Smitten by giraffe

In Smitten by Giraffe the noted zoologist and feminist Anne Innis Dagg reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns, offering an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise...

Remedicalizing cannabis

Remedicalizing Cannabis discovers the historical ins and outs of cannabis as a botanical product with medical applications. Addressing questions about patient access, the effectiveness of international drug control systems, and the role of expert advice, it reveals how we have arrived at the curr...

White lily

John Emil Vincent’s White Lily offers a meditation on Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedevilled by white lilies.

Religion, ethnonationalism, and antisemitism in the era of the two world wars

In the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism – a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined...

Censored

A provocative history of literary censorship uncovers the limits of free speech in the United Kingdom and the United States.

A world away

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-cl...

Seeking our eden

One woman's dreams of establishing a utopian colony and her fight for women's equality.

The second greatest show on earth

Grounded in discussions of cultural capital, dramaturgy, and modernity, The Second-Greatest Show on Earth is an in-depth exploration of the motives that guided the work of Henry Bergh (1813–1888), founder and president of the American SPCA.

Through their eyes

After Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge in 1917, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. Combining outstanding original art and thought-provoking commentary, this book uncovers the stories behind this battle while...

Lord mansfield

The life and times of the great eighteenth-century judge and statesman, whose legacy continues to influence Anglo-American law and society.

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...

Unbuttoned

How Canadians reimagined what a politician should be.

False summit

The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. Exploring classic a...

La ville énergivore

À travers le cas de Montréal, métropole énergivore d’un pays énergivore, ce livre retrace l’histoire des transitions énergétiques urbaines du 20e siècle.

Hysteria in performance

The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria...

Histoire de la médecine

Véritable tournée éclair de son sujet, Histoire de la médecine est sensible au pouvoir de la recherche historique pour éclairer les pratiques de santé actuelles et améliorer la compréhension culturelle de la médecine parmi un grand public.

Life and death in revolutionary ukraine

Between 1917 and 1923, invasion, revolution, war, and grim living conditions claimed unimaginable numbers of Ukrainian lives. Velychenko examines the social background to the political history of revolutionary Ukraine, documenting the country's demographic losses during the Ukrainian and Russian ...

Surveillance, privacy, and the globalization of personal information

An important review of opinions about surveillance and privacy.

The development of postsecondary education systems in canada

How higher education policy affects educational outcomes.

Being neighbours

Drawing on the writing of over one hundred diarists, this book takes us into the heart of informal neighbourhood labour exchanges known as “bees” and the context of farm families’ daily lives in Southern Ontario. It sheds light on the workways of rural people and on how neighbouring was a dynamic...

Lines drawn across the globe

Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe’s boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England’s encounter with the world and the nation’s idea of itself,...

Slow war

remember your body again / how cedar smells of god / and a Bach cantata / makes you almost / forgive / your hands.

Randia’s quiet theatre

Randia’s Quiet Theatre draws on autofiction, interviews, and performance ethnography to unravel the politics of aging in Poland, while revealing how theatre and ethnography can become springboards for creating worlds in which the elderly can live with dignity.

At beckett’s grave

In poems of loss and hope, Robin Durnford dares to pause for a moment, finding meaning in the metaphor of the life and work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.

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...

Bodily subjects

Historical understandings of gender and health that raise important questions about how health care works today.

Diversity and unity in federal countries

In Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries, leading scholars and practitioners analyse the current political, socio-economic, spatial, and cultural diversity in the countries under consideration before delving into the role that social, historical, and political factors have had in shaping the b...

The making of modern poetry in canada

A collection of important literary documents that show how modernism developed in Canada.

Wars of conviction

Wars of Conviction explores the lives of Canadian transnational fighters, illuminating why they travelled abroad to take up arms for others, their experiences during and after battle, and the legal and political legacies that followed them home.

Hall-dennis and the road to utopia

As Canadians once again find themselves asking fundamental questions about the aims and objectives of education under radically changing circumstances, Josh Cole revisits Hall-Dennis to show how the committee and its report represents a significant moment in Canadian cultural and political history.

American protestant theology

American Protestantism from the perspective of a renowned Roman Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual.

Power

Has power moved out of institutions into the hands of powerful individuals?

Into silence and servitude

A critical examination of the recruitment and formation of American Catholic nuns during the final decades of convent expansion.

Trio

One woman. Two lovers. It's a complicated dance.

Forget not

A fascinating journey into the history of an exiled Anglo-Quebec family against the backdrop of three generations and more than a century of Canadian and international social, political, and business history.

The etruscans in the modern imagination

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fa...

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...

Needy media

Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.

Schooling the system

As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.

Northern getaway

Northern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a...

Not a simpler time

Asserting the centrality of the rural majority to Canada’s pre-twentieth-century economic history, Not a Simpler Time underscores the need to move beyond the limits of older scholarship and embrace more nuanced accounts of the past.

Canada in the global refugee regime

Rethinking the regime not as a fixed system but as a contested space shaped by states’ interests and actions, Canada and the Global Refugee Regime is the first comprehensive examination of Canada’s involvement with the institutions, norms, and politics of refugee protection worldwide.

Running on empty

A powerful history of how Canada rescued 70,000 Indochinese refugees between 1975 and 1980.

Canadian counselling and counselling psychology in the 21st century

A comprehensive review of Canadian counselling and counselling psychology scholarship.

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 ...

Humboldt’s mexico

A study of a gifted scientist and visionary who embodies the spirit of adventure and discovery.

How ottawa spends, 2014-2015

A critical examination of the Harper Government in its eighth year in power as it faces the first serious electoral challenge by a reenergized Liberal Party.

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.

More richly in earth

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differe...

Triquet's cross

In Triquet's Cross John MacFarlane tells the story of Paul Triquet, a French-Canadian soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the battle for Casa Berardi during the Second World War.

Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups

In 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau’s story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interpro...

Fissured ground

This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola, tracing how intellectuals, writers, and citizens imagined the future nation in their literature.

First among unequals

How political elites shape public policy, viewed through the lens of Premier Danny Williams' headline-grabbing tactics.

An american princess

How a New Englander became a princess, made literary history, and helped create Italy’s most romantic garden.

The past, present, and promise of the peace and friendship treaties

Forged in respect and peace, but later abrogated by the British, the Peace and Friendship Treaties bound nations as equals. This powerful collection argues that the treaties are still alive and are foundational to any just relationship between Indigenous and settler peoples.

Not even a god can save us now

A lively interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought, applied to contemporary philosophy.

Mordecai richler

"I didn't want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive…From now on, nobody can write about Richler without reading this book." The Globe and Mail

What the world might look like

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought.

Tecumseh's bones

A historical mystery about the deception behind the death, burial, and legacy of the great Shawnee chief, Tecumseh.

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.

Postcards from the western front

A groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people in...

For folk’s sake

A radical re-examination of art in Nova Scotia and the place of folk art in the cultural hierarchy of the twentieth century.

The habsburg empire under siege

Offering a trans-imperial perspective that reassesses the complex relationship between Hungarians, Habsburgs, and Ottomans, this book portrays the resistance of ordinary men and women and their hopes for liberation from Habsburg oppression, reclaiming their place in history.

Inside public-sector innovation

A practitioner-oriented volume featuring multiple innovations from rural, urban, and suburban Canadian governments of various sizes, Inside Public-Sector Innovation includes rich descriptions of local public-sector strategies associated with successful innovation at scale.

Missing the tide

How the global optimism that characterized the 1990s evolved into pessimism and chaos.

Marian and the major

In Marian and the Major Christl Verduyn brings together the story of Major William Kingdom Rains and the compelling fictionalized version of his life, "Elizabeth and the Golden City," created by novelist Marian Engel. Making this unfinished classic available, Marian and the Major also brings toge...

