Lessons on the noun phrase in english

While ordinary speakers - and some linguists - assume we have a mental dictionary stocked with words ready for use, Walter Hirtle shows that this view leads to contradictions. Focusing on the English noun with its modifiers and determiners, he proposes a radically different approach, arguing that...

Church, college, and clergy

Church, College, and Clergy commemorates the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Knox College in Toronto. Founded in 1844, it is the oldest, largest, and most influential Presbyterian theological school in Canada. Brian Fraser traces the history of th

York wilson

Lela Wilson's biography is an engaging personal perspective on Wilson's career as a painter and muralist, and as an advocate for the arts in Canada. This biography also provides an insider's view of a critical, but somewhat neglected, era in the development of Canadian art.

The politics of development

A reprint of the classic work on political economy and environmental history.

Top secret exchange

The Tizard Mission was one of the key events in the forging of the Anglo-American alliance in World War II. Led by Sir Henry Tizard, the mission visited the United States and Canada in the summer of 1940 to make available virtually all of Britain's technical and scientific military secrets. Overw...

Incorporating the familiar

Focusing on the delivery of justice in Inuit communities in northern Quebec, Incorporating the Familiar investigates the complexities and contradictions of accommodation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal legal systems. Conflict between the two legal orders, Susan Drummond argues, is really mo...

Imprisoning our sisters

The federal Prison for Women in Kingston, an isolated, unsafe penitentiary characterized as "unfit for bears, much less women," finally closed in 2000. Stephanie Hayman charts the development of the five new prisons that replaced it, including an Aboriginal healing lodge, placing her study within...

The strange demise of british canada

Did Canada come of age in the 1960s, or does it remain a British country?

Vingt ans après, habitants et marchands

This collection of essays commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Louise Dechêne's landmark book Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle, which ushered in a new phase in the study of the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canada. In Habitants et marchan...

Art's emotions

How is that artistic works have the power to move the human heart? Why does Manet's Woman with a Parrot evoke reverie, and an Edward Elgar cello concerto, nostalgia? What is the value of such experiences? Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that exper...

Night voices

It is the story of Poland in the years leading up to the war, the horrors Polish Jews faced during the Nazi occupation, the brief period of hope when they believed they were building a better society, and their gradual disillusionment as state sponsored corruption, brutality, Stalinist paranoia, ...

Religion and greater ireland

Stimulating essays that break new ground on religion and Irish identity in modern world history.

The newfoundland national convention, 1946-1948

The history of the Newfoundland National Convention is of key importance for understanding how Newfoundland became a Canadian province in 1949. In 1946 forty-five convention delegates were elected to consider the condition and prospects of Newfoundland and Labrador, and make recommendations to th...

Bringing art to life

In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada - was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that foll...

Evolutionary intuitionism

It seems impossible that organisms selected to maximize their genetic legacy could also be moral agents in a world in which taking risks for strangers is sometimes morally laudable. Brian Zamulinski argues that it is possible if morality is an evolutionary by-product rather than an adaptation.

Herman melville

Astronomy fascinated Herman Melville and provided an important and recurring theme in all his writing. He was inspired by uranography, stellar lore, ancient philosophical notions about the nature of the universe, and discoveries and speculations in contemporary astronomy. In Herman Melville: Star...

Canada in the european age, 1453-1919, new edition

When Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was first published, it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world, not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights i...

Rites of privacy and the privacy trade

Technological advances have made the right to privacy an important issue. Most discussions of privacy focus largely on methods and standards for the protection of specific privacy rights. In contrast, Elizabeth Neill addresses the need to re-evaluate what it means for us to possess a right to pri...

The complete plays of frances burney

This two-volume set of the comedies and tragedies of Frances Burney (1752-1840) reveals her remarkable, yet little-known, talent as a dramatist. Compiled from the original manuscripts, it includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes to each play, explanatory notes, and variant readings.

Caregiving on the periphery

Fascinating stories of the unconventional work of nurses and midwives in Canada.

