Voices in exhile

Medieval arts doctrines on ambiguity and their places in langland's poetics

In Medieval Arts Doctrines on Ambiguity and Their Place in Langland's Poetics John Chamberlin helps readers of Piers Plowman understand some of the most characteristic and inventive elements of Langland's work. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Chamberlin brings together an examination of Lang...

Recollections of the on to ottawa trek

The author experienced the Depression with the deprivations of unemployment and life in the work camps. He helped organize the B.C. Relief Camp strike, and later participated in the On to Ottawa Trek, which ended in a confrontation with the federal police in Regina.

Minerva's message

During the French Revolution the French National Institute, including the Class of Moral and Political Sciences (CMPS), was established to replace the abolished Ancien Régime academies. In Minerva's Message Martin Staum explores how what began as the institutionalization of Enlightenment social s...

The tory syndrome

The gate of heaven

The Gate of Heaven is the story of the evolution of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, from the beginnings of Jewish settlement in Canada to present-day activities. Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat shows how the achievement of political rights for Jews in Canada galvanized immigration, leading the English/Germa...

Pietro bembo

Carol Kidwell's lavishly illustrated book is the first full-length biography of Renaissance Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Her extensive use of translations from Bembo's 2,600 letters, including exchanges of love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, provide a picture of personal life in the brilliant, turbulent...

Reinhold niebuhr

During a lifetime of active involvement in American political life, Reinhold Niebuhr did much good and a certain amount of mischief. Both the good and the mischief are traceable to the same source: his faith. For too long, Niebuhr has been misrepresented by the political theorists and the histori...

Guide des pays fédérés, 2002

Le Guide des pays fédérés, 2002 présente une série d'articles sur vingt et un pays qui se définissent comme fédérations, et quatre autres qui ont adopté certaines caractéristiques importantes du fédéralisme. Ces analyses portent sur le développement, la dynamique, la constitution et les instituti...

The methodist church on the prairies, 1896-1914

At the turn of the twentieth century economic development transformed Canada's prairie region, as the region's population exploded due to migration from central and eastern Canada and immigration from Britain, the United States, and Europe. This boom sev

Power at cost

Almost from the moment of its creation in 1906, Ontario Hydro has been criticized for pursuing its own interests at the expense of the public it was established to serve. In Power at Cost, Keith Fleming demonstrates that while Hydro exercised tremendous influence over its political masters in the...

Politics and ideology in canada

Politics and Ideology in Canada examines a period of crucial historical change in Canada, beginning in the mid-1970s, when the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state precipitated a transition to a new political order based on the progressive "downsizing" of state involvement in the economy and soc...

Canada's origins

Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article...

The court-garden house

Capital culture

The status of art has undergone a tremendous shift in the last twenty years. While the value of a work of art once came from a dynamic but fundamentally stable consensus regarding its social and aesthetic status within its culture, this has increasingly been replaced by a more controversial role ...

Poetic argument

Poetic Argument studies argument as both a theme and a technique of poetry. Jonathan Kertzer considers how poets argue for, rather than merely assert, their truths. In a theoretical essay and detailed analysis of the works of five poets - Marianne Moore, Edward Thomas, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, a...

Living and learning in the free school

This volume is a pioneering study of a free school in an eastern Canadian city. The author describes the attempts of a small group of people to set up a school, bound in some ways to the conventional system, yet reaching beyond it with different ideals. One great value of the study is its careful...

The challenge of direct democracy

In October 1992 Canada's political leaders asked voters to accept the Charlottetown Accord, a comprehensive package of constitutional amendments that was the product of years of negotiation, consultation, and compromise. Canadians rejected it outright, effectively halting the country's formal con...

The ombudsman plan

Intellectual disabilities and dual diagnosis

An indispensable survey of the definitions, assessments, and treatments of individuals with developmental disabilities.

Critical years in immigration

With the new introduction, Freda Hawkins brings Critical Years in Immigration up to date by discussing the directions taken by the Canadian and Australian governments since 1984. She also clarifies the implications of the recently announced Canadian immi

The making of an explorer

The Making of an Explorer reveals how George Hubert Wilkins' experiences with the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 helped a little-known Australian photographer develop into the world-famous polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Making extensive use of Wilkins' Arctic diary and other sources, b...

