The art of the landscape

A detailed guide to the aesthetic experience of landscapes.

Defining work

For rural clergy, the lines between private life and professional life can blur. Their offices are often in their homes, parishioners are also neighbours, and professional duties are intertwined with emotional caregiving and volunteer activity. In a society that defines work as paid, public, and ...

The art of dying

A satirical look at the euphemistic practices of dying today.

Terra nostra, 1550-1950

Maps have been invaluable throughout Canada's history. They promised fame and fortune to early merchant-adventurers and guided army commanders. They legitimized a politician's dominion and allowed businessmen to stake new claims. And they helped ordinary citizens build communities.

Is our house in order?

Does Canada abide by its international agreements?

Patriarchy's remains

Analysing a series of Iberian cinematic dark comedies from the 1950s to the present day, Patriarchy’s Remains argues that the cinematic trope of patriarchal death symbolises the lingering remains of a regime of patriarchy and neoliberalism that has outlived the Francisco Franco dictatorship in Sp...

The development of the idea of history in antiquity

An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, w

The enterprising admiral

The present study analyses in detail the fortune of a single naval officer, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, whose principal wealth came from prize money: the capture of enemy vessels in wartime.

Malcolm macdonald

Malcolm MacDonald (1901-1981) played a central role in the decolonization of the British Empire. The son of Britain's first Socialist prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, Malcolm soon emerged from his father's shadow to take a crucial political and diplomatic part in the shaping of the Commonwealth....

The new twenty years' crisis

The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall o...

Political ideologies in contemporary russia

In the realm of political discourse there is a distinct gap in understanding between Russia and the West. To an outsider, the ideas that animate the actions of Russia's ruling elite, opposition, and civil society remain shrouded in mystery. This key text is a major contribution to our understandi...

From outpost to outport

In 1766 Gaspé became an outpost of the Jersey metropole; in 1886 the Channel island of Jersey abandoned the region, reducing Gaspé, on Quebec's Atlantic coast, to Canadian outport status. From Outpost to Outport provides a structural and theoretical examination of the economic relationship betwee...

The turtle hypodermic of sickenpods

David Solway's The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods is an eye-opening polemic against technology in the classroom and pedagogical theory as furthered by current administrative policy. He dissects the way computers have affected the learning process and students' ability to understand material pres...

Mad flight?

How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.

Rockefeller, carnegie, and canada

In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation helped to create and maintain a cultural and intellectual infrastructure in Canada that benefited key institutions such as University of Toronto, McGill University, the National Gallery, the Humani...

Canada's regional innovation systems

Regional innovation systems, Jorge Niosi shows, are evolutionary complex systems in which each group of agents reacts to the behaviour of others as well as to public policy incentives. Canada's Regional Innovation System finds that Canada's biotechnology capabilities are widely distributed but so...

Canada and the united nations

Experts offer new approaches to Canadian internationalism in a candid re-evaluation of Canada’s contributions to the United Nations.

Ingmar bergman

Ingmar Bergman has long been revered as a master craftsman of cinema, whose works are intensely revealing of himself while resonating powerfully with his audience. This book explores how Bergman achieves this cinematic magic through specific choices in the use of film language and the texturing a...

Bamboo church

Caught in the current

While Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current expl...

Commodity politics

As the international community calls for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities becomes more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through responsibility rhetoric and presents research from Cameroon to provide a better understanding of the polit...

Technology and nationalism

A study of technology and nationalism and how they have shaped twenty-first century Canada.

Cyber-threats to canadian democracy

Scrutinizing the events of the 2019 federal election and looking to the future, Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy examines how new technologies have affected the practice of electoral politics and what we can do to strengthen Canadian democracy, shedding light on some of the most contentious is...

The modern dilemma

Leon Surette's new study of T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase.

Without walls or barriers

In June 1985, David Peterson was sworn in as the leader of Ontario’s first Liberal government in forty-two years. This collection of speeches explores the activist agenda the London, Ontario, lawyer pursued through his premiership, which sought to ensure all Ontarians were able to participate ful...

Paths of pollen

As human actions erase habitats and raise the planet’s temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of pollinators faces decline or even extinction. Paths of Pollen chronicles pollen’s vital mission to spread plant genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking towa...

Canadian-american industry

This volume is distinguished both for its detailed survey of the vast movement of industrial capital across the Canadian-American frontier, and for its multi-faceted analysis of the determinants and results of this movement. The authors have achieved a broad analysis covering the international mo...

Seeing ghosts

An evocative look at images of 9/11 and how they contribute to our cultural memory.

Anatomy of a naval disaster

Intended as a riposte to the Anglo-American capture of Louisbourg in 1745, the so-called d'Enville expedition set out from France the following year to secure Canada, recapture Acadia and Louisbourg, and ravage the New England coast as far south as Boston. Many of the sixty-four French vessels in...

Canada's other red scare

Canada's Other Red Scare makes the case that Indigenous political protest during the ’60s should be thought of as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the experience of settler-colonialism in places and moments of protest, when its logic and acts of dispossession are he...

Saints alive

How do we know what we know about saints?

As one who serves

Regina College, which was established by the Methodist Church in 1911, became the University of Regina in 1974. Formed amid the social movements and transformations of the sixties, the new campus grappled with questions about the nature of a liberal education, the balance between research and tea...

Short histories of light

Vivid, haunting, and rhythmical, these poems illuminate the struggles of mental illness and uncover the sinister side of religion.

Evangelicals and the continental divide

In Evangelicals and the Continental Divide Sam Reimer finds surprising levels of uniformity among evangelicals on both sides of the border. He shows that both American and Canadian evangelicals share highly similar religious identities, central beliefs, moral and subcultural boundaries, and socia...

City symphonies

This book explores the unheard sonic dimensions of the city symphony. Instead of looking at the city symphony as a narrowly defined silent film genre, it turns its ear to the city symphony as an audible phenomenon, one that encompasses a multitude of works beyond the cinema and that treats the ci...

Weakening philosophy

Gianni Vattimo is one of the world's most important philosophers, yet he has received scant attention in the English-speaking world. The essays in Weakening Philosophy, from leading figures such as Umberto Eco and Charles Taylor, introduce his ideas to a wider audience.

The living prism

In The Living Prism Eva Kushner provides a lively panorama of reflections and experiences in comparative literature studies, showing that comparative literature in the post-World War II era has been an experimental ground for the human sciences.

The strange death of the liberal empire

Part political biography and part study of imperialism, The Strange Death of the Liberal Empire is an examination of Lord Selborne's career as high commissioner for South Africa from 1905 to 1910.

Supreme fictions

In grouping together in a single study the work of Blake, Carlyle, Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence, one becomes aware of a common tradition in which they all participate, of certain shared principles, attitudes, and values, and, despite the individual inflexion of voice, a common language. No matter ho...

Property, liberty, and self-ownership in seventeenth-century england

The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. This book traces the emergence and evolution of self-ownership over the course of this period, culminating in a reinterpret...

Gender, generation, and journalism in france, 1910-1940

After the pioneer women in French newspapers, how did the next two generations, still a minority in the newsroom, fare?

Works by a.y. jackson from the 1930s

This volume by A.Y. Jackson's niece provides fascinating insights into the man and his work at a time the author calls "a rugged-romantic high point in A.Y.'s life." The illustrations reproduced and discussed come mainly from the Carleton University Art Collection. Groves places the works in the ...

Disarmament under international law

An introduction to the regulation of both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction in international disarmament law.

Who was doris hedges?

A lively biography of Canada's first literary agent and her efforts to forge a writing career in Montreal.