Literary impostors

The first study to offer an in-depth, systematic examination of literary imposture in Canada viewed through the lens of autofiction.

Democracy's angels

A groundbreaking study of the limits that "democratic" ideals placed on the work of women teachers.

Canada's waste flows

Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. A critical and compelling book that will generate conversation and incite change, Canada's Waste Flows demonstrates how, and why, Canada's role as a global l...

Graham greene's thrillers and the 1930s

In Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s Brian Diemert examines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the close relationship between Greene's fiction and the political, economic, social, and literary contexts of the period. Situating Greene alongside other y...

Coalescence of styles

Unique nuances and styles often develop because of interactions between groups of people. By studying furniture produced and decorated by Mi'kmaq, Acadians, French Canadians, Americans, English, Scots, and Irish, Jane Cook shows that their diverse styles

Shakespeare in succession

Shakespeare in Succession approaches the question of Shakespeare’s relevance by positioning the poet as a participant as well as an object of adaptive translation. The volume considers Shakespeare from cultural, spatial, temporal, and linguistic points of view by studying how his work is transfor...

Christians in a secular world

Based on eighteen surveys exploring the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour of over 100,000 Canadians, Kurt Bowen assesses the state of Christians and their churches in Canada at the close of the twentieth century. Christians in a Secular World argues that the religiously committed still differ fro...

The redistribution of income in canada

This original study challenges the widely held belief that government policies to redistribute income have made Canada a more egalitarian state. The author bases his conclusions on extensive documentation of the real effect of changes in taxes, transfers, and government expenditures.

Hummocks

"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.

Writers' rights

A timely study of freelance journalists’ working conditions and what is at stake for the future of journalism in precarious times.

Multicultural variations

How symbolic rather than institutionalized multiculturalism characterizes ethnic social incorporation for new groups experiencing the recognition of ethnic pluralism.

The knight-monks of vichy france, first edition

Following the defeat of France in 1940, the École Nationale des Cadres was set up at the Château d'Uriage, in the Alps above Grenoble, to train an elite drawn from the young intelligentsia as part of a larger effort to transform the nation. Some of the mo

Norad

Wide-ranging changes have been made to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) since 2006, when the binational agreement was signed in perpetuity. NORAD traces the joint command’s recent history – one marked by technological and structural innovations, but also by unprecedented threa...

Convergence or divergence?

A cross-national study of social trends in the United States, Germany, France, and Quebec, Convergence or Divergence? is a revealing exploration of the patterns of social evolution in modernized societies. The analyses in this volume are based on the four national profiles already published in th...

Uninvited

A historian and a philosopher respond in poetry to Plato's Symposium.

Confessions of an immigrant's daughter

Laura Salverson’s autobiography describes a young immigrant woman’s rise above an early life of poverty, isolation, and upheaval. Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter depicts, sympathetically and graphically, the agonizing process of an immigrant Icelandic community adjusting to life in a forei...

Britain and the war for the union

The centrality of agriculture

Bridging the gap between political economy and ecology, The Centrality of Agriculture is a critical review of the history of capitalism and socialism in relation to agriculture. Colin Duncan argues that the important role of agriculture has been overlooked during the last two centuries. It must b...

Pilgrims in lotus land

Pilgrims in Lotus Land explores the remarkable growth of evangelicalism in an intensely secular province during the twentieth century. Robert Burkinshaw explains why evangelicalism held such appeal, paying particular attention to the distinctive character

The moral mapping of victorian and edwardian london

The London poor and the cruel world of Christian charity circa 1900.

We find ourselves put to the test

A philosophical exploration of the question of whether the world we inhabit offers us hospitality or indifference.

Church and state in canada, 1627-1867

Arctic migrants/arctic villagers

In recent years the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. In Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers David Damas demonstrates that for many years government policies helped maintain dispersed settlement,...

Inuit shamanism and christianity

While the transition to Christianity in the Canadian Arctic occurred between the end of the eighteenth century and the 1950s, the various and complex transformations that happened during this time have not been fully understood.

Finding franklin

The full story of those who have searched for Franklin since his expedition disappeared.

National identity and the varieties of capitalism

Denmark has out-performed most other advanced capitalist countries since the mid-1980s Contributors to National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism draw from the literature on capitalism and small states and corporatism to explore why this is the case. They find that Danish political and eco...

Pensionnats du canada : l’histoire, partie 1, des origines à 1939

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...

Le pari de la franchise

Le Canada n'avait pas connu de politicien de la trempe de Stéphane Dion depuis Pierre Trudeau. Ses réponses cinglantes aux déclarations du Premier ministre Lucien Bouchard sur la séparation ont rendu les souverainistes furieux. Et ses discours ont étonné les commentateurs, toutes tendances politi...

Infected christianity

Focusing on five modern "Christs," Alan Davies examines how the Christian church has succumbed to the infection of racist ideas. Using an analysis of the writings of representative philosophic and religious figures, Davies shows that the myths of race and nation, innocent in themselves, have evol...

Singing story, healing drum

A must read for anyone interested in Siberian culture.

Obsession

A revelatory study of a forgotten collection and the most remarkable collector in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.

The flight of the wild oats

Democracy in canada

Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was...

The proceedings of the 1972 meeting of the igu commission on quantitative geography

Politics and the english country house, 1688–1800

Politics and the English Country House explores the relationship between the country house and the changing British political landscape of the eighteenth century. Essays explore how the country house was a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, and a symbol of party allegianc...

Postmodernism and the ethical subject

The shock of the modern has given way to global and transnational shifts and cultural displacements. What ethical demands have been created by this and what new models of thinking enable us to meet their challenge?

Northern lights

An exploration of the rise of think tanks in Canada and the position they occupy in the country’s political landscape.

Federal-provincial collaboration

What implications does the GDA approach have for federal-provincial relations? How does it relate to the constitutional division of responsibility? What advantages and drawbacks does it hold for Canada's political system? More generally, what can we conclude about the GDA approach?

Writing rogues

In Writing Rogues de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia...

J. wendell macleod

Popularly known as Saskatchewan's Red Dean because of his progressive views and strong support of Canada's first medicare plan, J. Wendell Macleod (1905-2001) was a charismatic pioneer in social medicine and medical education. Louis Horlick mines Macleod's diaries, which span seventy-five years, ...

The problem of atheism

The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce’s landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theol...

The ignorance explosion

The author reveals the darker side of Western society's adoption of, and adaptation to, modern technology. Despite his portrayal of an increasingly complex, artificial and dehumanized technological environment, Lukasiewicz writes with humour and humanism and makes an enlightening contribution to ...

Grossières indécences

Histoire de la culture gaie et lesbienne à Montréal au tournant du XXe siècle.

Zygmunt bauman and the west

Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...