Oil in the people's republic of china

Government, international trade, and laissez-faire capitalism

The practical and economic implications of the recent laissez faire approach to trade in a global economy.

Schools and work

Schools and Work traces the development of vocational and technical education in France since the late nineteenth century, detailing its history and situating it in the broader context of educational development and economic modernization. Charles Day analyses the changes in industrial technology...

St petersburg

Socialization and values in canadian society, volume ii

White men came to the st. lawrence

With scarcely a ripple

Much of the development of regions and communities on both sides of the United States-Canada border resulted from migration. With Scarcely a Ripple, the first study to link persistence, immigration, internal migration, and return migration, looks beyond

Truth

After a brief presentation of the classical conceptions of truth - correspondence, coherence, verificationist, and pragmatist theories - the book focuses on the debate between those who favour "substantive" conceptions of this classical kind and those who advocate so-called "minimalist" and "defl...

Changing women, changing history, second edition

Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.

True poetry

Ontario is not a homogeneous culture, but rather a conglomerate of ethnic cultures and rural and urban populations. In True Poetry: Traditional and Popular Verse in Ontario, Pauline Greenhill describes and evaluates the significance of folk verse, suggesting that it provides a method for creating...

Mapping the margins

Those in marginal family formations - spinsters, bachelors, orphans, unmarried mothers, the insane, and the aged - have largely been overlooked by historians. Building on the new theoretical proposition that the family must be seen as a regulatory institution of unequal hierarchies of age, gender...

Giving canada a literary history

Carl Klinck's autobiography is combined with a history of the development of Canadian literature as a

The fall and rise of the market in sandinista nicaragua

The Fall and Rise of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua is an insightful look at the difficulties that arise when a particular vision of socialism is applied in a country such as Nicaragua. Phil Ryan argues that the Sandinistas pursued a project of social transformation inspired by a Marxism much...

Renegade in power

The canadian corporate elite

Mcgill

The persistence of unemployment

In The Persistence of Unemployment Stephen Jones presents a comprehensive assessment of persistent unemployment, specifically hysteresis, in Canadian labour markets.

Methodists and women's education in ontario, 1836-1925

Situating the evolution of Methodist education for women in Ontario within the larger social and cultural context, Methodists and Women's Education in Ontario describes the often unintended and unforeseen forces unleashed by women's education and the ambi

Death talk

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten l...

What's wrong with the law?

Up and to the right

The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.

The irish in ontario, second edition

For most of the nineteenth century, the Irish formed the largest non-French ethnic group in central Canada and their presence was particularly significant in Ontario. This study presents a general discussion of the Irish in Ontario during the nineteenth

Irene avaalaaqiaq

Irene Avaalaaqiaq, one of this country's most prominent Inuit artists and a leading member of the prolific artistic community of Baker Lake in the new Canadian arctic territory of Nunavut, has enjoyed a distinguished thirty-year career. A distinctive creator of drawings, prints, and sculpture, sh...

Cheap wage labour

Using the fishing industry in British Columbia as a case study, Alicja Muszynski examines how Marx's labour theory of value can be applied to a specific industry and the creation of a specific labour force. She reworks Marx's theory in order to incorporate race and gender as principles that not o...

Cultural ecology

Concrete, second edition

Collins provides a thorough history of the new nineteenth century material and goes on to examine the theories on its architectural expression, focussing on determining role of the reinforced concrete frame. He argues that Perret provides the first rational and effective expression of classical p...

The politics of codification

In this study of a pivotal event in the evolution of Quebec's legal culture, Brian Young shows that codification of the Civil law was an intensely political act as well as a legal phenomenon.

The notion of tolerance and human rights

Former colleagues of distinguished philosopher Raymond Klibansky examine tolerance from a number of perspectives, including historical roots in Bayle and Locke, the plea for tolerance in literature and poetry, as well as judicial, cultural and societal aspects.

An evangelical mind

Through an in-depth study of the thought and intellectual formation of Nathanael Burwash (1839-1918), a little-known but highly influential Canadian educator and Methodist theologian, Marguerite Van Die presents a picture of one of the most unsettling per

Canada's greatest wartime muddle

In this exhaustively researched and carefully documented account, Michael Stevenson argues that National Selective Service (NSS) - the agency responsible for controlling the nation's military and civilian mobilization apparatus - failed in its attempts to regulate Canadian society. He challenges ...