From bourassa to bourassa, second edition

The story of the Quebec Liberal Party during its wilderness years between the 1976 election of the Parti Québécois and its return to power in 1985.

Fous, prodigues et ivrognes

Vivre avec un individu alcoolique, dérangé dans son esprit ou dépensier à l’excès pouvait s’avérer désastreux pour les familles montréalaises forcées de s’adapter aux exigences et aux risques du capitalisme industriel. Craignant de perdre leur statut social et leur respectabilité, plusieurs d’ent...

No ordinary school

One hundred years of history at a private school for girls that occupies a unique place in Quebec's educational sphere.

An examination of the philosophy of bacon

An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon is one of Joseph de Maistre's most original and important works. Best known for his defence of throne and altar and for his critique of the political and religious thought of the Enlightenment, Maistre also addressed more fundamental philosophical issues....

Rule-following and meaning

A selection of readings on a central topic in contemporary philosophy of language, mind, and metaphysics.

A total science

From the early 1900s to the end of the Second World War, Italian statistics was characterized by original, consistent, and widely recognized scientific contributions, a clearly hegemonic position vis-à-vis Italian social science at that time, and the totalitarian political environment in which it...

Recesses of the mind

Recesses of the Mind explores Guðbergur Bergsson's aesthetics of life and literature. Bergsson - like so many writers whose language is not widely spoken or read - is scarcely known outside his homeland, but the psychological depth of his vision reveals the minds of his characters in ways that ar...

Talking in context

Though linguists estimate that hundreds of languages are in danger of extinction, everyday use of Kwak'wala, an indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, reveals that it has been strategically maintained even among young speakers as a marker of cultural identity. Anne Marie Goodfellow explo...

Centring the periphery

Patrick Baker's post-modern approach uses ideas from chaos theory and world systems theory to interpret the prehistory and history of Dominica. During its prehistory Dominica served as an occasional stepping-stone for small-scale, independent foraging and horticultural peoples migrating up the An...

The law of multi-bank financing

Combining doctrinal, practical, and comparative approaches The Law of Multi-bank Financing provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal and regulatory facets of multi-bank financing (particularly loan syndications and loan participations) as well as developing a conceptual framework that allows...

Legalizing misandry

Lurid and sensationalized events such as the public response to Lorena Bobbitt after she cut off her abusive husband's penis, prurient fascination provoked by Anita Hill's allegations about Clarence Thomas, and the exploitation of the mass murder of fourteen women in Montreal have been processed ...

For the people

In For The People James Cameron charts the institutional development of St Francis Xavier University from 1853 to 1970 and illustrates how the college has become an integral part of the region's history and culture through its tradition of service to the people of eastern Nova Scotia on both the ...

Emotional and interpersonal dimensions of health services

While technological and biomedical breakthroughs have provided a remarkable array of tests, equipment, drugs, and procedures for diagnosing and treating acute diseases, modern medicine and professional health practices have not taken the same strides in the more human aspects of care. Emotional a...

Mcgill medicine, volume 1

Joseph Hanaway and Richard Cruess describe the origins and development of Canada's first medical school and the extraordinary staff whose progressive ideas made it one of the best medical teaching and research centres in North America.

Stories of the middle space

A faith-based approach to postmodern literature and critical theory.

Strangers among us

David Woodman re-evaluates the importance of Inuit oral traditions in his search to reconstruct the events surrounding Sir John Franklin's tragic 1845 expedition. He shows that often-misunderstood tales of white men travelling through Inuit lands may in fact refer to survivors of the Franklin exp...

James mcgill of montreal

James McGill is well known as the founder of McGill University but the rest of his accomplishments remain little known. This new biography reveals the fascinating life story of a man who, as fur trader, merchant, public servant, and colonel of the militia, played a significant role in Canada's de...

