Working without commitments

From the end of the Second World War to the early 1980s, the North American norm was that men had full-time jobs, earned a "family wage," and expected to stay with the same employer for life. In households with children, most women were unpaid caregivers. This situation began to change in the mid...

Harpoon of the hunter

Harpoon of the Hunter is the widely acclaimed story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a treacherous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Markoosie describes life in the Canadian Arctic before the ar...

René lévesque and the parti québécois in power, second edition

Nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec history. Graham Fraser paints a vivid portrait of one o

The irish war of independence

The Irish War of Independence was a sporadic guerrilla campaign that lasted from January 1919 until July 1921. Michael Hopkinson makes full use of the recently opened files of the Bureau of Military Archives in Dublin, which contain valuable first-hand contemporary accounts of the war, meticulous...

Donald davidson

An in-depth examination of Donald Davidson's work.

Champlain

A lavishly illustrated book on life and adventures of the father of New France.

Henry goulburn, 1784-1856

Brian Jenkins's impressive biography documents Henry Goulburn's long and successful political career during the first half of the nineteenth century. Rescuing Goulburn from unmerited obscurity, Jenkins reveals that he was at the centre of far-reaching political and economic developments during a ...

Canadian universities in china’s transformation

How Canada contributed to China’s remarkable transformation through university partnerships and knowledge diplomacy.

Escott reid

With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians and political scientists, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada, critically exploring the tensions between Reid's pro...

It's a working man's town, first edition

An examination of the ordinary weekend pursuits of working-class males in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Postmodernism and the ethical subject

The shock of the modern has given way to global and transnational shifts and cultural displacements. What ethical demands have been created by this and what new models of thinking enable us to meet their challenge?

Dominion lands policy

First published in 1938, this work is important for an understanding of the settlement of the three prairie provinces and of the implementation of the National Policy initiated by Sir John A. Macdonald.

National identity and the varieties of capitalism

Denmark has out-performed most other advanced capitalist countries since the mid-1980s Contributors to National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism draw from the literature on capitalism and small states and corporatism to explore why this is the case. They find that Danish political and eco...

Crises and compassion

John M. Letiche started life as Ianik Letichevsky, a citizen of the newly constituted Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The son of a brilliant but dictatorial father and a loving, cultivated mother, he went on to a remarkable career as an accomplished scholar, professor of economics, and advis...

Becoming sui sin far

Newly discovered works by one of the earliest Asian North American writers.

The centrality of agriculture

Bridging the gap between political economy and ecology, The Centrality of Agriculture is a critical review of the history of capitalism and socialism in relation to agriculture. Colin Duncan argues that the important role of agriculture has been overlooked during the last two centuries. It must b...

Political philosophy

Political Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the major topics in political theory. It explores the philosophical traditions that have formed and continue to inform our political judgements about fundamental questions such as why and when we can demand freedom, claim rights, complain wh...

Christians in a secular world

Based on eighteen surveys exploring the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour of over 100,000 Canadians, Kurt Bowen assesses the state of Christians and their churches in Canada at the close of the twentieth century. Christians in a Secular World argues that the religiously committed still differ fro...

A long eclipse

At the turn of the century Protestantism permeated the cultural fabric of English-Canadian society. By 1970, however, universities were primarily secular. Was this change the result of the changing nature of Protestantism at the turn of the century or forces external to it? By examining the role ...

Protegér la démocratie canadienne

Le Sénat du Canada a souvent fait l'objet de controverse et de projets de réforme ces dernières années. Protéger la démocratie canadienne : Le Sénat, en vérité … jette un nouveau regard sur l'histoire, le rôle et l'évolution du Sénat, le situe dans le contexte d'autres systèmes fédéraux et distin...

Nationalism, religion, and ethics

We all have passports: we belong to a nation. Yet the nationalism that has created nations is an ambiguous phenomenon that has brought self-determination to some people and persecution and death to others. When is nationalism ethically acceptable?

Nationalism and minority identities in islamic societies

The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of nationalisms was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in Nationalism and Minorit...

The changing canadian population

Informative and helpful essays that study census data regarding developments in Canadian society.

Ancient greek

Understanding military culture

This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the U...

John william dawson

In the first full-length biography of John William Dawson (1820-1899), eminent scientist and principal of McGill University, Susan Sheets-Pyenson highlights the extraordinary scope of Dawson's educational and scientific career and his commitment to science, rationality, and the advancement of kno...

Women in zones of conflict

Tami Amanda Jacoby investigates the constraints and opportunities for women's civic engagements in zones of conflict through a case study of three women's political movements in Israel: Women in Green, The Jerusalem Link, and the lobby for women's right to fight in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

Bibliotheca osleriana

David armstrong

David (D.M.) Armstrong is one of Australia's greatest philosophers. His chief philosophical achievement has been the development of a core metaphysical program that covers the topics of universals, laws, modality, and facts - a naturalistic metaphysics, consistent with a scientific view of the na...

