Une mort très digne

Une mort très digne est l'histoire sociale de la mort, de la sépulture et du cimetière Mont-Royal de Montréal. Lieu de grande beauté, le cimetière Mont-Royal a inspiré Henry Law Olmsted lors de la création du parc voisin du Mont-Royal et a joué un rôle notable dans le développement de Montréal. B...

Blood and religion

In Blood and Religion Ronald Love explores the symbiosis of religion and politics in the early career of Henri IV of France, examining the king's strong religious beliefs - imbibed in early youth from his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre - and the profound effect they had not only on his...

The west indians of costa rica

The Jamaicans, Barbadians, and other West Indians who migrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the twentieth century found themselves in a country that prides itself on its Spanish and "white settler" origins. In The West Indians of Costa Rica Ronald Harpell

The history of the german resistance, 1933-1945, third edition

The History of the German Resistance is the most comprehensive and authoritative account ever published of the German opposition's struggle against Hitler, covering all the serious attempts to overthrow or assassinate him leading up to the failed attempt of 20 July 1944. Extensive notes, a full b...

Central works of philosophy, volume 1

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon for undergraduate students and general readers.

The child letters

The Child Letters provides an intimate look at the daily life of an ordinary Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the recently unified province of Canada. A collection of the almost daily correspondence between Marcus Child and his family while he was attending legislative sessions in King...

Pierre-esprit radisson: the collected writings, volume 1

A vivid and illuminating view of the New World through the eyes of a seventeenth-century explorer, trader, and adventurer.

Arctic justice

Arctic Justice is the story of the execution of a white fur trader by an Inuk. Shelagh Grant recounts how this event was crucial in establishing law enforcement in the High Arctic and documents its tragic consequences for Inuit in the subsequent decades. This compelling and generously illustrated...

Drum songs, first edition

Drum Songs examines the history of the Dene, one of the aboriginal peoples of Canada's western subarctic, from ancient times to the present. Using a range of sources that includes archival documents, oral testimony, archaeological findings, linguistic studies, and folk traditions, Kerry Abel show...

Resistance and revolution

This is the story of a special time and some extraordinary people. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the architectural wonder of Prague became the setting for some of the harshest communist repression in the Cold War. Yet this bleak period produced an unusual cast of chara...

A short history of modern ireland

The future's back

Given the likely proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the future, and the failure of "non-proliferation" regimes to provide effective barriers to the spread of nuclear technology in the past, efforts towards greater understanding of nuclear rivalry are crucial. The Future's Back provid...

The war against the seals

Controversy arises whenever and wherever the sealing industry is discussed. But the modern-day anti-sealing movement is very new in comparison with the industry it opposes. This comprehensive history begins with the opening of American trade with China, and follows the industry wherever North Ame...

Canada as statebuilder?

In Canada as Statebuilder? Laura Grant and Benjamin Zyla analyze over one hundred and thirty Canadian-led development projects in Afghanistan to illustrate that Canada has limited capacity to effectively run humanitarian efforts in unstable, insecure, or inaccessible environments. Reflecting on C...

Dark age

A gripping political biography of one of Africa's most controversial leaders.

Urban enigmas

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.

Through sunshine and shadow

The Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) quickly evolved from an organization established to eradicate the consumption of alcohol to become concerned with broader social problems. Sharon Cook shows that the WCTU nurtured a distinct feminist c

The empire within

A compelling study of the global dimensions and local particularities of political activism in Sixties Montreal.

For canada's sake

In 1967, Canadians cheered and ate cake on Parliament Hill, spent millions on outlandish modern buildings, and flocked to the World Expo in Montreal. In his groundbreaking book, Gary Miedema uses Canada's centennial celebrations to illustrate how religion informed nation-building and national ide...

This distant and unsurveyed country

In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic. Wives of British captains rarely sailed with their husbands and Margaret Penny was one of the few wome...

Ireland, a bicycle, and a tin whistle

Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open space...

The ill-made alliance

Divided into three parts, The Ill-Made Alliance examines the roots and course of the Anglo-Turkish rapprochement in the years 1934-38; the economic, military, and politic factors in 1938-39 that inhibited development of the emerging alliance to the point where it might have been fully functional;...

For patients of moderate means

Between 1890 and 1910 scientific and technological innovation transformed the custodial Victorian charity hospital for the sick poor into the primary source of effective acute medical care for all members of society. For the next half century hospitals coped with relentlessly escalating demands f...