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...

Call and response-ability

A richly collaborative assemblage of artist statements, scholarly essays, critical analyses, and reflections from writers and artists centring on artistic practises, audiences, and pedagogy in relation to Black Canadian literature, music, performance, and visual art.

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...

Seapower in the post-modern world

While naval operations, maritime security, and ocean governance are increasingly relevant in world politics, seapower is largely neglected by international relations scholarship. Seapower in the Post-modern World fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of the concept and practice of seapower...

Ground to stand on

Part memoir, part literary history, Ground to Stand On offers vivid testimony of the tenacity of the first generations of female professors in academia while also championing and charting the emergence of Canadian literature as a respected field of study.

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...

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.

At home in the cold

At Home in the Cold brings to light the stories of five white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between the eastern Arctic and America between 1890 and 1940 in connection with exploratory expeditions. Their journeys and recollections challenged prevailing ideas about home, the North, an...

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...

Soldiers, angels, and avengers

Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers tells the compelling story of the Jewish Brigade Infantry Group (JBG), a five-thousand strong military unit that was the only exclusively Jewish military unit to fight under the British flag during the Second World War.

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...

A vacation for victory

A Vacation for Victory revives the fascinating history of the Women’s Land Army in Canada, drawing on archival letters, newspapers, interviews, and creative nonfiction to portray the working lives of women on the farm front.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Reimagining love

Reimagining Love offers a meditation on the ethical and existential significance of this elusive concept. Informed by philosophy and literature, it presents an original argument for understanding love as a spiritual practice.

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...

For blood and soil

Canada is no stranger to homegrown hate. For Blood and Soil shows how Canadian hate movements – far from an imported problem – have evolved historically and been rebranded, with extremist ideas moving seamlessly between online spaces and real-world violence.

Write to return

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right to return. Write to Return shows that by presenting themselves as loyal French subjects, Huguenots were at the foref...

Cast from bells

Subtle and surprising poems connecting the use of bells in wartime with shifts in the nature of affection.

The age of consequence

An insider’s account of the evolution of Canada’s political and policy environment over the last fifty years, with a specific focus on the personalities, leaders, and national political parties. McMillan sheds light on how public policy is made, the conflicts facing senior members of the governme...

Send them here

The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Send Them Here draws on a rich archival record and extensive comparative research to contribute new insights to the histor...

Toxic immanence

A critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime. This collection develops a discourse between the fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the nuclear humanities with environmenta...

The patriot poets

Tracing the political wisdom in American poetry, from colonial times to present day.

Ethics and experience

Flora!

In Flora!, co-authored by Geoffrey Stevens, the politician and humanitarian Flora Isabel MacDonald tells her amazing journey, from her childhood in Cape Breton through her years in backroom politics and elected office, ending with her exceptional humanitarian work in war-torn Afghanistan and othe...

At the origin of the christian claim

The new revised edition of At the Origin of the Christian Claim presents an intriguing argument that the relationship between a person and God is based not on the person’s search for the mystery but on the mystery making itself known.

Geopolitical amnesia

Far-right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Donald Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest "first" are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriar...

Making witches

The enduring folklore of witches in Newfoundland - relayed through oral narrative.

Corporate law and sustainability from the next generation of lawyers

Climate change is an intergenerational crisis and the solutions and path forward must include intergenerational voices. This book offers timeless research from a diverse group of young lawyers calling for bona fide corporate accountability within legal and regulatory frameworks, including innovat...

The criminalization of migration

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and comparative evaluation of the criminalization of migration both within Canada and abroad.

The world and darfur, first edition

“Ms. Grzyb’s book is a commendable volume ... holding to account those states and organizations, including the UN, who have so callously broken their promise of ‘never again.’” Embassy

State of disappearance

State of Disappearance brings together abstract artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be h...