People from our side

Peter Pitseolak, the first native Baffin Island photographer, was born in the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1902. As a child he lived the nomadic camp life his ancestors had known, but during his lifetime missionaries, fur traders, law, government, schools, and alcohol came to Baffin Island. Peter P...

God's peculiar peoples

For the first time, the major essays of distinguished Canadian scholar S.F. Wise are collected in this book. God's Peculiar Peoples will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the political culture of English-speaking Canada and its intellectual history.

St mary's

An invaluable collection of major thinkers for students and teachers of film and philosophy.

The canadian city

The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. Other sections are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.

Capital cities/les capitales

An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. ...

Mediating moms

A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media, and popular culture.

Saving germany

With Nazism defeated and Communism encroaching, Christian missionaries left for Germany to fight for the soul of a nation.

No place for fairness

Examining the Bear Island land claim case as a benchmark in Aboriginal land rights and land policy.

Canada-australia

This volume is the result of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) 1995 conference held at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. A special feature of the conference, though not its exclusive focus, was trade relations. But as with all ACSANZ conferences...

The experience of beauty

An original answer to a question of permanent interest: the place of beauty in our lives.

Not quite supreme

A critique of the Supreme Court of Canada's power and a defence of Parliament's role in constitutional interpretation.

The prestige squeeze

What do you do?" is often the first question posed when strangers meet, as occupation reveals a great deal about both social identity and social standing or "occupational prestige.

Satanic purses

In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11, exposing the official story - and the resulting global War on Islamic Terror - as based on myth and misinformation. Satanic Purses examines how misguided notions about the structure and...

Letters from rupert's land, 1826-1840

James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on t...

Beneath flanders fields

The story of Britain and Germany's cat-and-mouse mine warfare - one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented, and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.

Reconciling the solitudes

In this collection of essays the distinguished and internationally renowned philosopher Charles Taylor examines federalism and nationalism in Canada, emphasising issues surrounding the Canada/Quebec question in the last twenty-five years. He analyses the singularity of Quebec within the larger Ca...

The sweet sixteen

How a train ride to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 revolutionized the journalism field for women.

Violence and the female imagination

An interdisciplinary study of violent female characters in the works of Quebec women writers.

How ottawa spends, 1988-1989

This is the ninth edition of How Ottawa Spends. As in years past, this volume focuses largely on national priorities, federal spending and taxing. However, it also deals with the less visible underside of federal regulatory law and non-discretionary expenditures, such as the federal share of the ...

Sailor's hope

The story of an important figure in the history of pre-Confederation Canada.

Push!

In the 1980s there were few midwives in Canada and their practice was neither legal nor officially recognized. Ontario midwives and their supporters pushed to integrate midwifery into provincial health care systems and by 1993 had established an internationally renowned model. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault...

100 questions about women and politics

How and why the political citizenship of women around the world is incomplete.

Essays for richard ellmann

Richard Ellmann's scholarly work is notable for its striking liveliness and clarity and its genuine illumination of the writers and works with which he dealt. His life of James Joyce, published in 1959, received more commendation and critical praise than any previous literary biography.

Louis xv's navy, 1748-1762

Louis XV's Navy presents a sharply detailed picture of an institution caught between its Colbertian legacy and contemporary challenges arising from overseas development and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization and administration in the years b...

Silenced sextet

The Canadian publishing industry burgeoned during the late nineteenth century and Canadian poets and novelists began to gain international recognition. Twentieth-century literary scholars, however, have tended to focus on just a few of the writers of this vital expansive period. Many other writer...

Swingback

How Stephen Harper changed Canadian foreign policy, and how Justin Trudeau is trying to turn it around.

The philosophy of hegel

Capital formation in canada, 1896-1930

Through capital formation, the changes of the era are analysed: for instance, the boom in the wheat economy, the growth of the railways and the expansion of cities.

An american by degrees

A personal and cultural portrait of Ambassador Jules Jusserand who provided a vital link between France and the United States before, during, and after the First World War.

The new labrador papers of captain george cartwright

An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.

Voices from hudson bay

In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson's Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a wa...

