The cross of gold

An intriguing view of the Canadian economy before WWI, this study fills a gap in the existing literature on the economic history of Canada. Using improved monetary statistics, the author explains how the business cycle worked under the gold standard, and takes an in-depth look at the roles the ba...

The same but different

Canada may be all about hockey, but how much does the rest of Canada know about the game in Quebec?

The communitarian third way

Ordre Nouveau's "neither right nor left" movement, based on personalism and revolutionary federalism, helped shape modern Catholic political culture in France, the National Revolution instituted by the Vichy regime, the post-war European movement, and the contemporary European New Right. It influ...

Canadian environmental philosophy

Grappling with the philosophical dimensions of our current ecological crisis, from a Canadian perspective.

Wacousta or, the prophecy

Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.

Close ties

Focusing on the historic controversies surrounding freight rates, Close Ties explores the ways in which Canadians tried to regulate the nation's first big business, the railways. Ken Cruikshank challenges earlier interpretations, concluding that the history of railway regulation in Canada is not ...

Gender, generation, and journalism in france, 1910-1940

After the pioneer women in French newspapers, how did the next two generations, still a minority in the newsroom, fare?

People, state, and war under the french regime in canada

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary...

Royal victoria hospital, 1887-1947

How to understand language

Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? How to Understand Language frames a discussion in light of these two questions and begins by thinking about the reasons that...

Faces of displacement

How emigration transformed the creative palette of a major Ukrainian writer and political figure.How emigration transformed the creative palette of a major Ukrainian writer and political figure.

As one who serves

Regina College, which was established by the Methodist Church in 1911, became the University of Regina in 1974. Formed amid the social movements and transformations of the sixties, the new campus grappled with questions about the nature of a liberal education, the balance between research and tea...

Canada's early nuclear policy

The advent of nuclear weapons introduced a complex new factor into world politics, drawing a line through history and ensuring that international relations would never be the same. By both accident and design, Canada was a central player in the new nuclear era, as countries grappled with the impl...

Urdu for children, book ii, 3 book set, part one

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

Pearson and canada's role in nuclear disarmament and arms control negotiations, 1945-1957

Lester Pearson was Minister for External Affairs between 1948 and 1957. During this time Canada was a member of two successive United Nations commissions on eliminating or controlling nuclear arms with the United States and the Soviet Union as the main negotiators. The goal of these discussions w...

The last french and indian war

In the summer of 1760, ten months after the fall of Quebec City, British forces under the command of General Amherst were converging on Montreal, which would capitulate to the British by early September. Somehow Amherst had managed to break the complex network of French-Native alliances on which ...

Power and pleasure

One of the great political figures of his day, Louis Barthou was also labelled a thief, an accomplice to murder, and a sexual pervert. He was France's foreign minister when, in 1934, he suffered a fatal bullet wound during the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander. Barthou had spent forty-...

Recognizing religion in a secular society

What does it mean to describe our society as secular? And what role might religion play in its evolution? Are religious considerations a necessary part of coherent speech about human dignity or human rights? Are religious communities properly accounted for in our talk of a "social contract"? "Rec...

Wallace stevens among others

A provocative reassessment of modern American literature and culture through the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Leading from between

How the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants make a difference in Canada and Australia.

The largest amount of good

In Ireland, a nation long torn by rancour dividing Catholics and many Protestants, one Protestant sect has consistently been held in affection by the Catholic Irish: the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. From their arrival in Ireland in 1654, Quaker responses to the condition of Ireland w...

Mad flight?

How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.

Without walls or barriers

In June 1985, David Peterson was sworn in as the leader of Ontario’s first Liberal government in forty-two years. This collection of speeches explores the activist agenda the London, Ontario, lawyer pursued through his premiership, which sought to ensure all Ontarians were able to participate ful...

Architecture in transition

The world of Canadian architecture was transformed during the years before 1900. New technologies such as the steel frame changed the way buildings were constructed, new styles such as the Richardsonian Romanesque changed the way buildings looked, and the development of the Canadian economy meant...

Some family

"Donald Akenson writes authoritatively and with verve about this controversial mixture of religion, politics, and culture … this is a good book that rewards repeated readings." Books in Canada

Ecosystems, society, and health

International perspectives on the interdependence of ecological, health, and societal problems.

Between literature and science

In Between Literature and Science Peter Swirski examines the true intellectual scope of Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem. Using a genuinely interdisciplinary approach he shows that they propose far-reaching hypotheses in aesthetics, epistemology, cognitive science, philosophy of science, literar...

The royal college of physicians and surgeons of canada, 1920-1960

Terra nostra, 1550-1950

Maps have been invaluable throughout Canada's history. They promised fame and fortune to early merchant-adventurers and guided army commanders. They legitimized a politician's dominion and allowed businessmen to stake new claims. And they helped ordinary citizens build communities.

Early modern spectatorship

Essays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.

The politics of motherhood

Inside the ndp war room

A first-hand account of how decisions to represent political parties are made.

