Ordinary saints

An engaging study of rural women and lived religion that explores the ties between gender, labour, and Christian belief.

Leaving christianity

Why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus.

Such hardworking people

Such Hardworking People provides a perceptive description of the working-class experiences of immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. Franca Iacovetta focuses on the relations between newly arrived workers and their families, showing that the Italians who came to...

Some family

"Donald Akenson writes authoritatively and with verve about this controversial mixture of religion, politics, and culture … this is a good book that rewards repeated readings." Books in Canada

Bounty and benevolence

The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Regina v. Marshall regarding the treaty rights of the Mi'kmaq dramatically underscored our need to understand the history of treaty relationships between Canada's First Nations and the Crown. The numbered treaties covering Canada's prairie provinces ...

The largest amount of good

In Ireland, a nation long torn by rancour dividing Catholics and many Protestants, one Protestant sect has consistently been held in affection by the Catholic Irish: the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. From their arrival in Ireland in 1654, Quaker responses to the condition of Ireland w...

The politics of motherhood

Mad flight?

How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.

Early modern spectatorship

Essays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.

Power and pleasure

One of the great political figures of his day, Louis Barthou was also labelled a thief, an accomplice to murder, and a sexual pervert. He was France's foreign minister when, in 1934, he suffered a fatal bullet wound during the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander. Barthou had spent forty-...

The last french and indian war

In the summer of 1760, ten months after the fall of Quebec City, British forces under the command of General Amherst were converging on Montreal, which would capitulate to the British by early September. Somehow Amherst had managed to break the complex network of French-Native alliances on which ...

The royal college of physicians and surgeons of canada, 1920-1960

People, state, and war under the french regime in canada

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary...

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 ...

Canada's early nuclear policy

The advent of nuclear weapons introduced a complex new factor into world politics, drawing a line through history and ensuring that international relations would never be the same. By both accident and design, Canada was a central player in the new nuclear era, as countries grappled with the impl...

The communitarian third way

Ordre Nouveau's "neither right nor left" movement, based on personalism and revolutionary federalism, helped shape modern Catholic political culture in France, the National Revolution instituted by the Vichy regime, the post-war European movement, and the contemporary European New Right. It influ...

Gender, generation, and journalism in france, 1910-1940

After the pioneer women in French newspapers, how did the next two generations, still a minority in the newsroom, fare?

The cross of gold

An intriguing view of the Canadian economy before WWI, this study fills a gap in the existing literature on the economic history of Canada. Using improved monetary statistics, the author explains how the business cycle worked under the gold standard, and takes an in-depth look at the roles the ba...

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...

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...

Techniciens de l'organisation sociale

How experts, businessmen, and volunteers reorganized Catholic charities in twentieth-century Quebec.

Organizing rural women

In Organizing Rural Women Margaret Kechnie looks at the history of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, popularly known as the Women's Institutes (WI), from the time the first branch was formed at Stoney Creek in 1897 until federation in 1919. Kechnie challenges the popular mythology that...

Réfléchir sur notre passé pour aborder notre avenir

Un regard lucide sur la vocation initiale du Sénat et son rôle dans le Canada actuel.

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...

Lord durham's report, new edition

One of the most important and controversial documents in the history of democratic reform, with new discussions of its context and ongoing relevance.

Canadian sociologists in the first person

Exploring what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from a first-person perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century.

Lost harvests

With a new introduction by the author

A fleeting empire

An illuminating history of the first mercenaries and merchants who fought to control North America.

Serving the present age

During the nineteenth century, revivalism spurred the rapid growth of Methodism in Canada, helping to make it the largest Protestant denomination in the country at the time of Confederation. But, at the dawn of the new century, the revivalist and perfect

Debt, law, realism

Debt, Law, Realism reads African novels as political philosophy, offering important lessons about the foundations of social trust, the principle of succession, and the nature of sovereignty, authority, and law.

Berruyer's bible

Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within ...

Transatlantic passages

An interdisciplinary, literary, critical, and creative anthology that explores cultural connections between Quebec and francophone Europe.

The social cost of cheap food

How labour exploitation in the British distribution system was key to cheaper food between 1830 and 1914.

Indentured servitude

Anna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants.

Transnationalism

Original essays that argue the significance of the shared North American history of Canada and the United States rather than Canadian-American relations.

Keeping promises

How historic and modern Aboriginal treaties continue to shape the Canadian landscape.

Between raid and rebellion

A comparative study of Irish communities in a Canadian and an American city.

Michael power

From his role in the devotional revolutions of the nineteenth century to tending the Irish famine migrants in the fever sheds of Toronto, Michael Power's extraordinary life provides glimpses into the role of the Church during the most important events in early Canadian history. Writing with insig...

Journey to vaja

Part autobiography, part family chronicle, and part immigrant saga, Journey to Vaja tells the story of the Weinbergers over the course of two centuries. From settlement in a Hungarian village in the late eighteenth century to the German occupation of Hung

Hinterland remixed

An examination of the legacy and cultural afterlife of the Canadian 1970s in film, television, and the visual arts.

The road to nunavut

In The Road to Nunavut, R. Quinn Duffy analyses federal government policy on the social and economic growth of the Inuit. Duffy describes the economic, social, and political changes in the Eastern Arctic and provides the historical background to the current debate on Inuit land claims and politic...

Quebec

Recent social trends in greece, 1960-2000

An overview of the socio-economic profile of Greece during 1960-1995.

A bare and impolitic right

When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past? In A Bare and Impolitic Right Bohdan Kordan and Craig Mahovsky examine the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great War and explore the political, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of r...

Spirited commitment

An institutional history of one of Canada's premier philanthropic organizations.

The recovery of wonder

Environmental degradation. Globalization. The closure of our public life to the transcendent dimensions of human existence. For esteemed philosopher Kenneth Schmitz these are the by-products of modernity and post-modernity. But The Recovery of Wonder is not a denunciation of modern philosophy. In...

Understanding military culture

This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the U...

Protegér la démocratie canadienne

Le Sénat du Canada a souvent fait l'objet de controverse et de projets de réforme ces dernières années. Protéger la démocratie canadienne : Le Sénat, en vérité … jette un nouveau regard sur l'histoire, le rôle et l'évolution du Sénat, le situe dans le contexte d'autres systèmes fédéraux et distin...

Christians in a secular world

Based on eighteen surveys exploring the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour of over 100,000 Canadians, Kurt Bowen assesses the state of Christians and their churches in Canada at the close of the twentieth century. Christians in a Secular World argues that the religiously committed still differ fro...

René lévesque and the parti québécois in power, second edition

Nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec history. Graham Fraser paints a vivid portrait of one o

The irish war of independence

The Irish War of Independence was a sporadic guerrilla campaign that lasted from January 1919 until July 1921. Michael Hopkinson makes full use of the recently opened files of the Bureau of Military Archives in Dublin, which contain valuable first-hand contemporary accounts of the war, meticulous...

Henry goulburn, 1784-1856

Brian Jenkins's impressive biography documents Henry Goulburn's long and successful political career during the first half of the nineteenth century. Rescuing Goulburn from unmerited obscurity, Jenkins reveals that he was at the centre of far-reaching political and economic developments during a ...

Dominion lands policy

First published in 1938, this work is important for an understanding of the settlement of the three prairie provinces and of the implementation of the National Policy initiated by Sir John A. Macdonald.

Champlain

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

Nationalism from the margins

In Nationalism from the Margins Patricia Wood offers a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian migration to Alberta and British Columbia Wood documents a mul

Mcgill medicine, volume 2, 1885-1936

This second volume in the history of the McGill University Medical School begins a few years before the opening of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1894 and traces the major developments in the institution's second half century. At the beginning of this period the McGill Faculty of Medicine was alr...

Watching quebec

Spanning forty years, this volume focuses on social and cultural change among French-speaking Canadians and its effect on the evolution of nationalism in Quebec. In essays that address both historical and contemporary issues, Ramsay Cook explores topics such as the implications of the Conquest of...

