Beyond brutal passions

A social history exploring the intersections between those accused of prostitution, their neighbours, families, clients, and criminal justice.

La création de l'école de médecine du nord de l'ontario

Addressing the rural health workforce shortage through distributed community engaged medical education - the story of Canada's first new medical school for the twenty-first century.

The social history of ideas in quebec, 1760-1896

The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

The feminist challenge to the canadian left, 1900-1918

Exploring the role of women and feminism in the early Canadian socialist movement, Janice Newton traces the growth and ultimate decline of feminist ideas within the Canadian Socialist League, the Socialist Party of Canada, and the Social Democratic Party.

Life embodied

A compelling tour through the scientific, philosophical, and cultural meanings of vital force in Spanish modernity.

Small differences

The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences

Planets, potions, and parchments

Planets, Potions, and Parchments is a heavily illustrated and informative catalogue published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the same name. The exhibition, presented by the Jewish Public Library, runs from May to September at the David M. Stewart Museum in Montreal. Both catalogue and ...

The imperial irish

A social and religious history of ethnic conflict and nationalism during the Great War.

Why did we choose to industrialize?

A new analysis of the factors and human choice at the heart of industrialization and social change.

Partita for glenn gould

A privileged look into the life of a solitary artist with an extraordinary gift for communicating art to everyone.

Done with slavery

Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of Lower and Upper Canada.Through close examination of archival and contempora...

The catholic origins of quebec's quiet revolution, 1931-1970

A cogent study that investigates the Catholic origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution.

Canada and the idea of north

A comprehensive overview of the role of the idea of North in Canadian thought, art, and popular culture.

A nation's navy

Bounded by three great oceans, Canada stands as a maritime nation with rich seafaring traditions. Born of both national and British imperial interests in 1910 and maturing in two world wars, its navy is a vital national institution that continues to evolve in response to new and complex challenge...

The highway of the atom

The surprising story of the atomic bomb's origins in Canada's North.

Island doctor

Dr John Mackieson practised medicine in Prince Edward Island from 1821 to 1885. Island Doctor offers an intimate look at the work of this "ordinary" physician and a fascinating glimpse of medicine in the nineteenth century.

Managing the canadian mosaic in wartime

An account of the Canadian government's attempts to "Canadianize" immigrants during the Second World War.

Crimes, constables, and courts

Blending narrative and social history in this fascinating study of crime in a Canadian community, John Weaver describes both the patterns of crime and the evolution of the Canadian criminal justice system over 150 years.

Silent history

An innovative historical study of body language using unknown snapshot photography.

The contribution of methodism to atlantic canada

The Methodism of John Wesley was a vigorous presence in Atlantic Canada from its introduction in the eighteenth century until its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. The growing body of scholarly writing on religion in the region, however, has concentrated on other denominatio...

Unpacking the kists

An analysis of the scale and impact of Scottish migration to Britain's most distant nineteenth-century colony.

Quebec hydropolitics

An examination of the effects of dams on the environment, Aboriginal peoples, and the war effort.

Trudeau and the end of a canadian dream

In Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream Guy Laforest argues that Trudeau's constitutional reforms destroyed the dualistic vision of the Canadian federation developed in Quebec throughout the twentieth century.

Harriet brooks

Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) was one of the first Canadian researchers in the field of radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford called her the best woman scientist in the field next to Marie Curie. She worked with Rutherford, J.J. Thompson, and Curie, and her achievements include identifying "emanation" (r...

One of the boys, first edition

Homosexuality and military service have made strange bedfellows over the last hundred years. Military leaders have generally seen homosexuals as unmanly, immoral, and – according to the U.S. military – a threat to unit cohesion, a claim that continues to prop up the controversial “don’t ask, don’...

A wampum denied, first edition

This formative history takes a new look at a dramatic conflict-the war on the Detroit frontier in 1812-13. Powerful key players (Procter, Tecumseh and Brock), their disparate war aims, and the "all or nothing" character of the campaigns they waged still seem larger than life. Yet Sandy Antal's ca...

Before ontario

A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province’s leading archaeologists.

