The peoples’ war?

The Peoples’ War? offers alternative approaches to the history of the Second World War, the changes that it catalyzed, and how it is remembered. The volume challenges the nationally unifying narrative of the war as a “Peoples’ War” and explores the event as a global experience.

Ordinary people, extraordinary times

A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery ...

The more moderate side of joseph de maistre

The conventional image of French polemicist and diplomat Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) is that of a theocrat and a proto-fascist. Cara Camcastle challenges this by considering his unpublished memoirs, memoranda, diplomatic correspondence, and letters. In an analysis of his ideas on political econ...

Contexts of canada's past

Dangers of youth

In 1912 French legislators established a distinct criminal justice system for juveniles, enshrining probation at its heart and decriminalizing offences committed by children under the age of thirteen. Dangers of Youth examines critical debates about juvenile liability and the appropriate treatmen...

Marguerite bourgeoys and montreal, 1640-1665

St Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), canonized in 1982, is a key figure in Canadian and religious history as a founder of Montreal and of the international order the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal, one of the first uncloistered religious communiti

The voices of medieval english lyric

An innovative edition of Middle English lyric poems that takes voice as its main principle of arrangement.

A national soul

From Confederation to World War II mural painting was an important tool for Canadian nation-building. In A National Soul, Marilyn McKay shows how, in both Protestant English Canada and Catholic French Canada, these artworks were designed to promote specific civic values.

Operation freak

A groundbreaking analysis of the operations to bodies and narratives that inform - and form - Francophone literature.

Tropes and territories

Postcolonial and Commonwealth literary scholarship has tended to emphasize the novel. Tropes and Territories is the first book to focus on modern short fiction, including Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Mansfield, Frame, Munro, Rushdie, MacLeod, Gallant, Narayan, Jarman, and King. Wh...

Recent social trends in france, 1960-1990

Over the three decades from 1960 to 1990, French society underwent a spectacular transformation due to the baby boom, which was particularly broad-based and prolonged in France and caused the population to climb by a full one-third. At the same time, the French economy expanded and the pace of mo...

Portable prisons

Portable Prisons is an exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. Through interviews and observations, Gacek demonstrates this technology is representative of the carceral state’s overreaching punitive capabilities, rejecting the idea ...

Constitutional politics in multinational democracies

In Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies the editors bring together experts on multinational democracies to analyze the claims of minority nations about their political future, and the responses they elicit through constitutional politics.

Before copernicus

A multi-disciplinary approach to Copernicus’s momentous transformation from geocentric to heliocentric cosmology.

The three pillars of public management

Written especially for the public sector but applicable far beyond it, The Three Pillars of Public Management offers government managers insights that, for the first time, speak directly to their situation. Unlike other management books that promote fads and private-sector models or focus on poli...

Ars americana, ars politica

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

Bringing power to justice?

The world's first permanent international criminal tribunal for the prosecution and punishment of the world's most serious crimes was created in 2002. In Bringing Power to Justice? legal scholars, political scientists, and political philosophers respond to fundamental questions about the future o...

On record

Drawing on contemporary testimony and over fifty years of interviews, On Record explores how recording projects have served as sonic signatures, forms of protest, homage, or parody of the foibles of those in power. Encompassing music from both settler and Indigenous communities, this book redefin...

Object lives and global histories in northern north america

An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.

Comparative administrative change and reform

Thought provoking perspectives on attempts to change government.

Great heart

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Vasily grossman

An indispensable study of one of the greatest, and most paradoxical writers of twentieth-century Russia.

Réinventer montréal

Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robillard à partir d’un examen de leurs archives personnelles et des plans et des documents d’urba...

In pursuit of the public good

In this collection of essays, leading experts in the field of public policy discuss some of the main issues confronting Canadians as we approach a new century: Do we need less government or more? Is the retreat of government in fact serving the public good? Can our political parties provide effec...

Ceta implementation and implications

CETA Implementation and Implications provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, its most important elements, and its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Contributors offer a nuanced look at CETA and its implicati...

Mad cows and mother's milk, second edition

An evaluation of the crucial role of risk communication in dealing with public controversies.

Hierarchies of belonging

Nationalism has long been a potent political force in Scotland and Quebec. Hierarchies of Belonging explores the construction of national identity and nationalism and its effect on how citizens of Scotland and Quebec understand their relationship to the nation and the state.

God

Questions of God's existence have exercised philosophers since antiquity. Are there adequate reasons to think that God exists? And, if God exists, what is God like? In this book Jay Wood provides a sustained and fresh examination of these central questions.

The right to research

Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators and historians. The Right to Research offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and...

Whose canada?

Questions and concerns regarding the scope and depth of Canada’s relationship with the United States loom larger than ever since 9/11. In Whose Canada?, contributors provide a comprehensive analysis of the legacy of free trade and examine the challenges that deepening bilateral integration – incl...

Murmuration

In a photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation and, for perhaps a singular moment, assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-chang...

Future-generation government

Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face are increasingly long-term. Future-Generation Government proposes ways that we can reward our governments for making durable policy decisions that anticipate future crises.

Public budgeting in canada

Military spending in developing countries

Government agencies are increasingly apprehensive about the scale of military spending in Africa and the Middle East - particularly incountries where they are providing development assistance. This study argues that certain countries overspend on their military forces to the detriment of more pro...

The fiddlehead moment

An exciting new reading of Canadian literary modernism that challenges many of the urban-centric biases and opinions still prevalent today.

The science of culture and the phenomenology of styles

How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.

From wooden ploughs to welfare

From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem. The 1960s saw the collapse of the reserve economy, until then sustained by casual ...

Islam and bosnia

An exploration of the causes of the Bosnian war by academics and diplomats that offers the broadest perspective on the conflict to date.

Religion, ethnonationalism, and antisemitism in the era of the two world wars

In the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism – a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined...

Women in power

How the personality traits of Gandhi, Meir, and Thatcher developed, and their impact on leadership behaviour.

The making of the alice books

The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery-rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature.

The word and its ways in english

An exploration of how the mind creates words and, in turn, how words represent intended meanings.

Earth into property

A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.

Moments of unreason

In late Victorian and Edwardian Canada, confinement in an asylum was a common fate for many middle-class women who, as a consequence of economic dependency, menopause and other physical realities of their life cycles, or patriarchal inequities, were perceived as burdens to their families or the c...