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Transcanadian feminist fictions
A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.
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La somme des satisfactions
Dans cette ère où les chiffres dominent, les indices économique – tels que la productivité, l'inflation, le chômage et le produit intérieur brut – informent les décisions autant des citoyens que de l'État. Depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, internationalement, le Canada se situe au premier plan d...
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Civic freedom in an age of diversity
James Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.
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Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions
An innovative approach to the ways in which a major philiosopher's ideas have been configured and incorporated in different countries and contexts.
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Close ties
Focusing on the historic controversies surrounding freight rates, Close Ties explores the ways in which Canadians tried to regulate the nation's first big business, the railways. Ken Cruikshank challenges earlier interpretations, concluding that the history of railway regulation in Canada is not ...
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Shakespeare on stage and off
Essays for all readers on new directions in Shakespearean performance, adaptation, and criticism.
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Pandemic societies
Pandemic Societies brings together a range of experts to reflect on how their fields might be transformed in the context of our pandemic society. Examining how COVID-19 has transformed our lives, this book attempts to understand these changes and how to reinvent institutions and practices that we...
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The teeth of time
Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tension...
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The feminist challenge to the canadian left, 1900-1918
Exploring the role of women and feminism in the early Canadian socialist movement, Janice Newton traces the growth and ultimate decline of feminist ideas within the Canadian Socialist League, the Socialist Party of Canada, and the Social Democratic Party.
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Why botswana prospered
While most of Africa has been described as a political and economic disaster zone, Botswana stands out as a democracy that has had rapid economic growth for more than three decades. Clark Leith traces the evolution of Botswana's economic policies and democratic political systems and the forces th...
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Logic in the wild
In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making – logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.
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Pearson and canada's role in nuclear disarmament and arms control negotiations, 1945-1957
Lester Pearson was Minister for External Affairs between 1948 and 1957. During this time Canada was a member of two successive United Nations commissions on eliminating or controlling nuclear arms with the United States and the Soviet Union as the main negotiators. The goal of these discussions w...
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What is government good at?
A thorough examination of where government succeeds and where it fails.
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Beyond obedience and abandonment
A sensitive and challenging look at accommodating difference in religious education.
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Life embodied
A compelling tour through the scientific, philosophical, and cultural meanings of vital force in Spanish modernity.
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Called upstairs
Called Upstairs explores the transformation, under centuries of Inuit stewardship, of a music practice introduced by Moravian missionaries in the late 1700s. A story of adaptation and mediation, the book presents a chronicle of Inuit leadership and agency in the face of colonialism.
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Expeditions of honour
Colonial administrator and diarist John Salusbury (1707-1762) was a witness to the imperial chess game played by Britain and France for control of the New World. A founder of the city of Halifax, he kept a diary while in Nova Scotia, capturing valuable first-hand information about the struggles f...
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Politics & players
A third collection of columns and articles by L. Ian MacDonald, Politics & Players focuses on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s uneven leadership at home, the Canada-US relationship with Donald Trump in the White House, and Ottawa’s management of health and economic policy during the COVID-19 p...
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Restoring the spirit
When injured soldiers returned from the First World War and needed to convalesce from severe injuries and trauma, a group of women were ready to help. Then known as "ward aides," these women - many of whom were artists or teachers - used simple craft activities to raise morale, build self-esteem,...
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Crossing communities
Based on years of embedded participant observation in both Muslim and Coptic Christian communities in the provincial city of Beni Suef, Crossing Communities shows how everyday interactions reveal patterns of confident and casual interfaith crossing.
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Integrity, second edition
How to restore integrity so that social values can be upheld and family welfare strengthened.
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The imperial irish
A social and religious history of ethnic conflict and nationalism during the Great War.
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Uqalurait
An authoritative and comprehensive compilation of the ancient knowledge of Inuit elders.
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Death in the snow
Pedro de Alvarado is best known as Cortés’s right-hand man in the conquest of Mexico and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala. Less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim to the riches of the Inca Empire. Death in the Snow conveys the delusions of one headstrong conqu...
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Fictions of gender
Fictions of Gender explores how contemporary controversies surrounding Zionism and feminism are prefigured in the legacies of early Zionist women. Studying archival documents and writings from the first eighty years of the Zionist project, Zakai confronts the experiences of Zionist women with the...
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Samuel de champlain before 1604
The definitive edition of writings by and about the great French explorer.
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Friends, foes, and furs
The daily journals of a Canadian fur trader and clerk for the North West Company.
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The contexts of acadian history, 1686-1784
In the first study to connect the Acadian experience with the heritage of ideas the migrants brought with them from Europe, Naomi Griffiths explores the creation and endurance of the Acadian community and the ways in which the Acadians differed from the people of New England and New France. One r...
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Christian plain style
Christian Plain Style is a historical survey of the origins, growth, and decline of "the plain style," a mode of rhetorical discourse that reflected the mode of expression exemplified by Christ. Peter Auksi draws on an impressive array of classical, biblical, patristic, medieval, and Renaissance ...
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The collected poetry of carol shields
Carol Shields received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. Yet she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career. This collection includes three previously published collections and over eighty unpublished poems, ranging...
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The franco-americans of new england
Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States, with the number of French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities growing rapidly. The first generation of immigrants, who considered themselves French Canadians living in the United States, lived ...
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Nietzsche as stylist
Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rhetorical tactics. With a historical sensibility, the book highlights how Nietzsche’s style evolv...
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The rules of the kingdom
Warm-blooded, curious, and playful, these poems hunt for meaning in history, home, and family.
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The illustrated history of canada, 25th anniversary edition
First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these ...
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Shame and humiliation
Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. She argues that personality traits, such as narcissism, influenced critical decisions they made about U.S. intervention in V...
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Building resistance
How tuberculosis infection and disease impacted the bodies, families, and lives of children before antibiotics.
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Tigers and the internet
The Udege, a small Indigenous group in Russia’s far east, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. Kira Van Deusen befriended and interviewed Udege storytellers during her travels in Russia. Tigers and the Internet shows their fascinating culture and provides a valuable collection of their storie...
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Philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque, and strange. How and when did we become conscious? What exactly is consciousness? A gift from God? Some kind of emer...
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How ottawa spends, 2011-2012
Continuing its tradition of timely and exemplary scholarship, the 2011-2012 edition of How Ottawa Spends examines national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the austerity measures and budget cutting strategy of the Harper Conservative government; it also includes an analysis...
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The transformation of civil society
The terror unleashed by Soviet power on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. Based on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation of Civil Society provides an oral history of the material and cultural destruction sustain...
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Evasive manoeuvres
Focusing on the work of Tanya Tagaq, Nelly Arcan, Sheila Heti, and Sina Queyras, Myra Bloom offers a dynamic exploration of women’s confessional writing in Canadian autofiction and poetry.
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A fleeting empire
An illuminating history of the first mercenaries and merchants who fought to control North America.
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Canada's vegetation
Following an ecoclimatic approach, Geoffrey Scott reviews vegetation formations found in Canada in relation to physical geography.
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Countercurrents
Countercurrents rewrites the history of post-war feminism in Montreal by incorporating parallel social movements, such as Red Power, Black Power, and Quebec liberation, into the larger narrative of the women’s movement. Case studies compare and reflect on the histories and political work of vario...
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