Crossing communities

Based on years of embedded participant observation in both Muslim and Coptic Christian communities in the provincial city of Beni Suef, Crossing Communities shows how everyday interactions reveal patterns of confident and casual interfaith crossing.

Forensic colonialism

Though forensic genetic technologies are upheld as important tools of justice the development of these technologies has been accomplished through the ongoing genetic servitude of Indigenous Peoples. Forensic Colonialism explores how these controversial methods serve only privileged populations, a...

The dawn of canada's century

An illuminating look at the people who helped shape the twentieth century in Canada.

Beyond obedience and abandonment

A sensitive and challenging look at accommodating difference in religious education.

The religious sense

The Religious Sense is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Avoiding sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience, Luigi Giussani shows that our ultimate needs for truth, goodness, and beauty constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in everyon...

An ambulance on safari

An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage.

Opium and empire

A close look at two infamous Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.

Queen's university, volume iii, 1961-2004

How a national institution steeped in tradition adjusted to the momentous social, pedagogic, and cultural pressures of the late twentieth century.

Shakespeare on stage and off

Essays for all readers on new directions in Shakespearean performance, adaptation, and criticism.

Zygmunt bauman and the west

Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...

The parliaments of autonomous nations

How the parliaments of minority national communities and central parliaments express identities and treat self-determination claims.

Blockades or breakthroughs?

Can blockades and occupations be catalysts for positive change in Canada's Aboriginal communities?

The adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert

Renée Middlemost provides valuable insight into the production, reception, and continued relevance of the iconic film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Ireland, sweden, and the great european migration, 1815-1914

A comparative history of European emigration.

Anxious days and tearful nights

The everyday struggles of war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. This book highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterparts.

Tablature

Dazzling poems about landscape, music, and the course of love that go straight to the heart.

Fragile nations

This brilliant sociopolitical analysis of Catalonia, Northern Ireland, Wallonia, South Tyrol, and Quebec argues that non-sovereign nations are fragile because autonomy demands constant collective effort within unequal constitutional frameworks.

The crisis of modernity

A selection of essays on modernity and secularization by one of the most distinguished Italian thinkers of the mid-twentieth century.

Plants, people, and places

A powerful case for the essential role of plants and environments in recognizing Indigenous Peoples' land rights around the world.

Canada: the state of the federation 2017

In October 2015, the federal Liberals came to power with sweeping plans to revamp Canada's democratic and federal institutions - a modernizing agenda intended to revitalize Canada's democratic architecture. The centrepiece of the agenda was the replacement of Canada's first-past-the-post electora...

Easy prey investors

How obsolete court decisions, lawmaker inaction, and conflicted self-regulators are facilitating the theft of wealth and retirement savings in Canada.

Des sociétés distinctes

A political and social history of suburban governance on the island of Montreal.

Reading the 21st century

The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses and gave rise to a paradox: writing flourished, but reading declined. Reading the 21st Century investigates ...

The winter count

Challenging the "official story" about the role of First Nations in the 1885 Rebellion and the medical commission that sealed Louis Riel’s fate.

Play naked

Against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro’s 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, sex work is reclaimed as a site of puta economic and political resistance, where women’s, femme, and trans bodies assert value and visibility within state systems designed to erase them.

Identity and industry

A detailed examination of the experiences of refugees and receiving communities during Canada's Operation Syrian Refugee from 2015 to 2016.

The fluorspar mines of newfoundland

A social and occupational health history of the St Lawrence fluorspar mines.

Ganymede's dog

A collection of prose poems that mingles tales from the classical past with contemporary sexuality and timeless dogs.

Visibly canadian

A ground-breaking study revealing how culture shaped citizenship and belonging in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec.

Wish i were here

An urgent, timely, and political analysis of the boredom that dominates our everyday immersion in distracting technologies.

Beyond the noise of solemn assemblies

Reflections on the rise and transformative power of a new social consciousness.

Bahia's independence

How the people of Salvador, Bahia, celebrated independence in their province, challenging dominant understandings of nineteenth-century Brazil.

Making ei work

Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Mak...

The quest of the folk, first edition

The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a purer, simpler, and more idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project t...

The ancient mythology of modern science

Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.

The meaning of sunday

Explaining varying levels of religiosity and church attendance in Canada.

Is quebec nationalism just?

