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Out here
Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn’s quarterly reports from St John’s to London are an insider’s account of events in Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946. Publishing Walwyn’s reports in full, Out Here recalls in vivid detail public life in Newfoundland immediately before the country’s 1949 union with Canada.
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Inventing the middle east
The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. In Inventing the Middle East Guillemette Crouzet charts the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, not in the twentieth centur...
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A land of dreams
A comparative history of Irish community and identity in St John’s, Halifax, and Portland.
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Broken
An exploration of the impact of institutionalization in the lives of Canadian families.
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When the french tried to be british
The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 was accompanied by the grant of the Charte - a written constitution modeled on what its authors imagined to be the contemporary British practice of parliamentary monarchy. A unique experiment, in effect it meant attempting to implement institutions ...
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Revivalists
In Canada, the latter half of the nineteenth century marked a profound break with the settler past and the beginning of an age of commercialization. Kevin Kee shows how Protestant evangelists used theatre, film, and jazz to make religion personally relevant to their audiences.
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Chekhov's children
Chekhov's Children explores Anton Chekhov's stories – dating from his early writings in the 1880s – as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood.
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Other voices in soviet history
Paying tribute to the work of the Soviet historian Lynne Viola, Other Voices in Soviet History listens to voices that have traditionally been overlooked in familiar narratives of Soviet history.
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Beyond the finish line
A fascinating journey through the history of the photo-finish in sports, and a lively biography of a critical technology, this book illuminates the cultural role of the photo-finish in win-at-all-costs culture and warns that in our pursuit for precision we may threaten the human element of sport ...
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Perceptions of a monarchy without a king
How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.
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Canada’s residential schools: reconciliation
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...
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This colossal project
The story of the construction of a technological monument that remains a cornerstone of the North American economy.
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Postcards from the western front
A groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people in...
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Civilization
Civilization explores how Scottish Enlightenment theories played out in Canadian imaginaries and institutions: the state and society; the liberal and the conservative. E.A. Heaman’s case study identifies crucial spaces and moments of conceptual reversal to consider what was unique and what was br...
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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.
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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...
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God’s province
A groundbreaking exploration of the religious roots of Alberta conservatism.
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Prophets of love
Reimagining Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul as spiritual siblings, Prophets of Love offers an introduction to some of the latest scholarship on Paul, combatting centuries of Christian anti-Judaism, and sheds new light on the biblical worldviews and language underlying every line of Cohen’s poe...
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Villain, vermin, icon, kin
Wolves have always captured the human imagination. In sketching out the historical connections people have had with wolves, this book contends that the role in which wolves have been cast – monster or hero – has changed dramatically and offers a model for more ethical ways of interacting with ani...
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Ordinary saints
An engaging study of rural women and lived religion that explores the ties between gender, labour, and Christian belief.
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Canada’s residential schools: the history, part 1, origins to 1939
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...
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Eating the ocean
During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb. In Eating the Ocean, Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing encouraged consumers to increase their seafood consumption, and how this advertising endeavour contr...
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Innovation, science, environment 08/09
The third edition of an annual volume of commentary on Canadian innovation, science, and environment (ISE) policies and institutions.
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Reading the diaries of henry trent
As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the t...
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Passion and restraint
Western policymakers knew little about Poland in 1914, but by the end of the First World War were drawing the new country’s borders, sending humanitarian aid, and imposing minority protections. Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and American foreign policymakers interacted with P...
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No place like home
No Place Like Home draws attention to the historical significance of the First World War internment experience in Canada. Bohdan Kordan persuasively advocates for expanding our understanding of this experience, underscoring the political and moral imperative to ensure such injustices are never re...
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Publishing place
Examining the periodical as a distinct genre of print cultural expression, Publishing Place rethinks the relationship between periodical form, editorial practice, and place on Canada’s east coast during the early twentieth century.
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Shooting from the east
A critical history of filmmaking in Atlantic Canada from the early days of art cinema to the contemporary media industry.
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Chronic aftershock
Combining approaches from intellectual history, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Chronic Aftershock explores the legacy of 9/11 in France and recent instances of transatlantic divide to provide an innovative and timely assessment of the radicalized violence that remains a major threat in...
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Contract workers, risk, and the war in iraq
Understanding why low-skilled workers in developing countries migrated to Iraq to support the US War on Terror.
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Pharmacopoeias, drug regulation, and empires
Pharmacopoeias – books describing approved standards and composition of drugs – have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of “official” pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and late...
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Healing the world's children
In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development." Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, ...
