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Canadian expeditionary force, 1914-1919
An authoritative and extensively illustrated account of how the Canadian Army experienced the Great War.
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A life of ill repute
The life of prostitutes in medieval European society.
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Natural allies
Over the past century and a half, no two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Natural Allies offers a reinterpretation of the history of US-Canada relations b...
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The history of the black watch (royal highland regiment) of canada: volume 1, 1759–1939
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.
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Struggles for self-rule
Drawing on case studies in Italian history, Struggles for Self-Rule asks, do the centralizing tendencies of modern politics sap the self-organizing powers of individuals and communities, and what, if anything, can be done about it?
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The uncomfortable pew
In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada’s largest Christian denominations, and the role that C...
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A surgeon in the army of the potomac
Lured across the border by promises of opportunity and adventure, Francis M. Wafer - a young student from Queen's Medical College in Kingston - joined the Union's army of the Potomac as an assistant surgeon. From the battle of the Wilderness to the closing campaigns, Wafer was both participant an...
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Frontier boosters
A social history of boosterism, class, and race on the North American frontier.
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The history of the black watch (royal highland regiment) of canada: volume 3, 1946–2022
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.
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Something of a peasant paradise?
A study of Acadian and French rural societies that challenges conventional interpretations of identity and agency in the Atlantic world.
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Looking after miss alexander
In 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite her claims that she was perfectly well. A history of mental capacity law in twentieth-century England and Wales, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of mental illness, cit...
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Documents on the confederation of british north america
Documents on the Confederation of British North America provides John A. Macdonald's records of the process by which the Fathers of Confederation drafted the Canadian Constitution and prepared it for passage by the Westminster Parliament, augmented by G.P. Browne's judicious selection of letters,...
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British system of government and its historical development
The essential elements of the British government as developed over a millennium.
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The history of the black watch (royal highland regiment) of canada: 3-volume set, 1759-2022
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.
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Distributing status
How awards, decorations, and medals bestow social standing.
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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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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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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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Truth and relevance
A rare look at modern Catholic theology in Quebec.
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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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Landscapes of injustice
In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold.The d...
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Sacred ritual, profane space
A reassessment of earliest Christian worship spaces as a crucible of sanctity, identity, and cultic affiliation.
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Riel's defence
A multi-disciplinary study of two of the most poignant speeches in Canadian history.
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Dangers of youth
In 1912 French legislators established a distinct criminal justice system for juveniles, enshrining probation at its heart and decriminalizing offences committed by children under the age of thirteen. Dangers of Youth examines critical debates about juvenile liability and the appropriate treatmen...
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From revolution to ethics, second edition
A bold history of French intellectual life and the legacies of 1960's radicalism.
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Inventing canada
The classic study of science, land, and nation in Canada.
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Cold war workers
Cold War Workers explores how security labour transformed the lives of individuals, families, and communities in Canada in ways that were both predictable and surprising, with the militarization and colonization of Indigenous lives and lands being especially disruptive.
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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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Transatlantic upper canada
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. Kevin Hutchings provides an en...
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Réinventer montréal
Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robillard à partir d’un examen de leurs archives personnelles et des plans et des documents d’urba...
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Before copernicus
A multi-disciplinary approach to Copernicus’s momentous transformation from geocentric to heliocentric cosmology.
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Disparate remedies
At present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of bo...
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The rediscovered self
Indigenous peoples' struggle for justice and selfhood in an integrating world.
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Imagining holiness
Hasidic tales are often read as charming, timeless expressions of Jewish spirituality. The best-known versions of these stories, however, have been rewritten for audiences outside traditional Judaism and few works have explored Hasidic tales as they were created by Hasidic Jews.
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From white to yellow
An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese.
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A world of paper
How the administrative personnel in Louis XIV's foreign office developed innovative structures and procedures for managing the flow of information.
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Why we fight
Why We Fight examines the face of battle as experienced by Canadians, offering key insights on combat motivation theories, and exploring sexual violence in war, professionalism, organisations, leadership, shared intent, motivation in extremis, and the toxicity of the "warrior" culture.
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Expelling the plague
A ground-breaking study about plague control measures in medieval and early modern Croatia.
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Jacobitism in britain and the united states, 1880–1910
“Michael J. Connolly takes the American Jacobites seriously in way that has not been done before. The Jacobites stretched the bounds of American political debate into areas few scholars have contemplated. This work adds a new dimension to our understanding of anti-modernism and opens a new chapte...
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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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Padres in no man's land, second edition
The compelling story of brave and deeply committed army chaplains who brought faith and courage to Canada's troops during one of history's most devastating wars.
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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 ...
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Into deep waters
How two generations of preachers and parishioners created and sustained a religious tradition.
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Taming cannabis
Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease. In Tam...
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Imprinting britain
An in-depth look at how colonists created a vibrant print culture that shaped the foundations of modern Canada.
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The wild word
The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural.
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The summer trade
Tourism has been a central part of Prince Edward Island’s identity for over a century. Lavishly illustrated with postcards, tourist guides, licence plates, and other memorabilia, The Summer Trade presents a sweeping history of Island tourism against the larger backdrop of cultural, economic, poli...
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From big bang to big data
Beyond newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is shared, from antique graffiti to playlists on Spotify. Cultures are held together as much by bookkeeping and records as they are by stories and myths. From Big Bang to Big Data shows how every soci...
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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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Canadian policing in the 21st century
A veteran police officer provides insights into decades of unprecedented change.
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Restless history
Restless History re-examines the post-Stalinist period in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, and beyond – in all its tensions and contradictions – to offer the socialist past as an unfinished history, one that cannot be easily put to rest.
