Cryptomimesis

In the last thirty years the living-dead, the revenant, the phantom, and the crypt have appeared with increasing frequency in Jacques Derrida's writings and, for the most part, have gone unaddressed. In Cryptomimesis Jodey Castricano examines the intersection between Derrida's writing and the Got...

The making of modern poetry in canada

A collection of important literary documents that show how modernism developed in Canada.

From big bang to big data

Beyond newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is shared, from antique graffiti to playlists on Spotify. Cultures are held together as much by bookkeeping and records as they are by stories and myths. From Big Bang to Big Data shows how every soci...

James's will-to-believe doctrine

In 1896 William James published an essay entitled The Will to Believe, in which he defended the legitimacy of religious faith against the attacks of such champions of scientific method as W.K. Clifford and Thomas Huxley. James's work quickly became one of the most important writings in the philos...

Jean de grandpré

Beginning as Bell Canada’s general counsel in 1966, Jean de Grandpré rose through the ranks and became president in 1973. A few years later he created Bell Canada Enterprises, one of America’s largest telecommunications companies. Offering insight into the secrets of his success, Jean de Grandpré...

Arctic artist

Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first expedition to the Arctic. George Back's prose captures the drama of the journey, while his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Published for the first time, thi...

Rewriting germany from the margins

The "margins" in Petra Fachinger's work are occupied largely by second-generation migrant writers from Spain, Italy, and Turkey, German Jewish writers of diverse ethnic origins, and writers born in the GDR. She demonstrates that during the 1980s and 1990s writers from various cultural backgrounds...

The swan of the well by titia brongersma

Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the brilliant seventeenth-century Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first complete English translation of the work.

The archaeology of bruce trigger

The life and work of a renowned archaeologist.

City-regions in prospect?

Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region.

The yearbook of symbolic anthropology

Slow war

remember your body again / how cedar smells of god / and a Bach cantata / makes you almost / forgive / your hands.

The once and future canadian democracy

In The Once and Future Canadian Democracy Janet Ajzenstat debunks conventional wisdom about Canadian political identity and history. She shows that linking Canadian identity to an ideology that favours the common good over individual interests and counts on big government to achieve it is strangl...

Rent boys

Rent Boys paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, Michel Dorais analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. He insigh...

British regulars in montreal

Kleist's aristocratic heritage and das käthchen von heilbronn

William Reeve provides a detailed textual analysis of Heinrich von Kleist's drama Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, demonstrating that Kleist drew its poetic images, themes, and general atmosphere from the Prussian aristocratic class into which he had been born. Reeve's comprehensive re-reading of Käth...

Contemplation and incarnation

Marie-Dominique Chenu was a key figure in the re-vitalization of theology and renewal of the Church that culminated in the Second Vatican Council. He successfully combined a return to the medieval sources of theological reflection with a new sensitivity t

A neighborhood politics of last resort

The fragility of social justice and democracy within place-based movements.

In a new light

In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. Together these essays deepe...

Chora 6

Thirteen diverse essays in Chora 6 reconsider cultural and historical roots of architecture and explore contemporary venues for architectural action.

My life at the bar and beyond

Alex Paterson grew up in Montreal during the Duplessis era and watched the Quiet Revolution transform Quebec from a deeply religious and almost agrarian society into a modern and secular state. From the 1980 referendum to the Oka crisis, he played a critical role in the defining events of Quebec'...

Being neighbours

Drawing on the writing of over one hundred diarists, this book takes us into the heart of informal neighbourhood labour exchanges known as “bees” and the context of farm families’ daily lives in Southern Ontario. It sheds light on the workways of rural people and on how neighbouring was a dynamic...

The philosophy of gesture

A revolutionary pragmatist account of creativity and synthetic reasoning that relies upon gesture, an action that carries on meaning.

Family ties

How Victorian house museums anchor and transmit mythic interpretations of the past.

The precarious lives of syrians

The Precarious Lives of Syrians reveals the vulnerability and insecurity that Syrian refugees confront in Turkey, including their socio-legal status, living conditions, and mobility. Drawing on legal and scholarly materials, as well as extensive field research, it provides a thoughtful and compel...

A culture of faith

A comprehensive overview of evangelical Protestant congregations in Canada.

Unravelling the franklin mystery

David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition boldly challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster,

The minds of the moderns

Stefansson and the canadian arctic

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) was Canada's greatest modern arctic explorer, theorist, writer, and pioneer ethnologist. For the first quarter of the twentieth century his ideas captured the imagination of Canadians and gave them a sense of Canada's northern destiny. However, by the mid-1920s h...

Kant on history and religion

Leviathan transformed

Leviathan Transformed is based on the premise that a national state is a particular type of organization and, at any given time and like any other organization, its performance can be evaluated with reasonable objectivity. The authors, an international team of eminent social scientists, examine t...

Unbuttoned

How Canadians reimagined what a politician should be.

From the battlefield to the stage

Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga in 1777, General John Burgoyne led a multidimensional life. From the Battlefield to the Stage remembers him as not only a participant in one of Britain’s worst military disasters but also a brave soldier, successful playwrig...

Stage-bound

Since the 1990s many of Canada's best-known filmmakers, such as Denys Arcand, John Greyson and Robert Lepage, have looked to the stage for inspiration. While feature-film adaptations of Canadian plays have become increasingly common, the practice of turning drama into film began in Canada in 1942...

Ireland, a bicycle, and a tin whistle

Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open space...

Scripture, skepticism, and the character of god

The intersection of the Bible, the morality of God, and the crisis of faith in Victorian England.

Women, work, and place

The experiences of working women are explored in Women, Work, and Place. Tied together by the conceptual theme "place matters," the essays emphasize the social, cultural, economic, historical, and geographical contexts in which women work, and the effect of specific conditions on women's experien...

British trade unions and the problem of change

Foreign practices

Charting the fascinating history of physician immigration to Canada, and the ethical debates it provoked, Foreign Practices places the Canadian experience within a wider context of global migration after the Second World War.

New england and the maritime provinces

New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In New England and the Maritime Provinces leading scholars examine this important relationship through analysis of themes common to both regions and show the effects of the evolution of the region from a borderland with ...

Don't tell, first edition

Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence - and yet this abuse remains a taboo subject, even among victims. In Don't Tell, Michel Dorais gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive analysis of their traumas and self-questioning, and offering s...

New leaders, new dawns?

In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised...

Censored

A provocative history of literary censorship uncovers the limits of free speech in the United Kingdom and the United States.

A sovereign idea

Bringing together the best of Reg Whitaker's essays on democracy, federalism, and the state, A Sovereign Idea will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rise of the idea of democracy in Canada. The essays, each in its own way, are an attempt to discover how a more democratic Canada ca...