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Dyslexia
This first comprehensive history of dyslexia charts a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia becoming the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling use a historical lens to explain current debates around dyslexia, and ...
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The boundaries of ethnicity
Benjamin Bryce considers what it meant to be German in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. For the Germans who make up the core of this study, the distinction between insiders and outsiders was often unclear. The Boundaries of Ethnicity uncovers some of the origins of Canadian multiculturalism, and go...
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Enthusiasms and loyalties
In Enthusiasms and Loyalties Keith Grant draws on a fascinating range of archival sources from Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, during the years 1770–1850 to explore a diversity of public feelings, from disaffected Loyalists and unfeeling enthusiasts, as well as passionate patriots and ecstatic ...
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Orlando
A film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift ...
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Appropriate behavior
Maria San Filippo explores Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature, Appropriate Behavior (2014), as an instant classic of 2010’s US indie filmmaking, a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration, and an unparalleled portrayal of bisexuality.
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Distant stage
Distant Stage examines the neglected histories of Canada-Brazil relations and the role culture played in Canada’s pursuit of an international identity. French-Canadian artists, intellectuals, and diplomats are at the heart of both. Eric Fillion shows how Brazil served as a distant stage where Can...
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Remedicalizing cannabis
Remedicalizing Cannabis discovers the historical ins and outs of cannabis as a botanical product with medical applications. Addressing questions about patient access, the effectiveness of international drug control systems, and the role of expert advice, it reveals how we have arrived at the curr...
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Being neighbours
Drawing on the writing of over one hundred diarists, this book takes us into the heart of informal neighbourhood labour exchanges known as “bees” and the context of farm families’ daily lives in Southern Ontario. It sheds light on the workways of rural people and on how neighbouring was a dynamic...
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The etruscans in the modern imagination
The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fa...
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Children and childhoods in l.m. montgomery
From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are indicators of cultural values and when they shift. Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomeryaddresses Montgomery’s challenges to prescribed assumptions about childhood, a...
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Singular creatures
In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the f...
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Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups
In 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau’s story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interpro...
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Northern getaway
Northern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a...
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The possession of barbe hallay
When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec in 1660, people grew worried about the arrival of evil forces. Barbe Hallay, a teenaged servant, started to act as if possessed, and a miller accused of using dark arts to torment her was executed. Mairi Cowan explores this case of demonic infest...
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Inventing the middle east
The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. In Inventing the Middle East Guillemette Crouzet charts the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, not in the twentieth centur...
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Covid-19
COVID-19: A History presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Jacalyn Duffin’s broad approach ranges from medical interventions, such as the development of tests, treatments, and vaccines, to the practical politics behind quarantines, barrier technologies, lockdowns, and soc...
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Scott, brandtner, eveleigh, webber
Four artists who are today relatively or almost entirely unknown – Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh, and Gordon Webber – nevertheless played a part in the aesthetic upheavals that led to abstraction in 1940s Montreal. This book reinstates the oeuvres of these forgotten protagoni...
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Atiqput
Atiqput is the first book-length study of Project Naming, the photo-based history research initiative established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites settler societies’ historical reco...
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The architecture of empire
This book considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina. A comprehensive study of structures that rank among the most fascinating examples of intercu...
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Corporate law and sustainability from the next generation of lawyers
Climate change is an intergenerational crisis and the solutions and path forward must include intergenerational voices. This book offers timeless research from a diverse group of young lawyers calling for bona fide corporate accountability within legal and regulatory frameworks, including innovat...
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Extractive industry and the sustainability of canada’s arctic communities
This collection delves into the final research findings of the SSHRC-sponsored MCRI project “Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic,” which attempted to determine what was required for extractive industry to benefit northern communities, and advocates for a more authentic participati...
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The canadian federal election of 2021
A group of distinguished political scientists and journalists reveals the significance of the 2021 federal election, providing an account of Canadian democracy in an age of increasing rancour and polarization, explaining why the Liberals did not win a majority government, and offering important l...
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Ceta implementation and implications
CETA Implementation and Implications provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, its most important elements, and its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Contributors offer a nuanced look at CETA and its implicati...
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Mixing medicines
Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia’s involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.
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Toxic immanence
A critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime. This collection develops a discourse between the fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the nuclear humanities with environmenta...
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Passion and restraint
Western policymakers knew little about Poland in 1914, but by the end of the First World War were drawing the new country’s borders, sending humanitarian aid, and imposing minority protections. Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and American foreign policymakers interacted with P...
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Disciples of antigonish
By charting nearly a century of growth, struggle, and organizing, Disciples of Antigonish chronicles how a small Nova Scotian diocese came to exert tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism, and create one of the most important Catholic social movements in North America.
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Voluntary and forced migration in latin america
Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America provides a unique comparative analysis of the migration legislations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico, thoroughly interrogating the national and regional mechanisms that facilitate both voluntary and forced migration,...
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Dominion over palm and pine
From the expansionist fervour of the late nineteenth century through the Cold War, dreamers campaigned for Canada’s union with the British Caribbean. Dominion over Palm and Pine traces the transnational ebb and flow of these campaigns, situating them in the global history of colonialism and white...
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Multilateral sanctions revisited
Sanctions are back with a vengeance, with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities. Shaping the thinking of generations of scholars, Canadian Margaret Doxey anticipated and analyzed these issues. Multilateral Sanctions Revisited applies her lessons to the many multilateral sanction...
