No justice, no peace

The Ontario Public Service Employee Union (OPSEU) was an early target of the Mike Harris Common Sense Revolutionaries, neo-conservatives on a mission to shrink the social safety net, radically reduce social programs, and subvert Ontario's collective bargaining regimes.

Bombs, bullets, and politicians

An in-depth and comparative inquiry into the reactions of political elites in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

How peary reached the pole

A fascinating account of life on Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition.

Listening for the heartbeat of being

How a multi-talented artist and scholar turned voices of pre-industrial poet-thinkers into texts relevant for today’s world, and tomorrow’s.

Tales until dawn

Joe Neil MacNeil holds in his memory a wealth of Gaelic folktales, learned in his youth in Cape Breton. For over a decade, he has told his tales to John Shaw, a specialist in Celtic folklore and fluent speaker of Gaelic. Shaw has recorded, transcribed, edited, and translated the tales and folklor...

The old english elegies

Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the heart of elegiac poetry in Old English. Klinck...

Ravished by the spirit

Ravished by the Spirit is a sympathetic yet critical account of the profound effect of Nova Scotia preacher Henry Alline and his New Light disciples on the nineteenth-century evangelical ethos of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and neighbouring New England. Alline's pietistic and mystical gospel was ...

Beyond nuclear thinking

The world is currently undergoing tumultuous political upheaval. Recent events have even been taken to indicate that the Cold War is almost over. But the nuclear threat, informed by a deeply rooted history of nuclear thinking, remains.

Diversity counts

An impressive and sobering analysis of gender and diversity in contemporary art, and a compelling call for more inclusive curating.

Listening in

Histories of Canadian broadcasting have tended to neglect the earliest days of the industry in the 1920s, focusing instead on public broadcasting policy after 1932. Listening In fills this gap.

The wings of the doves

The tragic love of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta - a classic story of passion and death - revisited through the lenses of literature, philosophy, and theology.

The migrant text

A wide-ranging analysis of French literature and immigration, inventing a new category for migrant texts.

Women and state socialism

Technology and national competitiveness

Technology is an increasingly important factor in the competition between nations for international trade. It affects the range of products a country exports, the quality of these products, and the price for which they are sold. Unlike traditional, neo-classical theories of international trade an...

The promise and challenge of party primary elections

A groundbreaking study of the typologies, pathologies, and promise of political party primary elections.

We are what we mourn

The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning.

Encounters

A detailed history that challenges conventional understandings of southeastern Labrador.

Two worlds

Religion was at the heart of Ontario life for many years. In Two Worlds, Westfall examines the origin, character, and social significance of the powerful and distinctive Protestant culture that grew and flourished in Southern Ontario in the mid-Victorian

John toland

This study is the first sympathetic philosophical treatment in English of the complete works of John Toland (1670-1722). Professor Daniel presents Toland as a champion of religious toleration and civil liberty whose writing is important because it brings

Between state and market

Between State and Market surveys and critiques the existing literature on charities law as well as the laws themselves. The authors offer policy prescriptions for the future of an increasingly vital sector of Canadian society.

The mackenzie-papineau battalion

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, this is the story of the Canadians who went to fight in that epic conflict.

The orwell conundrum

An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four. The author challenges the view of the novel as a flawed work of crushing pessimism, arguing convincingly that it is a great humanist's mature vision of his deeply troubled times.

Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925–1955

A window onto the perspectives of Canadian artists during three eventful decades of local and global history.

On their own?

The job market in Canada has changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. Improvements in technology allow business to do more with less labour and to demand higher education levels and more technical skills for entry-level jobs. Youth unemployment has remained high since the 1982 recession. T...

A commerce of taste

How books of church drawings marketed taste and status alongside social change.

Fit and proper persons

Time and a place

Canada’s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age.

Physics and the rise of scientific research in canada

Until the First World War, universities in Canada were dedicated primarily to liberal education and professors invested most of their energy in teaching and the preparation of courses. Today, universities have been transformed to serve a new generation of scholars devoted to research. Yves Gingra...

