A short history of modern ireland

Thomas attwood

Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), a Birmingham banker, played a prominent role in many of the important controversies in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote and published extensively, appeared as a witness before three Parliamentary committees, held a seat in the House of ...

Alice in shandehland

Why a Jewish jeweller who shot and killed his wife's lover was acquitted after his sensational 1932 murder trial.

Canada’s residential schools: the history, part 1, origins to 1939

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...

Mcmaster meighan history

Insight into the growth of one of Canada's oldest and most respected law firms. It traces the firm from its humble origins as a practice run single-handedly by its founder, William Badgley, to its present status as a corporate law firm with headquarters i

The first public playhouse

Lasting disruption

This first comprehensive cross-sectoral analysis of COVID-19’s impact examines its effects across Canadian society and offers practical recommendations for evidence-based policy in health, education, labour, governance, and equity.

An irish history of civilization, volume 2

History is our true novel, says Roy Foster, Ireland's leading historian. In An Irish History of Civilization, the world's foremost scholar of the Irish diaspora, Don Akenson, fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic narrative of a people and their influence around the globe.

Autonomous weapons systems and international norms

In Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss present an innovative analysis of how testing, developing, and using weapons systems with autonomous features shapes ethical and legal norms, arguing that they have already established standards for what counts ...

Between raid and rebellion

A comparative study of Irish communities in a Canadian and an American city.

Republicanism and responsible government

An exploration of the radical ideas and violent struggles that shaped colonial Australia and Canada.

Passage to promise land

How the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.

Pitseolak: pictures out of my life, second edition

Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings and prints, Pitseolak makes what Inuit call "the old way" come alive, reflecting on life on the land, its pleasure and...

Gabor szilasi

Recueil de documents originaux et spontanés de Gabor Szilasi portant sur vingt ans de vernissages à Montréal.

Photogenic montreal

Photographic objects are embedded in urban contestation, aesthetically charged by artists, reinserted into social histories, and mobilized to imagine a future city. Photogenic Montreal takes a question initially posed by heritage debates – what does photography preserve? – and creates a rich conv...

Creating societies

The birth of Canada as a society and a nation has often been told from the narrow perspective of the "founding nations." These versions have left little room for the everyday experiences of a wide variety of individual immigrants who have had to adjust

The lonely cold war of pope pius xii

The first detailed study of the international role of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in the shaping of post-1945 Europe and the origins of the Cold War.

The road to nunavut

In The Road to Nunavut, R. Quinn Duffy analyses federal government policy on the social and economic growth of the Inuit. Duffy describes the economic, social, and political changes in the Eastern Arctic and provides the historical background to the current debate on Inuit land claims and politic...

Seeing politics

Pushing the boundaries of how we do research, how we communicate research, and what counts as scholarship in world politics.

Canada among nations, 1996

Canada is a relatively small player on the world scene, but is still big enough to be heard. The theme of this year's volume of Canada Among Nations is the need for choices in Canadian foreign policy. In an environment of fiscal constraint, the necessity of choice is related to establishing prior...

Desire change

Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, examining works that respond to themes of diversity and desire. Historians, artists, and curators cover a range of artistic practices including performanc...

Making public transport work

An examination of urban and intercity transport, looking at the changes that need to be made to give transit renewed life.

Canada as statebuilder?

In Canada as Statebuilder? Laura Grant and Benjamin Zyla analyze over one hundred and thirty Canadian-led development projects in Afghanistan to illustrate that Canada has limited capacity to effectively run humanitarian efforts in unstable, insecure, or inaccessible environments. Reflecting on C...

Under conrad's eyes

An innovative account of Joseph Conrad's engagement with nineteenth-century thought.

Canadian culinary imaginations

An exploration of food-focused art, literature, and culture and how they generate and disrupt discourses around Canadian nationhood and politics.

Fatal glamour

A detailed account of the trajectory of Rupert Brooke’s life and the workings of his psychology.

Seized by uncertainty

Seized by Uncertainty explores Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the various contexts – psychological, social, legal, administrative, and economic – in which it emerged, exposing how it revealed uncomfortable truths about a fragmented society and governance problems that long pre...

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

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

Documentary television in canada

Since the inception of Canadian television in the early 1950s, documentary television, consistently a favourite among viewers, has been misunderstood and often maligned by its critics. More popular, and arguably more innovative, than its cinematic counterpart or than dramatic Canadian television,...

Detained

How Canadians were targeted after 9/11 in the US-led War on Terror.

Canada’s residential schools: the inuit and northern experience

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...

Out here

Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn’s quarterly reports from St John’s to London are an insider’s account of events in Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946. Publishing Walwyn’s reports in full, Out Here recalls in vivid detail public life in Newfoundland immediately before the country’s 1949 union with Canada.

The balance of power

Growing to one world

An illuminating look at the life and work of the man F.R. Scott called "the most Canadian of us all."

Externalism

An examination of the view that mental states and processes are essentially dependent on the world for their nature and contents.

Seeking new horizons

Geography is often introduced to schoolchildren by having them look at maps as formal, conventional objects rather than as tools for analysing and communicating ideas about geographic relationships. But how effective is this? Recent research in cartographic communication and map perception sugges...

Conquest and survival in colonial guatemala, fourth edition

A landmark contribution to research on Mesoamerica, updated and expanded.

Kingdom of barracks

Kingdom of Barracks depicts the texture of everyday life in refugee camps in postwar Europe. Taking a bottom-up perspective, Katarzyna Nowak examines the experiences of Polish Displaced Persons in the shadow of the mounting Cold War and explores the formation of cultural identity in exile through...

A history of the austrian migration to canada

Canadians of Austrian origin have helped define the Canadian cultural mosaic of the 20th century, making important contributions to their adopted home in virtually every field - from cultural and intellectual to scientific and commercial. Yet they seldom appear as a definable group in the Canadia...

Social resilience and the urban migrant experience

Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the transformative capacities of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.

Reproductive acts

A thought-provoking exploration of how fiction and film can provide ways of understanding reproductive politics.

An irish history of civilization, volume 1

History is our true novel, says Roy Foster, Ireland's leading historian. In An Irish History of Civilization, the world's foremost scholar of the Irish diaspora, Don Akenson, fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic narrative of a people and their influence around the globe.

Image-building in canadian municipalities

How cities use image-building to define themselves to the world.

Canadian justice, indigenous injustice

In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociol...