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Our subversive voice
Our Subversive Voice establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England’s history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that give rise to th...
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To detain or to punish
Challenging traditional ideas about who and what prisons were for and how they operated, To Detain or to Punish offers a radical reappraisal of London’s prison system between 1750 and 1840.
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An exceptional dialogue, 1925–1948
In 1925 the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev formed a friendship with the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. Their endeavours shaped the European philosophical world by promoting the essential dignity and rights of human beings. An Exceptional Dialogue, 1925–1948 translates their correspond...
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Home and the world in slovak writing
Home and the World in Slovak Writing brings Slovak literature out of isolation and tells the story of how a nation’s literature can survive and thrive despite a small domestic audience and limited circulation in English translation.
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Securing the continental skies
Securing the Continental Skies uses post–Cold War access to archival sources to explore North American air defence in the 1940s and 1950s, challenging assumptions of the golden age of Canadian foreign relations and offering a new assessment of military co-operation between Canada and the United S...
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Quebec’s eastern townships and the world
Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. Contributors explore Indigenous land use, regional mobility, linguistic diversity, economic pr...
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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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Building mennonite belonging
Building Mennonite Belonging charts a course for Canadian Mennonites, particularly those in Mennonite Church Canada, to address changing racial and ethnocultural identities in a diversifying society.
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Workers of war and empire from new france to british america, 1688–1783
Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era.
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Y tu mamá también
Y Tu Mamá También explores the film as a touchstone for queer and sex cinema that continues to teach us how to find queer resonances across national and international film styles and to imagine queer media as complex networks of influence and rediscovery, more than two decades after its original ...
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Echoes of care
Echoes of Care chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people’s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
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Lived moments
Lived Moments offers illustrative readings of canonical films by Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer to deepen our understanding of the history of cinematic modernism, standing as a model of how film philosophy and film analysis can enric...
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Lordship and state transformation
Lordship and State Transformation examines the role of lordship in the Habsburgs’ attempts at state formation from the Thirty Years’ War to Charles VI. By foregrounding the interactions of state and non-state actors, the Habsburgs were instrumental in developing early modern composite monarchies.
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Fraudulent lives
Fraudulent Lives analyzes the scale, meaning, and consequences of welfare fraud in a Western nation from the seventeenth century to present day. It argues that fraud is written into the fabric of the founding statues of the British welfare state – and eliminating it has never been in the nation’s...
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On the divine things and their revelation
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic nihilism of modern philosophy. In this first English translation, Paolo Livieri provides readers with a history of the debates that preceded and followed it, a...
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Seized by uncertainty
Seized by Uncertainty explores Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the various contexts – psychological, social, legal, administrative, and economic – in which it emerged, exposing how it revealed uncomfortable truths about a fragmented society and governance problems that long pre...
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Prisoners’ bodies
Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.
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Slow train to arcadia
The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of comm...
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Of lost cities
In Of Lost Cities Nizar Hermes explores the poetic representation of the Maghribī city and sheds light on the Maghribī manipulation of the classical Arabic (sub)genres of city elegy and nostalgia for one’s homeland.
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Between composers
Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic growth over six turbulent months, and illuminate their perspectives on the devel...
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Forced migration in/to canada
Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black enslavement, human trafficking, statelessness, climate migration, and newcomer settlement.
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Worldwise
Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century; his writings are an account of a life lived across continents and languages, and at flashpoints of history. Worldwise brings together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, focusing renewed attention on the polygot writer, cr...
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West coast mission
This ethnographic study considers where Christianity in Vancouver is headed now that it is a minority belief system in the broader culture. Ross Lockhart describes how Christians are organizing their communities, shaping their beliefs, and expressing themselves in mission in their mostly secular ...
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The sense of the sacred in the early novels of quebec
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec provides a fresh perspective on the mer...
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Sanctuary in pieces
Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two centuries and the shifting political terrain upon which sanctuar...
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À quoi sert la philanthropie
Dans À quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson démystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumière des organisations qui agissent avec détermination face à certains des défis sociaux et économiques les plus pressants de not...
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The explorations of edmund snow carpenter
A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
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The great right north
The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by revealing the ideological underpinnings and fragmentation within these groups, it highlights th...
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Métis music
Monique Giroux traces the path of Métis music as it has moved within and through mainstream spaces while remaining embedded in relationships with place, community, and kin.
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Poetics of the paranormal
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost both shapes, and is shaped by, media.
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Cities and the constitution
Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, and the constitution can be reimagined to resolve the mismatch between powers and res...
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Irrational publics and the fate of democracy
Stephen Ward combines history and evolutionary psychology for a comprehensive view of the social irrationality plaguing democracies. Human nature has both extreme Darwinian traits promoting competition and sociable traits of cooperation and empathy. When social tensions trigger the former, they b...
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Shakespeare and the world of “slings & arrows”
Shakespeare and the World of “Slings & Arrows” explains how the critically acclaimed Canadian television series participates in a broader recuperation of Romantic and humanist approaches to Shakespeare in contemporary scholarship. The result is a powerful explanation of why the poet remains a...
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The past, present, and future of canadian cities
The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities explores the historical functions of municipalities, their current ability to tackle major problems, and how to unlock the potential of cities to help Canada seize the future.
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The rough poets
A rallying cry for climate justice, The Rough Poets introduces the reader to poetry that is ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest, and to oil-worker poets who grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the future of their communities, and desire job...
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It’s nation time
In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.
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Blatant injustice
Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Can...
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The hour of absinthe
The Hour of Absinthe contextualizes and deconstructs some of the numerous myths surrounding absinthe, locating race, gender, class, and colonialism at the heart of France’s cultural narratives about the drink.
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Cultural change among the algonquin in the nineteenth century
The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi along the Ontario-Quebec border over a century, this book reveals the agency behind cultural change and shows how and why the Algonquin made certain deliberate...
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Without beginning or end
Without Beginning or End is Jacqueline Bourque’s final testament to a life well lived, written in the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis. Deeply inspired by her Acadian upbringing along the ocean shores of New Brunswick, these are poems populated by aerialists, painters, and the spirit of Charle...
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Finding molly johnson
In Finding Molly Johnson, Mark McGowan traces what happened to the many orphaned children who fled Ireland's Great Famine and made the long voyage to Canada. Most were not considered members of their placement families, but rather sources of cheap labour. The book revisits an important chapter of...
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Political culture in louis xiv’s canada
Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada examines how the political precepts and practices of seventeenth-century France were translated to the distant settler colony to establish French political legitimacy in this new transatlantic setting.
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Water quality
In lush and vivid poems, Cynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns of stewardship, or as the sea in which to sail and drift, or as a gene pool that simmers through a family’s veins, wate...
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The twelfth of february
Rhonda Gossen explores how war in Afghanistan influenced the spread of violent Islamic extremism in Pakistan, following the ebbs and flows of aid to both countries. Drawing on her experience as a development worker and interviews with activists, NGOs, officials, and diplomats, she considers how w...
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Deep disposal
High-level nuclear waste is the most hazardous byproduct of a useful energy source that is increasingly in demand. Finding the ideal place to store it permanently is an urgent policy crisis facing our country. Deep Disposal offers an essential primer to inform citizens about the nature of this cr...
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Speaking truth to canadians about their public service
The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada’s development. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service provides a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting the public service, how the relationship between politicians and career officials has evolved in recent years...
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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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Mainstreaming porn
Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact of monopolistic, corporate porn platforms on ...
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The adaptable country
The Adaptable Country outlines straightforward policy reforms to improve adaptability – the capacity to anticipate and manage danger. In a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. Canada’s challenge is to show how political systems built to respect diversity and human r...
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What ukrainian elections taught me about democracy
In What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy long-time election observer Jane Cooper recounts her experience monitoring a municipal election in Kirovohrad in 2015. Offering a framework for exploring what can go right or wrong during an election, at the core of this story is the inspirati...
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Beothuk
Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted story seriously questioned. Beothuk demonstrates the impossibility of writing Indige...
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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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The service of faith
Asking what is the place of religion in development work, The Service of Faith offers an ethnography of the Mennonite Central Committee’s Christian development work in Indonesia, exploring the challenges, conundrums, theologies, and ethical commitments that shape Mennonite service.
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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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Created in the image?
Created in the Image? describes the paradigm shift in the way Israeli writers have imagined Holocaust perpetrators since 1948.
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Resistant practices in communities of sound
Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic spheres in Canada. The book explores works by leading practitioners in both o...
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Regards sur l’âme en nouvelle-france
Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont la Nouvelle-France met au jour la tension entre les trajectoires personnelles de la foi ...
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Friendless or forsaken?
Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and legal regulation that enabled agents to send children away from their homes and parents, w...
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The poetics of translation
The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather than reiterate.
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Early modern naval health care in england, 1650–1750
Early Modern Naval Health Care in England follows the transformation of organized health care for Royal Navy seamen from 1650 to 1750. Matthew Neufeld finds that these changes relied on the relationship between naval officials and the ordinary people of coastal areas, especially the women who typ...
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Pharmacopoeias, drug regulation, and empires
Pharmacopoeias – books describing approved standards and composition of drugs – have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of “official” pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and late...
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Mediating spaces
In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s.
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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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The interactive documentary in canada
In the 2010s Canada was a world leader in creating interactive documentaries. By the 2020s many of these celebrated i-docs were rendered inaccessible by obsolete technology. This collection examines the short-lived past and the imagined future of the i-doc and emphasizes its impact on the contemp...
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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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Gender and the global land grab
Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors, displacing rural communities and disproportionately impacting women. Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist framework to analyze global land governance policy and offers t...
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The politics of refugee policy in the global south
While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the Global South make refugee policy, including a decade-long account of how two small states responded to the Sy...
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Making men in the age of sail
Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how sailors became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heroic masculinity. The book argues that maritime writing preserved ideas of masculinity in an era when modernization was chal...
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History has made us friends
History Has Made Us Friends illuminates the nature and dynamics of Canada-US relations, examining their history, attributed meaning, and conceptualization. Contributors consider whether shared values and demographic similarities continue to cement the relationship, and if it still matters that pr...
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Needle work
Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.
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