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The congrégation de notre-dame, superiors, and the paradox of power, 1693-1796
Nuns have often been portrayed as nascent feminists wielding an exceptional amount of power. In this formative study of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame - a religious community of uncloistered women established in Montreal in 1657 - Colleen Gray presents a more nuanced view of the foundations and e...
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Indict the author of affection
Bradley Buchanan explores, in light of classical rhetorical theory and early modern intellectual culture, the many manifestations of affectation in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He shows that the previously unexamined aspect of Shakespeare’s depictions of affectation lies in the catachrestic abuse of the...
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The circle of rights expands
The Circle of Rights Expands explores ideas of limit on political authority through a fresh reading of the political philosophy of the fifteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including the work of representative thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, Athusius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Hume. Arth...
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Dawn of the neuron
How Darwin's theory of evolution drove generations of zoologists to search for the first evolved nervous systems in simple organisms.
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An accidental history of canada
An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents have significant social, cultural and policy meaning, and reveal aspects of preca...
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Beardmore
How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.
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The peasants’ war
The Peasants’ War examines how Russian peasants reacted to the mass mobilization of the First World War, and why they ultimately turned against the tsarist regime, culminating in the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Patrician families and the making of quebec
An analysis of two elite families in the shaping of English and French Quebec.
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Recasting history
How the CBC recast Canadian history for television and influenced what we know and how we think about the Canadian past.
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Patriot and priest
A regional study of the French Revolution's constitutional church that examines the career of a committed bishop and revolutionary.
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The subjugation of canadian wildlife
A wake-up call to reform conservation practices and policies and to recognize the value of wildlife in Canada before further extinction.
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14 days
An analysis of the Harper government by looking back at fourteen important days from 1993 to 2013.
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L' église et la politique québécoise, de taschereau à duplessis
Une étude sans précédent de la relation qui unissait l'Église et l'État au Québec avant la Révolution tranquille.
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Bilingual being
An intimate memoir of a bilingual childhood in Quebec at mid-century that shows how language can reshape a life after trauma.
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Finding franklin
The full story of those who have searched for Franklin since his expedition disappeared.
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The social history of ideas in quebec, 1760-1896
The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.
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The boomerang effect of decolonization
Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for t...
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A thirst for wine and war
To maintain morale amongst soldiers in the wretched trenches of World War I, the French army provided regular rations of wine and other alcohol that became a defining feature of French soldiers’ experience. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army’s strategic distribution of alcohol as ...
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Setting all the captives free
A new interpretation of the nature of the eighteenth century's Anglo-French wars, focusing on those taken captive.
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Populism and ethnicity
A groundbreaking interpretation of Juan Perón's regime that challenges assumptions of fascism and antisemitism.
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Between raid and rebellion
A comparative study of Irish communities in a Canadian and an American city.
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A place in the sun
A richly drawn portrait of Haiti in Quebec, of Quebec through Haiti, and the ways in which migrants transform societies.
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Becoming holy in early canada
Uncovering the history of sanctity in everyday colonial life.
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What would cervantes do?
A timely meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. Castillo and Egginton offer a tour-de-force commentary on politics and popular culture through critical comparative readings of Western cultural texts of the twentieth and twenty...
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Tenants in time
Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered but tenancy was of vital importance.
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Contesting the moral high ground
How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.
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Mirrors of a generation
Mirrors of a Generation tells the story of the Company of Young Canadians. Created by the federal government in 1965, it was dedicated to promoting community-based social justice initiatives across the country until its closure in 1976.
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A life of ill repute
The life of prostitutes in medieval European society.
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Life and death in revolutionary ukraine
Between 1917 and 1923, invasion, revolution, war, and grim living conditions claimed unimaginable numbers of Ukrainian lives. Velychenko examines the social background to the political history of revolutionary Ukraine, documenting the country's demographic losses during the Ukrainian and Russian ...
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Uninvited
A historian and a philosopher respond in poetry to Plato's Symposium.
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Mugabe and the politics of security in zimbabwe
How President Robert Mugabe manipulated Zimbabwe's security policy to exploit past problems for present gain.
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A two-edged sword
An examination of the Royal Canadian Navy and its promotion of sovereignty through collective defence.
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Saving germany
With Nazism defeated and Communism encroaching, Christian missionaries left for Germany to fight for the soul of a nation.
