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The wild word
The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural.
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Emergence and empire
A ground-breaking look at the writings and philosophy of pioneering Canadian thinker Harold Adams Innis.
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Aleut identities
A contemporary portrait of an Indigenous commercial fishing society in the Arctic.
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Shattering silos
Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant when political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain? Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, this book provides a path-breaking response to these question...
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Rose henderson
Feminism and the political left come to life in this account of an important early twentieth-century social activist.
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Canada among nations, 2007
Canada's thirty-four million people and trillion dollar GDP don't occupy much space on a planet of seven billion whose economy is now worth forty trillion dollars. The country is not a lightweight yet, but certainly its position as a power is shrinking. What does that mean for the country's forei...
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Home feelings
A history of the Canadian reading camp movement and the meanings of literacy, literature, and citizenship in the early twentieth century.
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Petrocultures
A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of oil and energy culture.
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Chora 5
Architecture is at a crossroads - to survive as a vehicle of contemporary human culture it must extend beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions but this requires determining how to affirm its relevancy within a globalized and technological culture. In a world where the supposed ...
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Canadian primal
Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual...
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The experience of beauty
An original answer to a question of permanent interest: the place of beauty in our lives.
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Elinor ostrom and the bloomington school
Exploring the legacy of a trailblazing economist and Nobel Prize winner.
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Commissions high
Commissions High is an account of the work of the Canadian High Commission from 1870 until Britain's entry into the European Common Market one hundred years later. Roy MacLaren argues that, until the defeat of Diefenbaker in 1963, there was tension between the forces of imperial (later Commonweal...
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Becoming prominent
Political, social and economic advancement in Upper Canada were often linked to characteristics other than merit. Through a collective biographical study of the social and economic background of the 283 men who were elected to the House of Assembly of Up
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Pegi by herself
The definitive biography of a free-spirited artist whose paintings are among the most immediately recognizable Canadian artworks of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Mixing medicines
Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia’s involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.
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Northern spirits
Canadians have devoted considerable thought to Hegel - a proposition born out by the work of John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor, three major Canadian political philosophers of the last century. In Northern Spirits, Robert Sibley examines how Watson, Grant, and Taylor found in Hegel the...
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Territories of inequality
This volume analyses the effect of decentralization and federalism on policy outcomes and on public preferences, as well as the connections between fiscal federalism, political forces, and inequality.
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Mediating moms
A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media, and popular culture.
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A bare and impolitic right
When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past? In A Bare and Impolitic Right Bohdan Kordan and Craig Mahovsky examine the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great War and explore the political, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of r...
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Place matters
Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and ...
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The orangeman, second edition
The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from Ireland who brought the Orange Order to central Canada, to explore the migration and prejudice that shaped Canadian politics. This lively novel shows that while one never knows everything about a historical person, someti...
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Citizenship, diversity, and pluralism
Citizenship has both a vertical and a horizontal dimension. The vertical links individuals to the state by reinforcing the idea that it is "their" state - that they are full members of an ongoing association that is expected to survive the passing generations. Accordingly their relation to the st...
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Planners and politicians
Canada's national social security system is a valued and integral part of our national character. However, with recent government cutbacks, the future of the welfare state is now in jeopardy. Focusing on the development of the Canada Pension Plan and medicare - the cornerstones of Canada's social...
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The seigneurial system in early canada
With its long thin fields and straggling rows of farmhouses stretching along either bank of the St Lawrence river for two hundred miles and more, the landscape of rural Canada toward the end of the French regime presented a distinctive charm and drew later writers to construct idyllic portraits o...
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Two solitudes
Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its ideas of what a nation should be. Set in WWI-era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes prote...
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36 steps on the road to medicare, new edition
The history of universal hospitalization and its gradual development into medicare.
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People from our side
Peter Pitseolak, the first native Baffin Island photographer, was born in the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1902. As a child he lived the nomadic camp life his ancestors had known, but during his lifetime missionaries, fur traders, law, government, schools, and alcohol came to Baffin Island. Peter P...
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Mordecai richler's imperfect search for moral values
From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers with his writing. The first full study of Richler’s entire corpus, Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values is an investigation into Richler’s novels and the strong reactio...
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Spirited commitment
An institutional history of one of Canada's premier philanthropic organizations.
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Divining margaret laurence
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
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Going to war?
A multi-disciplinary study on wartime decision-making, with a focus on how Canada and its allies engage in conflict.
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Dialogues on legislative and executive governance in federal countries, booklet 3 english
The third booklet in a series to explore the topic of legislative, executive and judicial governance in eleven federal countries.
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Swinburne and his gods
In this richly detailed study, Margot Louis combines close readings of Swinburne's poetry with a wide-ranging analysis of the pressures which influenced the poet. Louis not only examines the ways in which Swinburne was affected by English and French Romantics but comments on the powerful impact o...
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The darkest night brings longer days
The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days is Sirous Houshmand’s eyewitness testimony of Tehran’s Evin Prison and the 1988 mass executions of many of his prison friends. He recounts a journey from revolutionary fervour to political imprisonment, along the way, sharing insights from his youth to provide...
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Greatness and decline
Greatness and Decline sheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis. Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was, and still is, a matter of habit, Srdjan Vucetic takes a cl...
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An undisciplined economist
Incisive analysis of health policy issues in Canada by a pioneering health economist.
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In between countries
With increased interest in Canada and Australia over the last decade, students of foreign policy have produced an increasingly diverse range of scholarly material concerning the role and issue-orientation of these two countries. But until now there has been no study that bridges the mode of analy...
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Seduced by modernity
Seduced by Modernity is the first book devoted to the life and work of Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins. Best known for art and advertising photography executed in New York in the 1920s, Watkins was active in the Clarence White school of photography and a participant in the s...
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In war and famine
In War and Famine uses a small key - the author's family letters and infant memories - to unlock a whole world. Erleen Christensen was a mish kid, the daughter of one of about two hundred missionaries who remained in China's Honan province during World War II and the civil war that followed. She ...
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Across boundaries
Robert (Bob) Andrew Young (1950–2017) was Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance at the University of Western Ontario and one of Canada's most distinguished political scientists. In Across Boundaries Young's former colleagues and students bring together contributions from his extensive ne...
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Compositional crossroads
The first full length study of how McGill's Faculty of Music helped to shape contemporary Canadian music.
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Chasing empire across the sea
Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of mar...
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Hearts of freedom
Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. Hearts of Freedom is an oral history based on interviews with 175 former refugees, documenting their moving accounts of oppression, perilo...
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