Gael force

Football at Queen's University has one of the richest, and certainly one of the longest, histories of any sport in Canada. The Golden Gaels have been a presence in Canadian football at both the amateur and professional level since 1882. Gael Force traces this history, chronicling the team's ups a...

Son of man, son of god

Canada and the oas

This book traces the developing relationship between Canada and the oas (Organization of American States) and the pau (Pan American Union) before Canada's accession to full membership in the former organization in 1989.

Tyendinaga tales

Tyendinaga Tales is a collection of previously unrecorded Mohawk folktales gathered from residents of the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve near Bellville, Ontario. The folktales are told infrequently on the reserve and are in danger of disappearing completely. The stories are accompanied by pen and ink ...

Mr simson's knotty case

In Mr Simson's Knotty Case Anne Skoczylas examines the heresy trials of John Simson, professor of Divinity at Glasgow University from 1708-40. Accused of teaching unsound doctrine, Simson retained his position after mild censure in 1717 but was eventually suspended from teaching and preaching aft...

Unveiling the nation

Party politics and the production of nationhood in the Islamic signs debate.

Historical essays on the atlantic provinces

George-etienne cartier

George-Etienne Cartier has traditionally been interpreted as primarily a federal politician, as Macdonald's ally in building a united Canada, and as a representative French Canadian. Brian Young downplays ethnic and national political factors and focuses on Cartier's function as spokesman for a s...

Opium and empire

A close look at two infamous Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.

Achieving student success

In today's colleges and universities, whether students succeed depends in large part on access to effective services that can support and guide them in pursuit of their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of student services has been largely based on professional literature from U...

Coyote and raven go canoeing

A lyrical, epic narrative about Aboriginal knowledge and education.

Dead boys can't dance

Dead Boys Can't Dance is a ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization of homosexuality and the h...

Comparative literature for the new century

Arguing for a pluralistic approach to the study of literature and different languages.

Discovering the end of time

A masterful study of the origins of apocalyptic millennialism, which lies at the heart of evangelical Christianity.

Cancer stories

Each of us will be touched by cancer in the course of our lifetime - as a person diagnosed with the disease or as a family member or friend who must witness its course in someone we love. For all of us, this encounter with cancer will entail an exploration of the margins of life and death. Too of...

The passeggiata and popular culture in an italian town

An in-depth study detailing how members of a small Italian community use both traditional practices and expressive forms taken from popular culture to grapple with the social changes brought about by modernity.

The religious sense

The Religious Sense is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Avoiding sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience, Luigi Giussani shows that our ultimate needs for truth, goodness, and beauty constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in everyon...

Mrs. dalgairns's kitchen

When The Practice of Cookery first appeared in Edinburgh and London editions in 1829, reviewers hailed it as one of the best cookbooks available. Both a history of the seminal cookbook and a guide for readers and cooks today, Mrs Dalgairns's Kitchen offers an intimate look at the tastes and smell...

The canadian economy in the great depression, third edition

An updated classic on Canada's Great Depression with insights for the current global financial crisis

Don't cry

In Don’t Cry the Enlhet people give their own account of the Chaco War (1932–35) between Paraguay and Bolivia in voices never before heard outside their own society, translated from the Enlhet language. Their accounts, set alongside sensitive historical-anthropological analysis, allow unique acce...

The education of african canadian children

A crucial study of the education of African Canadian children as it reflects their citizenship and lives in their chosen country.

France in the world

André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.

Canada and its americas

A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas.

Faking death

In "Faking Death" Penny Cousineau-Levine examines the work of over 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Contrasting Canadian photography with American and European traditions, she shows that Canadian photographers are often preoccupied with...

Outside the lines

Starting from the premise that interdisciplinarity plays a critical role in the research community, Outside the Lines explores the nature and practice of interdisciplinary research in Canada.

Forensic colonialism

Though forensic genetic technologies are upheld as important tools of justice the development of these technologies has been accomplished through the ongoing genetic servitude of Indigenous Peoples. Forensic Colonialism explores how these controversial methods serve only privileged populations, a...

The icelandic voice in canadian letters

This fascinating study explores a remarkable ethnic-Canadian literature in close textual and contextual terms for the first time. It lays a groundwork for future comparative research in the field of ethnic Canadian studies, and challenges assumptions about cultural identity and human experience o...

Serving diverse students in canadian higher education

Survey of a spectrum of non-traditional student groups enrolling in Canadian post-secondary education today.

The distant relation

In The Distant Relation Eoin Thomson presents innovative readings of canonical philosophic and literary texts, focusing on the distance that mediates the relation between word and thing, past and present, I and you. Through a novel convergence, itself ari

Emancipatory thinking

A sustained defence of the political importance and ongoing relevance of the ideas of the French writer, feminist, and philosopher.

Time and a place

Canada’s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age.

Picturing toronto

An innovative study on photography’s role in the liberal reform of early twentieth-century Toronto.

The rousing of the scottish working class

Identities under construction

Examining how young adults construct their sexual, gender, and religious identities.

Mcgill medicine, volume 2, 1885-1936

This second volume in the history of the McGill University Medical School begins a few years before the opening of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1894 and traces the major developments in the institution's second half century. At the beginning of this period the McGill Faculty of Medicine was alr...

Descartes and the enlightenment

Peter Schouls examines the role played by the concepts of freedom, mastery, and progress in Descartes' writings, arguing that these ideas express a vital and fundamental feature of Descartes' thought. These theories also occupy a central position in the thought of the Enlightenment. Since the mor...

Anatomy of a seance

The first serious study of Spiritualism in Canada.

Translating air

A dreamy yet haunting account of H.D.'s imagined conversations with Sigmund Freud during her sessions with him in the 1930s.

Two worlds

Religion was at the heart of Ontario life for many years. In Two Worlds, Westfall examines the origin, character, and social significance of the powerful and distinctive Protestant culture that grew and flourished in Southern Ontario in the mid-Victorian

The social origins of violence in uganda, 1964-1985

In The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda A.B.K. Kasozi examines the origins of the appallingly high levels of violence in Uganda since independence. This is the first scholarly compilation and comparison of patterns and forms of violence under successive Ugandan regimes, and the first to offer...

The domination of nature

Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. Leiss argues that our current predicament arises from deeply rooted attitudes toward nature. A new preface explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligatio...

The chignecto covenanters

Tracing the Chignecto movement from its roots in Irish Reformed Presbyterianism to its assimilation into the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1905, Eldon Hay chronicles the history of a unique religious community in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Portrait of an english migration

Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides many personal glimpses of the migration exper...

Finance and governance of capital cities in federal systems

Capital cities are unique because they are the seat of the national government as well as the host for national institutions - legislative buildings, museums, arts centres - for which the federal government is responsible. They take on political, administrative, and cultural/symbolic roles that a...