The canadian federalist experiment

In The Canadian Federalist Experiment Frederick Vaughan details how the fathers of Confederation, defiantly determined to perpetuate monarchical government despite Enlightenment philosophy that insisted that republicanism was the only legitimate form of government, embraced the Hobbesean principl...

Angel in the sun

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered himself particularly a painter of historical landscapes. His distinctive landscapes were often enriched with symbolism and allegory that set them apart from those of his artist co...

Modern philosophy

Modern Philosophy takes a fresh look at the common themes that dominate this period as well as obvious differences in the work of its six major philosophers: René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, G.W. Leibniz, John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.

Powering up canada

A comprehensive history of energy sources - from wood to nuclear - and their role in shaping Canadian society.

Between damnation and starvation

In 1997 the Canadian constitution was amended to remove the denominational rights of Newfoundland churches regarding education, erasing the last vestiges of a uniquely organized society. Until the 1950s and 1960s Newfoundland had been characterized by an

The education of african canadian children

A crucial study of the education of African Canadian children as it reflects their citizenship and lives in their chosen country.

Putting the charter to work

The entrenchment of a Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Canadian constitution raises a host of fundamental issues, both theoretical and practical. As the American experience makes abundantly clear, expanding the focus of judicial review means that the symbiosis between law and politics will b...

Morals and consent

An evolutionary defence of contractarian ethics as applied to social norms.

Palilalia

Don't you know that mine too was the ventriloquist's thrown voice, and that what I spoke was a stirred echo?

Mcgill university thesis directory

Tyendinaga tales

Tyendinaga Tales is a collection of previously unrecorded Mohawk folktales gathered from residents of the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve near Bellville, Ontario. The folktales are told infrequently on the reserve and are in danger of disappearing completely. The stories are accompanied by pen and ink ...

Rethinking professionalism

The first collection of scholarly essays on women and art in Canadian history.

The pioneer woman

In The Backwoods of Canada and The Canadian Settler's Guide, Catherine Parr Traill described a pioneer woman's role on the Ontario frontier, presenting an idealized portrait of the Canadian woman pioneer in the mid-nineteenth century. By transposing this figure into fiction, Traill managed to cre...

Récoltes des forêts publiques au québec et en ontario, 1840-1900

In Les récoltes des forêts publiques au Québec et Ontario, Guy Gaudreau, the son and grandson of forest industry workers, provides the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of one of the industries that laid the foundations of Canadian economic development throughout the nineteenth century

Politics of transport in twentieth-century france

Few aspects of economic development have had such a widespread or profound impact on the reshaping of contemporary France as transportation. As a result, transport policy has brought many of the major social forces into conflict. Monopolistic railway companies, closely aligned with the banks, com...

Compositional crossroads

The first full length study of how McGill's Faculty of Music helped to shape contemporary Canadian music.

Northern lights

An exploration of the rise of think tanks in Canada and the position they occupy in the country’s political landscape.

Refugee sandwich

Although more than thirty thousand refugee claims are decided in Canada every year, the personal stories behind them are never heard by the Canadian public. Peter Showler exposes the dilemmas and choices faced by participants in the refugee determination process in this collection of thirteen vig...

Self, nation, text in salman rushdie's "midnight's children"

Many non-Indian readers find the historical and cultural references in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children demanding. In his close reading of the novel, Neil ten Kortenaar offers post-colonial literary strategies for understanding Midnight's Children that also challenge some of the prevailing in...

The strict metrical tradition

In the recent surge of interest in metre on the part of theorists in different disciplines and of practicing poets, the central issue has been that of variations in the iambic pentameter. Keppel-Jones approaches this subject in a way that somewhat resembles Derek Attridge's, but is in fact very d...

Recent social trends in west germany, 1960-1990

The third volume in the invaluable reference series Comparative Charting of Social Change examines social trends in West Germany during the period between 1960 and 1990. This was a special phase of German history: the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949, and by 1960 the main disturban...

Infected christianity

Focusing on five modern "Christs," Alan Davies examines how the Christian church has succumbed to the infection of racist ideas. Using an analysis of the writings of representative philosophic and religious figures, Davies shows that the myths of race and nation, innocent in themselves, have evol...