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James cook
Explore the voyages of James Cook through the artwork, charts, and journals created on the voyage.
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New leaders, new dawns?
In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised...
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L.m. montgomery and gender
The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender...
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Genre, patrimoine et droit civil
Une reconstitution minutieuse des périls juridiques, financiers et domestiques qui guettaient les épouses de l'élite à l'aube du 20e siècle.
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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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The sir mortimer b. davis jewish general hospital
A compelling look at the remarkable progress of Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, from a community hospital to a first-class medical and research centre.
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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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Fruits of perseverance
A study of French land occupation in the Detroit River region through the French, British, and American regimes.
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Montreal
Montreal's history – from Indigenous life before contact with Europeans to its present-day bilingual and multicultural urban region.
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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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Pensionnats du canada : les séquelles
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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Callings and consequences
This book explores efforts in early modern Catholicism to encourage young men and women to discern the "state of life" to which they were called, whether clerical, religious, or lay. Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became central to the Catholic Refo...
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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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Wilful neglect
Wilful Neglect explores the devastating consequences of the Department of Indian Affairs’ responses to tuberculosis among First Nations in Canada from 1867 to 1945, demonstrating a direct link between historic health policies and modern disparities.
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Their benevolent design
Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal a group of conservative, bourgeois women played a significant role by establishing institutions for destitute women and children. Their Benevolent Design explores how gender shaped th...
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Pensionnats du canada : l’expérience inuite et nordique
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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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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Iroquois in the west
Intriguing tales of Indigenous peoples who made their homes across the North American West.
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The russian military intervention in syria
The Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia’s foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Soviet territory. Providing historical context and revealing the causes of Russia’s use of military power, this book is an authoritative overview of Russ...
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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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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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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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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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At the wilderness edge
Exploring the beginnings of the antidevelopment protest movements in British Columbia's Lower Mainland.
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Occupied st john's
The stories and memories of those who lived through the Second World War in Newfoundland.
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Pensionnats du canada : l’histoire, partie 2, de 1939 à 2000
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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Pensionnats du canada : l’histoire, partie 1, des origines à 1939
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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Dominion over palm and pine
From the expansionist fervour of the late nineteenth century through the Cold War, dreamers campaigned for Canada’s union with the British Caribbean. Dominion over Palm and Pine traces the transnational ebb and flow of these campaigns, situating them in the global history of colonialism and white...
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Not quite us
How anti-Catholicism reflected and constructed English Canadian identity in the twentieth century and why it remains important today.
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Water from dragon's well
Challenging the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism, the century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship continues to transform the United Church of Canada’s mission. This book traces the origins and consequences of this little-known tributary in Korean-Canadian history, giving voice...
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Canada's department of external affairs, volume 2
The second volume of the official history of the Department of External Affairs, Coming of Age covers a period of remarkable expansion and achievement in Canadian external relations.
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Surveyors of empire
British imperial power was greatly bolstered by new techniques in surveying and map-making during the eighteenth century. Well before James Cook sailed for the Pacific in 1768, British army engineers working on the coastline from Quebec to Rhode Island had set new scientific standards for cartogr...
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Rethinking the political
From 1937 to 1939, a group of French intellectuals of diverse origins and disciplines gathered under the leadership of Georges Bataille and Roger Caillois to form the Collège de Sociologie. Inspired by Durkheim's theory of the sacred as the symbolic found
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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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The dévotes
In The Dévotes Elizabeth Rapley provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the feminization of the Church in seventeenth-century France and as far abroad as New France.
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Bearing witness
Artists and humanists reflect upon the paradox of war.
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The era of emancipation
Despite the 1800 Act of Union, Ireland was not an integral part of the United Kingdom. Its viceregal government, the breadth and depth of its poverty, and the extent, persistence, and savagery of peasant violence marked it as distinct. This distinction was emphasized by Ireland's Protestant ascen...
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The peoples’ war?
The Peoples’ War? offers alternative approaches to the history of the Second World War, the changes that it catalyzed, and how it is remembered. The volume challenges the nationally unifying narrative of the war as a “Peoples’ War” and explores the event as a global experience.
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La prairie en nouvelle-france, 1647-1760
La Prairie, under the French régime, was one of the earliest and most populous seigneuries of the Montreal district. Written and published in French, Louis Lavallée's study of peasant society in La Prairie begins in 1647 when the seigneury was conceded to the Jesuits, the most important landowner...
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For an amerindian autohistory
A Huron born and raised near Quebec City, Georges Sioui is the first to present guidelines for the study of Native history from an Amerindian point of view. He argues that these guidelines must be respected if the self-image and social ethics of Native people are to be understood and preserved an...
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A great duty
In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. He looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, an...
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Changing places
The community of Aboriginal groups and fur trade society that had initially developed at Porcupine-Iroquois Falls (c. 1660-1905) was displaced early in the twentieth century by newcomers drawn to the opportunities offered by mining, agriculture, and pulp and paper production. The newcomers came f...
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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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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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Great heart
National Geographic's 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time.
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The good regiment
The Good Regiment provides an intriguing account of the Carignan-Salières Regiment -- the only seventeenth-century French infantry regiment ever to serve in Canada -- and its activities and presents a critical assessment of the regiment's significance. It greatly enriches our knowledge of sevente...
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The american empire and the fourth world
In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.
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The marshall decision and native rights
In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confronta...
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Newton's dream
In 1687, Isaac Newton published "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" (the "Principia") a work which represents the greatest single advance in the history of science and human thought. In 1987, Queen's University, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Royal Society of Canada spon...
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