Stories of women in the middle ages

An insightful window into the lives of women in the Middle Ages.

The quebec conference of 1864

A new interpretation of a key period in Canadian political history.

Hijacking history

How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.

Sorrows of a century

An intimate analysis of the motives for suicide, set amidst the crises of the twentieth century.

Jerusalem on the amur

In 1928 the Soviet Union proposed the establishment of an autonomous socialist Jewish republic in the far eastern reaches of Russian territory. In Birobidzhan the eternal search for a Jewish homeland would be realized and Jews would possess their own institutions, which would function in Yiddish....

The ones we let down

The “decade of darkness” was a tumultuous time for women in Canada’s military. A human rights tribunal ordered the military to open combat positions to women and reach full gender integration by 1999. Charlotte Duval-Lantoine looks at failed efforts to accomplish this goal, revealing an organizat...

The boundaries of ethnicity

Benjamin Bryce considers what it meant to be German in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. For the Germans who make up the core of this study, the distinction between insiders and outsiders was often unclear. The Boundaries of Ethnicity uncovers some of the origins of Canadian multiculturalism, and go...

Vanguard of the new age

The story of the small "new age" religious group that introduced Victorian Toronto to Eastern thought and theology, vegetarianism, reincarnation, cremation, and the pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi.

Women, gender, and anatomy in enlightenment france

A visually rich and expansive medical history that centres women’s bodies and labour in eighteenth-century French anatomical practice, revealing the gendered foundations of modern medical science.

Beyond the noise of solemn assemblies

Reflections on the rise and transformative power of a new social consciousness.

Uttering the unutterable

Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence ...

Growing with canada

During the second half of the twentieth century musical life in Canada flourished as never before, due in large measure to a generation of European émigrés who worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of classical music by teaching, performing, and composing "in the key of Canada."

Ivan mazepa and the russian empire

A political biography of the famous Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and his clash with the emerging Russian empire.

Florence nightingale and the medical men

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy.

To explore the land of canaan

This volume is a collection of papers by colleagues, friends and students, in honor of Jeffrey Chadwick. The papers cover the various topic that he has dealt with in his career, including biblical historical geography, and the archaeology and history of the Levant and its environs during the Bron...

A critical spirit

This volume contains the major writings of this neglected figure in the intellectual history of Canada: his defence of the intellectual life; his advocacy of a scientific, evolutionary ethos; his indictment of the political morality and popular government of his day; and his application of the cr...

Statistical account of upper canada

This account was compiled originally in 1822 to promote an immigration scheme for Upper Canada, but its disclosures of backward development and governmental mismanagement made it the focal point of a violent controversy.

The mackenzie pipeline

This volume focuses mainly on the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline proposal, the most gigantic resource undertaking ever considered by Canadians.

A history of transportation in canada, volume 2

First published in 1938, Volume two deals with Canadian transportation from 1867 to the late 1930s, and includes what is regarded as one of the best short discussions of the Canadian "railway problem."

Canadian commercial revolution, 1845-1852

Freedom and order

A history of transportation in canada, volume 1

First published in 1938, A History of Transportation in Canada is regarded as the standard work on the subject. Its great merit lies in the way in which it skillfully links advances in transportation with the course of Canadian political and economic history. Volume 1 covers the history of transp...

The crisis of quebec, 1914-1918

The Crisis of Quebec was first published in 1937 and remains the most vivid and comprehensive study of the conscription crisis of 1917.

Gender and land reform

Zimbabwe's nationalist and post-colonial ambitions have been largely defined by land reform. Allison Goebel assesses Zimbabwe's successes and failures in incorporating gender issues into the broader project of land redistribution. Based on fieldwork in the Sengezi resettlement area in east centra...

Land of the midnight sun, new edition

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-World War II res...

Maturing in hard times

From the management of Canada's fledgling economy to the complex economic structures created to deal with the Great Depression, Robert Bryce's history of the Canadian Department of Finance traces the growth of one of the federal government's most important and complex departments.

O'callaghan

Canada among nations, 1994

A Part of the Peace addresses three areas in international affairs which are of particular concern to Canadian foreign policy makers: multilateralism, regionalism and peacekeeping.

State and status

State and Status is an examination of the rise of the centralized state and its effect on the power of the aristocracy in the British Isles and in France and its eastern periphery during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Canadian bilingual districts

Bilingual districts were recommended in 1969 by the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism to help resolve Canada's sociolinguistic tensions. The "cornerstone" of the Commission's 150 recommendations and its federal language policy, these administrative enclaves were intended to provi...

Columbia journals, bicentennial edition

A valuable first-hand account of the westernmost expansion of the fur trade.

Canada's century

In 1991 some of Canada's pre-eminent political scientists gathered at a conference in honour of John Meisel, one of Canada's foremost political scientists. In this collection of the eighteen essays presented at the conference contributors explore a range of key issues in Canadian politics at the ...

Just watch us

A remarkable investigation of state spying on women’s liberation during the Cold War.

Travellers through empire

An exploration of Indigenous people’s experiences travelling from Canada to Britain and beyond from the 1770s to 1914.

Montreal in evolution

Montreal in Evolution presents the rich and complex history of Montreal's architectural and environmental development from the first fort of Ville-Marie to the skyscrapers of today. It also examines the forces which shaped the city during the past three hundred and fifty years.

Au risque de la conversion

A pioneering study of twentieth-century Quebec missionary work as an experience of intercultural encounter.

Missing in action

Missing in Action is the touching personal account of Canadian Air Force navigator John Harvie's experiences during the final months of World War II, including his encounters with the French Resistance and the Gestapo and as a prisoner at the notorious concentration camp in Buchenwald.

Carving a niche

The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.

When the whalers were up north

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whaling vessels from Britain and America plied their trade in great numbers in the waters off the Eastern Arctic of North America. The heyday of whaling has, until now, been documented solely from the perspective of the whalers, never from the ...

Gentle eminence

Born in 1905, George Bernard Flahiff was the son of an innkeeper in a small Ontario town. A versatile athlete and exceptional student, he studied at the University of Toronto, where his history professor, Lester Pearson, suggested a career in diplomacy.

Infection of the innocents

A study of the attempts to cure infants of syphilis and the wet nurses who were harmed.

Interdisciplinary approaches to canadian society

Far more than a bibliographic account of the major works in Canadian Studies, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society provides a broad examination of the state of this growing field of study. Each chapter stresses the importance of the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches w...

In whose interest?

Throughout the twentieth century the Québécois have distinguished themselves from other Canadians by their willingness to transact their financial affairs with co-operative institutions. More than three-quarters of all French-speaking Québécois are currently members of one of these savings and lo...

Jewish presences in english literature

In a collection of insightful critical essays, Derek Cohen, Deborah Heller, and the contributing authors explore the different ways in which writers of English literature have amplified, varied, or denied this archetypical perception.

Culture, religion, and demographic behaviour

Recent work in demography has shown that economic factors alone do not shape patterns of marriage, childbearing, and mortality. Focusing on the French region of Alsace during the period 1750 to 1870, Kevin McQuillan explores the influence of religious an

Florida's snowbirds

Every year when the temperature drops below freezing, countless people do as the thermometers do - head south. Since the end of the Second World War, Florida has been one of the most desired vacation and retirement destinations for generations of "snowbirds." Florida's Snowbirds examines the effe...

Jacob burckhardt and the crisis of modernity

With the values of Western civilization increasingly under siege, economic crises, political unrest, and environmental degradation oblige us to reassess the assumptions of modern mass society. Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity, the first major

Friendly remainders

Theodor Adorno's writings on Western music and the culture industry, always provocative and acerbic, have made his critical position on popular music well known, if not well understood. In Friendly Remainders Murray Dineen examines and extends Adorno's critical method.

Kingdom of barracks

Kingdom of Barracks depicts the texture of everyday life in refugee camps in postwar Europe. Taking a bottom-up perspective, Katarzyna Nowak examines the experiences of Polish Displaced Persons in the shadow of the mounting Cold War and explores the formation of cultural identity in exile through...

Lost harvests

Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Native peoples lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation; gover...

The rebellion of 1837 in upper canada

This volume presents a broad documentary coverage of the rebellions and material on areas of Upper Canada not directly threatened by them. A judicious reading should provide a sound knowledge of the uprisings.

Public passion

Whether in the reception of rousing political oratory like that of de Gaulle or Martin Luther King or in the motivations of demonstrators in popular uprisings like those in Tunisia and Egypt, there is no denying that emotion and politics are connected. No

A rich broth

Kierkegaard's livingroom

In Kierkegaard's Livingroom David Mercer weaves his way through the Philosophical Fragments, bringing the reader a new understanding of Kierkegaard's work. Placing the Philosophical Fragments in the context of Kierkegaard's others works, Mercer's commentary shows how literary style and character ...

Charting the russian northern sea route

A fur trader's photographs

A Fur Trader's Photographs presents the most significant images from a previously unresearched collection of early twentieth-century photographs. The photographer, A.A. Chesterfield, spent most of his working life in Montreal as a professional photographer, a field in which he achieved a national...

Autumn of central paris

Tanzanian doctor

The neutral yankees of nova scotia

John strachan

Essays on the reconstruction of medieval history

Full of hope and promise

One hundred and fifty years ago, on the 10th of February 1841, Upper and Lower Canada (present day Ontario and Quebec) united to form the Province of Canada. In Full of Hope and Promise, Eric Ross paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the Canadas during this portentous year.