Swinburne and his gods

In this richly detailed study, Margot Louis combines close readings of Swinburne's poetry with a wide-ranging analysis of the pressures which influenced the poet. Louis not only examines the ways in which Swinburne was affected by English and French Romantics but comments on the powerful impact o...

Canadian health care and the state

Canada's state-funded health care system is in trouble, and fundamental questions are being raised about the connection between medicine and the public sector. This collection of historical essays explores diverse aspects of medical care and ideology in their relation to the Canadian state and to...

Land, settlement, and politics on eighteenth-century prince edward island

Soon after Prince Edward Island was transferred from French to British sovereignty in 1763, virtually the entire land surface was turned over to private proprietors on the understanding that they would finance both settlement and the administration of the territory. While the proprietors did not ...

Discovering the end of time

A masterful study of the origins of apocalyptic millennialism, which lies at the heart of evangelical Christianity.

The moral mapping of victorian and edwardian london

The London poor and the cruel world of Christian charity circa 1900.

The seigneurial system in early canada

With its long thin fields and straggling rows of farmhouses stretching along either bank of the St Lawrence river for two hundred miles and more, the landscape of rural Canada toward the end of the French regime presented a distinctive charm and drew later writers to construct idyllic portraits o...

Nature, place, and story

Imagining how prominent national historic sites might confront critical issues in environmental history.

Sex, lies, and cigarettes

A cultural and historical investigation into why women smoke.

Lament for a nation, 40th anniversary edition

The classic masterpiece of political meditation.

Writers' rights

A timely study of freelance journalists’ working conditions and what is at stake for the future of journalism in precarious times.

Northern spirits

Canadians have devoted considerable thought to Hegel - a proposition born out by the work of John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor, three major Canadian political philosophers of the last century. In Northern Spirits, Robert Sibley examines how Watson, Grant, and Taylor found in Hegel the...

Survival and consolidation

At a time when the Soviet Union is disintegrating, Richard Debo provides an intriguing and detailed examination of the new political realities that slowly and painfully emerged in eastern Europe out of the chaos left in the wake of the First World War. Revealing the reasons for the victory of Len...

Harvest of souls

In 1632 Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune, newly arrived at the fort of Quebec, wrote the first of the Relations to his superior in Paris, initiating a series of biannual mission reports that came to be known as the Jesuit Relations. In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn presents a contemporary inte...

Natural selections

During the Depression the Canadian National Parks Branch was under pressure to make the park system truly national, to bring the advantages of parks to all provinces. In Atlantic Canada, however, it found itself dealing with an environment that was far different from what it was accustomed to in ...

Making out in the mainstream

A behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of LGBT media activism during a period of rapid societal change.

Home feelings

A history of the Canadian reading camp movement and the meanings of literacy, literature, and citizenship in the early twentieth century.

Conflicted colony

A study of borderlands and state formation in nineteenth-century Newfoundland.

Scottish common sense in germany, 1768-1800

Proponents of Scottish common-sense philosophy, especially Thomas Reid, James Oswald, and James Beattie, had a substantial influence on late enlightenment German philosophy. In this illuminating study Manfred Kuehn explores the nature and extent of that influence. He finds that the work of these ...

Recurrent dislocation of the shoulder

Antoinette de mirecourt or secret marrying and secret sorrowing

A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.

The limits to satisfaction

At a time when the supply of resources is a problem, William Leiss analyses demand and consumption. Why do we need so much? Does the ability to choose from such a wide range of commodities give us more satisfaction? Why do we accept being pushed into buying products about which we know little bec...

Images of goethe through schiller's egmont

Analysing a forgotten, unpublished performance script of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Goethe's play Egmont, David John examines the collaboration between the two playwrights as a means of addressing fundamental questions on the roles of text and performance. He shows that performance, not t...

Current perspectives on nutrition and health

Recent research on health and nutrition confirms the important role of diet in maintaining health and reducing the risk of chronic disease and reinforces the link between diet and heart disease, cancer, and obesity. While death rates for cardiovascular diseases continue to decline, health risks i...

Reading alice munro with jacques lacan

How Lacanian psychoanalysis illuminates the enigmas of human subjectivity at the heart of Alice Munro’s fiction.

