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A people’s reformation
A People’s Reformation offers a reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival research, Lucy Kaufman argues that England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people, but because of them – through their active social, political, a...
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À tout prendre et il était une fois dans l’est
Ce livre s’impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois avec ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout prendre ainsi que la mise en scène par le duo Brassard-Tremblay dans Il était une fois dans l’Est d’une faune colorée...
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Words in collision
For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores consequences of this tradition of language-mixing, asking why writers employ “foreign” phrases in their English-language texts and how this practice h...
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Caught in the current
While Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current expl...
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Indict the author of affection
Bradley Buchanan explores, in light of classical rhetorical theory and early modern intellectual culture, the many manifestations of affectation in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He shows that the previously unexamined aspect of Shakespeare’s depictions of affectation lies in the catachrestic abuse of the...
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The material city
Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, The Material City translates contested views of everyday life and its management into a deeper reflection on urbanity as a system of desire.
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Recovering an undomesticated apostle
While Paul the apostle is often imagined as prestigious and powerful, Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle repositions Paul as a man at the periphery of power. Essays explore his position of marginality and desperation in a struggle for social recognition as well as physical survival in the ancie...
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Scapegoat carnivale’s tragic trilogy
Between 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus. This book reproduces Scapegoat’s adaptations and invites readers to encounter these texts, giving them the tools to better understand where they came from and th...
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Religion and the post-revolutionary mind
Religion and the Post-Revolutionary Mind demonstrates the central place religion occupied in the intellectual life of post-revolutionary France. Arthur McCalla gives nuance and context to the debates over the role of religion between Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals.
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In the maelstrom
In the Maelstrom is the first study of the Fourteenth Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division that covers both the military formation’s wartime experience and its postwar fate. It explores the lives of the Division’s veterans, controversial ongoing debates surrounding the motivation of recruits, and accusat...
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The swailing
Firmly rooted in frostbitten, fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick Errington’s first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness.
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Dying for france
Widely accepted at the time of the First World as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldier’s death is increasingly regarded as an unacceptable tragedy. Blending military history with the history of culture and mentalities, Dying for France shows how patriotic models of the sold...
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Beyond intimacy
Beyond Intimacy explores the relationship between art and justice through an analysis of works by three Mexican poets: Abigael Bohórquez, Myriam Moscona, and Gloria Gervitz. Establishing lyricism as an invitation to social dialogue, the book recognizes poetry’s potential for justice through the r...
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Midnight cowboy
An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon Towlson argues for a new interpretation of the film as a proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of a friendship.
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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.
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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.
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New songs for orpheus
In New Songs for Orpheus, John Reibetanz updates Ovid’s poetry. His words showed him to be a person of deep empathy for natural, animal, and human worlds, and Reibetanz posits that Ovid would be eager to take account of all that we have learned about them in the past two thousand years.
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Movingparts
In Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what’s true and what’s not in Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Crow, as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what’s said and what’s not about identity and intimacy in ...
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Civic freedom in an age of diversity
James Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.
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Being vulnerable
Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form o...
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The boundaries of medicare
Katherine Fierlbeck and Gregory Marchildon examine public health services and coverage in Canada that predate or have developed in parallel to the Canada Health Act. Explaining their logic, operation, and internal political tensions, The Boundaries of Medicare sheds light on the challenges and op...
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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...
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The orangeman, second edition
The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from Ireland who brought the Orange Order to central Canada, to explore the migration and prejudice that shaped Canadian politics. This lively novel shows that while one never knows everything about a historical person, someti...
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The domination of nature
Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. Leiss argues that our current predicament arises from deeply rooted attitudes toward nature. A new preface explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligatio...
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Shakespeare in succession
Shakespeare in Succession approaches the question of Shakespeare’s relevance by positioning the poet as a participant as well as an object of adaptive translation. The volume considers Shakespeare from cultural, spatial, temporal, and linguistic points of view by studying how his work is transfor...