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Harvesting labour
A growing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce is composed of temporary foreign workers from the Global South who work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections, but it was not always like this. Dunsworth shows how the restructuring of capitalist agriculture transformed the ...
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Drugging france
Nineteenth-century drug consumption permeated French society and encouraged the chemical enhancement of modern life. Drugging France highlights the medical histories of these drugs, chronicling how doctors transformed exotic botanicals and unpredictable chemicals into substances that reconfigured...
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How to do things with forms
The Oulipo is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. This book assesses the work of the group, explores where it came from, and envisages its future. Redefining the Oulipo’s key concept of the constraint in a clear and rigorous way, Chris Andrews weighs the roles o...
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Postcards from the western front
A groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people in...
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Sweet canadian girls abroad
Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, this book tells the story of the Canadian women who forged careers as professional actresses from the 1870s to the 1940s. Appearing in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, they were integral in theatrical networks an...
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Dark days at noon
Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present. Edward Struzik sheds light on what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as Indigenous people once did, so that we may learn from how we managed fire in the p...
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Out of the studio
Photographic innovators at home in nineteenth-century Quebec and abroad, Charles and John Smeaton have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography in Canada. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the Smeato...
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May we be spared to meet on earth
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin’s fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage’s significance, and the...
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The ukrainian-russian borderland
The eastern edge of Europe has always been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries’ historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr V. Kravchenko asks what the words “Ukraine” and “Russia” really mean.
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The power of diversity in the armed forces
This collection investigates how different countries approach the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in their armed forces, and offers immigrant military participation as a way to provide a pathway to citizenship, foster greater societal integration, and achieve a more equitable, diverse, and i...
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Made for the eye of one who sees
Bringing together recent scholarship on Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology being conducted in Canada and by Canadian scholars, Made for the Eye of One Who Sees provides the first survey of the Canadian contributions to this developing field. It covers topics from across the Islamic world ...
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The immaculate conception of data
Large-scale agribusinesses are among the largest and oldest oligopoly corporations in the world, now constituting a form of big tech alongside companies like Google and Facebook. The Immaculate Conception of Data explores the secretive legal agreements surrounding agricultural big data to trace h...
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To make a village soviet
Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah’s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious community’s enduring re...
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Organizing equality
Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection highlights a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and artistic works that offer ...
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Selling britishness
From the 1920s until the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspapers, and cinema screens with 'British to the core' Canadian apples, 'British to the backbone' New Zealand lamb, and 'All British' Australian butter. Selling Britishness explores the r...
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Mordecai richler's imperfect search for moral values
From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers with his writing. The first full study of Richler’s entire corpus, Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values is an investigation into Richler’s novels and the strong reactio...
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Protestant liberty
This book offers a new interpretation of the origins and nature of 19th century liberalism by re-examining the role of religion in Canadian politics. Arguing that Canadian liberalism was rooted in the British tradition of Protestant Dissent, Forbes sheds light on the 19th century religious contex...
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Civilization
Civilization explores how Scottish Enlightenment theories played out in Canadian imaginaries and institutions: the state and society; the liberal and the conservative. E.A. Heaman’s case study identifies crucial spaces and moments of conceptual reversal to consider what was unique and what was br...
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University governance in canada
Universities play essential roles within Canadian society. University Governance in Canada provides a vital foundation for understanding how decisions are made within and about them. It is an indispensable resource for policy-makers, leaders, faculty, staff, students, and others seeking to contri...
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Kin majorities
Kin Majorities explores why communities like Crimea and Moldova engage with dual citizenship and how this intersects, or not, with identity. Analyzing data collected from Crimea and Moldova in 2012 and 2013, just before Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Eleanor Knott provides a crucial window into R...
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The spiritual significance of overload boredom
The spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but ked...
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Shattering silos
Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant when political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain? Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, this book provides a path-breaking response to these question...
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La guerre d’indépendance des canadas
Longtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l’ensemble de l’Amérique du Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d’inaugurer une expérience républicaine différente. La révolution a échoué, mais...
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Through their eyes
After Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge in 1917, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. Combining outstanding original art and thought-provoking commentary, this book uncovers the stories behind this battle while...
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Flora's fieldworkers
This collection employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and artwork to reconstruct plant work by figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial wom...
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When bad states win
This book challenges the belief that democratic institutions and economic growth are effective tools for defeating an insurgency. Jeffrey Treistman reveals that while moderate violence can lead to government overthrow, bad actors that pursue indiscriminate violence and brutal repression can defea...
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Just fodder
Just Fodder addresses ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters rather than as foodstuffs. Josh Milburn offers a novel theory of animal rights that insists that figuring out the full range of our obligations to animals requires asking questions about the nature...
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Law, life, and the teaching of legal history
Using the life and intellectual heritage of Blaine Baker, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History is both biographical study and important exploration into contemporary issues in Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building, criminal law, an...
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Heirs of an ambivalent empire
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of ordinary Canadiens who used kinship ties to navigate the space between sovereign Indigenous homelands and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay watershed from the early 1660s to the 1780s – leading to the emergence of a new Indigenous...
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Zygmunt bauman and the west
Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...
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Autobiography of a garden
Autobiography of a Garden details how Patterson Webster, a neophyte gardener, moved from copying the ideas of other people, to learning from them, to striking out on her own. Beautifully photographed and full of inspirational ways of thinking about gardens and gardening, this unique memoir blends...
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