Changing canada

Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience, and creative resistance.

Waterglass

Waterglass is wishful thinking. The word won't be found in the dictionary, nor will you come across the thing itself in any shop of curios. But there it rests, nonetheless, as an imagined possibility, among and between the lines of Jeffery Donaldson's second collection of verse.

Getting it done

Whether it was organizing Canada's first G-7 Summit or concluding the Free Trade agreement, Derek Burney fused politics, public policy, and diplomacy into a fine art. His tenure as chief of staff to Brian Mulroney is often cited as a model of how the Prime Minister's Office should work. As Canada...

The anatomy of scottish capital

Lives and landscapes

In the late 1940s Elmer Harp, a young PhD candidate at Harvard, began the first of five summers of exploration along the coast of the Strait of Belle Isle.

Art and politics

Depicting the fortunes of the arts in Canada through the prism of the National Arts Centre.

Unbound

Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst ...

Canadian odyssey

An engaging, critical study of Hugh Hood's ambitious twelve-volume novel-series.

Canada in nato, 1949–2019

Canada in NATO, 1949-2019 provides the first analysis of Canada’s involvement and military engagement in NATO, from initial negotiations in 1949 to the alliance’s seventieth anniversary. The book sheds light on how NATO profoundly shaped Canadian defence and foreign policy and served vital Canadi...

From power sharing to democracy

Post-conflict societies invariably experience great difficulty in making their new democratic power-sharing institutions work. In Northern Ireland, the system for power sharing prescribed in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has repeatedly broken down. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the system prescribed u...

Remedicalizing cannabis

Remedicalizing Cannabis discovers the historical ins and outs of cannabis as a botanical product with medical applications. Addressing questions about patient access, the effectiveness of international drug control systems, and the role of expert advice, it reveals how we have arrived at the curr...

Hook

Poems based on witnessed and lived experience that bridge literary and activist worlds.

First man west

Law, life, and government at red river, volume 2

A new view of frontier justice in western Canada’s first major settlement through the eyes of its courts and witnesses.

The writings of david thompson, volume 2

A compelling tale of exploration, encounter, and commerce, from the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River.

Voice of the vanishing minority

At the turn of the century Robert Sellar, editor of the Huntingdon Gleaner in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, was the most-quoted rural newspaperman in Canada. His controversial opinions on Confederation, national policy, and especially French-Canadian nationalism sparked debate across Canada an...

Tenants in time

Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered but tenancy was of vital importance.

Canada, the commonwealth and the common market

The holy fool

J.M.R. Lenz is remembered as the most creative and original of Goethe's Strasbourg friends and, because of failures in his personal life, as a figure of pathos. The son of a Lutheran pastor who received a theological education at the university of Koenigsberg, Lenz was a religious thinker who saw...

The one recipe recipe book

So, who are you? A poet, musician, painter, sculptor, dancer, actor, a singer, or one of the many striving in the cultural sweatshop? Like most slaves to the Muse you are probably cash-poor, but you need a clear head and healthy body to be an artist. Well ... you can do it on $15 a week. Here is ...

A great duty

In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. He looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, an...

Risk, science, and politics

Government regulation of toxic substances in Canada and the United States is examined and compared in Risk, Science, and Politics. Kathryn Harrison and George Hoberg report dramatically different approaches to regulatory science in the two countries.

Reconfiguring the museum

A case study of an app designed for the Museum of London (UK) and remade for the McCord Museum (Canada), Reconfiguring the Museum offers a detailed account of digital exhibitionary practices and their politics and offers practical considerations for practitioners charged with creating digital exh...

Red travellers

Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. Andrée Lévesque's powerful account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential role women played in the movement. Lévesque also shows that, despite some efforts to construct ...

Why dissent matters

An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.

Islamic interpretive tradition and gender justice

A timely critique of the entrenchment of tradition in Islam, with solutions to recover the religion's dynamism.

Steeped in blood

An excoriation of bio-essentialism, this book turns conventional wisdom about adoption, identity, and biological family on its head.

Getting it right

The federal government established the Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE) in 1969 and, four years later, released it from the traditional Ottawa-based departmental mould when it initiated a bold new decentralized approach to DREE's operations. DREE was dissolved in 1982 and replaced...

Monck, letters and journals, 1863-1868

Chess pieces

But never underestimate the powers of the pawn who can promote into a queen and put a kingdom on, or moving humbly up the board, killing on the side, outpriest the priest, and leave the knight without a horse to ride, and trip the elevated rook to bring it crashing down, and nudge the misanthropi...

Cultures of citizenship in post-war canada, 1940 - 1955

Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955 argues that we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its considerable cultural and ideological diversity. The authors explore the quest for cultural reconstruction; the emergence of new definitions of elitism, mass culture, and t...

Demon rum or easy money

Critical reflection

An introductory textbook on critical thinking full of real-life examples and exercises from contemporary sources.

Autobiography of a garden

Autobiography of a Garden details how Patterson Webster, a neophyte gardener, moved from copying the ideas of other people, to learning from them, to striking out on her own. Beautifully photographed and full of inspirational ways of thinking about gardens and gardening, this unique memoir blends...

The changing social geography of canadian cities

The contributors to this volume demonstrate the richness and diversity of the social landscapes and communities in Canadian urban centres, emphasizing changes which occurred in the period from the mid 1960s to the early 1990s. The nineteen non-technical and integrative essays include reviews of t...

A fragile social fabric?

While conventional assessments of the national quality of life focus on the economic and material dimensions of our society, A Fragile Social Fabric? expands that evaluation to include the social covenant of rights and obligations.

The iron wedge/l'appel de la race

Originally published in 1922, and set in Ottawa, this tells the story of an Anglicized French-Canadian, Jules de Lantagnac, who goes back to French roots in mid-life and in the process sacrifices his English-speaking wife and three children.

The victorian army at home

Ideologies of race

A challenge to the conventional understanding of race in Russian and Eurasian history.

The culturalist challenge to liberal republicanism

An exploration of the volatile mix of politics and diversity.

Setting in the east

In Setting in the East David Creelman examines the works of Maritime writers between 1920 and 2000 and traces the ways these fictions have been shaped by the region's history and culture.

Voluntary detours

After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. Honouring local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge, Voluntary Detours enriches critical accounts of the past, present, and ...

Lord durham's mission to canada

Teaching as activism

Weaving together concerns about environmental and social justice, Teaching as Activism brings together constructive demands for change and theoretical debate. Written by activists who also teach, the essays challenge the current pedagogical literature with proposals that would bring discussion of...