The fiddlehead moment

An exciting new reading of Canadian literary modernism that challenges many of the urban-centric biases and opinions still prevalent today.

Arctic clothing

In defence of open-mindedness

William Hare believes that open-mindedness - the disposition to form a belief, and if necessary to revise or reject it, in the light of available evidence and arguement - stands in need of a defence because it is under widespread attack. In this sequel to his highly regarded Open-mindedness and E...

Ancestral recall

A comparative modernist study of the connections between Irish and Japanese literature, opening up uncharted avenues of cross-cultural exchange.

Institutions of isolation

Until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the Soviet Union was one of the most restrictive and powerful states in the world, and border controls were one of the most important symbols of the Soviet repressive apparatus - as the phrase "Iron Curtain" attests. In Institutions of Isolation Andr...

Ulster's men

Heroism, propaganda, unionism, and violence in Ireland during the Great War.

Cowboys, gentlemen, and cattle thieves

Prostitution, gunfights, barroom brawls, and cattle rustling - prevailing images from the American old West - have typically been absent from histories of a gentler Canadian frontier. In Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves Warren Elofson argues that the Canadian frontier was less restrained, l...

Yearbook of air and space law 1966/annuaire de droit aerien et spatial

Sexual enjoyment in british romanticism

How British Romantic writers reimagined sexual enjoyment and invented psychoanalysis in the process.

Constitutional politics in multinational democracies

In Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies the editors bring together experts on multinational democracies to analyze the claims of minority nations about their political future, and the responses they elicit through constitutional politics.

In its corporate capacity

Since the 1660s, the Seminary of Montreal -- a French, male religious community -- had been an integral part of the merchant, seigneurial, and clerical elite that dominated Montreal. Its significance in pre-industrial society was strengthened by its role as seigneur of Montreal Island and titular...

Neoliberal governance and health

A critical dissection of the politics of health in neoliberal society.

The new world order

The New World Order seeks to reveal the reality and limitations of "the New World Order," the term U.S. President George Bush Sr used to describe the emerging political reality. Since the early 1990s there has been a fundamental but covert shift in the value system of world politics. The post–Wor...

The voices of medieval english lyric

An innovative edition of Middle English lyric poems that takes voice as its main principle of arrangement.

Natives and newcomers

According to convential nineteenth-century wisdom, societies of European origin were naturally progressive; native societies were static. One consequence of this attitutde was the almost universal separation of history and anthropology. Today, despite a growing interest in changes in Amerindian s...

Into the house of old

Spanning the period from the 1890s to the 1960s "Into the House of Old" details the lives and survival strategies of elderly people as they struggle to remain independent. Megan Davies opens the door to the institutional world of the old age home, demonstrating how the legacy of the poor law and ...

Excessive expectations

In the first full-length economic history of pre-Confederation Nova Scotia, Julian Gwyn challenges the popular myth that the British colony prospered before it became a province of Canada. Through his discussion of three periods in Nova Scotia's development (1740-1815,1815-53, and 1853-70) and fo...

Constitutional dynamics in federal systems

How sub-national constitutions influence constitutional change and adaptation in federations.

Jan van noordt

Jan van Noordt (c.1623/4-1676) created some of the most flamboyant and expressive paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Susanna and the Elders and Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon. Yet little was known about his life and the many misattributions of his works have hidden his significance. Davi...

The church of notre dame in montreal

In the extensive new preface, Toker examines the approach he took in writing The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal and reflects on the implications of what has been discovered since the book was first published in 1970.

Aboriginal rights claims and the making and remaking of history

How research into Indigenous rights claims is influenced by, and in turn changes, Indigenous law and claims legislation.

Masters and students

The Jesuit Relations re-evaluated in light of two concurrent missions - the Christianization of Amerindians and the extraction of information for France.

The equal parent presumption

A child-focused approach to the "best interests of the child."

Anxious allegiances

The early Canadian long poem has often been faulted for its lack of aesthetic integrity. Often described as little more than poorly "versified rhetoric," these works have never been submitted to rigorous rhetorical analysis. In Anxious Allegiances C.D. Mazoff investigates the rhetorical devices u...

Dog's best friend?

An examination of different historical and cultural attitudes towards dogs and other canids.

