The invisible community

The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.

Trust, distrust, and mistrust in multinational democracies

The first collaborative, critical, historical, and comparative survey of the dynamics of trust, distrust, and mistrust in multinational democracies.

Lyndhurst

Only recently have the voices of the disabled - the personal experiences of people with disabilities - been included in medical history. Lyndhurst marks an important contribution to disability and medical history by providing first-person accounts of patients, staff, and disability activists at L...

Telecom tensions

Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko considers the tensions inherent to this role – betw...

Framing our past

Lavishly illustrated and written for a broad audience, Framing Our Past offers insights into the lives of individual Canadian women, the obscure as well as the better-known, who pioneered new activities or expanded the boundaries of women's traditional roles. On topics ranging from everyday life ...

Religious inventions

Ancient writings, including the Jewish and Christian Bibles, reflect lived human experiences rather than mere dogma. Religious Inventions investigates the social contexts of these writings, exploring how modern views on religion can illuminate ancient texts and challenge our understanding of both...

Foisted upon the government?

While government officials in the 1890s claimed that forcing families to take responsibility for caring for the aged was in the interest of the elderly, Edgar-André Montigny reveals that government policy had more to with saving money than a desire to serve the aged. He provides a harsh critique ...

The ishtar gate

Working people, fifth edition

A revised and updated edition of Morton's classic story of Canada's labour movement.

Corporate law and sustainability from the next generation of lawyers

Climate change is an intergenerational crisis and the solutions and path forward must include intergenerational voices. This book offers timeless research from a diverse group of young lawyers calling for bona fide corporate accountability within legal and regulatory frameworks, including innovat...

The ancient mythology of modern science

Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.

Eating like a mennonite

Marlene Epp demonstrates that the meaning of Mennonite food lies within the multiple identities of the eater. Spanning the globe, from the nineteenth century to present day, Eating Like a Mennonite concludes that Mennonite food identities develop from adoptions, adaptations, and attitudes in dive...

The struggle to serve

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the creation of Canada's modern hospital system. While it is often assumed that this process was inevitable, many small communities had difficulty creating and maintaining public hospitals. In an era of government cutbacks in health services and c...

The failure of remain

The Failure of Remain offers the first comprehensive study of the UK’s grassroots anti-Brexit movement after the June 2016 referendum. Through first-hand interviews, a survey of anti-Brexit activists, and an analysis of their campaign materials, Adam Fagan and Stijn van Kessel assess the ideology...

Great minds in despair

Great Minds in Despair traces how the political climate of Nazism and forced migration of swathes of Jewish and oppositional scientists, physicians, and health care researchers from German-speaking countries influenced the development of neuroscience in North America during and after World War II.

Documents of canadian broadcasting

This collection is intended to illustrate both the development of broadcasting in Canada and ideas about the role of broadcasting in national life. The editor supplies the actual documents upon which broadcasting and the debate over broadcasting have been built. An introduction to each is provide...

Canada enters the nuclear age

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has made significant advances in the development of nuclear science in Canada and worldwide. AECL scientist Bertram Brockhouse's work on condensed matter systems won him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics and the CANDU power reactor is recognized as one of Cana...

Canlit across media

An innovative collection that evaluates diverse methods of recording, archiving, and remediating literature and literary culture in Canada.

Making witches

The enduring folklore of witches in Newfoundland - relayed through oral narrative.

Silenced sextet

The Canadian publishing industry burgeoned during the late nineteenth century and Canadian poets and novelists began to gain international recognition. Twentieth-century literary scholars, however, have tended to focus on just a few of the writers of this vital expansive period. Many other writer...

The spiritual significance of overload boredom

The spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but ked...

The life and times of raúl prebisch, 1901-1986

Selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist.

From cohen to carson

From Cohen to Carson provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Ian Rae argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposi...

So vast and various

A look at 150 years of writings about Canada's regions.

The development of the pacific salmon-canning industry

The Pacific salmon fishery and the canning industry it supports have recently lost their status as the one of the most valuable fisheries in the world. In this study of early modern business, Dianne Newell discusses the beginning of the North American salmon canning industry, working from archive...

The making of the english literary canon

It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon-formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and critical treatments of older works, designed to educate readers about the national literary heritage, appeared for the first time. In The Making of the English Literary C...

Governing public-private partnerships

A look at the dilemmas involved in using the private sector to deliver public infrastructure.

Ukraine, the middle east, and the west

Drawing together political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe.

The productions of time

Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. With the aim of rehabilitating myth criticism for our time, Michael Dolzani sketches an anatomy of the imagination as demonstrated in the total body of its productions, including...

100 questions about women and politics

How and why the political citizenship of women around the world is incomplete.

Frank manning covert

Fifty Years in the Practice of Law is the engrossing autobiography of a public citizen who worked almost non-stop at a career he both loved and cherished. A power - often behind the scenes - in big business, high finance, and Liberal Party politics, Frank Manning Covert advised Pierre Trudeau to ...

Being arab

Arabs in North America are often perceived to be a monolithic group. Being Arab explores how Muslim and Christian Arab-Canadian youth actually negotiate their ethnic and religious identities. Focusing on the experiences of students from five colleges in Montreal, Paul Eid considers the influence ...

Being vulnerable

Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form o...

The sweet sixteen

How a train ride to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 revolutionized the journalism field for women.

The rule of law, justice, and interpretation

In The Rule of Law, Justice, and Interpretation Luc Tremblay analyses and refutes the positivist legal theory that prevails in Canadian constitutional practice. Using the techniques of critical theory, hermeneutic interpretation, and analytical jurisprudence he shows that the dominant interpretat...

Alcides lanza

Canadian-Argentinean pianist and composer alcides lanza is internationally renowned for his avant-garde approach to percussion, electroacoustics, and music theatre in works such as eidesis II, sensors III, un mundo imaginario, and vôo. Director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University ...

Unequal access

Unequal Access explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce.

Toxic immanence

A critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime. This collection develops a discourse between the fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the nuclear humanities with environmenta...

Recent social trends in greece, 1960-2000

An overview of the socio-economic profile of Greece during 1960-1995.

Total defence forces in the twenty-first century

This volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward de...

The lives of dalhousie university: volume ii

In the second volume of the history of Dalhousie University, P.B. Waite traces Dalhousie's development from a small privately funded college of about 700 students and four faculties to a large Canadian university of 9,000 students that includes many of the leading professional schools in Atlantic...

The art and science of stanislaw lem

Leading scholars examine the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris.

Reconciling the solitudes

In this collection of essays the distinguished and internationally renowned philosopher Charles Taylor examines federalism and nationalism in Canada, emphasising issues surrounding the Canada/Quebec question in the last twenty-five years. He analyses the singularity of Quebec within the larger Ca...

Antoinette de mirecourt or secret marrying and secret sorrowing

A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.