L'homme blessé

Robert Payne guides readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L’Homme blessé, giving the cinematic milestone the critical attention it deserves. Combining formal analysis, historical research, and original interviews, this book cements L’Homme blessé in its rightful place within queer c...

The children's hour

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America and into social and pol...

The productions of time

Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. With the aim of rehabilitating myth criticism for our time, Michael Dolzani sketches an anatomy of the imagination as demonstrated in the total body of its productions, including...

Not like home

An intriguing account of American tourists and students in Britain during the 1950s and the influence, expectations, and realities of transatlantic encounters.

Ethnopsychiatry

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a series of articles by Henri Ellenberger, presented here for the first time in English.

At the centre of government

An insider's account of democracy in Canada and its relationship to liberalism, constitutionalism, and good public policy.

We resist

The 2016 US presidential election exposed rising xenophobic and nationalist sentiment within the United States and other democratic countries. As populist movements grow, democratic freedoms erode. We Resist demonstrates that the things we often take for granted - safety, family, employment, heal...

The invisible community

The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.

The decline and fall of the chatty empire

Chatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire chronicles her later career and luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say.

What women represent

What Women Represent, the first large-scale analysis of the substantive representation of women in Canadian politics, adds depth to our understanding of issues of gender in parliamentary institutions. Using cutting-edge methodologies, Erica Rayment examines which members of parliament represent w...

The science of culture and the phenomenology of styles

How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.

Ecological nation

Canada faces two existential threats: runaway climate change and the rising global tide of right-authoritarian imperialism. The inextricable relationship between the two highlights the need to safeguard Canada’s environmental and political sovereignty, requiring bold vision and sacrifice to build...

I'm from bouctouche, me

Donald Savoie grew up in a small Acadian village and went on to become an accomplished writer and academic whose books have profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public administration. I'm from Bouctouche, Me is not only his story but a story about Canada, the Acadian people, and the evo...

Ceta implementation and implications

CETA Implementation and Implications provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, its most important elements, and its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Contributors offer a nuanced look at CETA and its implicati...

Terra invicta

This volume presents intellectual and creative responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, with an eye toward the future of Ukrainians’ relationship to the land they are defending.

Publishing place

Examining the periodical as a distinct genre of print cultural expression, Publishing Place rethinks the relationship between periodical form, editorial practice, and place on Canada’s east coast during the early twentieth century.

Rethinking islamic modernism

An exploration of Islamic modernism in colonial South Asia that reveals how the work of voluntary associations shaped and transformed Muslim identity and community in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Check

Poems about confirmation bias: expect it to be true, it's true.

Raymond klibansky and the warburg library network

A new approach to the legacy of the Warburg Library and a companion to the pioneering work Saturn and Melancholy.

Object lives and global histories in northern north america

An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.

Living with yards

As urban life is reimagined for greater sustainability, resilience, and adaptation, Living with Yards explores the possibilities of how we can coexist with our urban habitats. By conducting in-depth visits to more than forty yards and sharing her results, Lang provokes us to think about what else...

Operation freak

A groundbreaking analysis of the operations to bodies and narratives that inform - and form - Francophone literature.

The notwithstanding clause and the canadian charter

The significance, effects, and legitimacy of Section 33 of the Charter have been vigorously debated. The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter examines the NWC from all perspectives, asking who should have the last word on matters of rights and justice – the legislatures or the judiciar...

First nations? second thoughts, second edition

A bold and penetrating look at the ideology that has dominated Canadian Aboriginal policy.

Québec

Une collection d'écrits concernant un tableau qui représente plus de quatre siècles d'histoire du Québec

Yiddish lives on

While widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity, and as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond. Yiddish Lives On explores diverse stories and strategies of resistance to language decline.

The canadian federal election of 2019

The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analysed in this collaborative volume. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies, successes, and failures of each of Canada's major political parties.

Truth commissions and state building

Truth Commissions and State Building demonstrates that the work of both institutions is interlinked and intrinsic to reform in post-conflict and post-authoritarian settings. Chapters examine truth commissions as transitional justice mechanisms for civic inclusion, identity formation, institutiona...

Nights in fairyland

Drawing on a singular complete collection of Broadway Brevities issues discovered over decades of research, Nights in Fairyland is a rich account of a virtually unknown form of periodical publishing, urban nightlife, queer sociability, and the commodification of gossip in the 1920s and 1930s.

Sweet canadian girls abroad

Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, this book tells the story of the Canadian women who forged careers as professional actresses from the 1870s to the 1940s. Appearing in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, they were integral in theatrical networks an...

Women in the ukrainian underground

Women in the Ukrainian Underground examines women’s mobilization in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, depicting the fates of the women involved and considering their representation in film and literature.