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Nights in fairyland
Drawing on a singular complete collection of Broadway Brevities issues discovered over decades of research, Nights in Fairyland is a rich account of a virtually unknown form of periodical publishing, urban nightlife, queer sociability, and the commodification of gossip in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Unbuttoned
How Canadians reimagined what a politician should be.
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L.m. montgomery and war
Reclaiming the place of a writer best known for depicting the lives of girls and women, as a groundbreaking writer about war.
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Military operations and the mind
An in-depth look at the battlefield of military ethics and soldiers’ moral injuries and wars within.
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Magda and andré trocmé
A selection of writings by courageous pacifist Christians who helped to save hundreds of lives during the Second World War.
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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...
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Pensionnats du canada : la réconciliation
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...
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Repenser l’acadie dans le monde
Petite société francophone concentrée dans le Canada atlantique, l’Acadie renvoie tout autant à une multiplicité de réalités socioculturelles. Cet ouvrage présente une perspective indispensable pour comprendre la francophonie—surtout le dynamisme, la persévérance et la diversité du peuple acadien.
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Stanley's dream
The story of a passionate attempt to capture the entire biosphere of an isolated community facing ecological transformation.
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Turkey and the armenian ghost
A compelling portrait of the aftermath of the Armenian genocide and the enduring struggle to have it officially recognized.
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War memories
Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.
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Cautiously hopeful
If feminism has always been characterised by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. A hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the 21st century.
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Beyond tragedy and eternal peace
As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. This book provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between his critique of metaph...
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The etruscans in the modern imagination
The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fa...
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The fate of canada
The Fate of Canada introduces readers to poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, activist and law professor F.R. Scott’s biography, puts his diary entries into the political context of the time, and identifies the people he met and the places he visited during the hearings of the Royal Commiss...
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Mobilizing mercy
An engaging history that follows Canada’s leading humanitarian organization through decades of war, peace, and social change.
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The rediscovered self
Indigenous peoples' struggle for justice and selfhood in an integrating world.
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God and government
A compelling account of the political thought of the man who started the Reformation.
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Reckoning with history
This collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history and put the past to work. Contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past.
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Canada’s residential schools: the métis experience
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...
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Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms
An examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.
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Contemporary federalist thought in quebec
Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec explores the federalist thought that shaped the constitutional debate in Quebec. Examining historical perspectives from 1950 to the present, the volume draws portraits of the key federalist actors, compares their outlooks, and examines the ties that bind ...
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Penal servitude
Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study of the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude between 1853 and 1948, detailing the administration and evolution of the system, its creation, the building of the prison estate, and the experiences of prison...
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Hungry and starving
Stalin’s collectivization of Soviet Russia’s agriculture resulted in the deaths of at least ten million people through starvation and associated diseases between 1928 and 1934. Hungry and Starving explores primary accounts of the Great Soviet Famine on the part of both its perpetrators and its su...
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Selling britishness
From the 1920s until the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspapers, and cinema screens with 'British to the core' Canadian apples, 'British to the backbone' New Zealand lamb, and 'All British' Australian butter. Selling Britishness explores the r...
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The shady side of fifty
A breakthrough study of age and old age in North America - both as a concept and as lived experience.
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Power and subsistence
A lively exploration of the nature of power in New France, as enacted within the grain economy.
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Running on empty
A powerful history of how Canada rescued 70,000 Indochinese refugees between 1975 and 1980.
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A vacation for victory
A Vacation for Victory revives the fascinating history of the Women’s Land Army in Canada, drawing on archival letters, newspapers, interviews, and creative nonfiction to portray the working lives of women on the farm front.
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Psychedelic new york
A hub for the production, distribution, investigation, and consumption of psychedelics, New York City gave birth to a drug culture that was a fitting reflection of the global metropolis. Psychedelic New York sheds light on decades of psychedelic science, the inception of psychedelic art, drug-inf...
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Scandal in the parish
An eye-opening examination of rural French Catholicism through stories told by priests and parishioners in church court records.
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Women in the ukrainian underground
Women in the Ukrainian Underground examines women’s mobilization in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, depicting the fates of the women involved and considering their representation in film and literature.
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After the revival
Addressing broader questions about how religious movements organise, establish an identity, and develop a subculture that flourishes, After the Revival explores the fascinating history of Pentecostalism in Canada and the ways the church engages with Canadian society.
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Disciples of antigonish
By charting nearly a century of growth, struggle, and organizing, Disciples of Antigonish chronicles how a small Nova Scotian diocese came to exert tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism, and create one of the most important Catholic social movements in North America.
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The right to research
Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators and historians. The Right to Research offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and...
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