Jesuit relations and allied documents

This edition focuses on the Jesuit mission to the Hurons which culminated in the martyrdom of Fathers Brébeuf and Lalemant, and gives a fascinating glimpse of the Great Lakes Indian culture at the time the white man first came.

Search out the land

To date, Jews and Jewish contributions to the early development of Canada and the British colonies have been marginalized in Canadian history. In Search Out the Land Sheldon Godfrey and Judith Godfrey begin to redress this situation by illustrating and an

The journals of yaakov zipper, 1950-1982

Following his death at age eighty-three, it was discovered that for over three decades Yaacov Zipper had kept a journal. Replete with compelling character sketches of many of Montreal's Jewish leaders, most of whom Zipper seems to have disliked, his diary provides a personal account of Montreal's...

The freedom to smoke

A social and cultural history of the rise of the cigarette and the way smoking rituals in Montreal were shaped by gender, class, and race.

Islam and bosnia

An exploration of the causes of the Bosnian war by academics and diplomats that offers the broadest perspective on the conflict to date.

White siberia

In the first full-length account of the Siberian theatre during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, N.G.O. Pereira documents the nature, causes, and consequences of the failure of the anti-Bolshevik White movement. The term "White," used in a broad political sense to contrast with the "Red" Bol...

Lyndhurst

Only recently have the voices of the disabled - the personal experiences of people with disabilities - been included in medical history. Lyndhurst marks an important contribution to disability and medical history by providing first-person accounts of patients, staff, and disability activists at L...

Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in newfoundland and labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador has a long history of commercial whaling, beginning in the first half of the sixteenth century when Basque whalers established seasonal stations on the Labrador coast from which to hunt bowheads and North Atlantic right whales. Anthony Dickinson and Chesley Sanger examin...

Canada and the great war

Canada and the Great War explores the military and socio-cultural history of World War I, adding new dimensions not only to the history of Canadas role in the war but to the wars role in shaping Canada.

Robert laird borden, vol i

The memoirs of Sir Robert Borden are honest, straightforward, and fair; qualities similar to those possessed by the unpretentious Nova Scotia lawyer who became leader of the Conservative Party and Canada's prime minister during World War One.

Global shift

A striking portrait of states in the non-Western world from the dismantling of European empires to their inclusion into a universe of global capitalism.

Law, life, and government at red river, volume 2

A new view of frontier justice in western Canada’s first major settlement through the eyes of its courts and witnesses.

Religion, family, and community in victorian canada

While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. Drawing on a treasure trove of family papers and material culture, Marguerite Van Die depicts religion as "lived experience" in a po...

The constitutions that shaped us

The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Procl...

Law, life, and government at red river, volume 1

A new view of frontier justice in western Canada’s first major settlement through the eyes of its courts and witnesses.

The victorian army at home

One of the boys, second edition

A new edition of a book that has changed the way we think about sexual conduct and combat.

One country or two?

First on the antarctic continent

Polar pioneers

During the first half of the nineteenth century British explorers eagerly sought the Northwest Passage, making great advances in exploring and charting polar regions. Polar Pioneers is the story of John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross, British naval officers who made important contributions ...

Projecting canada

The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology...

The clean body

Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body.

The royal touch

Political ecumenism

Geoffrey Adams argues that the creation of La France libre and its assumption of power constitute a major turning point in modern French history. Charles de Gaulle was both the representative of a predominantly Catholic France and leader of the republican cause. By attracting key personalities fr...

Britain and the war for the union

Passage to promise land

How the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.

Finding franklin

The full story of those who have searched for Franklin since his expedition disappeared.

L' université laurentienne

L'histoire fascinante de la croissance de l'Université Laurentienne et de ses innovations en l'éducation postsecondaire canadienne.

Native peoples and water rights

The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.

The canadian founding

A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009)

Sods, soil, and spades

French Acadians began settling in the Grand Pré area of Nova Scotia, a region plagued by salt-soaked tidal meadows, in the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, a complex system of sod barriers had enabled them to convert 3,000 acres of what had been tidal marshes into ric...

George-etienne cartier

George-Etienne Cartier has traditionally been interpreted as primarily a federal politician, as Macdonald's ally in building a united Canada, and as a representative French Canadian. Brian Young downplays ethnic and national political factors and focuses on Cartier's function as spokesman for a s...

