Fontanka 16

Fontanka 16 takes a fresh look at the feared Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imperial regime leading up to the Revolution of 1917. It is a fascinating account of the development of a secret police organization that was deeply rooted in tsarist Russia but prov...

Masters and students

The Jesuit Relations re-evaluated in light of two concurrent missions - the Christianization of Amerindians and the extraction of information for France.

Call me giambattista

Recounting a political life lived during a turbulent time in Quebec.

Appropriate behavior

Maria San Filippo explores Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature, Appropriate Behavior (2014), as an instant classic of 2010’s US indie filmmaking, a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration, and an unparalleled portrayal of bisexuality.

Pathophysiology of peptic ulcer

A social history of the cloister

A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.

Law, life, and government at red river, volume 1

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

Reigns of terror

Reigns of Terror is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whether these states have anything in common - whether there are preconditions that can be identified as leading to crimes against humanity so that th...

Mapping our selves

In Mapping Our Selves Helen Buss considers a broad range of autobiographical works written by Canadian women, including memoirs, journals, and conventional autobiography as well as experiments in blending a number of writing genres. She constructs her own "mapping" theory of how female identity i...

Engendering the republic of letters

In Engendering the Republic of Letters Susan Dalton analyses the lives of four of the most famous salon women in France and the Venetian republic in the late eighteenth-century - Julie de Lespinasse, Marie-Jeanne Roland, Giustina Renier Michiel, and Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini all lived through ...

Search out the land

To date, Jews and Jewish contributions to the early development of Canada and the British colonies have been marginalized in Canadian history. In Search Out the Land Sheldon Godfrey and Judith Godfrey begin to redress this situation by illustrating and an

Vie et mort du couple en nouvelle-france

La Nouvelle-France offre-t-elle aux femmes un champ d'action élargi, comme le voudrait une certaine conception de l'histoire coloniale? Ce n'est pas ce que révèle l'analyse du partage des droits et des responsabilités entre époux, des secondes noces et des stratégies de survie économique des pers...

Aboriginal rights claims and the making and remaking of history

How research into Indigenous rights claims is influenced by, and in turn changes, Indigenous law and claims legislation.

Indict the author of affection

Bradley Buchanan explores, in light of classical rhetorical theory and early modern intellectual culture, the many manifestations of affectation in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He shows that the previously unexamined aspect of Shakespeare’s depictions of affectation lies in the catachrestic abuse of the...

Order and disorder

An exploration of the dynamics between the state, the market, and civil society in Middle Eastern cities.

Chiefs of the plantation

An inside look at the ways in which labour relations are constituted and contested in South African agriculture.

The canadian federal election of 2019

The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analysed in this collaborative volume. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies, successes, and failures of each of Canada's major political parties.

In search of cinema

In Search of Cinema chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades. At a time when the movie review has degenerated into mere publicity for Hollywood pictures and film scholarship has become entangled in its own pseudo-scientific discourse, Bert Cardullo reclaims the te...

The theology of the oral torah

The Theology of the Oral Torah demonstrates the cogency and inner rationality of the classical statement of Judaism in the Oral Torah, bringing a theological assessment to bear on the whole of rabbinic literature. Jacob Neusner shows how the proposition

Tax, borrow and spend

Situating "race" and racisms in space, time, and theory

Grounded in real life and theoretically charged, the nine essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore how race, racisms, and racialization are changing and suggest strategies for reading their emerging forms and discourses. Race has historically been defined by visible difference, but the...

Out of the studio

Photographic innovators at home in nineteenth-century Quebec and abroad, Charles and John Smeaton have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography in Canada. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the Smeato...

Natives and newcomers

According to convential nineteenth-century wisdom, societies of European origin were naturally progressive; native societies were static. One consequence of this attitutde was the almost universal separation of history and anthropology. Today, despite a growing interest in changes in Amerindian s...

Social classes and social credit in alberta

The Social Credit party in Alberta has traditionally been presented as "petty bourgeois" in its ideology and appeals, reflecting what was believed to be the dominant class in the province at the time. Edward Bell challenges these widely held interpretations of the ideology, popular class basis, a...

Ethics in public service

Specialists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and Sweden focus on topics from the field of public service ethics. They cover promotion of ethics, the teaching of ethics, freedom of information, trade unions, protection of human rights and legal aspects of public service ethics.

Lyric and polemic

First nations? second thoughts, second edition

A bold and penetrating look at the ideology that has dominated Canadian Aboriginal policy.

Land of the midnight sun, third edition

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-World War II res...

The rowell-sirois report

Inhabited

Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada’s ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. Presenting perspectives of local inhabitants, the authors ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the...

The fate of the nation state

Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles.

The freedom to smoke

A social and cultural history of the rise of the cigarette and the way smoking rituals in Montreal were shaped by gender, class, and race.

The excluded wife

The Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act, passed by the Canadian government in 1923, stopped the families of Chinese labourers working in Canada from entering the country. Based on extensive interviews with Chinese women affected by the Exclusion Act, Yuen-fong Woon has created a riveting account ...

The invention of journalism ethics, second edition

An innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity to guide journalism today.

Sexual enjoyment in british romanticism

How British Romantic writers reimagined sexual enjoyment and invented psychoanalysis in the process.

The boundaries of ethnicity

Benjamin Bryce considers what it meant to be German in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. For the Germans who make up the core of this study, the distinction between insiders and outsiders was often unclear. The Boundaries of Ethnicity uncovers some of the origins of Canadian multiculturalism, and go...

Check

Poems about confirmation bias: expect it to be true, it's true.

The constitutions that shaped us

The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Procl...

Causation and explanation

Stathis Psillos divides his account into three sections: causation, laws of nature, and explanation. He begins the causation section with Hume's classic "reductive" account and then focuses on the subsequent division between Humean and non-Humean accounts, examining topics such as regularities an...

Chora 1

Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.

The american empire and the fourth world

In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.

Frontier cattle ranching in the land and times of charlie russell

A re-examination of the free-range cattle ranching era in Montana, Southern Alberta, and Southern Saskatchewan.

White siberia

In the first full-length account of the Siberian theatre during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, N.G.O. Pereira documents the nature, causes, and consequences of the failure of the anti-Bolshevik White movement. The term "White," used in a broad political sense to contrast with the "Red" Bol...

Dark days at noon

Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present. Edward Struzik sheds light on what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as Indigenous people once did, so that we may learn from how we managed fire in the p...