Watching quebec

Spanning forty years, this volume focuses on social and cultural change among French-speaking Canadians and its effect on the evolution of nationalism in Quebec. In essays that address both historical and contemporary issues, Ramsay Cook explores topics such as the implications of the Conquest of...

Configurations of a cultural scene

In the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, resulting in a tightly-woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. Configurations of a Cultural Scene explores this growing community of artists with a focus on how sites of face-to-face inte...

Unfinishing

This dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time. With imagery both striking and nuanced, and language rich and strange, Brian Henderson presents mesmerizing poems that celebrate the strange and vertiginous musics of a kind...

Beyond quebec

Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, soon became...

The promise and challenge of party primary elections

A groundbreaking study of the typologies, pathologies, and promise of political party primary elections.

A history of journalism in canada

An orchestra at my fingertips

An Orchestra at My Fingertips is the first study of the history, activities, and legacy of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble. Covering the ensemble’s first fifty years, Alexa Woloshyn features musician biographies as well as analyses of the CEE’s compositions, improvisations, commissions, and perf...

Chee chee

Benjamin Chee Chee lived with anger and frustration for more than thirty years before he took his own life. An Ojibway artist who killed himself just as he was beginning to gain international recognition, Chee Chee is one of the thousands of aboriginal peoples in Canada who have commited suicide....

The moral foundations of canadian federalism

Focusing on key events in Canadian political history, Samuel LaSelva examines the moral foundations of the Canadian federal system of government and their implications. He looks at the ideals, arguments, and rhetoric invoked by the debates surrounding crucial events in Canadian federalism -- Conf...

Swingback

How Stephen Harper changed Canadian foreign policy, and how Justin Trudeau is trying to turn it around.

Concrete, second edition

Collins provides a thorough history of the new nineteenth century material and goes on to examine the theories on its architectural expression, focussing on determining role of the reinforced concrete frame. He argues that Perret provides the first rational and effective expression of classical p...

Harold innis in the new century

A collection of original essays that moves beyond the prevalent view of Harold Innis as a technological determinist, Harold Innis in the New Century brings his innovative ideas to bear upon a variety of contemporary issues, such as postmodernism, liberalism, gender, and cultural policy.

Charter conflicts

The first comprehensive examination of how the Charter influences political choices on social policy.

Safe haven

The wartime experience of one British evacuee child in London, Ontario.

The migrant text

A wide-ranging analysis of French literature and immigration, inventing a new category for migrant texts.

Local hospitals in ancien régime france

At a time when governments are obsessed with cutting back the social network and encouraging private charities to fill the needs of the poor and the sick, Daniel Hickey provides a timely look at retrenchment strategies in local hospitals in Ancien Régime France. He explores two opposing campaigns...

Canada: the state of the federation 2013

Traditionally associated with the federal government, Aboriginal policy has arguably become a far more complex reality. With or without formal self-government, Aboriginal communities and nations are increasingly assertive in establishing their own authority in areas as diverse as education, land ...

Taking to the streets

A historical perspective on public life and popular politics in the streets of Montreal.

Against judicial activism

The Charter and expansive versions of the federal and provincial human rights codes were supposed to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Rory Leishman argues that this experiment in radical constitutional reform has failed because judicial activists and human rights ...

Essays for richard ellmann

Richard Ellmann's scholarly work is notable for its striking liveliness and clarity and its genuine illumination of the writers and works with which he dealt. His life of James Joyce, published in 1959, received more commendation and critical praise than any previous literary biography.

The ethical canary

The Ethical Canary is a major contribution to the debate about the hottest issues in ethics today, from one of the world's leading authorities.

Nightclub

In the last thirty years bouncers have emerged as gatekeepers of contemporary urban cool, exclusivity, and social capital. In this ground-breaking empirical study, George Rigakos looks at the relation between consumption, security, and risk and challenges the idea of nightclubs as places of liber...

Psychedelic prophets

Letters between the men who coined the term "psychedelic" and opened doors to a different way of thinking about human consciousness.

Beyond nuclear thinking

The world is currently undergoing tumultuous political upheaval. Recent events have even been taken to indicate that the Cold War is almost over. But the nuclear threat, informed by a deeply rooted history of nuclear thinking, remains.

Structure, information and communication complexity, iis 1

The ultimate goal of research in Distributed Computing is to understand the nature, properties and limits of computing in a system of autonomous communicating agents. To this end, it is crucial to identify those factors which are significant for the computability and the communication complexity ...

The boomerang effect of decolonization

Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for t...

Variable conditions

Variable Conditions recovers Canadian instances of early encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century. The book provides valuable new perspectives and new contexts for understanding computer art pioneers, sketching a new landscape of surprising connect...

Mass capture

Mass Capture argues the CI 9 documents implemented by the Canadian government to acquire information on Chinese migrants acted as a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens. Cho reveals CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression: they offer possibilities for beauty and dignity in...

The struggle for quebec

The prospect of Quebec secession remains the greatest threat to the integrity of the Canadian state and the well-being of Canadians. This was clearly demonstrated by the razor-thin defeat of the sovereigntist force in the Quebec referendum of October 1995. Robert Young is an expert on secession. ...

Letters from rupert's land, 1826-1840

James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on t...

The early origins of the social sciences

Arguing that the beginnings of the social sciences extend much further back than is generally realized, Lynn McDonald traces the methodological foundations, research techniques, and basic concepts of the social sciences from their earliest origins to the beginning of this century. This thorough i...

Wendat women's arts

Breaking new ground in Indigenous art histories, Wendat Women’s Arts is the first book to bring together a full, richly illustrated history of the Wendat embroidery artform. De Stecher argues for the central role of Wendat women artists in the narrative of community events and ceremony to challen...

Bombs, bullets, and politicians

An in-depth and comparative inquiry into the reactions of political elites in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

Western ontario and the american frontier

Through two volumes, Professor Burt traces events leading to old Quebec's collapse: the influx of the Loyalists; the troubled and often brilliant administrations of a succession of British governors; and finally the extinction, by constitutional act, of the old province of Quebec.

At face value, second edition

At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman nam...

What's wrong with the law?

Canadian language policies in comparative perspective

A systematic examination of language policies in Canada based on domestic and international comparisons.

Saving germany

With Nazism defeated and Communism encroaching, Christian missionaries left for Germany to fight for the soul of a nation.

The silver palace restaurant

Isotopes and innovation

Few people realize that Canada leads in the world in the production of radio isotopes, the raw material of nuclear medicine and high-tech scanners, and in their use in medicine and industry. In Isotopes and Innovation Paul Litt gives us an in-depth look at MDS Nordion, a company that started as t...

Military operations and the mind

An in-depth look at the battlefield of military ethics and soldiers’ moral injuries and wars within.

The founding moment

In The Founding Moment William Westfall details the founding of Trinity College, telling the story of an important group of Anglicans who tried to respond creatively to the powerful social forces reshaping English-speaking Canada in the middle of the nine

How it happened

A detailed, first-hand account of the atrocities committed against Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

Aspects of the canadian evangelical experience

Canadian evangelicalism was a powerful religious impulse in the nineteenth century and continues to be a powerful force, with evangelicals making up fifty per cent of practising Protestants in the mid-1990s. Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience