Culture, identity, commodity

From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks for a ...

Quebec hydropolitics

An examination of the effects of dams on the environment, Aboriginal peoples, and the war effort.

Hilary putnam

While Hilary Putnam's work on theories of meaning, semantic content, the nature of mental phenomena, interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic, and mathematics is crucial to recent and future developments in philosophy, the scope and volume of his writings and his radical re-thin...

Chinese education in transition

Recent dramatic developments in China have increased Western interest in both her institutions and her politics. However, most of the studies dealing with the 'new' China tend to concentrate on recent events, leaving undocumented, particularly, the years between the establishment of the People's ...

The urbanization of forced displacement

UNHCR, the world’s largest humanitarian organization charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates over 60 per cent of refugees now live in urban areas. This book explores how UNHCR’s approach to urban displacement has changed since the 1990s through an in-depth study of how UNHCR w...

Drink and democracy

Drink and Democracy traces the development of democratic ideas in a corner of the nineteenth-century British Empire through the history of drinking and temperance.

Christian attitudes towards the state of israel

When the United Nations debated the future of the Mandate of Palestine in 1947, world opinion was powerfully affected by news of the Holocaust and the plight of Jewish refugees. This momentary humanitarian advantage aided Christian Zionists in mobilizing

In the province of history

How a region sells - and misrepresents - its past

The west indians of costa rica

The Jamaicans, Barbadians, and other West Indians who migrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the twentieth century found themselves in a country that prides itself on its Spanish and "white settler" origins. In The West Indians of Costa Rica Ronald Harpell

Harriet brooks

Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) was one of the first Canadian researchers in the field of radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford called her the best woman scientist in the field next to Marie Curie. She worked with Rutherford, J.J. Thompson, and Curie, and her achievements include identifying "emanation" (r...

Immigrant integration in federal countries

Immigrant integration has become a prominent issue in contemporary political debates and public policy analysis. The objective of facilitating newcomers' participation in the economic, social, and political life of receiving societies presents particular challenges in federal countries. The multi...

Protestant liberty

This book offers a new interpretation of the origins and nature of 19th century liberalism by re-examining the role of religion in Canadian politics. Arguing that Canadian liberalism was rooted in the British tradition of Protestant Dissent, Forbes sheds light on the 19th century religious contex...

C'était du spectacle!

Le quartier chaud de Montréal a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, mais sa culture de cabaret n'a jamais été examinée dans la perspective des artistes transsexuelles et travesties qui l'ont rendu si populaire. Par le biais des récits provenant des danseuses elles-mêmes, Viviane Namaste peint un portra...

Bay lexicon

Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline, is a case study in establishing a working language for hybrid landscapes. Centred on a walk along the edge of the iconic San Francisco Bay, it documents, deciphers, and classifies the places and phenomena a person encounters. Through activi...

Reasonable self-esteem, second edition

A philosophical investigation of the moral ideal of reasonable self-esteem.

Communion and liberation

The Communion and Liberation movement, founded by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, is based on the belief that salvation is possible for everyone. It requires only that Christ be recognized as immediately present. Communion and Liberation: A Movement in the Church describes the origins of this movement ...

Between principle and practice

Between Principle and Practice examines the human rights diplomacy of Canada, the Netherlands, and Norway, all prosperous industrial democracies with an international reputation for protesting human rights abuses, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. David Gillies reveals that even these countr...

With your words in my hands

Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple's courtship was separated by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. Throughout their transatlantic separation, the young lovers fervid...

Making and moving knowledge

How to combine scholarly research with practical knowledge to maximize its scientific and social impact.

Toward the health of a nation

An engaging account of one of the foundations of Canada's health system.

The subjugation of canadian wildlife

A wake-up call to reform conservation practices and policies and to recognize the value of wildlife in Canada before further extinction.