The recovery of wonder

Environmental degradation. Globalization. The closure of our public life to the transcendent dimensions of human existence. For esteemed philosopher Kenneth Schmitz these are the by-products of modernity and post-modernity. But The Recovery of Wonder is not a denunciation of modern philosophy. In...

Archives and the event of god

An innovative approach to thinking about religion through post-structuralist concepts.

The life and times of andrei zhdanov, 1896-1948

In The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 Kees Boterbloem offers the first full-length biography of the man once believed to be a likely candidate to succeed Josef Stalin. In so doing he provides new insights into the Soviet political system and the question of how much power was wielded...

Seduced by modernity

Seduced by Modernity is the first book devoted to the life and work of Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins. Best known for art and advertising photography executed in New York in the 1920s, Watkins was active in the Clarence White school of photography and a participant in the s...

Spirited commitment

An institutional history of one of Canada's premier philanthropic organizations.

A bare and impolitic right

When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past? In A Bare and Impolitic Right Bohdan Kordan and Craig Mahovsky examine the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great War and explore the political, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of r...

Chora 5

Architecture is at a crossroads - to survive as a vehicle of contemporary human culture it must extend beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions but this requires determining how to affirm its relevancy within a globalized and technological culture. In a world where the supposed ...

Aleut identities

A contemporary portrait of an Indigenous commercial fishing society in the Arctic.

Recent social trends in greece, 1960-2000

An overview of the socio-economic profile of Greece during 1960-1995.

Being arab

Arabs in North America are often perceived to be a monolithic group. Being Arab explores how Muslim and Christian Arab-Canadian youth actually negotiate their ethnic and religious identities. Focusing on the experiences of students from five colleges in Montreal, Paul Eid considers the influence ...

The road to nunavut

In The Road to Nunavut, R. Quinn Duffy analyses federal government policy on the social and economic growth of the Inuit. Duffy describes the economic, social, and political changes in the Eastern Arctic and provides the historical background to the current debate on Inuit land claims and politic...

Four contemporary novelists

Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; identified dominant themes, controlling techniques, and informing sensibility; explained what each has tried to accomplish...

Quebec

Journey to vaja

Part autobiography, part family chronicle, and part immigrant saga, Journey to Vaja tells the story of the Weinbergers over the course of two centuries. From settlement in a Hungarian village in the late eighteenth century to the German occupation of Hung

Hinterland remixed

An examination of the legacy and cultural afterlife of the Canadian 1970s in film, television, and the visual arts.

Federalism in a changing world

Federalism in a Changing World contains the scientific background papers, proceedings, and plenary speeches presented at the International Conference on Federalism 2002 held in St Gallen, Switzerland, in August 2002.

Toronto architect edmund burke

The Simpson department store, Jarvis Street Baptist Church, the Bloor Viaduct. These Toronto landmarks are testimonies to the talent of Edmund Burke (1850-1919), one of Canada's pre-eminent architects. In this first full-length biography, Angela Carr explores the "Canadian-ness" of Burke's work a...

Between raid and rebellion

A comparative study of Irish communities in a Canadian and an American city.

Berruyer's bible

Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within ...

Teaching anticommunism

Fred C. Schwarz (1913–2009) was an Australian-born medical doctor and evangelical preacher who settled in the United States in the early 1950s, where he founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. In Teaching Anticommunism Hubert Villeneuve sheds light on Schwarz's fascinating career and organi...

Entrepreneurship and community economic development

One of the goals of regional policies is to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the nation's smaller and more remote communities. Policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in the Community Economic Development approach as a way of achieving this aim. In Entrepreneurship and Communit...

Michael power

From his role in the devotional revolutions of the nineteenth century to tending the Irish famine migrants in the fever sheds of Toronto, Michael Power's extraordinary life provides glimpses into the role of the Church during the most important events in early Canadian history. Writing with insig...

Transnationalism

Original essays that argue the significance of the shared North American history of Canada and the United States rather than Canadian-American relations.

Keeping promises

How historic and modern Aboriginal treaties continue to shape the Canadian landscape.

Urdu for children, book ii, let's write urdu, part two

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

On f.r. scott

The social cost of cheap food

How labour exploitation in the British distribution system was key to cheaper food between 1830 and 1914.

Canada and immigration

Humanizing mental illness

Humanizing Mental Illness demonstrates that we need to challenge our explicit and implicit biases and learn to interact with mental illness in more intentional, supportive, and inclusive ways. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a per...

The straits of malacca

For centuries the Straits of Malacca, a narrow waterway between the Malay peninsula and the island of Sumatra, has been both a major conduit for long distance trade between Asia and the West and one of the most dangerous areas for commercial shipping.

The mind in creation

The Mind in Creation celebrates the career of Ross G. Woodman, one of Canada's finest teachers and critics. During his more than forty-one years in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario he has profoundly influenced scores of graduate and undergraduate students. From his i...

W.a. mackintosh

The first biography of a leading Canadian economist and policy advisor.

Both hands

The life and times of a landmark creator of Canadian culture.