Finance and governance of capital cities in federal systems

Capital cities are unique because they are the seat of the national government as well as the host for national institutions - legislative buildings, museums, arts centres - for which the federal government is responsible. They take on political, administrative, and cultural/symbolic roles that a...

Fight, flight, or chill

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to...

Treaty no. 9

The complete story behind the signing of one of North America's largest land treaties.

How ottawa spends, 1989-1990

This is the tenth edition of How Ottawa Spends. Like previous editions, it focuses on particular departments and policy initiatives of the federal government. Beyond evaluating past actions, the book is intended to offer informed comment on prospects for the future in the areas it explores.

Descartes and the enlightenment

Peter Schouls examines the role played by the concepts of freedom, mastery, and progress in Descartes' writings, arguing that these ideas express a vital and fundamental feature of Descartes' thought. These theories also occupy a central position in the thought of the Enlightenment. Since the mor...

Direct intervention

Direct Intervention recounts the political and diplomatic relationship between Canada and France at a critical juncture in Canada's history. As a Minister in the Canadian Embassy in Paris, Eldon Black witnessed a range of fateful events - from visits (successful and unsuccessful) of ministers and...

Serving diverse students in canadian higher education

Survey of a spectrum of non-traditional student groups enrolling in Canadian post-secondary education today.

Power without law

A close look at the momentous Marshall decision and how the Supreme Court got it wrong.

After auschwitz

Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald's idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. During his incarceration, Gruenwald's instinct for survival helped him live through three concentration camps. In After Auschwitz he recounts his story not o...

Beyond the border

An interdisciplinary look at a neglected region of the Canada-US border.

Mercenaries for the crimea

The canadian economy in the great depression, third edition

An updated classic on Canada's Great Depression with insights for the current global financial crisis

Counterweights

Focusing on Canadian-German defence relations from 1955 to 1995, Roy Rempel examines the evolution of Canada's bilateral relationship with Germany in the context of the broader goals and objectives of Canadian foreign policy. He argues that Canadian decision makers have often been ignorant of the...

George-etienne cartier

George-Etienne Cartier has traditionally been interpreted as primarily a federal politician, as Macdonald's ally in building a united Canada, and as a representative French Canadian. Brian Young downplays ethnic and national political factors and focuses on Cartier's function as spokesman for a s...

Laurentian university

Linda Ambrose, Matt Bray, Sara Burke, Donald Dennie, et Guy GaudreauThe fascinating story of Laurentian University's growth and innovations in post-secondary education.

Sods, soil, and spades

French Acadians began settling in the Grand Pré area of Nova Scotia, a region plagued by salt-soaked tidal meadows, in the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, a complex system of sod barriers had enabled them to convert 3,000 acres of what had been tidal marshes into ric...

The theatre of apollo

Literary critics have consistently marginalized the role of Apollo in Sophocles' Oedipus the King: some declare him to be inscrutable, others ignore him, and still others deny his existence altogether. In defiance of this long-standing critical consensus, Drew Griffith offers a new interpretation...

Son of man, son of god

L' université laurentienne

L'histoire fascinante de la croissance de l'Université Laurentienne et de ses innovations en l'éducation postsecondaire canadienne.

Reproductive acts

A thought-provoking exploration of how fiction and film can provide ways of understanding reproductive politics.

The shapes of silence

The Shapes of Silence examines fiction, memoir, and autobiographical writing by marginalized women whose stories give voice to the gendered dimensions of colonial violence.

The canadian founding

A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009)

Federal-provincial collaboration

What implications does the GDA approach have for federal-provincial relations? How does it relate to the constitutional division of responsibility? What advantages and drawbacks does it hold for Canada's political system? More generally, what can we conclude about the GDA approach?

Native peoples and water rights

The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.

The balance of power

Hurt thyself

Between The Sexes What is the chance she smiles on this rivalry declared in the unspoken as chivalry, even one glance shot in the glass, while ahead he waits holding the door half-open, half-closed. Andrew Steinmetz's second collection of poetry turns a clinical eye on his favourite subjects - lo...

Finding franklin

The full story of those who have searched for Franklin since his expedition disappeared.

Preparing for post-secondary education

The first systematic analysis of how parents plan for their children's post-secondary education.