In Is Quebec Nationalism Just? contributors explore Quebec's relationship with the rest of Canada from a normative perspective. The case of Quebec is interesting, both politically and philosophically, because it epitomizes the puzzle of liberal nationalism. While nationalism is often assumed to b...

Security and defence in the terrorist era, first edition

An illuminating study of the policies keeping North America safe, with recommendations for improvement.

The government policy of protector somerset

A homeland for the cree

The Great Whale Hydro-Electric Project (James Bay II) has caused controversy not only in Canada but in the United States, especially New York and Vermont. The need to understand the Cree's struggle to oppose the devastation of their homeland is urgent. A Homeland for the Cree is an invaluable stu...

Trust, distrust, and mistrust in multinational democracies

The first collaborative, critical, historical, and comparative survey of the dynamics of trust, distrust, and mistrust in multinational democracies.

Politics and territory

The risk of education

How an effective education gives young people the fundamental support of tradition and historical perspective, nurturing their ability to understand and discern.

Self-employed workers organize

Over a million self-employed Canadians work every day but many of them not entitled to the basic labour protections and rights such as minimum wages, maternity and parental leaves and benefits, pay equity, a safe and healthy working environment, and access to collective bargaining. The authors of...

From wooden ploughs to welfare

From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem. The 1960s saw the collapse of the reserve economy, until then sustained by casual ...

Count not the dead

"Iron coffins," "grey wolves," and "steel sharks" - cast in images such as these, submarines are icons of Germany's maritime tradition. In books and films, submarines have been used to promote political goals and to justify and explain an intriguing and sometimes ambiguous past. A fascinating loo...

Embodiment and the meaning of life

A brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism.

Malaysian development

A collection of articles provides sweeping insight into the history and dynamics of Malaysian economic, social and political development addressing such policy issues as the impact of agriculture, education and human resource development.

The merger delusion

The story of the fight against the forced merger of Montreal municipalities and the world's first metropolitan de-merger.

Tragedy and after

"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton

Make/believing the world(s)

While it is often thought that a serious theism is largely incompatible with a radical ontological pluralism, Mark McLeod-Harrison defends the claim that ontological relativism not only requires theism but is consistent with traditional Christianity.

God

Questions of God's existence have exercised philosophers since antiquity. Are there adequate reasons to think that God exists? And, if God exists, what is God like? In this book Jay Wood provides a sustained and fresh examination of these central questions.

Nietzsche's justice

An exploration of Nietzsche's ideas of justice by one of his leading modern exponents.

Vasily grossman

An indispensable study of one of the greatest, and most paradoxical writers of twentieth-century Russia.

The grenfell medical mission and american support in newfoundland and labrador, 1890s-1940s

How American personnel, matériel, and money sustained the International Grenfell Association's medical mission in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador.

Robert brandom

Beyond mexico

As a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement Canada's relations with Mexico and Latin America have reached a turning point both politically and economically. Beyond Mexico is a timely assessment of the dynamic state and the prospects of Canada's relations with Latin America. Every day, ...

Labour in the laboratory

Medical laboratory workers play a crucial role in the health care system but are often hidden from public view. Unlike many previous histories of Canadian health care, Labour in the Laboratory offers an intimate portrait of the women (and a few men) who laboured at the bench. In a detailed analys...

Dawn of the neuron

How Darwin's theory of evolution drove generations of zoologists to search for the first evolved nervous systems in simple organisms.

Une grand patron

The absolute violation

State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises.

Canadian crusoes

This absorbing story about three children of Scottish and French origin who become lost on the Rice Lake Plains in the late eighteenth century provides the author with an opportunity to contemplate important themes of Canadian literature and identity.

Do think tanks matter? first edition

Assessing the evolution and influence of public policy institutes.

A house of one's own

An intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.

Voices in time

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents t...

Mugabe and the politics of security in zimbabwe

How President Robert Mugabe manipulated Zimbabwe's security policy to exploit past problems for present gain.

Theology and the victorian novel

Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period. In Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell Perkin shows that even the apparently secular world of the realist novel is shaped by the theological debates of its time.

Nuremberg forty years later

An international human rights conference held in Montreal in 1987 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Nuremberg trials; this collection of its papers and proceedings invites the reader to share in stimulating discussions by some of the leading human rights scholars and advocates of our day.

Troubling natural categories

A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture.

