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Men at play
After a year spent documenting the working life and daily routines of players for an American Hockey League team, Michael Robidoux found that most peoples' perceptions of hockey players' lives as romantic and glamorized are unrealistic. The majority of professional hockey players work in a closed...
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History in the age of abundance?
A guide to the World Wide Web and its archives for the contemporary historian.
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Wives and mothers, school mistresses and scullery maids
Arguing that the role of Upper Canadian women in the overall economy of the early colonial period has been greatly undervalued by contemporary historians. Jane Errington illustrates how the work they did, particularly as wives and mothers, played a significant role in the development of the colony.
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Violence and militants
The first comprehensive analysis of the use of violence by militant groups across time and space.
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The outbreak of the irish rebellion of 1641
The Irish rebellion of 1641 had a profound effect not only on the history of Ireland but also on that of England and Scotland. Perceval-Maxwell reviews conditions in Ireland and relations with England and Scotland in the period preceding the rebellion and
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The racial mosaic
The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how cultural pluralism in Canada was founded upon, and easily coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism. Looking at how Canadians interpreted diversity before multiculturalism became official policy, it compels readers to consider how racism has structured Cana...
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Words in collision
For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores consequences of this tradition of language-mixing, asking why writers employ “foreign” phrases in their English-language texts and how this practice h...
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Commissions high
Commissions High is an account of the work of the Canadian High Commission from 1870 until Britain's entry into the European Common Market one hundred years later. Roy MacLaren argues that, until the defeat of Diefenbaker in 1963, there was tension between the forces of imperial (later Commonweal...
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Entangling the quebec act
Brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. It weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields - legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond.
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In defence of the faith
Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.
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Saqiyuq
A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and child rearing - are presented against the contrasting experiences of three successive generations. Their memories and reflections give us poignan...
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Don't cry
In Don’t Cry the Enlhet people give their own account of the Chaco War (1932–35) between Paraguay and Bolivia in voices never before heard outside their own society, translated from the Enlhet language. Their accounts, set alongside sensitive historical-anthropological analysis, allow unique acce...
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Chasing empire across the sea
Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of mar...
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The problem of atheism
The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce’s landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theol...
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St petersburg dialogues
A classic renowned for both its content and its French literary style that today still influences the direction of far-right conservatism in Western political thought.
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Ivan mazepa and the russian empire
A political biography of the famous Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and his clash with the emerging Russian empire.
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Mr simson's knotty case
In Mr Simson's Knotty Case Anne Skoczylas examines the heresy trials of John Simson, professor of Divinity at Glasgow University from 1708-40. Accused of teaching unsound doctrine, Simson retained his position after mild censure in 1717 but was eventually suspended from teaching and preaching aft...
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This unfriendly soil
Following the American Revolution, more than 20,000 loyalists fled to Nova Scotia, doubling the population in a single year. Neil MacKinnon provides the first detailed account of this great wave of immigrants, their exodus and settlement, their adjustment to the new land, and their effect upon it...
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The fenian problem
Irish revolutionary nationalism, initially dedicated to insurgency, quickly descended into less conventional violence. How successive British governments responded to this challenge and the extent of their respect for essential freedoms are the subject of The Fenian Problem.
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Austrian immigration to canada
This collection of nine essays originated in a symposium on Austrian immigration to Canada held at Carleton University in May 1995. Held in conjunction with the larger Austrian immigration to Canada research project, initiated to mark the Austrian millennium in 1996, the conference brought togeth...
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The churches and social order in nineteenth- and twentieth-century canada
Changing social and cultural strategies pursued by Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism, this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial socie...
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Queer atlantic
The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire. Refusing to take white masculinity for gran...
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Charter conflicts
The first comprehensive examination of how the Charter influences political choices on social policy.
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Anatomy of a seance
The first serious study of Spiritualism in Canada.
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Deep waters
Deep Waters is an intimate account of the principal events and personalities involved in the successful development of the Canadian nuclear power system (CANDU), an achievement that is arguably one of Canada's greatest scientific and technical successes of the twentieth century. Kim Krenz tells t...
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The cassock and the crown
L'affaire Delorme, dubbed the trial of century at the time, is Canada's most controversial murder case. The prosecution of a Roman Catholic priest for the murder of his brother, it captured public imagination not only in Canada but throughout the world.
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Irish and scottish encounters with indigenous peoples
Analyzing a long-neglected element of Irish and Scottish diaspora studies.
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The fighting newfoundlander, new edition
When Word War I began, Newfoundland had been without any kind of military organization for almost half a century. Public-spirited citizens immediately formed themselves into a Patriotic Association and within sixty days had recruited, partially equipped, and dispatched 537 officers and men overseas.
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The lord's dominion
The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Neil Semple looks at the ways in which the church evolved to take its part in the crusade
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The lord for the body
In the early 1920s, English-Canadians were captivated by the urban campaigns of faith healing evangelists. Crowds squeezed into local arenas to witness the afflicted, "slain in the spirit," casting away braces and crutches. Professional faith healers, although denounced by critics as promoting ma...
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Deindustrializing montreal
Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality in historically white Point Saint-Charles, and multiracial Little Burgundy, home to the city’s English-spea...
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Scandal in the parish
An eye-opening examination of rural French Catholicism through stories told by priests and parishioners in church court records.
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Canada and the ukrainian crisis
Assessing the role of order, interests, and agency as determinants of the Harper government's response to the Ukrainian crisis.
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Nationalism, capitalism, and colonization in nineteenth-century quebec
In the late 1830s the governments of Britain and Lower Canada, the Catholic Church, and a number of capitalist enterprises began to play a role in the settlement and exploitation of the economically marginal Upper St Francis district of Southern Quebec. British attempts to encourage immigration w...
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Women and the canadian state/les femmes et l'etat canadien
A collection of essays presented at a conference to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, Women and the Canadian State both celebrates and critically assesses the Report. Women bureaucrats, activists, and academics consi...
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The development of elites in acadian new brunswick, 1861-1881
The Development of Elites in Acadian New Brunswick, 1861-1881 re-examines the role of Acadian elites in the formation of a nationalist ideology in nineteenth-century New Brunswick.
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Besieged
Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the Great Northern War in Europe, a period in which literary texts...
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Historical essays on upper canada
This collection of articles provides a fresh look at the multi-faceted history of Upper Canada. As well as new perspectives on themes in economic, social and political history, essays are included on topics of concern to contemporary scholars such as nati
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The black doctors of colonial lima
The untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru.
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Steamboat connections
In Steamboat Connections Frank Mackey gives us a narrative account of the first twenty-five years of steam navigation along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. Relying on a wealth of primary archival sources, Mackey focuses on the development of steamer traffic from 1816 - when the foundations wer...
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Florence nightingale and the medical men
Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy.
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The diplomacy of prudence
In this analysis of Canadian foreign policy during the first decade of Israeli independence Zachariah Kay argues that the Canadian government was cautious in its support of Israel, attempting to maintain a balanced position between the warring Arab and Israeli sides.
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Rockefeller, carnegie, and canada
In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation helped to create and maintain a cultural and intellectual infrastructure in Canada that benefited key institutions such as University of Toronto, McGill University, the National Gallery, the Humani...
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A country so interesting
Maps were an essential tool for the Hudson's Bay Company and during the two centuries before Confederation the Company became the main mapping agency in British North America for the immense territory extending from Ungava Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
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A life on the line
Pierre-Étienne Fortin led a life and plied a career at the heart of Canada's early history. He was an adventurer, an amateur scientist, an early (if ambiguous) conservationist and a Conservative politician from 1867 to 1888. He was a doctor on Grosse-Île amid the horrors of the 1847 typhus epidem...
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The development of the idea of history in antiquity
An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, w
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Strategy and command
Based on extensive research in French political and military archives, this new in-depth study of Anglo-French military relations on the Western Front in 1915 fills a major gap in the unfolding drama of the First World War.
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Nietzsche and the rhetoric of nihilism
New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche's work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche's work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and nihilistic.