The moral foundations of canadian federalism

Focusing on key events in Canadian political history, Samuel LaSelva examines the moral foundations of the Canadian federal system of government and their implications. He looks at the ideals, arguments, and rhetoric invoked by the debates surrounding crucial events in Canadian federalism -- Conf...

Between dispersion and belonging

Revisiting diaspora theory with illuminating global case studies.

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...

The myth of the sacred

In this collection the authors challenge the "myth of the sacred" - the idea that certain aspects of the constitutional process - judicial political behaviour, interest group politics, and centralization of power - are untouchable politically. They suggest that certain actors and institutions hav...

The struggle for quebec

The prospect of Quebec secession remains the greatest threat to the integrity of the Canadian state and the well-being of Canadians. This was clearly demonstrated by the razor-thin defeat of the sovereigntist force in the Quebec referendum of October 1995. Robert Young is an expert on secession. ...

A woman's way through unknown labrador

In 1905 Mina Benson Hubbard became the first white woman to cross Labrador, documenting her travels in the classic A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador. This reissue, edited and fully annotated by Sherrill Grace, makes the complete work available for the first time since the original 1908 publi...

The failure of l'action libérale nationale

The formation in 1934 of the Action libérale nationale (ALN) as a third party in Quebec was largely a response, Patricia Dirks reveals, to the growing belief that the laissez-faire economic and social policies of Taschereau's Liberal government in Quebec allowed continued domination of francophon...

The heavens are changing

A study of Protestant missionization among the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples of the North Pacific Coast of British Columbia during the latter half of the nineteenth century

The river returns

Millions of tourists and residents know the Bow River as it tumbles through Banff's spectacular scenery or carves an elegant arc through the city of Calgary. Fewer people know the Bow as a heavily engineered, hard-working river.

A history for the future

A personal debate on the future of history and memory in Quebec.

The montreal olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics were the most riveting Games the world had ever seen, but planning efforts in Montreal were complicated by a wilful mayor, an inexperienced head of the IOC, a federal government that stayed at arm's length, and a provincial government split along federalist/separatist lines.

Exiles and islanders

Exiles and Islanders describes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, Brendan O'Grady demolishes the myth that the Island's Irish settlers were largely refugees from the Great Potato Famine. Using a wide variety of sources, incl...

In armageddon's shadow

The important and long-standing economic, social, and kinship ties between the United States and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island were profoundly shaken by the Civil War. In this engaging and accessible account, Greg Marquis explores the shadow cast on the Maritimes and its pe...

Assisting emigration to upper canada

The 1830s were years of social and political change in Britain. Rural unrest in 1830?31 spurred politicians and landlords to reexamine the roles government and individuals should play in fighting poverty. Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada demonstrates the impact of new attitudes and new rules ...

An element of hope

Cancer is now the leading cause of death in Canada, yet many recent studies have drawn attention to problems in cancer control, such as long waiting times for treatment, inequitable access to care, and variations in treatment. An Element of Hope traces the early development of cancer programs in ...

Vikings to u-boats

The first German arrived in Newfoundland with Leif Eirikson's Viking expedition. By 1914 St. John's was home to a vibrant German community while a Moravian enclave thrived in Labrador. Contemporary Newfoundland, however, remembers its German heritage largely in terms of U-Boat captains and local ...

The serbian project and its adversaries

An examination of the military dimensions of Serbian aggression in the former Yugoslavia.

The metamorphoses of landscape and community in early quebec

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries French settlers radically transformed the landscape of the St Lawrence river, creating strong local communities that became the crucibles of a New World nationalism. Drawing on the insights and methods of cultural history, Colin Coates examines the seig...

Chess game for democracy

In the turbulent years between 1944 and 1947, Hungarian politics was marked by constant conflict between the two most powerful parties in the governing coalition - the Independent Smallholders Party and the Communist Party. The history of this struggle reads like a series of moves in a dramatic c...