Double-edged comforts

From sleeping and bathing, chores, and making and eating food to the arrival of television, this book unveils the untold story of Italian domestic experiences from the 1940s to the 1970s, providing a fresh account of modern domesticity relevant to understanding how we make sense of the places we ...

How agriculture made canada

An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct impact on rural settlement in the Prairies.

Flax americana

How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire to North America.

Making sense of myth

For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Making Sense of Myth offers a series of conversations with Brisson on life, myth, and Plato.

Late-life homelessness

Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Drawing from a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of older age and homele...

Aboutness

Set against a break-up with God, insomniac nights, and smoke-filled skies, aboutness is by turns wry, performative, and sober. Threads of self-making are juxtaposed with an ever-unfolding present exposing the limits and possibilities of convergence. Haunted by the ghost of the text not realized, ...

Ideologies of race

A challenge to the conventional understanding of race in Russian and Eurasian history.

Process cinema

Exploring new and experimental practices with celluloid film in the digital age.

Contesting zion

Consulting a range of sources, including formerly classified papers in the Vatican archive, Contesting Zion examines relationships among the Vatican, Zionism, and American Catholics from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 through the creation of Israel in 1948 and the years that followed.

Islamic interpretive tradition and gender justice

A timely critique of the entrenchment of tradition in Islam, with solutions to recover the religion's dynamism.

Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut / hunter with harpoon / chasseur au harpon

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in Canada. Published in English under the title H...

Social resilience and the urban migrant experience

Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the transformative capacities of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.

Northern blood

Groundbreaking in its exploration of the politics of menstruation from a uniquely Canadian perspective, Northern Blood sheds light on the lived experiences, stories, and broader menstruation justice movement in Canada.

Letters from the afterlife

Letters from the Afterlife chronicles the experiences of writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, Holocaust survivors from Poland, as they adjusted to life in their adopted countries of Canada and Sweden.

Zygmunt bauman and the theory of culture

In the first comprehensive and critical assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work on culture, Dariusz Brzeziński offers a comparative analysis of the theories of one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foregrounding the sociologist and philosopher's Polish...

A social history of the cloister

A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.

Detained

How Canadians were targeted after 9/11 in the US-led War on Terror.

Dilemmas, challenges, and ethics of humanitarian action

A study of the perception issues and ethical dilemmas faced by humanitarian organizations.

The dillon era

Douglas Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism and placed the national interest above party interest. With exclusive access to the family’s archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in American history, unfolding a deeply influential ...

To make a village soviet

Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah’s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious community’s enduring re...

What would cervantes do?

A timely meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. Castillo and Egginton offer a tour-de-force commentary on politics and popular culture through critical comparative readings of Western cultural texts of the twentieth and twenty...

Seeing politics

Pushing the boundaries of how we do research, how we communicate research, and what counts as scholarship in world politics.

Art and politics

Depicting the fortunes of the arts in Canada through the prism of the National Arts Centre.

The power of diversity in the armed forces

This collection investigates how different countries approach the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in their armed forces, and offers immigrant military participation as a way to provide a pathway to citizenship, foster greater societal integration, and achieve a more equitable, diverse, and i...

Red mitten nationalism

Unacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial features of this country’s sporting events. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates contemporary Canadian patriotism by exploring how understandings of Canadian identity are shaped at the int...

Toward the health of a nation

An engaging account of one of the foundations of Canada's health system.

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.

Foreign practices

Charting the fascinating history of physician immigration to Canada, and the ethical debates it provoked, Foreign Practices places the Canadian experience within a wider context of global migration after the Second World War.

Immigrant integration in federal countries

Immigrant integration has become a prominent issue in contemporary political debates and public policy analysis. The objective of facilitating newcomers' participation in the economic, social, and political life of receiving societies presents particular challenges in federal countries. The multi...

Narrating transitional justice

Narrating Transitional Justice asks: what are the discourses embedded in the varied stories of reconciliation actors, and how do these function as acts of state-making after atrocity?

The minds of the moderns

Vlarf

In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd internet searches. In Vlarf Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion strange, sad, and funny forms and ...

Pressing interests

The first extended history of colonial Kenya's press, 1899-1960s.

Tenants in time

Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered but tenancy was of vital importance.

A neighborhood politics of last resort

The fragility of social justice and democracy within place-based movements.

Fashioning acadians

Fashioning Acadians analyzes the clothing of early Acadians through the innovative reconstruction of dress and accessories found in a new analysis of archaeological excavations. The book discusses what the clothing reveals about Acadian lives, their material cultures, and the influence of interse...