The chignecto covenanters

Tracing the Chignecto movement from its roots in Irish Reformed Presbyterianism to its assimilation into the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1905, Eldon Hay chronicles the history of a unique religious community in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Frontenac, the courtier governor

Canada's balance of international indebtedness, 1900-1913

This volume is a pioneering study of a free school in an eastern Canadian city. The author describes the attempts of a small group of people to set up a school, bound in some ways to the conventional system, yet reaching beyond it with different ideals. One great value of the study is its careful...

Life and religion at louisbourg, 1713-1758

The French stronghold of Louisbourg has been the subject of numerous books and articles in recent years. However, Life and Religion at Louisbourg is the first comprehensive examination of the religious aspects of life in this outpost during the eighteenth century.

O.d. skelton

A pioneering analysis of Skelton's passionate foreign policy career.

The rousing of the scottish working class

Labour's apprentices

The three decades before World War I witnessed significant changes in the work life, home life, and social life of adolescent English males. In Labour's Apprentices Michael Childs suggests that the study of such age-specific experiences provides vital clues to the evolving structure and fortunes ...

Peter m. pringle, master decoy maker

Through almost 180 colour and 65 historical black and white photographs, William Reeve chronicles Peter Pringle's life and achievements, showing why his decoys are celebrated, tracing their fate after his death in 1953, and establishing Pringle firmly as one of the greatest practitioners of his c...

Walter gordon and the rise of canadian nationalism

From the 1950s to the 1970s Walter Gordon was the voice of English Canadian nationalism, first as chair of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, then as a minister in Lester B. Pearson's cabinet, and finally as founder and honorary chair of the Committee for an Independent Canada. ...

Literature and ethics

Literature and Ethics presents an original definition of the relation between literature and ethics at a time when the whole concept of ethical literary criticism is being widely reconsidered. The book focuses on ethical conditions that are presupposed in literary communication between authors an...

French-canadian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Laurier and a liberal quebec

Women, work, and the french state

In France, during the 1880s and 1890s, the protection of women and girls in the workplace was advocated by sociologists, social economists, union leaders, enlightened industrialists, and politicians of virtually every ideological hue. In response, laws were enacted restricting not only the number...

Gael force

Football at Queen's University has one of the richest, and certainly one of the longest, histories of any sport in Canada. The Golden Gaels have been a presence in Canadian football at both the amateur and professional level since 1882. Gael Force traces this history, chronicling the team's ups a...

From talking chiefs to a native corporate elite

From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite traces the development of class relations and collective identity among Canadian Inuit over several centuries of contact with Western capitalism. Marybelle Mitchell provides a complete history of Inuit-white relations, starting with the first contac...

Zambian crisis behaviour

Rhodesia's racially inspired rebellion and subsequent unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in November 1965 had profound implications for neighbouring Zambia's national security and economic survival. Focusing on landlocked Zambia's response to the economic and military threat pose...

Stages and playgoers

Stages and Playgoers demonstrates the long, vital tradition of dialogue between stage and audience from medieval, through Tudor, to Jacobean drama. Janet Hill offers new insights into techniques of addressing playgoers from the stage and how they might have operated under particular staging condi...

After evangelicalism

A fascinating account of how Canada's largest Protestant church reinvented itself during the tumultuous 1960s.

Public violence in canada, 1867-1982

Judy Torrance introduces the concept of public violence to denote acts widely considered to be violent and of importance to society. Public violence differs from related concepts like political violence in explicitly recognizing that the subject matter is socially constructed.

Montreal and the fur trade

Aid as peacemaker

Does development by its nature produce conflict? Are there times when Canada should take sides in Third World conflict? Are there ways that Canadian aid can be used to promote peace? Experts in Third World development pursue answers to these questions.

Arctic migrants/arctic villagers

In recent years the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. In Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers David Damas demonstrates that for many years government policies helped maintain dispersed settlement,...

The road to egdon heath

Many people spend considerable sums of money on arduous trekking holidays in frozen wastelands or through scorched deserts. These places, which would once have been considered cursed and avoided at all cost, are now sought out or seen as the epitome of a

The search for good government

Observers have frequently noted that Italians seem skilled at many things - but not at good government. As a people Italians are said to have flair, panache, and tenacity, while as a polity Italy is in shambles. This paradoxical view of politics can be found in Italian history as far back as Guic...