Crofters and habitants

In Crofters and Habitants, J.I. Little examines the ways in which two highly distinct social groups -- Gælic-speaking crofters from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and French-speaking habitants from south of Quebec City -- adapted to a common physical environment in the rugged Appalachian...

Bounty and benevolence

The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Regina v. Marshall regarding the treaty rights of the Mi'kmaq dramatically underscored our need to understand the history of treaty relationships between Canada's First Nations and the Crown. The numbered treaties covering Canada's prairie provinces ...

Empty promises

Why a voluntary, employer-based pension system does not deliver adequate and secure retirement income for most Canadians.

A different kind of care

More children in Western society suffer from the effects of poverty than from cancer, kidney disease, or any other major illness. In "A Different Kind of Care" Dr Gilles Julien proposes a framework within which we can understand and treat such children. Advocating a social pediatric approach, he ...

The subversive evangelical

A close investigation of a new wave of "reflexive evangelicals," whose playful critique of their own faith wins crowds.

Such hardworking people

Such Hardworking People provides a perceptive description of the working-class experiences of immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. Franca Iacovetta focuses on the relations between newly arrived workers and their families, showing that the Italians who came to...

Anthems and minstrel shows

From Montreal to New Orleans - the music and complex patriotism of the composer of "O Canada."

Leaving christianity

Why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus.

Native people, native lands

The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.

Contesting rural space

A micro-history of Saltspring Island in the early years of resettlement.

City limits

A variety of new approaches are used to look at the early modern European city.

Norwegian oil policies

Free trade

Few public policy issues have stirred political passions on both sides of the Canada/US border as free trade did in the late 1980s. Negotiated between Canada and the United States in 1987, the Free Trade Agreement became the dominant issue in the November 1988 Canadian federal election, perhaps t...

The laugh-makers

The Laugh-Makers is an intensive sociological field study of the drive to become a successful stand-up comic in Canada. Robert Stebbins interviewed fifty-seven practising stand-up comedians and fifteen booking agents, show organizers, personal managers, and club managers and owners. He also obser...

The punjabis in british columbia

Contrasting immigrant experiences in remote regions and metropolitan centres of Canada.

Witness to loss

A Japanese Canadian participated in the government's destruction of his own community. How should he be remembered?

From barrow to boothia

In 1835 the map of the arctic coast of North America was still far from complete, with unmapped gaps of 280km from Return Reef to Point Barrow in Alaska and 550km from Point Turnagain to Boothia Peninsula in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Hudson's Bay Company developed a plan to fill the gaps a...

No free man

An exploration of the "enemy alien" experience in Canada during the Great War.

Ordinary saints

An engaging study of rural women and lived religion that explores the ties between gender, labour, and Christian belief.

Gross national product, canada, 1870-1926

Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates sets out in detail the sources of data and methods employed to obtain annual estimates of the gross national product of Canada between 1870 and 1926. Many other data used in compilation of the estimates or as a basis for a...

The philosophy of nietzsche

This fresh introduction to Nietzsche's philosophical work provides students new to Nietzsche with an excellent framework for understanding the central concerns of his philosophical and cultural writings and why Nietzsche's ideas continue to spark controversy in philosophy and in allied disciplines.

Brewed in the north

Tracing the evolution of Canada's Labatt brewery from its colonial beginnings until its sale to Belgium-based Interbrew.

A subtle balance

A critical review of major trends and enduring tensions in Canadian public policy and governance since 1970.

Woman's songs in ancient greece

By considering women's voices in performance, Anne Klinck provides a new perspective on women's "writing." She shows that our understanding of femininity in ancient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry composed by women poets like Sappho to explore girls' and women's choral songs from th...

Transformation of sin

Symbols in life and art

This collection of nine papers is the result of a colloquium of the Royal Society of Canada, held in honour of the late George Whalley, at which noted scholars from several countries and various disciplines discussed the role symbols play in human life.

The man in the ivory tower

Frank Cyril James, Principal of McGill University from 1940-62, made important contributions not only to the growth and reputation of the university but also to the development of higher education in Canada.

Feminist politics on the farm

The women studied were clearly progressive in their opinions and the authors show that their original and varied opinions cast doubt on much of the standard literature about non-elite women's understanding of mainstream politics and the women's movement. These rural women differed significantly f...

Twentieth-century theories of art

This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theory to Poststructuralism. For readers with little or no background, clearly written introductions are provided. The writings collected here are by lead...

Feminist philosophies of life

Exploring life’s character, sex, and meaning, while calling attention to the most precarious among us.

The gilded youth of thermidor

The Gilded Youth of Thermidor is a historical account of the Thermidorian Reaction following the fall of Robespierre in July of 1794. François Gendron has made an exhaustive examination of the 36,000 files of the Revolutionary police to reconstruct events on the streets as they parallelled those ...

Provincial battles, national prize?

A far-reaching analysis of the 2015 Canadian federal election through three different provincial lenses, drawing upon polls and candidate, media, and voter data.

The cry of vertières

Recovering a defining moment in the Age of Revolutions.

Journey with no maps

Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

A liberal theory of collective rights

An original contribution to the politics of recognition and the theory of collective rights.