Under conrad's eyes

An innovative account of Joseph Conrad's engagement with nineteenth-century thought.

Blackness and modernity

Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world.

Britain and the war for the union

Rewind and search

Taking the reader behind the cameras, Mary Jane Miller traces the history of television drama on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) English network over four decades. She combines interviews with forty CBC personnel with her own commentary to explore how programs were made and why.

The redistribution of income in canada

This original study challenges the widely held belief that government policies to redistribute income have made Canada a more egalitarian state. The author bases his conclusions on extensive documentation of the real effect of changes in taxes, transfers, and government expenditures.

Passage to promise land

How the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.

Ambitions tamed

Entrepreneurship and the promise of a better city in an age of powerful ideas, eager moves, and mixed results.

The love queen of malabar

An astonishing adventure into the heart of one of India's most controversial writers.

Work in tumultuous times

This interdisciplinary volume offers a powerful critique of how social structures and relations as well as ideologies shape workplaces, labour markets, and households in contemporary Canada. Contributors dissect recent transformations in work and expose the uncertainty, insecurity, and instabilit...

The return of the sphinx

The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.

Latinocanadá

A burgeoning new branch of Hispanic literature, Latino-Canadian writing is now becoming part of the Canadian and Quebec literary traditions. Latinocanadá, a critical anthology, examines the work of Hispanic writers who have settled in Canada over the past thirty years and includes newly translate...

Queen's university, vol i

In this account of the first seventy-six years of Queen's University at Kingston, Hilda Neatby traces the development of Queen's from its inauspicious beginnings as a struggling Presbyterian "Bible college" to the period when the university had become a permanent national institution. The story i...

The new rationalism

An engaging and timely rediscovery of an ethic grounded in compassion.

The first public playhouse

Ontario hydro at the millennium

A collection of ten papers presented at the University of Toronto Electrical Power Project Conference in 1995, Ontario Hydro at the Millennium is a review of the electrical power industry in Ontario and its future. Legal experts, policy makers, economists, and stakeholders in the industry express...

Small fires

Poems that illustrate the stories that lie buried in landscapes and in human lives.

The royal touch

Remaining loyal

How social democrats have changed with the times while their key values have stayed the same.

Generating traces in the history of the world

An illuminating work on the Christian experience.

A hundred years eating

Political ecumenism

Geoffrey Adams argues that the creation of La France libre and its assumption of power constitute a major turning point in modern French history. Charles de Gaulle was both the representative of a predominantly Catholic France and leader of the republican cause. By attracting key personalities fr...

The great war as i saw it

A classic work, first published in 1922 and now back in print, presents a unique account of life at the front.

How ottawa spends, 1996-1997

The Liberal government's assault on the deficit will reduce program spending by 21 percent by 1998/99 and be accompanied by a reduction of almost 50,000 public employees. Rather than a frantic across-the-board slashing exercise, the cuts have been portrayed as a change in philosophy toward reduci...

The clean body

Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body.

Critical strategies

The writing life

A prolific author's candid and insightful look at leading figures in Canada's cultural landscape.

Thinking outside the box

Thomas Courchene is the author or editor of numerous books and has published hundreds of academic papers on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues. Thinking Outside the Box honours his outstanding contributions to Canadian public policy thinking and practice.Research papers included in the...

Neoliberalism and everyday life

A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008.

Dictionary of the english/creole of trinidad & tobago

The twin-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago has a complex history that has resulted in a unique English language, shaped by all members of its multi-ethnic community: the original Amerindian inhabitants, the European colonizers, the Africans - enslaved, free, and indentured - as well as the p...

Children into swans

A lucid exploration of fairy tales and the lore of ancient stories embedded in them.

Looking for philosophy

Health insurance and canadian public policy, cls edition

Medicare in Canada is not only this country's most treasured social program, it has become a defining national characteristic. Even with recent concerns over flaws in the system - long wait times, shortages of key service providers - leading to questions about the possible benefits of a two-tiere...

Polar pioneers

During the first half of the nineteenth century British explorers eagerly sought the Northwest Passage, making great advances in exploring and charting polar regions. Polar Pioneers is the story of John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross, British naval officers who made important contributions ...

First on the antarctic continent

Sars unmasked

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontl...