Spirit of the grassroots people

Both a documentation of history and a deeply personal story. Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organisation that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.

C.b. macpherson

Crawford Brough Macpherson, an extremely influential writer and teacher and Canada's pre-eminent political theorist, won an international reputation for his controversial interpretation of liberalism. In the first book to examine the entire range of Macpherson's writings, William Leiss seeks to p...

Lines in the ice

A visual history of Arctic exploration and how it has shaped the modern world.

How ottawa spends, 2008-2009

Analyzing the Harper government's agenda in the context of changing federal-provincial relations.

Voices in exhile

Capturing women

The late 1800s was a critical era in the social history of the Canadian Prairies during which racial tensions between white settlers and the Native population grew and colonial authority was perceived to be increasingly threatened. As a result white settlers began to erect social and spatial barr...

Florence nightingale and the medical men

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy.

No free man

An exploration of the "enemy alien" experience in Canada during the Great War.

Dying for france

Widely accepted at the time of the First World as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldier’s death is increasingly regarded as an unacceptable tragedy. Blending military history with the history of culture and mentalities, Dying for France shows how patriotic models of the sold...

The metaphysics of scientific realism

A defining work on the scientific chacterization of reality.

Disputing new france

Challenging the traditional narrative of an orderly establishment of law, sovereignty, and authority in the colony, Disputing New France reveals how negotiations and contestations among a range of actors actively shaped empire building, offering readers an intertwined history of French state form...

Bach’s architecture of gratitude

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor and its capac...

Canada among nations, 2006

The 2006 edition of this series examines how two different forms of minority - political and cultural - are shaping Canadian foreign policy. The book begins with an examination of the ways in which the Harper government will combine its ideas and priorities with its minority status in Parliament ...

Commissioned ridings

A study of institutional transformation and changing public and political attitudes toward the redistribution of electoral constituencies in Canada.

Urban policing in canada

In Urban Policing in Canada Maurice Martin identifies a variety of factors that exert enormous influence on contemporary police practice, including traditional organization and personnel practices, management by government, public attitudes, and the changing urban landscape. In doing so he makes ...

Contesting rural space

A micro-history of Saltspring Island in the early years of resettlement.

Women, health, and nation

How have women in Canada and the US experienced and influenced health care since 1945? Did Canada's national health insurance system lead to fundamental differences in health care? Women, Health, and Nation examines North American women's engagement with their health systems and asks to what exte...

A house in memory

A collection of unpublished poems by a distinguished poet and novelist.

Beyond wilderness

The legacy of the Group of Seven and the reinvention of Canadian landscape art since the 1960s.

A knight in politics

The story of an imperial statesman and military reformer who modernized Canada's armed forces.

Genocide

Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.

French socialists before marx

How to put socialism into practice was as fundamental a concern for nineteenth-century socialists as it has been for their successors. In French Socialists before Marx Pamela Pilbeam explores the development of and changes in socialist ideas, revealing how the Fourierists of the 1830s and 1840s c...

The development of canada's staples, 1867-1939

A physician's guide to coping with death and dying

Education about death and dying has been almost ignored in medical schools. Recently, however, it has become increasingly obvious that the preferences of dying patients are being ignored, leaving many patients to die lonely, scared, and in pain. There is a growing realization that physicians can ...

Risks, dangers, and rewards in the nova scotia offshore fishery

Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery describes the hidden cost paid by workers in the Nova Scotia offshore fishery, a cost measured not in dollars and cents but in deaths and injuries.

Leaving christianity

Why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus.

I confess!

A critique and excavation of sexual confession as the key ritual of twenty-first-century moving image culture, from the banal to the forbidden.

A poetics of place

Ralph Gustafson's personal growth as a poet, during a career which spans more than half a century, in many ways reflects the development of modern Canadian poetry as a whole. A Poetics of Place provides the only available examination of the career of this pre-eminent Canadian poet, as well as ins...

Without compassion, there is no healthcare

New technologies are transforming healthcare work, changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. This book is a call for healthcare providers, educators, and organisations to lead with compassion through times of rapid technological change.

The war diary of clare gass

The diary of a nurse who served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War.

The harper factor

A clear-eyed, balanced analysis of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s legacy and impact on Canadian public policy and institutions.

Changing structures of inequality

The international sociological community has engaged recently in a controversial discussion on social inequality. There is a vigourous debate on whether the traditional concepts of social class and social stratification are still useful. Some researchers argue that social classes still offer a ke...

Outside looking in

Widely sold abroad, Beachcombers and North of 60 are what many international audiences know about Canada. In Outside Looking In Mary Jane Miller traces the evolution of representations of First Nations people in fifty years of Canadian television broadcasts.

Straight talk

From the book: "At the invitation of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, I entered the Federal Cabinet on January 25, 1996, without any direct political experience but driven by my convictions on Canadian unity and determined to defend them in complete frankness and in all circumstances. These convicti...

A people’s reformation

A People’s Reformation offers a reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival research, Lucy Kaufman argues that England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people, but because of them – through their active social, political, a...

Local governments and their intergovernmental networks in federalizing spain

Spain has been changing its institutional framework in important ways over the past thirty years. The country has gone from a dictatorship to a democracy, from a unitary state to a decentralized one, from authoritarian politics to a self-conscious, civil society with a developed welfare state wit...

Peronism as a big tent

Argentina’s populist government, led by Juan Perón, challenged the traditional model of the melting pot and granted legitimacy to hybrid identities. Peronism as a Big Tent examines Peronism’s efforts to garner the support of Argentines of Middle Eastern origins, be they Jewish, Maronite, Orthodox...

Empty promises

Why a voluntary, employer-based pension system does not deliver adequate and secure retirement income for most Canadians.

A reader of modern urdu poetry

A penetrating look at modern American politics and the partisan culture that feeds off its turmoil.

The limits of common humanity

The Limits of Common Humanity provides an interdisciplinary response to theorise the role of “humanity” as a motivational concept. Jarvis examines the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept, highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice.

Generation why

Based on hundreds of interviews conducted with under-thirty-year-olds across the globe, as well as executives’ perspectives on changing dynamics in the workplace, Generation Why provides a thorough study of how the worldview of millennials and generation Z informs their ideas about truth, hierarc...

Suspended conversations

In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families. Unlike those who isolate the individual photograph, treat albums as texts, or argue that photography has supplanted memory, she shows that the photographic ...

The miramichi fire

How one of Canada's greatest natural disasters has been remembered and forgotten.

Logging the globe

With the growth of industrial forestry in the southern hemisphere and the restructuring of forestry in the northern hemisphere, the industry is undergoing tremendous change. Logging the Globe investigates the transformations that are taking place and their ecological, social, and economic impact.