Laboratory of modernity

Laboratory of Modernity is a history of Ukraine during the long nineteenth century, providing a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. In this first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Serhiy Bilenky traces the historical origins of some o...

Zoo studies

An interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.

James clarke hook

In James Clarke Hook Juliet McMaster tracks the life and career of the brilliant yet underappreciated Victorian painter, from his rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work as a historical painter, to the discovery of his métier...

Little resilience

Creating a national literature through a series of original poetry booklets.

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...

Stalingrad lives

Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives reveals, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 – an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrec...

Writing in the flesh

Writing in the Flesh confronts the struggle of writing the self, recounting Waugh’s transitions and transformations from preacher’s kid to porn teacher, New Left activist, and expert in documentary, queer, and Canadian film.

The swan of the well by titia brongersma

Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the brilliant seventeenth-century Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first complete English translation of the work.

Lasting disruption

This first comprehensive cross-sectoral analysis of COVID-19’s impact examines its effects across Canadian society and offers practical recommendations for evidence-based policy in health, education, labour, governance, and equity.

Free women in the pampas

A biographical novel depicting Victoria Ocamp’s friendships, debates, and conflicts with poet Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and the writers Pierre Drieu de la Rochelle, Hermann von Keyserling, and Waldo Frank, witnessed by the fictional Carmen Brey, a Galician-Spanish imm...

Decolonizing church

Decolonizing Church brings together a diverse group of theological voices to consider Christianity in Canada from decolonial perspectives.

Hit the road, jack

Revealing the road as an icon of American culture - always under construction.

The measure of the west

Two acclaimed artists and friends provide a unique visual account of the global urban landscape.

Innovation, science, environment 1987-2007

This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environment includes reflections from a number of Canada's leading sustainable development thinkers, two decades after the 1987 publication of the seminal United Nations report Our Common Future. Published by the World Commission on Environment and Dev...

Kin majorities

Kin Majorities explores why communities like Crimea and Moldova engage with dual citizenship and how this intersects, or not, with identity. Analyzing data collected from Crimea and Moldova in 2012 and 2013, just before Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Eleanor Knott provides a crucial window into R...

In vivo

An exploration of the pivotal moments that transform and shape our lives.

Small stories of war

Small Stories of War offers important new knowledge about the lived experiences of children in wartime through case studies from Canada, Australia, the former Yugoslavia, Germany, Rwanda, and northern Uganda.

Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms

An examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.

The possession of barbe hallay

When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec in 1660, people grew worried about the arrival of evil forces. Barbe Hallay, a teenaged servant, started to act as if possessed, and a miller accused of using dark arts to torment her was executed. Mairi Cowan explores this case of demonic infest...

Social democracy, capitalism, and competition

Our social democracies and welfare states are facing challenges that threaten their very survival. Boyer argues that a true social democracy requires a clear definition and a refocusing of the roles of the public and private sectors in the provision of public and social goods and services – a rei...

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...

Queen of versailles

The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at ...

Bitter in the belly

Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide’s wreckage. After John Emil Vincent’s best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance ...

Euphoria and symposia

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is es...

Selling britishness

From the 1920s until the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspapers, and cinema screens with 'British to the core' Canadian apples, 'British to the backbone' New Zealand lamb, and 'All British' Australian butter. Selling Britishness explores the r...

There's always something to do

Peter Cundill, a philanthropist and investor whose work has been praised by the likes of Warren Buffett, found his life changed forever when he discovered the value investment principles of Benjamin Graham and began to put them into action. There's Always Something to Do tells the story of Cundil...

Little theologians

Children don't just learn theology. They actively create it, playing with ideas and drawing together aspects of their own lives to form theological understanding. In Little Theologians David Csinos offers a groundbreaking exploration of how cultural contexts intersect with the theological meaning...

Canada: the state of the federation 2015

Renewing and expanding national infrastructure is critical to the wellbeing and productivity of Canadians and is one of the foremost challenges confronting our federal, provincial and municipal governments. Not only are the required investments dauntingly large for all three levels of government,...

Reading the diaries of henry trent

As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the t...

Settler-colonial sovereignty

Settler-Colonial Sovereignty examines what processes and understandings make Crown sovereignty seem natural and inevitable, particularly with respect to Indigenous Peoples who hold their own notions of political authority.

Stories of women in the middle ages

An insightful window into the lives of women in the Middle Ages.

Casa loma

The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma brings to light a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival images and documentation of the house’s visual and material culture, weaving together a textured account of the design, use, and life of this unique building over the ...

Passions for birds

Passions for Birds traces the transformation of human passions for wild birds during the twentieth century, detailing the ways in which people came into close encounters with wild birds in Britain and the wider North Atlantic world. Wide ranging in scope, this book sheds new light on how wild bir...