The philosophy of gadamer

The ideas of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer have had considerable influence both in their own right, as the leading modern exposition of philosophical hermeneutics, and in interpreting the works of others, especially Heidegger, Hegel, and Plato. Jean Grondin provides an authoritative and c...

Trans-atlantic partners

The end of the Cold War and the advent of the European Union (EU) as an emerging political actor have fundamentally changed Canada's approach to its relations with Western Europe. Trans-Atlantic Partners traces the Canadian Government's reassessment of its traditional Atlanticist foreign policy o...

Enduring work

Comparing the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, and integrating the perspectives of employers both reluctant and reckless, Catherine Connelly unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program and offers nuanced strategies t...

Precarious employment

Understanding "precarious employment" and its links to labour market institutions, industrial and occupational contexts, gender, 'race,' and (dis)ability.

Challenge for change

An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.

The same but different

Canada may be all about hockey, but how much does the rest of Canada know about the game in Quebec?

Cultivating community

Cultivating Community explores women’s critical involvement in agricultural fairs’ growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women’s roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs...

Boys don't cry

The Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities an...

Lady landlords of prince edward island

A lively look at estate management and resistance to land reform in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island through the life stories of four elite British women landowners.

Making music

Reconciliation(s)

The transformation of conflict and postconflict societies through transitional justice is now recognized as vital to the process of peacebuilding, with mechanisms such as trials, truth commissions, and apologies seen as essential for effecting societal change. It is widely argued that "reconcilia...

Negotiating our economic future

Navigating diplomacy and trade in an age of humans and intelligent machines.

Sonic experience

Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team ...

Gael force, second edition

An engaging record of the legacy of one of the best and oldest college football teams in Canada.

What television remembers

What Television Remembers explores the relationship between the medium of TV and the city of Toronto. In a close reading of CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting changing ideas about Canadian iden...

Industrial organization in canada

Industrial policy is a vital and important field that contributes to decisions about public policy and business and is directly responsible for promoting growth and increasing competitiveness in local and global economies. Examining the most significant industrial policy issues in Canada, Industr...

Man's impact on western canadian landscape

Canada's forests

Canada's Forests is the first book to provide an overall description of Canada's forests, their historical uses, and their current condition. The ten forest regions of Canada are examined, looking at how the human use of these forests has changed from the end of the last glacial period (10,000 ye...

Réfléchir sur notre passé pour aborder notre avenir

Un regard lucide sur la vocation initiale du Sénat et son rôle dans le Canada actuel.

Recognition and revelation

Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays about Canada and its land, peoples, politics, and literature, spanning her writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Artists in dylan thomas's prose works

Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works is an exploration of the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas. Ann Mayer examines Thomas's changing conceptions of language and the creation of meaning as revealed in his numerous self-referential acts of writing and telling.

Old age pensions and policy-making in canada

Old age pensions have been a recurring issue in Canadian politics since the beginning of the twentieth century and now have more government resources devoted to them than to any other single public program. For these reasons the author has selected old age pensions as a case study on the politics...

From drawing to visual culture

A vivid picture of the evolution of art education in Canada from the nineteenth century to the present.

Small differences

The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences

The service of faith

Asking what is the place of religion in development work, The Service of Faith offers an ethnography of the Mennonite Central Committee’s Christian development work in Indonesia, exploring the challenges, conundrums, theologies, and ethical commitments that shape Mennonite service.

The global politics of poverty in canada

Explores how Canadians engaged in informal and formal politics in the course of their everyday lives, locally and transnationally. Langford provides an enduring record of otherwise fleeting anti-poverty programs and their effects: the lived activism and opinions of development workers and ordinar...

Critical political studies

A collective picture of modern capitalism suggests that economic prospects, political costs, and implications for human development and freedom under this system are grim indeed. However the possibility of an alternative viewpoint, and an alternative system, provide grounds for optimism. The auth...

The ancient books of ireland

Ireland's ancient books are among the most fascinating and beautiful in the world but, with the exception of the magnificent Book of Kells, little is known about them. Michael Slavin lifts these ancient volumes from the obscurity of library and museum vaults to bring them into the public domain f...

Meaning

An insightful look at the philosophy of language.

Jena romanticism and its appropriation of jakob böhme

Interest in German Romanticism has been revitalized in recent years by new post-structural, interdisciplinary, and intertextual perspectives. However until now this renewed interest has not led to a re-examination of Jakob Böhme's formative influence on

A dream of sulphur

From childhood scenes in Deep Creek to the restless migrations across Canada, A Dream of Sulphur explores the relationship between memory, language, and geography. As a grandmother battles memory loss, a Hungarian is exiled to Canada, the Tofino fishing industry collapses, or August fire in the S...

Psychedelic new york

A hub for the production, distribution, investigation, and consumption of psychedelics, New York City gave birth to a drug culture that was a fitting reflection of the global metropolis. Psychedelic New York sheds light on decades of psychedelic science, the inception of psychedelic art, drug-inf...

War is here

How a war Canada did not fight profoundly changed the nation’s writing and identity.

Jackson's wars

A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter at home and in Europe. Douglas Hunter captures the life of a complex man and the crucial events and relationships behind the creation of Ca...

Heirs of an ambivalent empire

Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of ordinary Canadiens who used kinship ties to navigate the space between sovereign Indigenous homelands and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay watershed from the early 1660s to the 1780s – leading to the emergence of a new Indigenous...

The islamic challenge and the united states

Examining the sources and prospects of the dominant conflict of our era: the confrontation between Islam and the United States.

Done with slavery

Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of Lower and Upper Canada.Through close examination of archival and contempora...

Canada among nations, 2004

Much of the recent public debate about Canada's foreign policy has focused on issues of resources and management of Canada-U.S. relations. Groups such as Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and the Public Policy Forum have issued reports calling for an increase in defence spending, a c...

The carnivalization of politics

Focusing on English-French relations and attitudes towards the United Kingdom, France, and the rest of Canada, Raymond Morris explores recurrent themes in the works of Quebec's most popular francophone and anglophone political cartoonists - Aislin (Terry Mosher), Berthio (Roland Berthiaume), Pier...

Stories of the middle space

A faith-based approach to postmodern literature and critical theory.

Healing the world's children

In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development." Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, ...

Take a number

A wide-ranging study of the politicizing effects of social program participation, Take a Number introduces a compelling new dimension to our understanding of why some citizens are politically active while others remain quiescent.

Lord durham's report, new edition

One of the most important and controversial documents in the history of democratic reform, with new discussions of its context and ongoing relevance.

Sanctifying misandry

In Sanctifying Misandry, Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson challenge an influential version of modern goddess religion, one that undermines sexual equality and promotes hatred in the form of misandry - the sexist counterpart of misogyny.