Emigrant worlds and transatlantic communities

In the fall of 1831, Mrs McIndoe and her children left Scotland to join her husband, William, a labourer on the Rideau Canal. When they arrived they discovered that William had already moved on, forcing Mrs McIndoe to appeal to the public to help reunite her family. As Elizabeth Jane Errington il...

The enterprises of robert hamilton

Lines drawn across the globe

Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe’s boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England’s encounter with the world and the nation’s idea of itself,...

De witt clinton and the rise of the people's men

In 1824 the People's party, the first popular reform movement in the American republic, elected most of its candidates for the Senate and Assembly of New York, the new nation's most populous state. Craig Hanyan and Mary Hanyan examine the development of this influential movement and the role of D...

An exceptional dialogue, 1925–1948

In 1925 the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev formed a friendship with the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. Their endeavours shaped the European philosophical world by promoting the essential dignity and rights of human beings. An Exceptional Dialogue, 1925–1948 translates their correspond...

Repairing eden

How a humble, mystical path might be the solution to the problem of losing one's Christian faith due to religious diversity.

Philosophy of music

What makes some music a work of art - what we hear, the performance, or something we invent or discover?

Urban enigmas

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.

The power of diversity in the armed forces

This collection investigates how different countries approach the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in their armed forces, and offers immigrant military participation as a way to provide a pathway to citizenship, foster greater societal integration, and achieve a more equitable, diverse, and i...

Leadership in disaster

Environmental disasters occur when natural hazards strike areas of socio-technological vulnerability. We expect our leaders to prepare for such threats, but they must do so using current science, which provides valuable indications of risk but not certainty. Raymond Murphy's study of the manageme...

Parallel paths

In an innovative survey Garth Stevenson contrasts Irish and Quebec nationalism, from British conquest to the present-day struggles for unity in Ireland and sovereignty in Quebec.

Reclaiming democracy

Building on the ideas of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt, whose contributions as public intellectuals committed to social justice span almost five decades, Reclaiming Democracy features discussions by eminent scholars about social ethics, political economy, and democracy. Culled from the pap...

The last of the free enterprisers

Africa's gene revolution

An evaluation of the potential for genetically modified crops to alleviate poverty and hunger in Africa.

Against rousseau

A fierce opponent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph de Maistre was a widely read critic of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Against Rousseau provides the English-speaking reader with a rare first-hand view of the intellectual world of the early counter-revolution.

Before we disappear into oblivion

The October 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War triggered a mass exodus from Russia to the American west coast. Before We Disappear into Oblivion examines the efforts of newly arrived Russians in San Francisco as they built communities and negotiated their acculturation into Amer...

Speculative fictions

An exploration of the proliferation of historical novels in English-Canadian literature over the last thirty years.

Life and death in revolutionary ukraine

Between 1917 and 1923, invasion, revolution, war, and grim living conditions claimed unimaginable numbers of Ukrainian lives. Velychenko examines the social background to the political history of revolutionary Ukraine, documenting the country's demographic losses during the Ukrainian and Russian ...

Anatomy of gender

Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.

Dilemmas, challenges, and ethics of humanitarian action

A study of the perception issues and ethical dilemmas faced by humanitarian organizations.

A black american missionary in canada

“Hilary Neary makes a major contribution to scholarship by placing the reader in conversation with Chambers’s letters, thereby making available an untold story as a voice once silenced comes to life.” Noel Leo Erskine, Emory UniversityLewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Can...

The north atlantic treaty organization, 1948-1957

During NATO's formative years, its leadership tried to develop an economic, social, and political role for the organization in an effort to transform it into a community of nations. Using material from Canadian, American, French, and British archives, John Milloy analyses these unsuccessful attem...

The gaullist attack on canada, 1967-1997

What lay behind Charles de Gaulle's "Vive le Québec libre!" speech in Montreal on 24 July 1967, Philippe Rossillon's activities in New Brunswick, Belgium, and Africa, and the sinking of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in 1985? J.F. Bosher argues that the motivation behind all these in...