Le bureau fédéral de la statistique

Le Bureau fédéral de la statistique, précurseur de Statistiques Canada, a été fondé en 1918 comme organisme national centralisé, chargé de satisfaire aux besoins statistiques du XXe siècle. David Worton retrace l'évolution du Bureau et brosse le portrait des personnes qui ont marqué son épanouiss...

Meaning

An insightful look at the philosophy of language.

Judicial power and canadian democracy

The role the courts should play in Canada's political system is a long-simmering issue. Ever since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect in 1982, Canada's courts have been empowered to strike down any legislation held to contravene Canadians' basic rights. While any number of court ...

Urban aboriginal policy making in canadian municipalities

The majority of Aboriginal people in Canada - First Nations, Inuit, and Métis - live in urban areas. Public policy making concerning urban Aboriginal people is, however, complex, complicated by geographic variation, and varies greatly in both quality and quantity from municipality to municipality...

I sing the body politic

The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars, major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about Ameri...

Enabling engagements

An insightful reading of Edmund Spenser, demonstrating his poetic and political stance through his engagements with patrons.

Mcmaster university, volume 1

The Toronto Years is the first of three volumes relating the history of McMaster University. It is not simply an institutional chronicle, which lists names for the record; it is a dramatic and colourful story that shows how the university grew out of earlier Baptist educational endeavours and des...

Artists in dylan thomas's prose works

Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works is an exploration of the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas. Ann Mayer examines Thomas's changing conceptions of language and the creation of meaning as revealed in his numerous self-referential acts of writing and telling.

A new lease on life

A New Lease on Life is a study of two sets of individuals - landlords and tenants - whose aspirations, opportunities, and destinies spanned the Atlantic. In this richly detailed history of migration and adaptation in the nineteenth century, Catharine Wi

Nelson goodman

Although some of Nelson Goodman's views have become unfashionable or seem unorthodox, much in his work is of lasting significance. Daniel Cohnitz and Marcus Rossberg assess Goodman's contribution to philosophy, including his acceptance and critique of positivism, his defence of nominalism and phe...

Reconciliation(s)

The transformation of conflict and postconflict societies through transitional justice is now recognized as vital to the process of peacebuilding, with mechanisms such as trials, truth commissions, and apologies seen as essential for effecting societal change. It is widely argued that "reconcilia...

Sean o'casey

Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. Christopher Murray's Se?...

Religion and nationality in western ukraine

Using Soviet archival materials declassified in the 1980s, John-Paul Himka examines a period during which the Greek Catholic church in Galicia was involved in a protracted, and at times bitter, struggle to maintain its distinctive, historically developed rites and customs. He focuses on the way d...

African exploits

A record of the experiences of a young Canadian caught up in European expansion into Africa in the 1880s, African Exploits provides a disturbing record of William Stairs's two African expeditions and the devastating clash of cultures that occurred during the imperial scramble for the "dark contin...

The philosophy of gadamer

The ideas of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer have had considerable influence both in their own right, as the leading modern exposition of philosophical hermeneutics, and in interpreting the works of others, especially Heidegger, Hegel, and Plato. Jean Grondin provides an authoritative and c...

Rereading middle english romance

Focusing on features of layout and decoration in manuscripts containing Middle English romances, Murray Evans discusses how these details signal generic and structural relationships among texts. Using a computer-assisted survey to tabulate and quantify features of decoration and presentation in f...

In defence of religious schools and colleges

It is often argued that religious schools and colleges promote intolerance, divisiveness, and fanaticism and that they violate the principle of academic freedom. Some writers also suggest that economic support for religious schools by the state violates the principle of the separation of church a...

David alexander

In Canada, it can be easy to consider landscape painting as cliché, an art form whose time has passed. David Alexander's vibrant, large-scale works show the wonder and possibility that remain undiminished in paintings of the natural environment and breathe new life into the landscape tradition.

The world of the gift

In an age dominated by consumerism and government agencies many people believe that generosity and altruism either no longer exist or are fuelled by self-interest. Gifts are seen as, at best, irrelevant frills. In The World of the Gift Jacques Godbout and Alain Caillé show that in reality the gif...