The allied arts

Considering a wide range of craftspeople, materials, and forms, The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings.

Alcides lanza

Canadian-Argentinean pianist and composer alcides lanza is internationally renowned for his avant-garde approach to percussion, electroacoustics, and music theatre in works such as eidesis II, sensors III, un mundo imaginario, and vôo. Director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University ...

The little slaves of the harp

During the nineteenth century child musicians could be seen performing in the streets of cities across Europe and North America. Although they came from a number of countries, Italians were most associated with street music. In The Little Slaves of the Harp John Zucchi tells the story of the thou...

Adapted brains and imaginary worlds

Building bridges between brain science and fictional creations may be literary criticism’s most pressing new challenge.

Popular politics and political culture in upper canada, 1800-1850

In Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850 Carol Wilton shows us that ordinary Canadians were much more involved in the political process than previous accounts have lead us to believe. They demonstrated their interest in politics, and their commitment to a particular vi...

After the terror

The development of the pacific salmon-canning industry

The Pacific salmon fishery and the canning industry it supports have recently lost their status as the one of the most valuable fisheries in the world. In this study of early modern business, Dianne Newell discusses the beginning of the North American salmon canning industry, working from archive...

Canada among nations, 2005

In the 2005 edition of the Canada Among Nations series, contributors explore the divergences - the split - within Canada over a number of foreign policy areas, including defence and economic strategies. This volume highlights Canada's pivotal relationship with the U.S. in contrast to its importan...

The long road to reform

Although it has often been assumed that the Quiet Revolution represented the triumph of secularism over religion in Quebec, important vestiges of ecclesiastical influence have remained; among those which have proved to be particularly well entrenched are the structural foundations of the school s...

Prelude to quebec's quiet revolution

In this study of the intellectual origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, Michael Behiels has provided the most comprehensive account to date of the two competing ideological movements which emerged after World War II to challenge the tenets of traditional French-Canadian nationalism.

A catholic philosophy of education

Exploring a Catholic philosophy of education in the modern world.

Tinkers and travellers

From lowbrow to nobrow

From Lobrow to Nobrow demolishes the elite argument that popular fiction and culture are the underside of civilization. In this innovative book, Peter Swirski goes beyond demonstrating that "high-brow" has been transformed to "low-brow," showing that nobrow art is the interactive factor in the re...

Pragmatic idealism

Providing an overview of Canada's role in international affairs in the post-war era, Pragmatic Idealism dispels some of the myths surrounding Canadian foreign policy and celebrates the distinctiveness and distinction of Canada's place in world politics. Costas Melakopides finds an impressive cont...

Working people, fifth edition

A revised and updated edition of Morton's classic story of Canada's labour movement.

A place in the sun

A richly drawn portrait of Haiti in Quebec, of Quebec through Haiti, and the ways in which migrants transform societies.

Refereeing identity

What "national pastime" novels tell us about our country.

The land of feast and famine

In the late 1920s, a young Norwegian barrister made his way by river boat, canoe, and portage to an area north-east of Great Slave Lake. There, in the Canadian Arctic, he lived as a trapper in the company of native and white trappers and hunters. When he first arrived in the North, people in the ...

Central works of philosophy, volume 4

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon for undergraduate students and general readers.

Canlit across media

An innovative collection that evaluates diverse methods of recording, archiving, and remediating literature and literary culture in Canada.

Universals

Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence that is distinct from that of particular things? And what is their nature if they do? In Universals J.P. Moreland addresses these questions, in particular those issues that have been a crucial part of t...

Moments of unreason

In late Victorian and Edwardian Canada, confinement in an asylum was a common fate for many middle-class women who, as a consequence of economic dependency, menopause and other physical realities of their life cycles, or patriarchal inequities, were perceived as burdens to their families or the c...

Ancient greek

Toward the charter

At the end of the Second World War, a growing concern that Canadians' civil liberties were not adequately protected, coupled with the international revival of the concept of universal human rights, led to a long public campaign to adopt a national bill of rights. While these initial efforts had b...

Abenaki daring

The life and work of an Abenaki man illuminate the troubled history of Indigenous peoples.