Lives in transition

An examination of mobility, inequality, and the unfolding of lives on three continents during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Fred taylor

John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist.

The constant diplomat

The leaders and politics of the Soviet Union seen through the eyes of an experienced ambassador.

Remaking liberalism

Barry Ferguson considers the thinking of four major Canadian political economists who developed their ideas while building the discipline of political economy at Queen's University. In doing so they reinterpreted Canada's prospects for future economic development and the place of the individual i...

Central works of philosophy, volume 3

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

Gender and narrativity

It is impossible to imagine a community that is not divided into at least two gender groups. It is equally impossible to imagine a community that does not tell or enact stories. The relationship between these universal aspects of human culture is the mainspring of Gender and Narrativity. From Gen...

Amassing power

At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the t...

Inventing tom thomson

An examination of Canadian identity through our cultural obsession with iconic painter Tom Thomson.

Death

Role quests in the post-cold war era

Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era examines the question of foreign policy change through a comparative analysis of the Great Powers' reactions to the transformations in international relations after the Cold War. Contributors describe and explain the efforts of the United States, the Soviet Un...

Flexible innovation

The recent wave of technological alliances is changing the way high-technology companies conduct research and development in Canada. While most companies still conduct their R&D in isolation, the secretive, closed laboratory is becoming a thing of the past. Flexible Innovation, the first stud...

Governance in the twenty-first century

Numerous administrative reforms during the past several decades, referred to as the "New Public Management," have altered government in a number of fundamental ways. These changes have, in turn, produced the need for even greater change if the public sector is to be capable of governing efficient...

The politics of postal transformation

In The Politics of Postal Transformation Robert Campbell investigates and analyses the most important policy innovations in recent years as countries struggle to create a postal regime that matches domestic political expectations with international and technological realities.

The federfuchser/penpusher from lessing to grillparzer

Concentrating on Klesel's role in Franz Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, William Reeve argues that Klesel represents the culmination of a literary type - the Federfuchser, or pen-pushing secretary. Evolving out of the political and social conditions of the late eighteenth and early nine...

The shady side of fifty

A breakthrough study of age and old age in North America - both as a concept and as lived experience.

Governing the poor

Why have billions of dollars in aid failed to end poverty?

Cosmopolitanism

Facts of life

Facts of Life is the first historical study of any Canadian civil registration statistics since 1930 and the first study, for any jurisdiction, that extends into the twentieth century. George Emery examines Ontario's vital statistics from 1869, when civil registration for births, marriages, and d...

In the eye of the china storm

"The proudest day of my life was October 1, 1950. I marched with seeming multitudes across Tiananmen Square, exalting in China's independence from foreign controls. As the people raised their fists to Mao Zedong shouting Wansui, 'ten thousand year' - the traditional greeting for an emperor - I co...

The labrador memoir of dr harry paddon, 1912-1938

Dr Harry Paddon's memoir is an extensive account of life in Labrador prior to its entry into Confederation. As the Grenfell Mission's principal physician for over twenty-five years, Dr Paddon travelled extensively throughout Labrador by both dog team and boat. Through his journals he fashions a p...

Ethnography and development

An insightful exploration of the work and continued influence of a groundbreaking anthropologist.

John rawls

Our ice is vanishing / sikuvut nunguliqtuq

A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.

The career of toleration

John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration is one of the canonical English-language texts in the history of the idea of toleration. Its publication in 1689 sparked a heated debate with Anglican cleric Jonas Proast, and in recent years the Locke-Proast cont

Henri bergson and british modernism

Mary Ann Gillies shows that French philosopher Henri Bergson played a central role in the development of British literary modernism. While Bergson's influence on modernism has long been debated, this is the first thorough, current examination of the ways in which his ideas are manifest in British...

Painting the map red

In October 1899, before the outbreak of the war in South Africa, Sam Hughes, the maverick Conservative imperialist, predicted ominously that the map of Africa would be painted Empire red only through the shedding of blood. By the time the Anglo-Boer War ended in May 1902, 7,368 young soldiers and...

Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the british atlantic world, 1770-1850

Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depiction ...

A gentleman of pleasure

John Glassco (1909-1981) holds a unique position in Canadian letters and a somewhat notorious reputation throughout the world. He is best known for his Memoirs of Montparnasse, the controversial chronicle of his youthful adventures and encounters with celebrities in the Paris of James Joyce, Gert...

Governance in a changing environment

Fiscal cutbacks, the public's declining confidence in government, and new ideologies are forcing the public sector in industrialized democracies to undertake major reforms. In these essays contributing authors examine changes to the political and economic environment and the ways in which governm...

Bullets on the water

Civil wars in Africa, the collapse of the central regime in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf war in the Middle East, the collapse of the military regimes in Central America, new ethnic clashes in the former USSR - all these events have resulted in an increased number of displaced peo...

Sphaerae mundi

From the Renaissance to well into the nineteenth century, finely crafted, scientifically valuable, and aesthetically sumptuous terrestrial and celestial globes held a place of honour in the libraries and cabinets of curiosities of the aristocracy, wealthy merchants, and centres of research and le...