Moi, je suis de bouctouche

Donald Savoie a grandi dans un petit village acadien et est devenu un auteur et un universitaire accompli. Ses livres ont eu un effet profond sur les politiques publiques du Canada et sur l'administration du pays. Moi, je suis de Bouctouche n'est pas seulement l'histoire de Savoie lui-même, mais ...

The strange death of the liberal empire

Part political biography and part study of imperialism, The Strange Death of the Liberal Empire is an examination of Lord Selborne's career as high commissioner for South Africa from 1905 to 1910.

Surgeons, smallpox, and the poor

Allan Marble describes the practice of medicine and surgery in Nova Scotia during the province's period of early settlement in the last half of the eighteenth century. Investigating such matters as the role of the state in providing medical care, the structure of the medical community, and the ph...

Freedom, equality, community

Accounts of the work of six significant figures in Canadian political thought are used to examine key intellectual debates, including the national unity issue and Canada's relationship with the United States. James Bickerton, Stephen Brooks, and Alain Gagnon analyse the work and influence of Geor...

Mcmaster university, volume 2

McMaster University was established in 1887 as a trust to the Baptist constituency of central Canada. This second volume of the university’s history chronicles its transformation from a modest university college into an important university. It is the story of survival through the Depression and ...

Far eastern tour

The Canadian army brass and defence planners insisted on viewing the Korean conflict - the "forgotten war" - through the familiar lens of their World War II experiences. As a result Canadian soldiers in Korea suffered needless casualties and endured conditions that bordered on criminal neglect.

Our own agendas

Our Own Agendas is the second collection of essays by McGill women. The first, A Fair Shake, was published a decade ago. The second volume both reflects the current climate of openness and shows that many barriers remain to be challenged. Our Own Agendas makes a lively and enlightening contributi...

Bamboo church

An enlightenment tory in victorian scotland

An Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire. The first author to examine the full range of Alison's writin

Franz rosenzweig and jehuda halevi

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), one of the most daunting modern Jewish thinkers, exercises a profound influence on contemporary philosophy and modern Jewish thought. In this seminal study, Barbara Galli provides the first English translation of Rosenzweig's Jehuda Halevi: Zweiundneunzig Hymnen und ...

Rolph scarlett

The first critical retrospective of Rolph Scarlett's extraordinary achievements.

Malcolm macdonald

Malcolm MacDonald (1901-1981) played a central role in the decolonization of the British Empire. The son of Britain's first Socialist prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, Malcolm soon emerged from his father's shadow to take a crucial political and diplomatic part in the shaping of the Commonwealth....

Challenging genetic determinism

Compelling essays on understanding the interplay of genes in society.

Postmodern canadian fiction and the rhetoric of authority

Criticism that takes an ideological approach to Canadian writing is scarce; political-rhetorical studies are even more uncommon. In this original approach to postwar Canadian fiction Glenn Deer presents provocative readings of ideologies as well as experiments with authorial stances.

Is it possible to live this way? volume 3: charity

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.

The art of the landscape

A detailed guide to the aesthetic experience of landscapes.

Quebec national cinema

In Quebec National Cinema Bill Marshall tackles the question of the role cinema plays in Quebec's view of itself as a nation. Surveying mostly fictional feature films, Marshall demonstrates how Quebec cinema has evolved from the innovative direct cinema of the early 1960s into the diverse canvas ...

A long way from home

A Long Way from Home is the first comprehensive account of the tuberculosis epidemic among the Inuit in the mid-part of this century. The Inuit were victims not only of the epidemic but also of the Canadian government's shockingly slow response and lack of consideration for their culture. Pat Gry...

The living past of montreal, third edition

The Living Past of Montreal is a history of the city and its community, brought to life by fifty-seven specially commissioned charcoal and ink drawings of Old Montreal by R.D. Wilson. Beginning with the establishment of the first permanent settlement in 1642, Eric McLean describes the changing ra...