Away

In Away, Gary Burrill presents the voices of Maritimers in exile as they talk about their decisions to leave home, their experiences moving to and establishing themselves in new areas, and the way their exile from the Maritime provinces of Canada has shaped their views of themselves, their adopte...

Walter long, ireland, and the union, 1905-1920

It has been argued that Walter Long was the most powerful single voice on Irish affairs in the British government for the critical period from 1916 to 1920. As the leader most committed to a federalist approach to constitutional reform in Ireland, he was a central figure in maintaining a firm sta...

French socialists before marx

How to put socialism into practice was as fundamental a concern for nineteenth-century socialists as it has been for their successors. In French Socialists before Marx Pamela Pilbeam explores the development of and changes in socialist ideas, revealing how the Fourierists of the 1830s and 1840s c...

The saddest country

The Saddest Country is the personal account of a diplomat's three-year obsession with Colombia. It takes the reader on a geographical tour of the country, placing in stark contrast the immense diversity and beauty of Colombia and the bloody civil war and the violence of the drug trade that mar it.

Enemy aliens, prisoners of war

Some eight thousand immigrant-settlers of "enemy" nationality - so called enemy aliens - were interned as civilian prisoners of war in Canada during World War I. The majority, deemed second-class prisoners, were sent to the hinterland of the Canadian Rock

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...

The flying tiger

Storytelling bridges culture, history, and spirituality. In The Flying Tiger Kira Van Deusen takes us into the world of the female shamans of the Amur, presenting over fifty traditional stories she recorded in the 1990s from the people of the taiga forest in the Russian Far East. More than a coll...

Uqalurait

An authoritative and comprehensive compilation of the ancient knowledge of Inuit elders.

Networked operations and transformation

The driving concept behind the transformation of Western armed forces in the twenty-first century has been a fully integrated information network that will supposedly create a "decisive" advantage in fighting and other military actions. In a detailed examination of different types of networked op...

History of the liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the liverpool slave trade, 1744-1812

"Though we are on the threshold of the Twentieth Century, with its tremendous possibilities, there are indications that white men still exist who would gladly revert to the iniquitous system of a bygone age, and enslave the African in his own land. If anything in this book should help to awaken t...

From spinster to career woman

Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian England.

Ghost brothers

While Spanish conquistadores in the Americas seemed bent on plunder and the British on land appropriation, the French became swept up in a complex web of Native alliances. In an unprecedented study, Rony Blum explores how phantom-mediated interpretations of the past and present were key to the un...

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 ...

The ontario cancer institute

In The Ontario Cancer Institute Ernest McCulloch discusses how the institute, dedicated to the goal of reducing the burden of cancer, continuously strove for excellence and shows how both original and collaborative work were encouraged within a supportive environment.

Labeling people

Nineteenth-century French scholars, during a turbulent era of revolution and industrialization, ranked intelligence and character according to facial profile, skin colour, and head shape. They believed that such indicators could determine whether individuals were educable and peoples perfectible....

Blood ground

In Blood Ground Elizabeth Elbourne looks at the relationship between the Khoekhoe, the British empire, and the London Missionary Society in the early nineteenth century, a time of intense conflict in which different groups competed to mobilize Christianit

Lady landlords of prince edward island

A lively look at estate management and resistance to land reform in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island through the life stories of four elite British women landowners.

Body counts

In an invigorating comparative and interdisciplinary reconsideration of the role of different types of medical counting, this wide-ranging bilingual volume takes us from the mortality tables of the eighteenth century to the movement for evidence-based medicine in our own day. Culled from the proc...

Living rhythms

There are few works on economic development among Canada's Aboriginal. Living Rhythms offers a current perspective on indigenous economics, planning, business development, sustainable development, and knowledge systems. Using a series of cases studies featuring Aboriginal communities and organiza...

Eighteenth-century naturalists of hudson bay

Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business empire, Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. ...

A short history of quebec, fourth edition

Written by two of Quebec's most respected historians, A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the present-day.

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, ...