Women, peace, and security

Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones. Women, Peace, and Security lays the groundwork for this enhanced participation, draw...

The iron wedge/l'appel de la race

Originally published in 1922, and set in Ottawa, this tells the story of an Anglicized French-Canadian, Jules de Lantagnac, who goes back to French roots in mid-life and in the process sacrifices his English-speaking wife and three children.

Boys in the pits

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's indus...

God’s province

A groundbreaking exploration of the religious roots of Alberta conservatism.

Valparaíso school

The School of Architecture at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile, underwent a transformation in 1952 when a group of young architects led by Alberto Cruz began teaching at the school.

Margaret mcwilliams

After the First World War, newly enfranchised women in Canada worked in a variety of ways to improve the situation of women in society. Mary Kinnear's study of the career of Margaret McWilliams (1875-1952) describes one woman's contribution to the largely undocumented story of interwar feminism.

Monck, letters and journals, 1863-1868

W. stanford reid

W. Stanford Reid's career affected both university and religious life in Canada during the post-war period. Donald MacLeod traces Reid's career in the university, first at McGill, where Reid was a history professor for twenty-four years as well as dean of residences, and then at the University of...

Forkhill protestants and forkhill catholics, 1787-1858

Is conflict between Catholics and Protestants really the key to understanding Irish history?

Aboriginal music in contemporary canada

Contemporary Aboriginal music from powwow to hip hop, the people that make it, and the issues that shape it.

Nuclear fallacies

The world changed irrevocably after Hiroshima, in ways we are only now beginning to understand. Our perceptions of life have been dramatically altered. The polemics of various factions around the nuclear issue often serve only to obscure further the realities of life in the nuclear age.

Canada, the commonwealth and the common market

Joseph howe, volume i

For almost fifty years Joseph Howe was at or near the centre of public affairs, first in Nova Scotia and later in imperial relations and in the earliest years of the new Dominion. He was his province's most articulate spokesman as well as its leading politician and publicist and was pre-eminent i...

Growing to one world

An illuminating look at the life and work of the man F.R. Scott called "the most Canadian of us all."

Imperial paradoxes

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and...

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

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

Unbound

Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst ...

Canada's changing north, revised edition

When Canada's Changing North was first published in 1971, it quickly became a popular and reliable overview of the geography and culture of the Canadian North. In the three decades since it first appeared, great changes have occurred in this huge region that makes up two thirds of Canada's total ...

British trade unions and the problem of change

Repairing eden

How a humble, mystical path might be the solution to the problem of losing one's Christian faith due to religious diversity.

Africa's gene revolution

An evaluation of the potential for genetically modified crops to alleviate poverty and hunger in Africa.

Kant on history and religion

Canada before confederation

This classic study in modern historical geography reflects the changing regional character of that part of North America that was to become Canada. "A pioneering bench-mark for future researchers, recognized for its scholarly as well as its literary qualities." Journal of Historical Geography.

The poet and the critic

These letters give a unique glimpse into publishing history in Canada and tell a human story of two Canadian men of letters, one in his prime, the other at the end of his life.

Jerusalem on the amur

In 1928 the Soviet Union proposed the establishment of an autonomous socialist Jewish republic in the far eastern reaches of Russian territory. In Birobidzhan the eternal search for a Jewish homeland would be realized and Jews would possess their own institutions, which would function in Yiddish....

Bay lexicon

Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline, is a case study in establishing a working language for hybrid landscapes. Centred on a walk along the edge of the iconic San Francisco Bay, it documents, deciphers, and classifies the places and phenomena a person encounters. Through activi...

In a new light

In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. Together these essays deepe...

Christian attitudes towards the state of israel

When the United Nations debated the future of the Mandate of Palestine in 1947, world opinion was powerfully affected by news of the Holocaust and the plight of Jewish refugees. This momentary humanitarian advantage aided Christian Zionists in mobilizing

City-regions in prospect?

Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region.

Alejandro malaspina

The thirst for knowledge and adventure have always been at the forefront of human imagination. In this engrossing tale John Kendrick takes us on a voyage across the Pacific via the Philippines, New Zealand, the infant British colony at Sydney Cove, and the Tonga Islands, chronicling the life of A...