Sun in winter

In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war. While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. Sun in Winter captures her keen interest in life in Canada and draws...

The unemployment crisis

High unemployment dominates the Canadian social reality of the 1990s. Lay-offs, cutbacks, and corporate downsizings during the 1990-93 recession created a pervasive economic insecurity that remains a problem. The Unemployment Crisis, a collection of essays based on the first annual economic polic...

The philosophy of nature

In this general summation of the theory Brian Ellis, at the forefront of developing the new essentialism, introduces students and generalists to an emerging metaphysical perspective that provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature.

Vancouver's chinatown

Popular wisdom maintains that the colourful Chinese quarters of Canadian, American, and Australian cities owe their existence to the generations of Chinese immigrants who have made their lives there. The restaurants, pagodas, and neon lights are seen as intrinsically connected to the Chinese and ...

Becoming holy in early canada

Uncovering the history of sanctity in everyday colonial life.

The philosophy of husserl

As the founding father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. In The Philosophy of Husserl, Burt Hopkins shows that the unity of Husserl's philosophical entreprise is found in its investigation of the origns of cogni...

Chief justice w.r. jackett

Wilbur Roy Jackett, born in a small town in Saskatchewan in 1914, is inextricably connected to some of the most important developments in Canadian legal history. As a scholar, public servant, and jurist, he was a leading figure in Canadian law, serving during the governments of Mackenzie King, St...

Faces in the forest

In Faces in the Forest Michael Blackstock, a forester and an artist, takes us into the sacred forest, revealing the mysteries of carvings, paintings, and writings done on living trees by First Nations people. Blackstock details this rare art form through oral histories related by the Elders, blen...

The white man's gonna getcha

In The White Man's Gonna Getcha Toby Morantz examines threats to the cultural and economic independence of the Crees in eastern James Bay. She argues that while their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fur-trading relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company had been mutually beneficial, Canada's t...

Multiculturalism and religious identity

An examination of how religious identity is recognized and managed politically in two multicultural nations.

The making and unmaking of a university museum

In The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum Young elucidates the relationship between museums and communities by examining the nineteenth-century social context of the family who bequeathed their collection to McGill University and the collection's fate in an academic institution. Tracing t...

Ethico-religious concepts in the qur'an

A revelation of the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code.

You're not dead until you're forgotten

The irreverent and insightful story of Canada's unknown movie mogul.

In the interval of the wave

Capturing the hidden histories of Prince Edward Island women in their handwritten pages.

Dread talk, revised edition

In Dread Talk Velma Pollard describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how it is distinct both from Creole and Standard English. She demonstrates that dread talk must be understood in ter

Making public pasts

Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In...

William r. mcintyre

William R. McIntyre is the first biography of a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to appear since the entrenchment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. McIntyre played a key role at a critical time in Canadian constitutional history, as the Bench sought to give the new Cha...

Unforced flourishing

An introduction to Estonia's internationally best-known writer and intellectual.

A disciplined intelligence

This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.

A sense of their duty

What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario? How did the members of the middle class define themselves? Though simple, these questions have escaped the attention of social historians in recent writing about Canada. The Victorian middle class, referred to as the backbone...

Conflicted commitments

A critical look at the politics and paradoxes of race in humanitarian efforts.

Canada and the ukrainian question, 1939-1945

Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian Canadians. Drawing extensively on Canadian, British, American, and Soviet archival material, he hig...

In good hands

In 1905 two Montreal women, Alice Peck and May Phillips, founded the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. Inspired by British and American women in the arts and crafts movement, and spurred by their thirty-year rivalry with Mary Dignam of the Toronto-based Women's Art Association of Canada, these two crea...

From peacekeeping to peacemaking

From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking provides the first extensive examination of Canada's response to the recent disintegration of the Federal State of Yugoslavia. Nicholas Gammer reflects on how Canadian foreign policy was made and on the role of the prime minister in this decisionmaking, showing th...

Expect miracles

David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational ...

Social and environmental impacts of the james bay hydroelectric project

Planning and construction of the James Bay Hydroelectric project began in the early 1970s, when the effect of such projects on the physical and social environment was seldom considered. As the project matured, however, its unique and diverse environmental impacts came under intense scrutiny on bo...

Architecture in the family way

Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health...

Rules and unruliness

A ground-breaking study of how governments both regulate and fail to regulate the economy and society.

Diary of a european tour, 1900

Drawing on the diary Margaret Addison kept while travelling in Europe, Jean O'Grady makes available the experiences of the woman who would become the first dean of Annesley Hall at Victoria College.

Telecom nation

Governments around the world have found the massive expansion of telecommunications systems and the breathless pace of innovation too important to be left to the market alone. In Canada, telecommunications became an important object of public policy. Telecom Nation focuses on how governments and ...

Discovering confederation

A scholar's appreciation of the magnificent achievement that is the Canadian political constitution.

Arctic discoveries

The Arctic is a land of elemental contrasts, a place of both sublime beauty and unforgiving harshness. From the extreme heat and endless light of summer to the punishing cold and deep blue nights of winter, its great organic oneness has been admired and celebrated, as humans have sought to share ...