Debt, law, realism

Debt, Law, Realism reads African novels as political philosophy, offering important lessons about the foundations of social trust, the principle of succession, and the nature of sovereignty, authority, and law.

Indentured servitude

Anna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants.

Profiting the crown

Born in the crucible of the Second World War, the Polymer Corporation - Canada's sole producer of synthetic rubber - played a critical role in the Canadian economy for over fifty years. Blending innovative science and technology with expert business and managerial strategies, Polymer kept Canada ...

Objectively engaged journalism

A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere, Objectively Engaged Journalism argues that media should be neither neutral nor partisan but engaged in protecting egalitarian democracy. It shows how journalists, professional or citizen, can be both objecti...

Evangelism and apostasy

In Evangelism and Apostasy, the first sociological survey of Evangelicals in present-day Mexico, Kurt Bowen evaluates the appeal, character, and future growth of the Evangelical community.

Urdu for children, book ii, stories and poems, part one

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

Comings and goings

Comings and Goings is the first book to connect the study of student life with both the history of the Canadian University as a whole and the role of the university as a career-training institution.

Transatlantic passages

An interdisciplinary, literary, critical, and creative anthology that explores cultural connections between Quebec and francophone Europe.

Science and politics in canada

The yugoslav drama, second edition

Former Yugoslavian ambassador Mihailo Crnobrnja describes and analyses the deterioration of the Yugoslavian federation and the political forces that fostered it, particularly the presence of nationalism and the absence of democracy.

Scepticism

Ever since Descartes identified the first task of philosophy as the defeat of scepticism, the challenge posed by scepticism has remained a central problem for epistemology. Neil Gascoigne introduces the sceptical arguments and methods of the canonical philosophers from Sextus Empiricus's Pyrrhoni...

Lost harvests

With a new introduction by the author

What ails france?

What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Brigitte Granville applies an economist's vision to the monetary and fiscal pathologies flowing from this ideologically motivated technocratic rule, reflected in Europe's flawed mon...

Roughing it in the bush or life in canada

Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to

Serving the present age

During the nineteenth century, revivalism spurred the rapid growth of Methodism in Canada, helping to make it the largest Protestant denomination in the country at the time of Confederation. But, at the dawn of the new century, the revivalist and perfect

Unsettling spirit

An unflinching examination of settler identity and its relationship to Christianity based on encounters with Indigenous traditions.

A fleeting empire

An illuminating history of the first mercenaries and merchants who fought to control North America.

Lord durham's report, new edition

One of the most important and controversial documents in the history of democratic reform, with new discussions of its context and ongoing relevance.

Organizing rural women

In Organizing Rural Women Margaret Kechnie looks at the history of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, popularly known as the Women's Institutes (WI), from the time the first branch was formed at Stoney Creek in 1897 until federation in 1919. Kechnie challenges the popular mythology that...

Shame and humiliation

Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. She argues that personality traits, such as narcissism, influenced critical decisions they made about U.S. intervention in V...

War is here

How a war Canada did not fight profoundly changed the nation’s writing and identity.

The contexts of acadian history, 1686-1784

In the first study to connect the Acadian experience with the heritage of ideas the migrants brought with them from Europe, Naomi Griffiths explores the creation and endurance of the Acadian community and the ways in which the Acadians differed from the people of New England and New France. One r...

Environment and good sense

Songs for fat people

During this period estrada - which includes comedy, literary readings, and circus arts as well as popular song - saw the birth of tangos, foxtrots, waltzes, and big bands. MacFadyen shows how a nomadic art form survived the pressures of business before the 1917 Revolution and those of politics af...

Ecoliberation

Ecoliberation is a captivating and creative glimpse into the world of direct action, animal and earth liberation, and political repression. In stories that are simultaneously heartbreaking, riddled with tension and contradiction, and inspiring, Jennifer Grubbs takes the reader inside the complica...

Canadian sociologists in the first person

Exploring what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from a first-person perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century.

Urdu for children, book ii, stories and poems, part two

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

Techniciens de l'organisation sociale

How experts, businessmen, and volunteers reorganized Catholic charities in twentieth-century Quebec.

Games of discontent

Describing a range of protest activities preceding and surrounding the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, Games of Discontent shines light on the world during a politically transformative time when discontents were able, for the first time, to globalize their protests.

Réfléchir sur notre passé pour aborder notre avenir

Un regard lucide sur la vocation initiale du Sénat et son rôle dans le Canada actuel.

Integrity, second edition

How to restore integrity so that social values can be upheld and family welfare strengthened.

Then and now

A fresh account of the British aristocracy's relationship with the classical world.

Sonic experience

Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team ...

Dialogues on intergovernmental relations in federal systems

Honouring a son of Thunder Bay who helped to recreate Canada - twice.

Now: images of present time/maintenant: images du temps présent, bilingual edition

How can history be depicted, bearing in mind that the media (mainly photojournalism and the electronic press) have claimed a monopoly of the genre unto themselves?