Dominion lands policy

First published in 1938, this work is important for an understanding of the settlement of the three prairie provinces and of the implementation of the National Policy initiated by Sir John A. Macdonald.

Animal as machine

Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. A remarkable story of the larger-than-life personalities and historical episodes that marked ...

Women, work, and the french state

In France, during the 1880s and 1890s, the protection of women and girls in the workplace was advocated by sociologists, social economists, union leaders, enlightened industrialists, and politicians of virtually every ideological hue. In response, laws were enacted restricting not only the number...

English immigrant voices

Emigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee were part of a wave of rural workers in the 1830s whose immigration to Upper Canada was sponsored by English parishes and landlords. Their letters written or dictated to family and friends, leave us a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experi...

Fertility and family planning in a canadian metropolis

Rhodes and rhodesia

This volume deals with the conquest and colonization of Zimbabwe and the establishment of Southern Rhodesia, from the beginnings of British involvement in Bechuanaland to the death of Cecil Rhodes. Its emphasis is on the white invaders and its chief concern is white individuals, their motives, ac...

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Full moon of afraid and craving

Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, this collection explores the combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Melanie Power’s poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters – a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle’s hooch – tracing the...

Sun in winter

In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war. While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. Sun in Winter captures her keen interest in life in Canada and draws...

The outbreak of the irish rebellion of 1641

The Irish rebellion of 1641 had a profound effect not only on the history of Ireland but also on that of England and Scotland. Perceval-Maxwell reviews conditions in Ireland and relations with England and Scotland in the period preceding the rebellion and

Chora 7

A diverse collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.

Some dance

Some Dance is a meditation on stories, the intersection of stories, of things made up, of things imagined, and of things perhaps lived.

Nationalism from the margins

In Nationalism from the Margins Patricia Wood offers a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian migration to Alberta and British Columbia Wood documents a mul

Power and subsistence

A lively exploration of the nature of power in New France, as enacted within the grain economy.

Taking sex into account

Architecture as communication

Ross Eaman explores how the built environment, including but not restricted to architecture, functions as a medium of communication.

Regional mobility and resource development in west africa

Canadian health care and the state

Canada's state-funded health care system is in trouble, and fundamental questions are being raised about the connection between medicine and the public sector. This collection of historical essays explores diverse aspects of medical care and ideology in their relation to the Canadian state and to...

Peter m. pringle, master decoy maker

Through almost 180 colour and 65 historical black and white photographs, William Reeve chronicles Peter Pringle's life and achievements, showing why his decoys are celebrated, tracing their fate after his death in 1953, and establishing Pringle firmly as one of the greatest practitioners of his c...

Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the british atlantic world, 1770-1850

Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depiction ...

Green-lite

An in-depth study of Canadian environmental policy.

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

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

A selection of modern italian poetry in translation

What was Italian poetry like in the years of historical, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual change between the 1860s and the Unification of Italy and the 1960s? In A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation Roberta Payne provides a bilingual collection of ninety-two poems by thirty-f...

Singular creatures

In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the f...

Mirrors of a generation

Mirrors of a Generation tells the story of the Company of Young Canadians. Created by the federal government in 1965, it was dedicated to promoting community-based social justice initiatives across the country until its closure in 1976.

Canada's jews

Louis Rosenberg's Canada's Jews is a pioneering study of the demographic, sociological, cultural, and economic dimensions of Canadian Jewish life in the 1930s. It provides a comprehensive portrait of a community struggling with the insecurities of recent

Men at play

After a year spent documenting the working life and daily routines of players for an American Hockey League team, Michael Robidoux found that most peoples' perceptions of hockey players' lives as romantic and glamorized are unrealistic. The majority of professional hockey players work in a closed...

Refugee sandwich

Although more than thirty thousand refugee claims are decided in Canada every year, the personal stories behind them are never heard by the Canadian public. Peter Showler exposes the dilemmas and choices faced by participants in the refugee determination process in this collection of thirteen vig...

Religion in life at louisbourg, 1713-1758

AJ.B. Johnston establishes the secular and religious contexts of life in Louisbourg, and then traces the mixed fortunes of the three religious groups that served the French stronghold of Louisbourg during the eighteenth century.

The career of toleration

John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration is one of the canonical English-language texts in the history of the idea of toleration. Its publication in 1689 sparked a heated debate with Anglican cleric Jonas Proast, and in recent years the Locke-Proast cont

Search for the unknown

Beginning in the 1950s, alleged UFO sightings sparked tension between the Canadian government and its citizens. The public demanded investigation and disclosure while the state appeared unconcerned. In Search for the Unknown Matthew Hayes presents the first comprehensive history of UFO investigat...

Hurrah revolutionaries

An in-depth analysis of the history, culture, and politics of Polish Canadian radicals and Communists.

Harpoon of the hunter

Harpoon of the Hunter is the widely acclaimed story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a treacherous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Markoosie describes life in the Canadian Arctic before the ar...

Haldane

A new biography of a towering figure in twentieth-century British and Canadian politics, revealing his relevance for our contemporary crises.

Iranian civilization and culture

I can only paint

For Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. This book recovers a body of work that stands as a unique and enduring portrait of the effects of the Great War.

O.d. skelton

A pioneering analysis of Skelton's passionate foreign policy career.

No balm in gilead

This book is a rare personal record by a Canadian of the last fifteen years of the British mandate in Palestine. Gelber writes about her experiences as a young Jewish woman during the birth of Israel, and without attributing blame, describes worsening tensions among the factions involved.

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Religion, truth, and social transformation

A lucid introduction to a living philosophical tradition and a creative contribution to change-oriented scholarship.

The labrador memoir of dr harry paddon, 1912-1938

Dr Harry Paddon's memoir is an extensive account of life in Labrador prior to its entry into Confederation. As the Grenfell Mission's principal physician for over twenty-five years, Dr Paddon travelled extensively throughout Labrador by both dog team and boat. Through his journals he fashions a p...

The once and future great lakes country

A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

Illegitimate justice

Drawing from extensive primary research in Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kenya, Izabela Steflja shows that the stories locals tell about international courts differ radically from those told by the international community.

Great britain's woodyard