Enlightenment and community

In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the E

Fernand dumont

The innovative theological thought of a sociologist and public intellectual who turned to theology late in his life.

The guardianship of best interests

A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia

Risk, science, and politics

Government regulation of toxic substances in Canada and the United States is examined and compared in Risk, Science, and Politics. Kathryn Harrison and George Hoberg report dramatically different approaches to regulatory science in the two countries.

The political thought of lord durham

Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America is usually discussed only in terms of its historical context - the events that brought Durham to Canada and the consequences of the Report's reform proposals. In a markedly different approach, Janet Ajzenstat treats the Report as a text...

The doomed democracy

The writings of david thompson, volume 2

A compelling tale of exploration, encounter, and commerce, from the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River.

How ottawa spends, 1991-1992

This volume is the twelfth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration. This edition assesses the future of Canada in the post-Meech, post-free trade era. Four articles concentrate on the increasing fragment...

The indian muslims

In between countries

With increased interest in Canada and Australia over the last decade, students of foreign policy have produced an increasingly diverse range of scholarly material concerning the role and issue-orientation of these two countries. But until now there has been no study that bridges the mode of analy...

Builders and deserters

One of the most significant changes produced by the Bolshevik Revolution was the formation of an elite that identified with the new socialist order. Students in the rapidly expanding higher education system were part of this new elite. In Builders and Deserters Peter Konecny makes use of an unpre...

A sovereign idea

Bringing together the best of Reg Whitaker's essays on democracy, federalism, and the state, A Sovereign Idea will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rise of the idea of democracy in Canada. The essays, each in its own way, are an attempt to discover how a more democratic Canada ca...

Living factories

How biotechnology is changing the definition of "life."

Building bridges

A life devoted to social reconciliation and public understanding.

Going to war?

A multi-disciplinary study on wartime decision-making, with a focus on how Canada and its allies engage in conflict.

Governing charities

Governing Charities challenges received accounts of the welfare state by highlighting the complex web of relationships that characterize the delivery of social services. In tracing the connections between the Catholic Church in Toronto and provincial and municipal governments, Paula Maurutto take...

The coldest harbour in the land

In 1624 Simon Stock, a missionary priest of the Discalced Carmelite order in England, began correspondence with the recently founded Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in Rome in an attempt to interest it in the establishment of a novitiate for English priests of his order. Luca Codignola draws ...

How ottawa spends, 1992-1993

This volume is the thirteenth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration. This year's edition considers the politics of competitiveness - the ways in which international forces and trends pose particular ch...

Yakutia

Anglicans and the atlantic world

All too often the religious and cultural experiences of British North Americans have been analysed without reference to the world of the Atlantic empire. Anglicans and the Atlantic World seeks to redress this by demonstrating that transatlantic connections continued to shape the history of the An...

Interlinguicity, internationality, and shakespeare

Shakespeare between nations, between languages, and between his time and ours.

A culture of faith

A comprehensive overview of evangelical Protestant congregations in Canada.

Old and new world highland bagpiping

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.

Citizenship, diversity, and pluralism

Citizenship has both a vertical and a horizontal dimension. The vertical links individuals to the state by reinforcing the idea that it is "their" state - that they are full members of an ongoing association that is expected to survive the passing generations. Accordingly their relation to the st...

Becoming prominent

Political, social and economic advancement in Upper Canada were often linked to characteristics other than merit. Through a collective biographical study of the social and economic background of the 283 men who were elected to the House of Assembly of Up

September 11

In September 11 Kent Roach provides a critical examination of the consequences of September 11 for law, democracy, sovereignty, and security. He assesses a broad range of anti-terrorism measures including the Anti-terrorism Act, the smart border agreement, Canadian participation in the war in Afg...

Canadian perspectives on law and society

Student unrest in india

Do conventions matter?

National leadership conventions in Canada attract widespread public interest but, with growing support for direct democracy and universal voting, they may soon become a thing of the past. In Do Conventions Matter? John Courtney, a leading authority in the field, explores the party leadership sele...

How ottawa spends, 1993-1994

The life of themistocles

The rule of law, justice, and interpretation

In The Rule of Law, Justice, and Interpretation Luc Tremblay analyses and refutes the positivist legal theory that prevails in Canadian constitutional practice. Using the techniques of critical theory, hermeneutic interpretation, and analytical jurisprudence he shows that the dominant interpretat...

Media, memory, and the first world war

Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original history of memory, David Williams shows how classic Great War literature, including work by

Kleist's aristocratic heritage and das käthchen von heilbronn

William Reeve provides a detailed textual analysis of Heinrich von Kleist's drama Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, demonstrating that Kleist drew its poetic images, themes, and general atmosphere from the Prussian aristocratic class into which he had been born. Reeve's comprehensive re-reading of Käth...

Trojan-horse aid

A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home.

Arctic artist

Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first expedition to the Arctic. George Back's prose captures the drama of the journey, while his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Published for the first time, thi...