L.m. montgomery and war

Reclaiming the place of a writer best known for depicting the lives of girls and women, as a groundbreaking writer about war.

Island enclaves

An examination of the unique governance of islands and their role in contemporary global politics.

Imperial paradoxes

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and...

The empire within

A compelling study of the global dimensions and local particularities of political activism in Sixties Montreal.

False summit

The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. Exploring classic a...

Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut / hunter with harpoon / chasseur au harpon

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in Canada. Published in English under the title H...

Beardmore

How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.

From peasants to labourers

Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non-Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia's Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by Canadian wage-earning opportun...

A manner of correspondence

A Manner of Correspondence examines one of the most interesting of literary clubs, the Scriblerus Club, made up of the talented satirists Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Patricia Brückmann explores the Scriblerians as a ...

Natural resources

Kingdom of the clock

Set in a vibrant yet ragged coastal city, Kingdom of the Clock is a verse novel whose interwoven storylines begin with one dawn and end at the first light of the next. Within the cycles of that single day, the lives of the city's inhabitants unfold in Cowper’s clear, flowing lyricism.

From rogue to everyman

From Rogue to Everyman chronicles the colourful career of archetypal rogue Charles de Julie, foundling, army deserter, pimp, police officer, underground journalist, poet, and prisoner in the dreaded Bastille. Laurence Bongie reveals both the richly woven tapestry of Ancien Régime social history a...

To make a village soviet

Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah’s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious community’s enduring re...

Lessons on the english verb

While the work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics, his theory is not well known in the English-speaking world. Lessons on the English Verb provides a comprehensive treatment of the English verbal system within a Guillaumean theoretical framework ...

Forkhill protestants and forkhill catholics, 1787-1858

Is conflict between Catholics and Protestants really the key to understanding Irish history?

Behind valkyrie

A collection of writings by those who fought Hitler from within Nazi Germany.

Through their eyes

After Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge in 1917, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. Combining outstanding original art and thought-provoking commentary, this book uncovers the stories behind this battle while...

Economic and social history of quebec, 1760-1850

Repenser l’acadie dans le monde

Petite société francophone concentrée dans le Canada atlantique, l’Acadie renvoie tout autant à une multiplicité de réalités socioculturelles. Cet ouvrage présente une perspective indispensable pour comprendre la francophonie—surtout le dynamisme, la persévérance et la diversité du peuple acadien.

600 years of reform

In the first study of Episcopal reforming activity in France during the period 1190-1789, Michael Hayden and Malcolm Greenshields uncover a wealth of new information on the origins of the Catholic Reformation. 600 Years of Reform argues that the origins of the reform do not date back to the sixte...

Informal logic

In this insightful critique of informal logic and critical thinking strategies and techniques, Wayne Grennan examines argument evaluation techniques currently used in both formal and informal logic texts and, finding them lacking, proposes a new system of evaluation.

How agriculture made canada

An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct impact on rural settlement in the Prairies.

Dog's best friend?

An examination of different historical and cultural attitudes towards dogs and other canids.

A history of canadian catholics

A history of the first 400 years of Catholic life in Canada.

A measure of wealth

The land tax duplicates -- which ostensibly provide a complete yearly inventory of all landowners and tenants in every county in the United Kingdom, parish by parish -- are considered the most important systematic documentation available on British landed society between the Domesday Book of 1086...

A world away

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-cl...

Martin luther, german saviour

The Protestant ruling classes of the pre-World War I German Empire took for granted that Martin Luther was the greatest of all German men. In the early twentieth century, however, Luther came under attack from Catholics, liberals, and socialists, groups w

Permanent state of emergency

An objective and unflinching analysis of the destruction of America’s constitutional order and the creation of an elective dictatorship.

Spreading misandry

Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young argue that since the 1990s men have been portrayed in popular culture as evil, inadequate, or honorary women, from Designing Women, Home Improvement, Oprah, and Cape Fear to Hallmark cards, comic strips, and the New York Times columns of Anna Quindlen. The first...

Friend beloved

Friend Beloved invites readers to enter the imaginative worlds of two ambitious young scientists: Marie Carmichael Stopes, the paleobotanist who found international fame as a birth control advocate and feminist icon, and Charles Gordon Hewitt, the housefly expert who became one of Canada's trailb...

Double-edged comforts

From sleeping and bathing, chores, and making and eating food to the arrival of television, this book unveils the untold story of Italian domestic experiences from the 1940s to the 1970s, providing a fresh account of modern domesticity relevant to understanding how we make sense of the places we ...

Baking as biography

A daughter's exploration of her mother's life as revealed through her baking.

Women, peace, and security

Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones. Women, Peace, and Security lays the groundwork for this enhanced participation, draw...

Muscle on wheels

A fascinating account of high-wheel bicycle racing and one of North America's first women professional athletes.

Global journalism ethics

An argument for a new system of ethics in journalism that will take into account its global reach and impact.

Changing places

The community of Aboriginal groups and fur trade society that had initially developed at Porcupine-Iroquois Falls (c. 1660-1905) was displaced early in the twentieth century by newcomers drawn to the opportunities offered by mining, agriculture, and pulp and paper production. The newcomers came f...

Sweet canadian girls abroad

Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, this book tells the story of the Canadian women who forged careers as professional actresses from the 1870s to the 1940s. Appearing in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, they were integral in theatrical networks an...

Cold war workers

Cold War Workers explores how security labour transformed the lives of individuals, families, and communities in Canada in ways that were both predictable and surprising, with the militarization and colonization of Indigenous lives and lands being especially disruptive.

The contribution of presbyterianism to the maritime provinces of canada

Presbyterianism was not only the largest and most influential Protestant denomination in the Maritimes during much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also one of the largest and most influential Protestant denominations in Canada. While t

The language of the skies

The Language of the Skies chronicles one of the most bitter crises in French-English relations in Canada: the bilingual air traffic control conflict which arose in the mid-1970s when francophone controllers and pilots attempted to use French, as well as English, in Québec aviation.

This kindred people

At the end of the nineteenth century lingering notions of anglophobia and "Manifest Destiny" caused Americans to look upon the British colony to the north as a dangerous and unnatural entity. At the same time many Canadians used the familiar ideas of Loyalism, imperialism, and anti-Americanism to...

Jan van noordt

Jan van Noordt (c.1623/4-1676) created some of the most flamboyant and expressive paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Susanna and the Elders and Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon. Yet little was known about his life and the many misattributions of his works have hidden his significance. Davi...

The circle of rights expands

The Circle of Rights Expands explores ideas of limit on political authority through a fresh reading of the political philosophy of the fifteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including the work of representative thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, Athusius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Hume. Arth...

Voices in time

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents t...