John case and aristotelianism in renaissance england

This perceptive study of John Case, teacher of philosophy at Oxford from the mid-1560s until his death in 1600 and author of expositions of Aristotle which became standard textbooks of the time, focuses on his intellectual and cultural milieu and reveals

Rocke robertson

The life of the war surgeon who became principal of McGill University in the midst of political, student, and faculty unrest.

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.

Beyond liberty and property

Professor Gunn presents a fresh, revealing picture of the public mind in Britain, from the Glorious Revolution to the First Reform Act, showing how British people of the eighteenth century came to a new understanding of politics. Departing form the usual

Irish nationalism in canada

According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order. The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise - and in doing so make a major and or...

In subordination

From 1870 to 1970 between ten and twenty per cent of women in paid work held jobs described by the Canadian census as "professional." In this important historical study, Mary Kinnear explores the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada.

Danish greenland

Education in new france

Although much has been written on developments in learning in New France, a comprehensive treatment of education during this period is lacking. In Education in New France, Roger Magnuson redresses the balance by examining seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canadian education in all its forms, in...

The quebec conference of 1864

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

The english fact in quebec, second edition

"Few who read The English Fact in Quebec will be surprised to learn that its authors, both accomplished journalists, won a Governor-General's Award for their efforts. They have produced a stimulating, important piece of work full of original insights, and characterized by the kind of analysis tha...

While the women only wept

In While the Women Only Wept Janice Potter-MacKinnon traces the story of Loyalist women from their experiences in the American colonies as antagonism toward the British Crown increased, through their forced exodus from the colonies in the late 1770s and early 1780s, to their eventual settlement i...

Beardmore

How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.

Behind valkyrie

A collection of writings by those who fought Hitler from within Nazi Germany.

Telling it to the judge

In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada. Legal claims have raised questions with significant historical implications, such as, "What treaty rights have survived in various p...

The four quarters of the night

Tara Singh Bains is one of those rare people who sees the hand of God in every facet of his life. A man of strong convictions, he has consistently refused to compromise his beliefs. The Four Quarters of the Night is as much the story of his faith as of hi

Beyond mexico

As a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement Canada's relations with Mexico and Latin America have reached a turning point both politically and economically. Beyond Mexico is a timely assessment of the dynamic state and the prospects of Canada's relations with Latin America. Every day, ...

Honorer la vérité, réconcilier pour l’avenir

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...

Mugabe and the politics of security in zimbabwe

How President Robert Mugabe manipulated Zimbabwe's security policy to exploit past problems for present gain.

Labour in the laboratory

Medical laboratory workers play a crucial role in the health care system but are often hidden from public view. Unlike many previous histories of Canadian health care, Labour in the Laboratory offers an intimate portrait of the women (and a few men) who laboured at the bench. In a detailed analys...

The grenfell medical mission and american support in newfoundland and labrador, 1890s-1940s

How American personnel, matériel, and money sustained the International Grenfell Association's medical mission in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador.

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.

Malaysian development

A collection of articles provides sweeping insight into the history and dynamics of Malaysian economic, social and political development addressing such policy issues as the impact of agriculture, education and human resource development.

From wooden ploughs to welfare

From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem. The 1960s saw the collapse of the reserve economy, until then sustained by casual ...

Count not the dead

"Iron coffins," "grey wolves," and "steel sharks" - cast in images such as these, submarines are icons of Germany's maritime tradition. In books and films, submarines have been used to promote political goals and to justify and explain an intriguing and sometimes ambiguous past. A fascinating loo...

Beyond the noise of solemn assemblies

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

The merger delusion

The story of the fight against the forced merger of Montreal municipalities and the world's first metropolitan de-merger.

A homeland for the cree

The Great Whale Hydro-Electric Project (James Bay II) has caused controversy not only in Canada but in the United States, especially New York and Vermont. The need to understand the Cree's struggle to oppose the devastation of their homeland is urgent. A Homeland for the Cree is an invaluable stu...

The quest of the folk, first edition

The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a purer, simpler, and more idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project t...

Bahia's independence

How the people of Salvador, Bahia, celebrated independence in their province, challenging dominant understandings of nineteenth-century Brazil.

The fluorspar mines of newfoundland

A social and occupational health history of the St Lawrence fluorspar mines.

Des sociétés distinctes

A political and social history of suburban governance on the island of Montreal.

An ambulance on safari

An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage.

Anxious days and tearful nights

The everyday struggles of war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. This book highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts.

Ireland, sweden, and the great european migration, 1815-1914

A comparative history of European emigration.

The dawn of canada's century

An illuminating look at the people who helped shape the twentieth century in Canada.

The illustrated history of canada, 25th anniversary edition

First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these ...

Picturing toronto

An innovative study on photography’s role in the liberal reform of early twentieth-century Toronto.

Left transnationalism

An exploration of the ways interwar communism sought to combat imperialism, support self-determination of nations, and promote racial equality.

The domination of nature

Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. Leiss argues that our current predicament arises from deeply rooted attitudes toward nature. A new preface explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligatio...

Cold war defectors

Spanning continents and linking defection to espionage, intelligence, and media culture, Cold War Defectors redefines the political and personal stakes of defection and presents a riveting portrait of what it meant to switch sides in a divided world.

Before canada

The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians a...

Cette science nécessaire

Quels morts peut-on disséquer pour apprendre l’anatomie humaine et devenir un médecin compétent ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue pour mieux comprendre l’essor de la profession médicale au Québec et l’histoire de la formation médicale globalement, a...

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...

Cigarette nation

Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Cigarette Nation explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canad...

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...

Revolutions across borders

A surprising and innovative analysis of the continental dimensions of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38.

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...

Whose mission, whose orders?

Revealing the secret struggles between British politicians and generals to control the army in Northern Ireland.

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.

From india to israel

The experiences of the Bene Israel community following their immigration from India to the newly formed state of Israel.

Patterns of plague

Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors tha...

Lines in the ice

A visual history of Arctic exploration and how it has shaped the modern world.

Canada’s residential schools: missing children and unmarked burials

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...

Genocide

Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.

Magda and andré trocmé

A selection of writings by courageous pacifist Christians who helped to save hundreds of lives during the Second World War.

John stuart mill, socialist

Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself "under the general designation of Socialist." Taking this self-description seriously, John Stuart Mill, Socialist reinter...

Undiplomatic history

Inviting readers to reconsider Canada's place in the world.

Canada and the united nations

Experts offer new approaches to Canadian internationalism in a candid re-evaluation of Canada’s contributions to the United Nations.

Canada’s residential schools: the legacy

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...

Bearers of risk

Bearers of Risk examines how male Canadian writers mobilize the early twenty-first-century short story cycle as an illustration of post-9/11 recuperative masculinity politics. Neta Gordon unsettles scholarly positions on the inherent outsider status of the short story cycle and exposes the strate...

Patriot and priest

A regional study of the French Revolution's constitutional church that examines the career of a committed bishop and revolutionary.

This strange loneliness

This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and as a model for the fortifying po...

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.

Lost and found voices

Lost and Found Voices explores how four gay writers – Gombrowicz, Pereleshin, Taïa, and Mogutin – use language and exilic realities to voice their identities. Tracing their expressions of desire in language, culture, and community, Beaudoin offers a contextual queer reading that navigates the art...

Blacks in canada

The definitive history of the African-Canadian experience, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution adds a necessary critical lens through which twenty-first-century readers sho...

La guerre d’indépendance des canadas

Longtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l’ensemble de l’Amérique du Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d’inaugurer une expérience républicaine différente. La révolution a échoué, mais...

Who killed the queen?

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Montreal, an exemplary Canadian community hospital that had been the site of many national and international medical firsts, was suddenly closed in the mid-1990s. It was not alone.

Towards a godless dominion

A century ago Canada was considered to be a Christian nation and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some vigorously resisted the dominance of Christianity. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition religious...

Recasting history

How the CBC recast Canadian history for television and influenced what we know and how we think about the Canadian past.

The spirit of industry and improvement

The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government.

The making of cossack ukraine

The Making of Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of Ukrainian political thought and culture from the sixteenth century to 1714. The book shows how interplay between various political cultures contributed to the development of territorial, religious, ethnic and national visions that reflected ea...

The history of the black watch (royal highland regiment) of canada: volume 2, 1939–1945

Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada in three volumes, tracing its history from the roots to present day. Through diaries, letters, classified documents, and the regimental archive, he weaves the strands of a complex story into an epic narrative.

An illustrated history of canada's native people, fourth edition

The history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today.