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Politics and the english country house, 1688–1800
Politics and the English Country House explores the relationship between the country house and the changing British political landscape of the eighteenth century. Essays explore how the country house was a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, and a symbol of party allegianc...
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At face value, second edition
At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman nam...
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The participation paradox
The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a “Participatory Revolution,” with authorities called into communities to listen to ordinary people through “open” forums for engagement. The Participation Paradox argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often...
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Unlikely insider
When too may political leaders around the world are consolidating power by playing on divisions and stoking fear, Unlikely Insider, a memoir by former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, shows a way forward for Canada. It comes as a welcome reminder of the value of public service as...
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Real-ish
Real-ish investigates how realness in performance is perceived, produced, and felt by contemporary audiences. Focusing on documentary, participatory, historical, and immersive theatre pieces, the book considers how audience experiences exist both as products of the performances’ real source mater...
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Secession and conflict
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 in Iraq opened the door for Kurdish nationalists to establish an independent state. Drawing on historical research and first-hand interviews, Secession and Conflict asks why Iraqi Kurdistan has not declared independence, and offers a comparative analysis in...
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Enemy archives
Soviet counterinsurgency officers assembled a comprehensive archive documenting the ideological worldview, operational structures, and activities of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. Viatrovych and Luciuk have curated a selection of these documents that challenges prejudices about who these Ukr...
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Trade and commerce
Trade and Commerce recovers a lost understanding of how the Canadian Constitution structures economic relations through commitments to secure property rights, local autonomy, economic integration, and free trade.
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Reconfiguring the museum
A case study of an app designed for the Museum of London (UK) and remade for the McCord Museum (Canada), Reconfiguring the Museum offers a detailed account of digital exhibitionary practices and their politics and offers practical considerations for practitioners charged with creating digital exh...
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From the battlefield to the stage
Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga in 1777, General John Burgoyne led a multidimensional life. From the Battlefield to the Stage remembers him as not only a participant in one of Britain’s worst military disasters but also a brave soldier, successful playwrig...
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A written constitution for quebec?
No province in Canada has codified a written constitution. A Written Constitution for Québec? enters into the debate of whether Quebec should be the first. Taking a doctrinal, historical, theoretical and comparative approach, and addressing the issue from a variety of perspectives, this volume is...
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Writing rogues
In Writing Rogues de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia...
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Canadian cinema in the new millennium
Over the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines the particularities of contemporary Canadian cinema, tracing its eclectic energies across local and global forms and presenting case studies of films, filmmakers, ...
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France in the world
André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.
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Looking after miss alexander
In 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite her claims that she was perfectly well. A history of mental capacity law in twentieth-century England and Wales, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of mental illness, cit...
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The failure of remain
The Failure of Remain offers the first comprehensive study of the UK’s grassroots anti-Brexit movement after the June 2016 referendum. Through first-hand interviews, a survey of anti-Brexit activists, and an analysis of their campaign materials, Adam Fagan and Stijn van Kessel assess the ideology...
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Configurations of a cultural scene
In the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, resulting in a tightly-woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. Configurations of a Cultural Scene explores this growing community of artists with a focus on how sites of face-to-face inte...
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Uttering the unutterable
Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence ...
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Socialist yugoslavia and the non-aligned movement
In September 1961, Socialist Yugoslavia formally established a partnership with states in the Global South called the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement understands the NAM as a site for transnational cultural exchange, and explores the movement’s decolo...
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The boomerang effect of decolonization
Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for t...
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Jacobitism in britain and the united states, 1880–1910
“Michael J. Connolly takes the American Jacobites seriously in way that has not been done before. The Jacobites stretched the bounds of American political debate into areas few scholars have contemplated. This work adds a new dimension to our understanding of anti-modernism and opens a new chapte...
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The right to research
Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators and historians. The Right to Research offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and...
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From big bang to big data
Beyond newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is shared, from antique graffiti to playlists on Spotify. Cultures are held together as much by bookkeeping and records as they are by stories and myths. From Big Bang to Big Data shows how every soci...