The picturesque prison

This study of the life and works of Evelyn Waugh traces the novelist's pursuit of his vocation and his long retreat from a world which he came to regard as a spiritual dungeon. Jeffrey Heath explores the paradoxical elements in Waugh's career: his quest for a refuge itself proved to be a prison a...

Sir andrew macphail

Sir Andrew Macphail (1864-1938), a professor of the history of medicine at McGill University, was best-known as an essayist of international renown and founding editor of The University Magazine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Tolerant allies

The first detailed behind-the-scenes look at Canada-US relations during the turbulent 1960s, Tolerant Allies draws extensively on recently declassified Canadian and American sources to explore the most important political, economic, and military elements in the bilateral relationship during the 1...

Memoirs and madness

A critical study of Leonid Andreev as a "mad literary genius."

Orientalism and empire

Orientalism and Empire sheds new light on the little-studied Russian empire in the Caucasus by exploring the tension between national and imperial identities on the Russian frontier. Austin Jersild contributes to the growing literature on Russian "orientalism" and the Russian encounter with Islam...

Imagined nations

An in-depth look at the effects of change in modes of communication on imagined forms of political community through an examination of a series of Canadian novels and film adaptations.

New directions

The worldwide trade and payments system is becoming increasingly competitive, a trend which presents certain opportunities and challenges for Canada's trade-dependent economy. This book is a collection of five papers prepared by the Policy Staff of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter...

The teeth of time

Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tension...

Lying about the wolf

Addressing some of the major issues plaguing education, particularly the scandal of illiteracy and the growing mediocrity in academic performance, David Solway argues that the current state of affairs in education is the result not simply of poor training in elementary school or the disappearance...

God's assassins

Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta. Most were imprisoned and tortured before being murdered by the military. In the two years preceding 1976, another 2,000 were assassinated by paramilitary death squads loosely organized by the Argentine go...

Sober reflections

Alcohol policies reflect conflicting ideological, social, health, and commercial agendas. Sober Reflections describes the development of alcohol policies at the national level and in Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario between 1980 and 2000. Using qualitative research methods, the essays examine the rol...

Local government and metropolitan regions in federal systems

Examining the various functions of local governments.

Music in canada

Kwakwaka'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel's 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits of Shelton Brooks, and the contemporary work of Claude Vivier and Blue Rodeo all dance together in Can...

Power versus prudence

With the end of the Cold War, nuclear non-proliferation has emerged as a central issue in international security relations. While most existing works on nuclear proliferation deal with the question of nuclear acquisition, T.V. Paul explains why some states have decided to forswear nuclear weapons...

The weariness, the fever, and the fret

An ancient disease which predates man, tuberculosis was one of the earliest chronic life-threatening diseases faced by Canadians. By 1900 "The White Plague" was the number one cause of death for Canadians between fifteen and forty-five years of age. Racked by incessant coughing, barely able to ca...

Possible worlds

Ever since Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, "possible worlds" has become a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics.

Isotopes and innovation

Few people realize that Canada leads in the world in the production of radio isotopes, the raw material of nuclear medicine and high-tech scanners, and in their use in medicine and industry. In Isotopes and Innovation Paul Litt gives us an in-depth look at MDS Nordion, a company that started as t...

Health care federalism in canada

Rethinking the future of health care in Canada.

Wrapped up in god

Between 1776 and 1830 the Maritime provinces were the site of important waves of religious revivals. Focusing chiefly on Baptists and Methodists, George Rawlyk uses rich primary sources to examine these happenings. Most contemporary interpreters of revivals have explained them in terms of their s...

State and society in transition

Examining the process of state formation as it occurred in the Eastern Townships of Quebec following the unification of Upper and Lower Canada, J.I. Little argues that institutional reform was not simply imposed by the government but the result of a complex process of interaction between the stat...

Canada's national system of innovation

In Canada's National System of Innovation Jorge Niosi discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of innovation, examining the works of Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Christopher Freeman, Richard Nelson, Charles Edquist and others around the world. He argues that the concept is particularly usefu...

Des pouvoirs et des hommes

The development of Montreal's municipal administration has remained largely unexamined. In Des pouvoirs et des hommes Michèle Dagenais takes a close look at the transformation on municipal administration in the first half of the twentieth century, painting a vivid picture of political patronage a...