Mcgill university, vol. ii

James McGill is an important figure in Canada's history in his own right. The bequest made in 1813 for the founding of a university of which one college was to bear his name only increased that significance. The political tensions of Lower Canada delayed implementation of his plans for sixteen ye...

Honorer la vérité, réconcilier pour l’avenir

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...

Muscle on wheels

A fascinating account of high-wheel bicycle racing and one of North America's first women professional athletes.

George costakis

This splendid book paints a rich portrait of the Russian avant-garde and the intrigues which it saved for posterity. Roberts has written a fascinating history of the famous Costakis collection and its creator George Costakis who, for nearly thirty years, was an administrative clerk in the Canadia...

Recent social trends in france, 1960-1990

Over the three decades from 1960 to 1990, French society underwent a spectacular transformation due to the baby boom, which was particularly broad-based and prolonged in France and caused the population to climb by a full one-third. At the same time, the French economy expanded and the pace of mo...

Canada and the ethics of constitutionalism

A new perspective on the Canadian Constitution that focuses on Canada's distinctive contribution to constitutional ethics.

The great scot

Precarious visualities

The transformation of our relation to images in contemporary visual culture.

A measure of wealth

The land tax duplicates -- which ostensibly provide a complete yearly inventory of all landowners and tenants in every county in the United Kingdom, parish by parish -- are considered the most important systematic documentation available on British landed society between the Domesday Book of 1086...

Canada among nations, 2009-2010

Marking the 25th anniversary of the series, Canada Among Nations 2009 focuses on how leading foreign and Canadian thinkers and doers assess Canada's prospects in a world in which the US will become more pre-eminent and predominant. The rise of China, India, Russia, and Brazil as well as the incre...

The english fact in quebec, second edition

"Few who read The English Fact in Quebec will be surprised to learn that its authors, both accomplished journalists, won a Governor-General's Award for their efforts. They have produced a stimulating, important piece of work full of original insights, and characterized by the kind of analysis tha...

Behind valkyrie

A collection of writings by those who fought Hitler from within Nazi Germany.

Telling it to the judge

In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada. Legal claims have raised questions with significant historical implications, such as, "What treaty rights have survived in various p...

Education in new france

Although much has been written on developments in learning in New France, a comprehensive treatment of education during this period is lacking. In Education in New France, Roger Magnuson redresses the balance by examining seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canadian education in all its forms, in...

Toward equity and inclusion in canadian cities

Explorations of how research collaborations can address and advance social justice in cities.

The wisdom of eccentric old men

The wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, contributed to this corpus with a number of principal characters whose af...

Local self-government and the right to the city

A timely exploration of the untapped potential for local democracy.

Beardmore

How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.

While the women only wept

In While the Women Only Wept Janice Potter-MacKinnon traces the story of Loyalist women from their experiences in the American colonies as antagonism toward the British Crown increased, through their forced exodus from the colonies in the late 1770s and early 1780s, to their eventual settlement i...

How ottawa spends, 2013-2014

A critical examination of the Harper Government at the mid-point of the electoral cycle set in the context of its long term plans beyond the next federal election.

Queen's university, vol ii

This second volume in the history of Queen's University places the development of the university in the context of its relationships with a growing Canadian nation.

The four quarters of the night

Tara Singh Bains is one of those rare people who sees the hand of God in every facet of his life. A man of strong convictions, he has consistently refused to compromise his beliefs. The Four Quarters of the Night is as much the story of his faith as of hi

How ottawa spends, 2004-2005

The twenty-fifth edition of "How Ottawa Spends" assesses the priorities, initial spending, and policy initiatives of the new Paul Martin era. Writing in the context of the Liberal Party's internal regime change and the formation of a new Conservative Party, contributors to this volume examine key...

Danish greenland

Anatomy of gender

Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.

Irish nationalism in canada

According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order. The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise - and in doing so make a major and or...

Museum pieces

The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both di...

Turning to the world

From lofty ideals to the complex realities of the Catholic Church's commitment to justice and peace-building since Vatican II.

The limits of trust

Why Mexico didn’t meet the maternal health Millennium Development Goal, in spite of health care reform and NGO initiatives.

In subordination

From 1870 to 1970 between ten and twenty per cent of women in paid work held jobs described by the Canadian census as "professional." In this important historical study, Mary Kinnear explores the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada.