Orlando

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift ...

The torontonians

First published in 1960, the classic feminist novel about a desperate housewife.

The movers

The Movers investigates the deeper historical roots and wider social contexts of key Israeli artworks and their public reception.

We are what we mourn

The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning.

Made for the eye of one who sees

Bringing together recent scholarship on Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology being conducted in Canada and by Canadian scholars, Made for the Eye of One Who Sees provides the first survey of the Canadian contributions to this developing field. It covers topics from across the Islamic world ...

The churches and social order in nineteenth- and twentieth-century canada

Changing social and cultural strategies pursued by Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism, this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial socie...

John ford

Lost in the crowd

Gregory Kennedy presents a new kind of history focusing on the experiences of Acadian soldiers and their families before, during, and after the First World War. He significantly shifts common interpretations about recruitment in French Canada, service overseas, and the factors determining post-wa...

A long eclipse

At the turn of the century Protestantism permeated the cultural fabric of English-Canadian society. By 1970, however, universities were primarily secular. Was this change the result of the changing nature of Protestantism at the turn of the century or forces external to it? By examining the role ...

The future of nato

In this collection the leading authorities address the complexity of present day NATO, its inherent contradictions, and its current direction. The authors reflect on the significance of these issues for the alliance's future prospects, for Russia, and for European security generally.

Accountability and responsiveness at the municipal level

Are municipal governments democratic simply because they are elected?

Chronic conditions

Chronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.

Technology and national competitiveness

Technology is an increasingly important factor in the competition between nations for international trade. It affects the range of products a country exports, the quality of these products, and the price for which they are sold. Unlike traditional, neo-classical theories of international trade an...

Adam buenosayres

The first-ever English translation of "Argentina's Ulysses."

Building cities that work

Since 1945 North Americans have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on urban development, literally transforming the landscape of the continent. This development is disastrous, Edmund Fowler maintains, because it is inordinately expensive, destructive of the environment, and disruptive of healt...

Crises and compassion

John M. Letiche started life as Ianik Letichevsky, a citizen of the newly constituted Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The son of a brilliant but dictatorial father and a loving, cultivated mother, he went on to a remarkable career as an accomplished scholar, professor of economics, and advis...

In their own write

Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves negotiated the New Poor Law and its measures, and how their interactions with the state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. Based on first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters...

Dialogues on the practice of fiscal federalism: comparative perspectives, booklet 4 english

This booklet offers a snapshot of fiscal federalism in 12 federal democracies. It includes a glossary of country-specific terminology, serving as an entry point to a forthcoming book on the same theme. The booklet series is the fourth in a series created to provide accessible and comparative info...

Flight from grace

Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on readers to appreciate how our past relationship with birds might help transform our current relationship with nature.

Imagining justice

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions...

Wilful neglect

Wilful Neglect explores the devastating consequences of the Department of Indian Affairs’ responses to tuberculosis among First Nations in Canada from 1867 to 1945, demonstrating a direct link between historic health policies and modern disparities.

Ravished by the spirit

Ravished by the Spirit is a sympathetic yet critical account of the profound effect of Nova Scotia preacher Henry Alline and his New Light disciples on the nineteenth-century evangelical ethos of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and neighbouring New England. Alline's pietistic and mystical gospel was ...

Dust blown side of the journey

Global migrations and music create a symphonic journey where nature ignites wildfires and love fully lived.

Made in canada

Leading Canadian artists, curators, and art historians from Douglas Coupland to Paul Bourassa look at questions of design and national identity in the 1960s.

Cold comfort, second edition

An engaging reminiscence of the end of an era in arctic exploration.

Lives altered by war

Lives Altered by War examines civilian mobilization during the Donbas war in Ukraine, illuminating how it created shifts in collective identification and belonging.

The ukrainian-russian borderland

The eastern edge of Europe has always been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries’ historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr V. Kravchenko asks what the words “Ukraine” and “Russia” really mean.

Watching for life

From a balcony overlooking an urban back lane, a poet watches those walking below – their identities unknown and yet grasped through details of habit that reflect the strangers’ inner selves. In watching for life David Zieroth ponders questions about how to live and how to continue.

The hollow tree

The Hollow Tree is one person's testament to the power of indigenous culture to heal. Herb Nabigon's healing journey guided him to a life of kindness, honesty, courage, and humility.

How peary reached the pole

A fascinating account of life on Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition.

Crisis escalation war

Inside ethnic families

Inside Ethnic Families is a rich and lively ethnography that describes the perceptions, illusions, and life experiences of three generations of Portuguese-Canadians. Edite Noivo provides an insider's perspective on a number of family-related issues, rangi

Piety and nationalism

Lay voluntary associations played a vital role in the creation of a religiously informed ethnic culture among the Irish Catholics in Toronto. Brian Clarke places the Toronto experience in the context of the two Irish-Catholic awakenings, one national, the

Escott reid

With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians and political scientists, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada, critically exploring the tensions between Reid's pro...

Dreamcraft

Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries. Moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA, from “the entropic spread / of the drifting cosmos / after the big bang” to “the push of lawn grass / under foot,” Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his...

Citizenship as a regime

What citizenship reveals about a society, its politics, its history, and its current challenges.

The eye of the master

The Eye of the Master confronts the missed opportunities for a decolonial version of indépendance in Quebec and imagines a different future, detached from domination and exploitation, through models based in Indigenous thought and anti-racist, ecological, and feminist movements.

Newfoundland rhapsody

A new perspective on the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador told through the life of Frederick R. Emerson.

Best left as indians

Barely a hundred and fifty years have passed since the first white people arrived at the upper Yukon River basin. During this time many non-Natives have come and gone and some have stayed. Ken Coates examines the interaction between Native people and whit

Language, citizenship, and sámi education in the nordic north, 1900-1940

Timely in its focus on educational policies in multiethnic societies, Otso Kortekangas examines how educational policies affected the Sámi people residing in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The book provides essential information on the relationship between large-scale governme...

Attitudes of play

Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.

Working without commitments

From the end of the Second World War to the early 1980s, the North American norm was that men had full-time jobs, earned a "family wage," and expected to stay with the same employer for life. In households with children, most women were unpaid caregivers. This situation began to change in the mid...

Louis j. robichaud

In this closely drawn biography of Acadian New Brunswick premier Louis J. Robichaud, Donald Savoie provides a portrait of a man uniquely able to meet the need for difficult and enduring political and societal change.

Identity captured by law

How the law decides who the members of minority groups are while avoiding discrimination and respecting self-determination.