The early origins of the social sciences

Arguing that the beginnings of the social sciences extend much further back than is generally realized, Lynn McDonald traces the methodological foundations, research techniques, and basic concepts of the social sciences from their earliest origins to the beginning of this century. This thorough i...

Chaucer and language

Geoffrey Chaucer is increasingly recognized as a writer whose work is particularly congenial to modern tastes. The essays in Chaucer and Language are at the forefront of present-day interest in Chaucer as a highly self-conscious manipulator of language and theorist of signification in the broades...

Treading fast rivers

This collection of linked poems takes us on a journey where angels ride bicycles, wounds both grieve and heal, and "our will / diving through the shuddering / wet world, carries us." Resonant with "a longing so ardent and spacious," these are poems of place and displacement, sickness and health. ...

Nightclub

In the last thirty years bouncers have emerged as gatekeepers of contemporary urban cool, exclusivity, and social capital. In this ground-breaking empirical study, George Rigakos looks at the relation between consumption, security, and risk and challenges the idea of nightclubs as places of liber...

Building jewish roots

Thousands of young North American Jews visit Israel every year on organized, educational, heritage tours. Israel Experience Programs present religion, homeland, and nation to participants in compelling and sometimes unsettling ways. Supported by Jewish communal institutions, these programs are en...

Inventing the pc

In May 1973, Micro Computer Machines, a Toronto-based electronics company, gave a public demonstration of a small computer called the MCM/70. Powered by a microprocessor and operated with APL, a sophisticated programming language, the MCM/70 was positioned to be a practical, affordable, and easy-...

Mapping postcommunist cultures

Drawing on the discourses of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and globalization, Vitaly Chernetsky maps out the new cultural developments in literature, architecture, painting, film, and performance art emerging in Russia and Ukraine, the two largest successor states to the Soviet Union, situating...

One must not go altogether with the tide

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) is widely remembered not only as one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century literary modernism, but also for his notorious anti-Semitic writings and radio broadcasts that supported Mussolini's Italian Fascist regime. His ideological turn from poetics and aesthe...

The chicago school diaspora

A collection of innovative essays from leading scholars in the Chicago School tradition of sociology.

Keepers of the record

Winner, Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives (2008)

Quebec identity

In Quebec Identity Jocelyn Maclure provides a critical reflection on the ways in which Quebec's identity has been articulated since the 1960s' Quiet Revolution. He shows how neither the melancholic nationalism of the Montreal school, Hubert Aquin, Pierre Vallières, Fernand Dumont and their follow...

Making fast food, first edition

Fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King are part of world-wide corporate empires that generate billions of dollars in annual sales. In Making Fast Food Ester Reiter examines the impact the fast food industry has had on the organization of work a

Management of the mentally disordered offender in prisons

Possibly no area of human endeavour poses a greater ethical challenge to a free society than the safe control of mentally disordered persons who represent a significant social danger. Managing mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) is a major challenge for the clinician because they have multiple p...

Kleist on stage, 1804-1987

Until now, there has been no general reference work that describes the various stagings of Kleist's plays since the first performance of Die Familie Schroffenstein in 1804. Several dissertations dealing with the stage history of individual works appeared between 1920 and 1932 and some articles di...

Beyond quebec

Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, soon became...

Harold innis in the new century

A collection of original essays that moves beyond the prevalent view of Harold Innis as a technological determinist, Harold Innis in the New Century brings his innovative ideas to bear upon a variety of contemporary issues, such as postmodernism, liberalism, gender, and cultural policy.

In the chamber of risks

Through a new set of detailed case studies William Leiss shows that while industry and governments have made much progress in responsibly managing risks to health and environment, they generally remain quite poor at managing their involvements with risk issues, that is, with the often intense con...

Storm still

Marked by reflectiveness and mature insight, O'Meara's keen sense of lyric structure and subtle cadences explore in contexts both historical and personal the tension between established knowledge and discovery - the centre and horizon of our unfixed selves. These poems - ambitious, rooted, exuber...

Tortillas and tomatoes

A timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed. Basok argues while Mexican workers do not necessarily constitute cheap labour for Canadian growers, they are vital for the survival of some agricultural sectors as they are always available for work, even on holidays an...

Canada's big biblical bargain

The story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.