Organized labour and pressure politics

This study will develop and apply the concepts of "legitimacy" and "mandate" in order to clarify the manner in which organizational goals affect the demands made upon government and upon other organized groups by interest-group leaders.

The proceedings of the 1972 meeting of the igu commission on quantitative geography

To the arctic by canoe 1819-1821

To the Arctic by Canoe records the experiences of a remarkable young adventurer during the first overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin. This expedition was the first to travel the northern coast of North America's Arctic; in two birch-bark canoes the party surveyed no less than 675 ...

Collective bargaining and the public interest

Canadian opinions about labour unions have changed in recent years. The more frequent use of strikes to resolve disputes has contributed to a growing intolerance of unions, particularly in the public service. Canadians now seem to be more concerned about the increasing power of unions than about ...

Her festival clothes

A breviate of british diplomatic blue books, 1919-1939

Figuring grief

Karen Smythe's theoretical study is concerned largely with the works of two of the best short story writers in the English language Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. Although Gallant and Munro have received increasing attention in recent years, most critics have taken a general approach to their wor...

Archibald lampman

How Archibald Lampman articulated the Canadian response to nature and introduced radical politics into the nation's literary salon.

Solitude versus solidarity in the novels of joseph conrad

Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad is a structural and thematic analysis of early modern British fiction with an intellectual foundation consisting of political theory, sociology, and philosophy. Key theoreticians include Charles Darwin, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Karl Mannh...

Life and letters of sir wilfrid laurier, vol 1

With masterly sweep and vigorous prose, this biography, first published just two years after Laurier's death, surveys his career, especially the fifteen eventful years of his premiership. This volume covers the years 1841-1896.

Paine and cobbett

Tom Paine and William Cobbett were at the heart of the revolutionary changes which swept over the North Atlantic world during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Both men came from the ranks of the "common people" in England, both found t

Strange things done

Yukon History has its fair share of unique characters and fascinating events. Contemporary Yukoners talk about the colourful 5%,quirky individuals who have come to Canadas North to find or reinvent themselves. Northern literature is full of accounts of mad trappers, jilted lovers, miners driven m...

Indians of the north pacific coast

The writings of prominent anthropologists are collected in this volume, to provide a multi-faceted look at the native peoples of the North Pacific Coast, including the Tlingit, the Haida, the Bella Coola and the Salish.

The dream of nation, second edition

A synthesis of Quebec history from New France to the first referendum on sovereignty in 1980.

The valour and the horror revisited

The Valour and the Horror Revisited brings together source documents, original essays, and commentaries to provide an analysis of the specific accusations and of larger questions concerning responsible journalism.

Equity and efficiency in economic development

Equity and Efficiency in Economic Development celebrates the long and illustrious career of Benjamin Higgins, Canada's most eminent development economist. In his honour, a group of world-renowned scholars tackles the most pervasive and baffling of today's economic, social, and political problems:...

Human rights and social technology

In this controversial critical analysis of Canada's anti-discrimination policy, the author addresses doubts

A public purpose

In the clear, vigorous, and candid prose that is his trade mark, Kent recalls his role in the crises and triumphs of the Pearson government: the "Sixty Days of Decision," Walter Gordon's first budget, the flag debate, Medicare, the elventh-hour negotiations with Jean Lesage that averted a constit...

The canadian house of commons

Life and letters of sir wilfrid laurier, vol 2

State, class, and bureaucracy

Recent explanations of public policy have increasingly focused on "state-centred" theories which emphasize internal state dynamics, as opposed to "society-centred" theories which concentrate on external forces such as interest group pressure. State, Class, and Bureaucracy assesses the fruitfulnes...

Modernity and the dilemma of north american anglican identities, 1880-1950

In Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950 William Katerberg shows how evangelical, high church, and liberal Anglicans used contradictory ways of appealing to the past to make sense of their place and purpose in a North

Faking death

In "Faking Death" Penny Cousineau-Levine examines the work of over 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Contrasting Canadian photography with American and European traditions, she shows that Canadian photographers are often preoccupied with...

Survival by association

The establishment of the European Economic Community in 1957 put preferential agreements with non-European trading partners in jeopardy, suggesting the spectre of economic ruin for small Caribbean territories dependent on only one or two crops. Yet, surprisingly, certain industries, notably the b...