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The civil war years
While the Yankees and the Confederates fought a ruthless civil war in the United States, Britain and the northern states waged a "war in anticipation" as British North America waited and wondered whether the federal army of the United States would invade. Robin Winks's classic study is a dramatic...
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The cultural work of photography in canada
How have photographs contributed to visualizing the "imagined community" of Canada? In what ways does the dissemination of photographs in the media and through exhibitions shape our understanding of the past? How have photographs been used to reanimate the past through memory work?
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Colonialism's currency
A revealing analysis of money and politics in the Canadian colonial project.
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Professional autonomy and the public interest
A candid history of lawyer self-regulation in Atlantic Canada, its difficulties, and its discontents.
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Heirs of an ambivalent empire
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of ordinary Canadiens who used kinship ties to navigate the space between sovereign Indigenous homelands and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay watershed from the early 1660s to the 1780s – leading to the emergence of a new Indigenous...
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14 days
An analysis of the Harper government by looking back at fourteen important days from 1993 to 2013.
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Flora's fieldworkers
This collection employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and artwork to reconstruct plant work by figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial wom...
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Married women and the law
Inquiries into how law shaped the effects of marriage for generations of women.
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A kingdom of the mind
Many Canadians with a Scottish background still feel the pull of their Gaelic origins. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scots dominated Montreal and, by extension, the rest of the country. Their habits and attitudes influenced business, education, science and medicine, the military,...
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The lion, the eagle, and upper canada
How an early Canadian identity came to be.
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Chekhov's children
Chekhov's Children explores Anton Chekhov's stories – dating from his early writings in the 1880s – as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood.
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Respectable burial
Respectable Burial is a social history of death, burial, and a cherished public space in Montreal from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Brian Young shows how the history of the Mount Royal Cemetery, founded in 1852, mirrors the evolving social makeup, changing mores, and tragic ev...
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British generals in the war of 1812
The Canadian people have faced crises of leadership, but never more seriously than during the War of 1812. Despite the many studies of this turbulent time, there are still controversies over traditional issues, one being the quality of leadership on both sides.
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The upper ottawa valley to 1855
This book is the first detailed study of the Ottawa Valley in the early 19th century. The author provides an extensive introduction and numerous documents to trace the growth of this sometimes turbulent region, and its emergence as a society distinct from what later became Ontario.
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Protestant liberty
This book offers a new interpretation of the origins and nature of 19th century liberalism by re-examining the role of religion in Canadian politics. Arguing that Canadian liberalism was rooted in the British tradition of Protestant Dissent, Forbes sheds light on the 19th century religious contex...
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God and government
A compelling account of the political thought of the man who started the Reformation.
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Civil wars in africa
A collection of case studies of nine African countries, Civil Wars in Africa provides a comparative perspective on the causes of civil war and the processes by which internal conflict may be resolved or averted. The book focuses on the wars in Ethiopia,
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James's will-to-believe doctrine
In 1896 William James published an essay entitled The Will to Believe, in which he defended the legitimacy of religious faith against the attacks of such champions of scientific method as W.K. Clifford and Thomas Huxley. James's work quickly became one of the most important writings in the philos...
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In the public good
In the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used ...
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Creating societies
The birth of Canada as a society and a nation has often been told from the narrow perspective of the "founding nations." These versions have left little room for the everyday experiences of a wide variety of individual immigrants who have had to adjust
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Emigrant worlds and transatlantic communities
In the fall of 1831, Mrs McIndoe and her children left Scotland to join her husband, William, a labourer on the Rideau Canal. When they arrived they discovered that William had already moved on, forcing Mrs McIndoe to appeal to the public to help reunite her family. As Elizabeth Jane Errington il...
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Parallel paths
In an innovative survey Garth Stevenson contrasts Irish and Quebec nationalism, from British conquest to the present-day struggles for unity in Ireland and sovereignty in Quebec.
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Mixing medicines
Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia’s involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.
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The lives of lake ontario
Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. The Lives of Lake Ontario examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this remarkably re...