Integrating school and workplace learning in canada

In response to concerns that our educational system B from public schools through colleges, universities, and apprenticeship programs - cannot adequately prepare students for work in the new economy, Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada proposes alternation - a hybrid form of learn...

Milton acorn

In the first major biography of Milton Acorn, the voice of one of Canada's leading poets resounds across the years since it was first raised, impassioned and protesting, in the 1950s and 1960s. This compelling study traces Acorn's essential patriotism to his roots in Prince Edward Island and show...

By loving our own

This first retrospective following Grant's death examines the significance of his major work, Lament For a Nation. The essays by philosophers, artists, theologians, political scientists and Canadian nationalists assess the impact of this important Canadian's work, and the intellectual legacy he h...

Sincere ideal

The mephibosheth stepsure letters

Originally published in the Acadian Reader, a Halifax newspaper, in the early 1820s, the letters earned for their author the distinction of being called "the founder of genuine Canadian humour" by Northrop Frye.

The politics of the northwest passage

In August 1985, the United States Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea sailed through the Northwest Passage without requesting Canadian permission. The voyage served to highlight the American belief that the channels of the Canadian Arctic archipelago are an international strait. As such, it challeng...

Designed words for a designed world

Reading concrete poetry as the world’s first global literary movement.

Boundless dominion

A study of the ideas – especially regarding providence, politics, nature, and history – that influenced the early Canadian Presbyterian worldview.

Le carré's landscape

The reality of espionage isn't easily disentangled from its mythology - and somewhere at the uneasy confluence of these dimensions is the fiction of John le Carré. A former British intelligence officer, le Carré has captured the shadows and textures of the covert world with a sure eye for its nua...

L' acadie de 1686 a 1784

Catharine parr traill’s the female emigrant’s guide

A guidebook for women immigrants to nineteenth-century Canada in a deluxe edition that shows why it is still relevant today.

Courtship, love, and marriage in nineteenth-century english canada

Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in courtship and decisions about marriage. Peter Ward disagrees with this conclusion and argues that free...

Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in canada

Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian Natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on Native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they hav...

International perspectives

How the rising tide of international migration is impacting state policy across the globe.

Recent social trends in italy, 1960-1995

Italy remains an enigma for many observers. Recent Social Trends in Italy, 1960-1995, the sixth volume from the international Comparative Charting of Social Change program, provides a new and convincing schema for its comprehension. It shows that three essential institutions have structured and u...

Crabbe's arabesque

Stauffenberg, third edition

An intriguing portrait of the central figure in the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler and a gripping and authoritative account of the planning and execution of the conspiracy.

Speaking memory

An innovative account of urban memory as a conversation across languages.

York university

In 1955 a group of Toronto professionals began discussions on expanding adult education in their city. The outcome was York University, which opened in 1960 with 76 students. Today, with over 50,000 students in eleven faculties on two campuses, York is the third largest university in Canada. Facu...

Confessions of a yiddish writer and other essays

A collection of essays by the great Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb, most published in English for the first time.

Obligations and omissions

A critical examination of government practices concerning gender.

Canada's department of external affairs, volume 1

The first volume of the official history of the Department of External Affairs covers the administrative growth of the department from its formation in 1909 through the major changes brought about by the Second World War.

Drama and intelligence

One of the greatest dramatists of all time, Shakespeare, recognized that dramatic action was not limited to the stage. Now, in Drama and Intelligence, a work firmly rooted in developmental drama, Richard Courtney is the first to examine dramatic action as an intellectual and cognitive activity. C...

The invisible empire

The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956.

The hand of god

A magisterial biography of a major Canadian and Quebec public intellectual.

Vanguard of the new age

The story of the small "new age" religious group that introduced Victorian Toronto to Eastern thought and theology, vegetarianism, reincarnation, cremation, and the pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi.

Hugh macdiarmid

Christopher Grieve, writing under the name of Hugh MacDiarmid, was a major modern poet and founder of the Scottish literary Renaissance. In this study of his poetry, John Baglow eliminates what has been a stumbling block for most MacDiarmid scholars by showing the very real thematic and psycologi...

The captive court

In The Captive Court, Ian Bushnell explores the judicial function of the Supreme Court of Canada from its establishment in the 1870s to the present day. He traces the evolution of the Court as a creative force in Canadian law and reveals its gradual recognition of the need to move from a literal,...

Tear gas epiphanies

A groundbreaking book recounting the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from 1900 to the present.

Best left as indians

Barely a hundred and fifty years have passed since the first white people arrived at the upper Yukon River basin. During this time many non-Natives have come and gone and some have stayed. Ken Coates examines the interaction between Native people and whit

Military operations and the mind

An in-depth look at the battlefield of military ethics and soldiers’ moral injuries and wars within.

Black then

A sixteen-year-old slave boy who finds freedom in a most unusual way, a teenage prostitute who does not, a business manager of the 1790s, a four-year-old boy placed as a servant, a respected activist of the 1830s, a fugitive Kentucky slave who makes a name for himself as a jockey and horse traine...

His own man