gave birth to a boy, the Duke of Bordeaux, and the Bourbon lineage was saved. The boy was immediately nicknamed "the miracle child." The Duke's assas...

To build a shadowy isle of bliss

A powerful reappraisal of radicalism in the life and work of William Morris.

The syntactic recoverability of null arguments

Recent work in the generative framework of grammar has avoided explicit language-particular syntactic rules. This has had definite consequences for some theories of recoverability. In his solidly argued work, Yves Roberge considers the possibility that empty syntactic argument positions, where th...

Innovation, science, environment 07/08, 2007-2008

The impact of climate change is becoming increasingly obvious around the world but different levels of the Canadian government are failing to respond cohesively. For example, the Harper government immediately cut several liberal-era environmental research programs and admitted that Canada has bee...

Lieutenant owen william steele of the newfoundland regiment

Lieutenant Owen William Steele volunteered for the famed Newfoundland Regiment in late summer 1914. His war diary, begun as he embarked for England, relates the experiences of his regiment: training on Salisbury Plain and in Scotland, baptism of fire at Gallipoli, recuperation in Egypt, and, fina...

How ottawa spends, 2007-2008

The priorities and policies of the Harper conservatives as they confront a climate of change both politically and environmentally.

Euphoria and symposia

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is es...

Callings and consequences

This book explores efforts in early modern Catholicism to encourage young men and women to discern the "state of life" to which they were called, whether clerical, religious, or lay. Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became central to the Catholic Refo...

Urdu for children, book ii, stories and poems, part two

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

The canadian oral history reader

An indispensable collection of state-of-the-art work in oral history by Canadian scholars.

Paradox

An in-depth examination of paradoxes and the philosophical issues they raise.

A great place to raise kids

Popular wisdom and many rural centres make the claim that the country is a great place to raise kids. But is it? Kieran Bonner explores the validity of this assumption by examining the epistemological, political, and ethical issues involved in the claim.

With the world to choose from

The Beatty Lecture (est. 1954) is McGill University’s most anticipated annual event. Offering insight to some of the most significant moments our time, this collection spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades, and provides a historical, behind-the-scenes look at one ...

Critical strategies

Leonard and reva brooks

In 1947 Leonard and Reva Brooks left for Mexico where Leonard planned to study painting for a year. In Mexico they discovered a vibrant, sometimes even dangerous, society and a dynamic artistic community, unlike the mundane world they had left behind in Canada with its stale and unwelcoming artis...

Canada and the global economy

A collection of essays by twenty-three of Canada's leading economic geographers, Canada and the Global Economy is a comprehensive study of the evolving economic and geographic patterns of Canadian development. It provides a benchmark for research on the spatial development of the Canadian economy...

Getting a life

This book recentres our understanding of geek culture, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions, including interviews with ordinary members of the overlapping communities of fans and enthusiasts. Woo offers an accessible introduction to the subculture while exploring...

In vivo

An exploration of the pivotal moments that transform and shape our lives.

Joseph roberts smallwood

There are multiple J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the largely untapped sources of Smallwood's own papers and his extensive journalistic writing to add a documentary basis to what is known or conject...

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