The criminalization of migration

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and comparative evaluation of the criminalization of migration both within Canada and abroad.

Between composers

Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic growth over six turbulent months, and illuminate their perspectives on the devel...

Literary sisterhoods

Focusing on literary works by Mme de Staël, George Eliot, Anna Banti, Alice Munro, and Grace Paley, Literary Sisterhoods examines how women writers over the past two centuries have represented the challenges of being both a woman and an artist. Deborah Heller explores the untold connections betwe...

Charles clarke, pen and ink warrior

A compelling look at the public and private life of a nineteenth-century radical.

Chinese shadow theatre

Chinese Shadow Theatre documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Fan Pen Li Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral t...

La prairie en nouvelle-france, 1647-1760

La Prairie, under the French régime, was one of the earliest and most populous seigneuries of the Montreal district. Written and published in French, Louis Lavallée's study of peasant society in La Prairie begins in 1647 when the seigneury was conceded to the Jesuits, the most important landowner...

The land of feast and famine

In the late 1920s, a young Norwegian barrister made his way by river boat, canoe, and portage to an area north-east of Great Slave Lake. There, in the Canadian Arctic, he lived as a trapper in the company of native and white trappers and hunters. When he first arrived in the North, people in the ...

The grand regulator

The first full-length study of the historical failure of teacher education in Canada.

The captive of the castle of sennaar

The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar is a utopian novel in two parts. In this scholarly edition, G.E. Bentley, Jr, places George Cumberland's late eighteenth-century work among the earliest historical novels in English and identifies it as a rare example of the "Romantic novel." He shows that whi...

Tortillas and tomatoes

A timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed. Basok argues while Mexican workers do not necessarily constitute cheap labour for Canadian growers, they are vital for the survival of some agricultural sectors as they are always available for work, even on holidays an...

Nuclear family

Jean Van Loon’s father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed to the Manhattan Project. Unbeknownst even to the family, her mother worked for Canada’s Cold War intelligence service. Rooted in memory and history, Loon carries the reader into the sense of impending nuclear doom and th...

Capital cities/les capitales

An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. ...

At the origin of the christian claim

The new revised edition of At the Origin of the Christian Claim presents an intriguing argument that the relationship between a person and God is based not on the person’s search for the mystery but on the mystery making itself known.

When ballet became french

A comprehensive picture of early twentieth-century French culture through the lens of ballet discourse.

Learning outcomes, academic credit, and student mobility

There is increasing interest in the use of learning outcomes in postsecondary education, and deliberations have surfaced with regard to their potential to serve as a tool for advancing credit transfer. This book assesses the conceptual foundations and implications of using learning outcomes.

The journals of yaakov zipper, 1950-1982

Following his death at age eighty-three, it was discovered that for over three decades Yaacov Zipper had kept a journal. Replete with compelling character sketches of many of Montreal's Jewish leaders, most of whom Zipper seems to have disliked, his diary provides a personal account of Montreal's...

The people of glengarry

Marianne McLean explores the relationship between economic changes in the Highlands and the clansmen's emigration to Canada in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She challenges the currently accepted position endorsed in recent works by Eric Richards and J.M. Bumsted that the cle...

From lowbrow to nobrow

From Lobrow to Nobrow demolishes the elite argument that popular fiction and culture are the underside of civilization. In this innovative book, Peter Swirski goes beyond demonstrating that "high-brow" has been transformed to "low-brow," showing that nobrow art is the interactive factor in the re...

Human rights and social technology

In this controversial critical analysis of Canada's anti-discrimination policy, the author addresses doubts

Disciples of antigonish

By charting nearly a century of growth, struggle, and organizing, Disciples of Antigonish chronicles how a small Nova Scotian diocese came to exert tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism, and create one of the most important Catholic social movements in North America.

Empire and ireland

How the liberal imperialist Hamar Greenwood filled his controversial role as chief secretary for Ireland.

Management of the mentally disordered offender in prisons

Possibly no area of human endeavour poses a greater ethical challenge to a free society than the safe control of mentally disordered persons who represent a significant social danger. Managing mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) is a major challenge for the clinician because they have multiple p...

Full of hope and promise

One hundred and fifty years ago, on the 10th of February 1841, Upper and Lower Canada (present day Ontario and Quebec) united to form the Province of Canada. In Full of Hope and Promise, Eric Ross paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the Canadas during this portentous year.

God's peculiar peoples

For the first time, the major essays of distinguished Canadian scholar S.F. Wise are collected in this book. God's Peculiar Peoples will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the political culture of English-speaking Canada and its intellectual history.

At the centre of government

An insider's account of democracy in Canada and its relationship to liberalism, constitutionalism, and good public policy.

Cuthbert grant of grantown

This book examines the Métis settlement of Grantown, the controversial "massacre" of Seven Oaks, the Siouan wars and the Red River settlement's fight for survival.

Damned women

Damned Women charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of lesbians in the French novel. Beginning with the early depictions of lesbians as "decadent monsters" by nineteenth-century male authors such as Diderot, Balzac, and Gautier, Jennifer Waelti-Walters shows how later, l...

Doing community-based research

Guidance on the community-researcher relationship, to support further scholarship and positive community change.

Tinkers and travellers

Prisoners’ bodies

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

The dream of nation, second edition

A synthesis of Quebec history from New France to the first referendum on sovereignty in 1980.

Rags of night in our mouths

Rags of Night in Our Mouths is an exploration of human and environmental states of precarity and vulnerability, and a vibrant hymn to the sustaining forces of wilderness, creativity, and compassion. Margo Wheaton constructs a hallucinatory world of fragility, chaos, and searing natural beauty as ...

Quebec identity

In Quebec Identity Jocelyn Maclure provides a critical reflection on the ways in which Quebec's identity has been articulated since the 1960s' Quiet Revolution. He shows how neither the melancholic nationalism of the Montreal school, Hubert Aquin, Pierre Vallières, Fernand Dumont and their follow...

Winning power

How money and technology are changing Canadian political campaigns.

The last forty year

The patriot poets

Tracing the political wisdom in American poetry, from colonial times to present day.

Justice in paradise

As a newsmaker, Bruce Clark is infamous - not for his discussions of the finer points of the law in relation to Aboriginal rights but for being dragged away by the police at the Native standoff at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia. Now he is challenging the United States' ownership of Liberty Isla...

Dawn of a new feeling

Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating art but contends that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and prevents the viewer from feeling a genu...

The good regiment

The Good Regiment provides an intriguing account of the Carignan-Salières Regiment -- the only seventeenth-century French infantry regiment ever to serve in Canada -- and its activities and presents a critical assessment of the regiment's significance. It greatly enriches our knowledge of sevente...

The little slaves of the harp

During the nineteenth century child musicians could be seen performing in the streets of cities across Europe and North America. Although they came from a number of countries, Italians were most associated with street music. In The Little Slaves of the Harp John Zucchi tells the story of the thou...

Dialogues on constitutional origins, structure, and change in federal countries, vol. 1

An exploration of the origins, structure, and change of twelve federal constitutions.

Archibald lampman

How Archibald Lampman articulated the Canadian response to nature and introduced radical politics into the nation's literary salon.

Principles and gerrymanders

A window on partisan corruption by majority parties in the redistribution of ridings in Ontario.

Keepers of the record

Winner, Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives (2008)