Sir francis bond head

The new hungarian agriculture

The last forty year

Experience and identity

The protestant crusade in ireland, 1800-70

Rhodes and rhodesia

This volume deals with the conquest and colonization of Zimbabwe and the establishment of Southern Rhodesia, from the beginnings of British involvement in Bechuanaland to the death of Cecil Rhodes. Its emphasis is on the white invaders and its chief concern is white individuals, their motives, ac...

Community in crisis

Joseph howe, volume ii

In this concluding volume of the biography of the great Nova Scotia tribune, Joseph Howe extends his horizon well beyond his native province and in the climactic period of a tumultuous political career accepts the union of the British North American colonies and "becomes a Canadian."

Cultures of citizenship in post-war canada, 1940 - 1955

Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955 argues that we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its considerable cultural and ideological diversity. The authors explore the quest for cultural reconstruction; the emergence of new definitions of elitism, mass culture, and t...

Skellig

The distemper of our times

It is impossible to appreciate Canada in the mid- and late-1960s without reading The Distemper of Our Times. Newman's skilful selection of evidence, his grasp of personality and the flair and pace of his writing style bring the disparate events of that turbulent era into a cogent narrative that w...

Taking sex into account

Germany as model and monster

In Germany as Model and Monster Gisela Argyle details allusions in English novels to German social, cultural, and political life. Such allusions serve as criticism of English life and of English conventions of fiction. Beginning her study with Thomas Carlyle's "Germanizing" efforts in the 1830s a...

The farmers in politics

First published in 1920, this book endures as a lucid statement of a class and ideological approach to Canadian politics, which with wit and passion seeks to demolish the great Canadian myths of classlessness and pragmatism.

Frontier cattle ranching in the land and times of charlie russell

A re-examination of the free-range cattle ranching era in Montana, Southern Alberta, and Southern Saskatchewan.

Religion in life at louisbourg, 1713-1758

AJ.B. Johnston establishes the secular and religious contexts of life in Louisbourg, and then traces the mixed fortunes of the three religious groups that served the French stronghold of Louisbourg during the eighteenth century.

The holocaust, israel, and canadian protestant churches

The relative silence of Canadian Protestant churches during the Holocaust and their critical attitude toward the State of Israel stemmed mainly from Christian teachings about Jews and Judaism. The very existence of Israel contradicted a fundamental tenet

In first gear

Eastward to empire

No balm in gilead

This book is a rare personal record by a Canadian of the last fifteen years of the British mandate in Palestine. Gelber writes about her experiences as a young Jewish woman during the birth of Israel, and without attributing blame, describes worsening tensions among the factions involved.

The montreal children's hospital

Constructing colonial discourse

While Captain James Cook's South Pacific voyages have been extensively studied, much less attention has been paid to his representation of the Pacific Northwest. In Constructing Colonial Discourse, Noel Elizabeth Currie focuses on the month Cook spent at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouve...

Revival in the city

From the 1880s to the outset of World War I, the best-known American evangelists held hundreds of revival meetings in cities across Canada. Over a million and a half Canadians gathered in churches, roller rinks, halls, theatres, factories, and even saloons to hear the likes of D.L. Moody, Sam Jon...

Crown and nobility, 1450-1509

Letters to a québécois friend

Philip Resnick's controversial letters, written as a stirring response to Quebec's stand in the 1988 federal election, will not only galvanize the ongoing discussions on Meech Lake and Free Trade but will bring to the fore the question of Quebec's future relationship to the rest of Canada. Daniel...

The canadian economy and disarmament

Leadership and responsibility in the second world war

Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War examines how well political, diplomatic, and military leaders, particularly in Great Britain, handled the daunting challenge of a worldwide conflagration. It seeks to determine if a connection can be delineated between leadership, responsibili...

How ottawa spends, 2005-2006

Leading Canadian academics assess the Martin cabinet and the political dilemmas of managing the first minority government since 1979.

The greater game

The Greater Game offers a fresh look at India, showing it to be a dramatically changing democracy after decades of domination by the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty and a newly emerging strategic ally of the United States.

Ex uno plures

Ex Uno Plures is the first comprehensive account of federal-provincial relations in Canada from Confederation to the formation of Wilfrid Laurier's government in 1896. Until now, these formative years for the Canadian federal state have largely been ignored by Canadian political scientists, while...

The coming of austrian fascism

The artisan republic

Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works is an exploration of the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas. Ann Mayer examines Thomas's changing conceptions of language and the creation of meaning as revealed in his numerous self-referential acts of writing and telling.

The political economy of germany: 1815-1914

Connected struggles

How cultural and religious diplomacy influenced Canada-Mexico relations.

Conquest and survival in colonial guatemala, third edition

Le concept de liberté au canada à l’époque des révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)

An argument for competing ideals of liberty as a motivation for the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada.

Guerrilla aesthetics

A bold rumination on 1970s West German urban terrorism and its haunting traces in contemporary art and memory.