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Justice, rights, and toleration
The political theory of Richard Vernon has made major contributions to the many complex dimensions of political morality, democratic dialogue, justice, and toleration. Justice, Rights, and Toleration offers critical engagement with the central ideas of his work on the perennial political challeng...
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Religion in global health and development
In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows how the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the twenty-first century. Uncovering where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century and focusing on Ghana provides an ...
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36 steps on the road to medicare, new edition
The history of universal hospitalization and its gradual development into medicare.
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Fearful asymmetry
The history of research into the function of the brain and language in nineteenth-century France.
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Reimagining illness
Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women’s accoun...
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Collapse of a country
A rare first-hand account of the violent implosion and ongoing humanitarian tragedy of the world’s youngest state.
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War memories
Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.
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Civilians at the sharp end
Civilians at the Sharp End follows the story of the Civil Affairs branch through France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany in 1944–45. Borys demonstrates that while the Canadian Army was indeed concerned for the welfare of civilians, military operations took priority over civilian needs.
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Power and subsistence
A lively exploration of the nature of power in New France, as enacted within the grain economy.
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How to do things with forms
The Oulipo is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. This book assesses the work of the group, explores where it came from, and envisages its future. Redefining the Oulipo’s key concept of the constraint in a clear and rigorous way, Chris Andrews weighs the roles o...
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Mirrors of a generation
Mirrors of a Generation tells the story of the Company of Young Canadians. Created by the federal government in 1965, it was dedicated to promoting community-based social justice initiatives across the country until its closure in 1976.
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Distant stage
Distant Stage examines the neglected histories of Canada-Brazil relations and the role culture played in Canada’s pursuit of an international identity. French-Canadian artists, intellectuals, and diplomats are at the heart of both. Eric Fillion shows how Brazil served as a distant stage where Can...
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Uninvited
A historian and a philosopher respond in poetry to Plato's Symposium.
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The ones we let down
The “decade of darkness” was a tumultuous time for women in Canada’s military. A human rights tribunal ordered the military to open combat positions to women and reach full gender integration by 1999. Charlotte Duval-Lantoine looks at failed efforts to accomplish this goal, revealing an organizat...
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Sandino's nation
How two of Latin America's greatest writers dramatized Nicaraguan nationhood before, during, and after the Sandinista Revolution.
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Young subjects
Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing th...
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Portrait of an english migration
Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides many personal glimpses of the migration exper...
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Strange trips
Examining the boundaries between recreational and medicinal drugs in the eyes of the public and the law.
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Who pays for canada?
An interdisciplinary collection of essays showing Canadian perspectives on fiscal fairness.
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Harriet’s legacies
Harriet’s Legacies articulates new critical terrain for the historic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman by recuperating the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as not just an interlude in her American narrative but another site for thinking about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and his...
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Social movements in latin america
Examining the mosaic of protest and contestation in Latin America.
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Honouring age
Exploring age, intergenerational relationships, and the social power of reputation across ancient Mediterranean cultural contexts, Honouring Age positions age as an essential aspect of communal identity and familial roles in the early Christian experience as represented in one of the most content...
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With a unity of purpose
With a Unity of Purpose examines the transformation of Newfoundland during the First World War from a society underpinned by classical liberalism to one dominated by social liberalism, in which citizens and the state recognized their responsibilities to each other.
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Writing the lives of the english poor, 1750s-1830s
Focusing on the words and experiences of the poor themselves, this book rewrites our understanding of English social policy for the period from the 1750s to 1830s.
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Taking to the streets
A historical perspective on public life and popular politics in the streets of Montreal.
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Canadian spy story
Canadian Spy Story takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination. David A. Wilson tells the tale of the Fenians – Irishmen who wished to liberate their country from British rule – and the Canadian secret police who infiltr...
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Reckoning with history
This collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history and put the past to work. Contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past.
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Socialist yugoslavia and the non-aligned movement
In September 1961, Socialist Yugoslavia formally established a partnership with states in the Global South called the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement understands the NAM as a site for transnational cultural exchange, and explores the movement’s decolo...
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