Call of empire

A treasure trove of original correspondence reveals the experiences of four generations of a Scottish family in the service of the East India Company.

A woman with demons

Kamiya Mieko, the Japanese writer, psychiatrist, professor, and mystic, was a far more complex and intriguing figure than her popular image as a philanthropic doctor for leprosy patients suggests. A Woman with Demons corrects the myths about Kamiya's life through a close reading of her major work...

Canada's department of external affairs, volume 1

The first volume of the official history of the Department of External Affairs covers the administrative growth of the department from its formation in 1909 through the major changes brought about by the Second World War.

From griffin to axolotl

From Griffin to Axolotl examines the resurgence of the medieval bestiary genre in contemporary Hispanic literature.

Under the weather

Under the Weather explores the relationship between human mobility and severe weather exacerbated by the climate emergency. Offering an ecological approach to mobilities, Sodero argues that mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways that also benefit the hea...

May we be spared to meet on earth

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin’s fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage’s significance, and the...

From politics to profit

Describing a decisive period in the evolution of mass communication in Canada, Minko Sotiron documents the development of the newspaper, Canada's first mass communication medium, from a political mouthpiece in the nineteenth century to a profit-driven industry in the twentieth.

Provincial governments as employers

Firekeepers of the twenty-first century

A quiet revolution is occurring in Canada's First Nations communities, with changes taking place on social, political, and economic fronts and a significant redistribution of power. Changes to the Indian Act in 1951 paved the way for women to become officially involved in reserve politics, and wi...

The fighting newfoundlander, new edition

When Word War I began, Newfoundland had been without any kind of military organization for almost half a century. Public-spirited citizens immediately formed themselves into a Patriotic Association and within sixty days had recruited, partially equipped, and dispatched 537 officers and men overseas.

Stauffenberg, third edition

An intriguing portrait of the central figure in the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler and a gripping and authoritative account of the planning and execution of the conspiracy.

I'm not myself at all

Is there an alternative to paradigms of identity in women’s art history?

Labrador odyssey

In 1892, after receiving complaints about working conditions in the Labrador fishery, the London-based Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent an expedition led by Wilfred Grenfell to distribute food and clothing to residents of the Labrador coast and to treat sick and disabled fishermen. This expedit...

Whiny baby

Expansive in form and voice, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites, meadows, waiting rooms, beaches, alleys, gardens, and frozen rivers. They ask us to live in the moment, despite the moment. At turns frank, peevish, in...

Pierrot in petrograd

Commedia dell'arte was an essential ingredient of the revolution in Russian art in the early twentieth century. During this colourful and creative period artists sought inspiration in surprising places - icon painting, primitive art, and (in the theatre) circus, music-hall, and commedia dell'arte...

Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in canada

Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian Natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on Native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they hav...

Champlain

A lavishly illustrated book on life and adventures of the father of New France.

Thumper

A political life well-lived that propelled Canada forward for the ages.

Neurowaves

Neurowaves demonstrates how the brain’s inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains – neurowaves – is the basis of our mental experie...

Le moment était venu pour quelqu'un comme lui

Dans cette biographie finement ciselée du premier ministre acadien Louis J. Robichaud, du Nouveau-Brunswick, Donald J. Savoie trace le portrait d’un homme particulièrement apte à répondre au besoin d’une transformation politique et sociale difficile et durable.

A silent revolution?

This book explores how urban women managed wealth at a time when they were thought to have little independence, showing that women were in fact important players in the world of capital. It situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well as broader legal, financial, s...

Timely voices

A reassessment of romance as a resource and strategy of writing that transformed itself across time and texts, and that fascinated writers from medieval to modern times.

Back to the stone age

Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, better people. Back to the Stone Age explores how ideas about race are tightly woven into the prehistoric imagination, revealing insights into present-day anxieties and sho...

The adventurer's glossary

The Adventurer’s Glossary takes readers on their own semantic exploration. Through more than 500 terms, sourced from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, and beyond, Joshua Glenn considers meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations ...

Phenomenal consciousness

How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neural ...

The mephibosheth stepsure letters

Originally published in the Acadian Reader, a Halifax newspaper, in the early 1820s, the letters earned for their author the distinction of being called "the founder of genuine Canadian humour" by Northrop Frye.

Elizabeth bishop's poetics of description

Many readers are struck by Elizabeth Bishop's use of clear, striking descriptions of the physical world, and no scholar has ever asked how Bishop's commitment to description shapes her writing and thinking.

Isuma

Since director Zacharias Kunuk was awarded the Camera d'Or Award at Cannes in 2001, Igloolik Isuma Productions has been among the most well-known and influential indigenous film companies in the world. Isuma's premier movie, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - the first-ever feature film produced by t...

Communing data literacy

Communing Data Literacy offers practical strategies for engaging communities in productive dialogue about datafication inspired by Latin American perspectives.

No soft options

The canadian federal election of 2021

A group of distinguished political scientists and journalists reveals the significance of the 2021 federal election, providing an account of Canadian democracy in an age of increasing rancour and polarization, explaining why the Liberals did not win a majority government, and offering important l...

Ethnic relations in canada

This collection of Raymond Breton's essential writings highlights his work on French-English relations in Canada, examining the social origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the different forms of English-Canadian and Quebec nationalism, the relationship between linguistic and regional divisions, ...

Socialist yugoslavia and the non-aligned movement

In September 1961, Socialist Yugoslavia formally established a partnership with states in the Global South called the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement understands the NAM as a site for transnational cultural exchange, and explores the movement’s decolo...

York university

In 1955 a group of Toronto professionals began discussions on expanding adult education in their city. The outcome was York University, which opened in 1960 with 76 students. Today, with over 50,000 students in eleven faculties on two campuses, York is the third largest university in Canada. Facu...

Towards north american monetary union?

Many believe that Canada's deepening economic integration with the United States and the worldwide trend towards currency blocs will eventually lead to a North American monetary union. In the first detailed analysis of Canadian exchange rate politics, Eric Helleiner challenges this view.

The diary of a country clergyman 1848-1851

The texture of life in pre-Confederation settlements has been traced chiefly through the published diaries of women in Upper Canada. The Diary of a Country Clergyman, a welcome complement to these narratives, introduces a male perspective on rural life in Lower Canada.

Rail

Lyrical, meditative poems that span time and continents with insight and musicality.

Shifting sands

During the 1970s and 1980s policymaking in the complex area of regulatory legislation of the health disciplines became both increasingly important and increasingly difficult for the Canadian provinces. In this comparative study Joan Boase traces the evolution of relationships among governments an...

Negotiations in a vacant lot

Opening discussions about the possible futures of Canadian art history in a time of global analyses.

Fate and life

Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this important idea is not only informative and intriguing but also timely. Fate and Life confronts the idea of...

The gilded youth of thermidor

The Gilded Youth of Thermidor is a historical account of the Thermidorian Reaction following the fall of Robespierre in July of 1794. François Gendron has made an exhaustive examination of the 36,000 files of the Revolutionary police to reconstruct events on the streets as they parallelled those ...

The subaltern appeal to experience

Experience remains a politically charged and semantically ambiguous concept that arouses as much passion as it does suspicion, especially as it relates to agency and identity. Craig Ireland focuses on the eighteenth-century historical developments that led to the conceptualization of experience a...

Bird on an ethics wire

An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.

Books for development

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development between 1945 and 1970 as a way to express solidarity with newly decolonized nations, to argue for the importance of Canadian leadership internationally, and to secure settler-l...