The missionary oblate sisters

In an important feminist study, Rosa Bruno-Jofré offers a sensitive and nuanced picture of how a women's organization, the Missionary Oblate Sisters, a bilingual teaching congregation in Manitoba, dealt with both the larger patriarchal structures and the differing views, traditions, and attitudes...

Changing structures of inequality

The international sociological community has engaged recently in a controversial discussion on social inequality. There is a vigourous debate on whether the traditional concepts of social class and social stratification are still useful. Some researchers argue that social classes still offer a ke...

Behold the hero

General James Wolfe's death on 13 September 1759 at the moment of British victory over the French on the Plains of Abraham in New France instantly elevated him to the pantheon of British heroes. His courage, his glorious death, and his ability to lead the English and their American colonial breth...

Knowledge matters

Knowledge Matters, written in honour of eminent Canadian educator Bernard J. Shapiro, explores the state and prospects of higher education in Canada and beyond.

Imagining culture

Many former members of European empires have demonstrated a need to overcome the colonial process and assert a "postcolonial" culture. Applying postcolonial analysis to Canadian literature, Margaret Turner argues that many nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canadian texts are engaged in the creati...

Risks, dangers, and rewards in the nova scotia offshore fishery

Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery describes the hidden cost paid by workers in the Nova Scotia offshore fishery, a cost measured not in dollars and cents but in deaths and injuries.

The afterlife of trees

Brian Bartlett's poems, both pithy and expansive, bridge nature and human society, humour and elegy. Ranging from Buster Keaton films to a miniature Taj Mahal, from a celebration of sloths to an ironic look at the new millennium, from an urban garden to a ferry at sea, these poems tell stories an...

Outside the box

When poet and broadcaster Mona Gould died in 1999, she left behind thirty-eight boxes of papers. Her war poem, "This Was My Brother," was still a staple of textbooks and anthologies, yet Mona - well known in her youth - had fallen into obscurity in the 1960s. Born at the very time Mona's career w...

State traditions and language regimes

Original and provocative analyses of how state traditions inform language policy choices in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Insights, discoveries, surprises

Insights, Discoveries, Surprises is an intimate revelation of drawing and the creative process. Ghitta Caiserman-Roth and Rhoda Cohen invite the reader to participate in a rare learning opportunity centred on the discoveries and insights they made while sharing a studio and drawing together.

Wilfrid sellars

An impressive exploration of the complexity and range of the work of one of the central philosophical figures of the twentieth century.

Northern experience and the myths of canadian culture

In Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture Renée Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, she challenges the e...

Sleep is a country

A woman of two worlds explores personal identity, spirituality and relationships in Sleep is a Country, her first collection. Her life has been both prairie and capital, French and English. Le Dressay's often removed observations and sometimes heated interactions are shared in poems connected by ...

The surface climates of canada

Climate, particularly physical and surface climate, plays an intimate role in landscape pattern and diversity in Canada. Focusing on climatic processes at and near the earth's surface and on how these processes interact with the natural and human-modified landscapes, The Surface Climates of Canad...

Petworth emigration set

This set is comprised of the following 2 volumes: Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada: The Petworth Project, 1832-1837 English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s

Workers and canadian history

Workers and Canadian History is a collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, the recognized Canadian leader in the growing field of working-class history. Available for the first time in a single volume, the essays provide an extensive study of various trends and themes in Canadian labour and...

The philosophy of merleau-ponty

An introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century.

Selling out

In a powerful defence of the values that define education, Howard Woodhouse uses concrete and vivid examples to show how universities in Canada have been engulfed by the market model of education and how administrators have done little to resist this trend.

Staples, markets, and cultural change

This new edition of Harold Innis's essays, published on the occasion of his centenary, assembles his most significant and representative writing. Included are many of Innis's essays on cultural issues and economic development - subjects he explored throughout his life - that have not been readily...