Mercenaries for the crimea

Counterweights

Focusing on Canadian-German defence relations from 1955 to 1995, Roy Rempel examines the evolution of Canada's bilateral relationship with Germany in the context of the broader goals and objectives of Canadian foreign policy. He argues that Canadian decision makers have often been ignorant of the...

The canadian economy in the great depression, third edition

An updated classic on Canada's Great Depression with insights for the current global financial crisis

Laurentian university

Linda Ambrose, Matt Bray, Sara Burke, Donald Dennie, et Guy GaudreauThe fascinating story of Laurentian University's growth and innovations in post-secondary education.

Treaty no. 9

The complete story behind the signing of one of North America's largest land treaties.

Capital formation in canada, 1896-1930

Through capital formation, the changes of the era are analysed: for instance, the boom in the wheat economy, the growth of the railways and the expansion of cities.

Louis xv's navy, 1748-1762

Louis XV's Navy presents a sharply detailed picture of an institution caught between its Colbertian legacy and contemporary challenges arising from overseas development and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization and administration in the years b...

God's peculiar peoples

For the first time, the major essays of distinguished Canadian scholar S.F. Wise are collected in this book. God's Peculiar Peoples will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the political culture of English-speaking Canada and its intellectual history.

Letters from rupert's land, 1826-1840

James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on t...

Sailor's hope

The story of an important figure in the history of pre-Confederation Canada.

Beneath flanders fields

The story of Britain and Germany's cat-and-mouse mine warfare - one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented, and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.

Saving germany

With Nazism defeated and Communism encroaching, Christian missionaries left for Germany to fight for the soul of a nation.

The ordinary people of essex

An overview of agricultural practices and land use in early Canada.

This great national object

In This Great National Object, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor - the unparalleled experts on the subject - recount the story of the canals, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the engineers, contractors, and labourers who built the inland waterways between 1824 and 1889.

The canadian city

The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. Other sections are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.

Staying connected

The story of a business, its founding family, and their continued success.

Filling the ranks

A groundbreaking work on the management of Canadian manpower in the First World War.

Italians in toronto

Italians in Toronto provides an insightful account of how village and regional groups transplanted their communities into the city that is now one of the largest expatriate centres for Italians in the world. The history of Italian migration to Canada is the history of emigration from countless to...

Hurrah revolutionaries

An in-depth analysis of the history, culture, and politics of Polish Canadian radicals and Communists.

Social discredit

In Social Discredit Janine Stingel exposes a crucial, yet previously neglected, part of Social Credit history - the virulent, anti-Jewish campaign it undertook before, during, and after the Second World War. While most Canadians acknowledged the perils o

The confederation debates in the province of canada, 1865

Between 3 February and 13 March 1865, the Parliament of the Province of Canada debated the negotiated confederation of British colonies on the Atlantic seaboard, aimed at creating a union from Newfoundland to Lake Superior. As a public information exercise, legislators decided to produce a near-v...

The once and future great lakes country

A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

Crisis escalation war

Piety and nationalism

Lay voluntary associations played a vital role in the creation of a religiously informed ethnic culture among the Irish Catholics in Toronto. Brian Clarke places the Toronto experience in the context of the two Irish-Catholic awakenings, one national, the

No soft options

Consumers in the bush

The everyday material world of rural Canadian families in the nineteenth century.

Canada among nations, 1989

This is the sixth volume on Canada in international affairs produced by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. As in the past the book is organized around the most recent calendar year and contains an analysis and assessment of Canadian foreign policies as wel...

Winnipeg: a social history of urban growth, 1874-1914

This study provides a reasonably detailed social history of Winnipeg: a description—or reconstruction—of the evolvement of an urban area. It endeavours to identify and describe the events, personages, trends, and movements which have played a key role in the development of Winnipeg.

Shouting, embracing, and dancing with ecstasy

An impressive study of the important role common people play in reviving faith.

The invisible injured

The Canadian military’s battle with soldiers’ psychological trauma.

Doctor to the north

Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad,...

From outpost to outport

In 1766 Gaspé became an outpost of the Jersey metropole; in 1886 the Channel island of Jersey abandoned the region, reducing Gaspé, on Quebec's Atlantic coast, to Canadian outport status. From Outpost to Outport provides a structural and theoretical examination of the economic relationship betwee...

Stauffenberg, second edition

The strange and dangerous voyage of captaine thomas james

A critical edition of the seventeenth-century exploration narrative that helped shape the representation of the Canadian north.