Keeping canada running

In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild...

The writing life

A prolific author's candid and insightful look at leading figures in Canada's cultural landscape.

New media and revolution

Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, this book shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. It interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from hidden practices of digital diss...

Turkey and the armenian ghost

A compelling portrait of the aftermath of the Armenian genocide and the enduring struggle to have it officially recognized.

As affecting the fate of my absent husband

A collection of Lady Franklin's public letters offers a vital new perspective on one of the great tragedies of Victorian Britain.

Innovation, science, environment 06/07, 2006-2007

This first volume in the Innovation, Science, Environment series examines a range of ISE policy priorities, from the broader areas of federal/provincial and city/community involvement in these fields to the international dimensions that influence Canadian politics and governance.

Their benevolent design

Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal a group of conservative, bourgeois women played a significant role by establishing institutions for destitute women and children. Their Benevolent Design explores how gender shaped th...

Just watch us

A remarkable investigation of state spying on women’s liberation during the Cold War.

The measure of the west

Two acclaimed artists and friends provide a unique visual account of the global urban landscape.

Roughing it in the bush or life in canada

Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to

Shall we dance?

A proposal for renewed political dialogue in Canada that would realise the common good by giving a significant place to conversation as a means of reconciling our conflicts.

Political ecumenism

Geoffrey Adams argues that the creation of La France libre and its assumption of power constitute a major turning point in modern French history. Charles de Gaulle was both the representative of a predominantly Catholic France and leader of the republican cause. By attracting key personalities fr...

Continentalizing canadian telecommunications

In Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications Vanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades.

The upper ottawa valley to 1855

This book is the first detailed study of the Ottawa Valley in the early 19th century. The author provides an extensive introduction and numerous documents to trace the growth of this sometimes turbulent region, and its emergence as a society distinct from what later became Ontario.

The forgotten labrador

An intimate look at the lifestyle, living conditions, and activities of a people whose lives were shaped by the uncertainties of the seal, salmon, and cod fisheries.

Crisis, challenge and change

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

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

For the love of the game

Exploring the complex issues of class and gender relations, community building, and sport reform, For the Love of the Game analyses how local culture shapes the meanings of sport and examines the tensions that exist when athletes and sports teams become important symbols for the community.

Penal servitude

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study of the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude between 1853 and 1948, detailing the administration and evolution of the system, its creation, the building of the prison estate, and the experiences of prison...

Canada’s residential schools: the history, part 2, 1939 to 2000

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

The royal touch

J.b. collip and the development of medical research in canada

The intriguing life of J.B. Collip, whose restless drive fuelled his pioneering studies in endocrinology and sustained a successful research enterprise through the first half of the twentieth century.

Both hands

The life and times of a landmark creator of Canadian culture.

Canada to ireland

Canada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900. The book demonstrates that Canadian cultural nationalism left its mark on both countries. Contemporary decolonization movements in Canada and cultural exchanges between Irelan...

Civil wars in africa

A collection of case studies of nine African countries, Civil Wars in Africa provides a comparative perspective on the causes of civil war and the processes by which internal conflict may be resolved or averted. The book focuses on the wars in Ethiopia,

Committed to the state asylum

Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane - among the largest and most important nineteenth-century institutions in b...

God, science, and self

Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary conversations about Islam, modernit...

Arvida au saguenay

Founded in 1925, the town of Arvida was established to provide labour for Alcan's plant on the Saguenay River. With the arrival of big business in the rural Quebec countryside, two cultures collided -- the modern industrial culture of English North America and the traditional rural culture of Fre...

Zoo studies

An interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.

To make a difference

A story about building a meaningful life through family, work, and community.

The new rationalism

An engaging and timely rediscovery of an ethic grounded in compassion.

Fiscal federalism in multinational states

Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States brings together scholars of nationalism and federalism in a groundbreaking analysis of the connections between nationalist claims and fiscal debates within plurinational states.

Turbulent empires

An examination of global politics, emphasizing American hegemony and the rise of Asian economies.

Canada and immigration

A touch of fire

The life of a multi-talented colonial woman, hospital administrator, and literary innovator.

The canny scot

A revealing biography of one of twentieth-century Nova Scotia's most prominent religious figures.

Beware the british serpent

During World War II, the United States was the target of what Gore Vidal has called "the largest, most intricate and finally most successful conspiracy directed at it in the twentieth century" - Great Britain's "vast conspiracy to manoeuvre an essentially isolationist country into the war." In Be...

Hijacking history

How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.

Creating the welfare state in france, 1880-1940

In Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940 Timothy Smith argues that although post-World War II politicians have attempted to take credit for the creation of welfare state, the social reform movement in France actually grew out of World War I. Smith shows that French social spending befor...

Work in tumultuous times

This interdisciplinary volume offers a powerful critique of how social structures and relations as well as ideologies shape workplaces, labour markets, and households in contemporary Canada. Contributors dissect recent transformations in work and expose the uncertainty, insecurity, and instabilit...

The interactive documentary in canada

In the 2010s Canada was a world leader in creating interactive documentaries. By the 2020s many of these celebrated i-docs were rendered inaccessible by obsolete technology. This collection examines the short-lived past and the imagined future of the i-doc and emphasizes its impact on the contemp...

Pressing interests

The first extended history of colonial Kenya's press, 1899-1960s.

Urdu for children, book ii, let's write urdu, part two

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

L.m. montgomery and the matter of nature(s)

A critical study of L.M. Montgomery's relationship to the material world and the revealing interconnections between nature and culture.