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Ryszard kapuscinski
In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuściński’s life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek confront the mixed reception of the writer’s use of the Polish concept of literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose, and identify this tension as the dr...
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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...
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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...
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In their own write
Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves negotiated the New Poor Law and its measures, and how their interactions with the state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. Based on first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters...
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Attitudes of play
Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.
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Lost and found voices
Lost and Found Voices explores how four gay writers – Gombrowicz, Pereleshin, Taïa, and Mogutin – use language and exilic realities to voice their identities. Tracing their expressions of desire in language, culture, and community, Beaudoin offers a contextual queer reading that navigates the art...
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Just one rain away
Rivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a startingpoint for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becom...
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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...
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Back to the stone age
Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, better people. Back to the Stone Age explores how ideas about race are tightly woven into the prehistoric imagination, revealing insights into present-day anxieties and sho...
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Place matters
Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and ...
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The house you were born in
In this elegy for lost ancestral farms Tanya Standish McIntyre gives voice to theunspoken, shining a light into the dark corners of our collective memory toreveal an indelible past that gleams with clarity, empathy, and humanity.
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Eating the ocean
During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb. In Eating the Ocean, Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing encouraged consumers to increase their seafood consumption, and how this advertising endeavour contr...
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Orchid heart elegies
What happens when someone we loves dies? Orchid Heart Elegies explores the fragmentation of loss. In luminous poems that echo the Duino Elegies, Zoe Landale – like an edgy, modern-day Rilke – takes the reader to a place of amazement and explores the fragmentation of loss.
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Death in the snow
Pedro de Alvarado is best known as Cortés’s right-hand man in the conquest of Mexico and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala. Less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim to the riches of the Inca Empire. Death in the Snow conveys the delusions of one headstrong conqu...
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From charity to change
A timely contribution to the current debate on the legitimacy of organized philanthropy in an era of increasing social division and inequality, in From Charity to Change Hilary Pearson draws on personal experience and interviews with foundation leaders from across Canada to make a compelling case...
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Canada and climate change
Canada has committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Canadian citizens need to understand why our most distinguished climate scientists and our senior political leaders think that we must meet this target. Canada and Climate Change explains the importance of policies that ...
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Norad
Wide-ranging changes have been made to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) since 2006, when the binational agreement was signed in perpetuity. NORAD traces the joint command’s recent history – one marked by technological and structural innovations, but also by unprecedented threa...
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A black american missionary in canada
“Hilary Neary makes a major contribution to scholarship by placing the reader in conversation with Chambers’s letters, thereby making available an untold story as a voice once silenced comes to life.” Noel Leo Erskine, Emory UniversityLewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Can...
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Sacred cyberspaces
Every contemporary institution has had to confront the ever-evolving technologies of the digital age. Focusing on the Catholic Church, Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how old conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations unfold on the internet, shedding light on the fu...
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The peoples’ war?
The Peoples’ War? offers alternative approaches to the history of the Second World War, the changes that it catalyzed, and how it is remembered. The volume challenges the nationally unifying narrative of the war as a “Peoples’ War” and explores the event as a global experience.
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Watching for life
From a balcony overlooking an urban back lane, a poet watches those walking below – their identities unknown and yet grasped through details of habit that reflect the strangers’ inner selves. In watching for life David Zieroth ponders questions about how to live and how to continue.
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The communion of the book
It was neither the civilization of Renaissance Italy nor the printing press that created the modern world. Instead, it was reading. Through historical analysis and readings of Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe and Milton, The Communion of the Book explores how literacy produced mode...
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Enthusiasms and loyalties
In Enthusiasms and Loyalties Keith Grant draws on a fascinating range of archival sources from Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, during the years 1770–1850 to explore a diversity of public feelings, from disaffected Loyalists and unfeeling enthusiasts, as well as passionate patriots and ecstatic ...
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Under the weather
Under the Weather explores the relationship between human mobility and severe weather exacerbated by the climate emergency. Offering an ecological approach to mobilities, Sodero argues that mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways that also benefit the hea...
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