The codex canadensis and the writings of louis nicolas

A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.

Crash to paywall

In 2014, when Postmedia acquired Quebecor's Sun Media newspaper and online assets, there was a sense that the recent history of newspapers was repeating itself not as comedy or tragedy, but as eulogy. Crash to Paywall shows that while the newspaper business was weakened by decreases in advertisin...

A meech lake post-mortem

The contrasting results of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission and the Citizens' Forum on National Unity, headed by Keith Spicer, will reveal much about the fundamental incompatibilities and conflicts between Quebec's and English-Canada's perspectives on the future of the country. But the debates wil...

The asparagus feast

Once she woke me in the streaky dark to savour one of her delights - "larks against bells," she called it. We carried our coffees down to the minty garden and waited ankle-deep in dew. Across the shallow valley, the early traffic crept in glimmers through the groundmist. At dawn the cannonade of ...

Battle exhaustion

Battle Exhaustion introduces a new kind of military history that will transform existing views of the Canadian Army's experience during the Second World War. Terry Copp and Bill McAndrew examine the behaviour of soldiers under the extreme stress of war and the medical and military attempts to man...

Canadian baptists and christian higher education

Since the late eighteenth century, Canadian Baptists have held sharply divergent views on the efficacy of higher education. For some, higher education undermines Evangelical piety; for others, it is a necessity if contemporary Baptists are to contend effectively with modern doubts about religion....

New mecca, new babylon

Three major waves of emigration from Soviet Russia followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War. While emigrants in the first wave have been identified mainly with a vague notion of aristocratic taxi drivers, Robert Johnston, through a collective biography of the roughly 12...

Beyond the atlantic roar

Blending the skills of sociology and history, the authors focus on the changing values of the Scots and the threatened disappearance of their distinctive lifestyle.

Confessions of a young man

Town house, country house

In Town House, Country House, Hazel Boswell delightfully recounts many adventures from her mother's childhood more than a century ago. Her mother, Julie, is fourteen at the time of the story and the eldest of seven children: Edmond, Tilly, Alain, Mic, Ethel, and six-year-old Henri. Among those we...

When green growth is not enough

A systematic and thorough comparison between Canada's and Britain's actions on climate change.

Revolution and intervention

In early 1918 the French government adopted the policy of unremitting hostility that characterized its early relations with the Soviet government. That policy brought about political, economic, and military intervention in the Russian Revolution, and the diverse motives behind that intervention e...

Power and authority in british universities

Canadian foreign policy, 1977-1992

This volume covers the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico; Canada's policy towards South Africa; growing peacekeeping efforts around the world; and common international problems such as immigration, drug trafficking, and the impact of trade, aid and human rights on foreign pol...

Journalism and political exclusion

A critical analysis of how and why journalism can frustrate audiences and inhibit their capacity to be informed citizens.

Changing maps

How can we organize and govern ourselves successfully in a world of rapid change and increasing interconnection? This book reports the findings of a round table of senior Canadian government officials and private sector executives, exploring fundamental changes in the economy, in culture and valu...

Philosophy and personal relations

Framing risky choices

The majority of policymakers, academics, and members of the general public expected British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum. This perception was based on the well-established idea that voters don't like change or uncertainty. So why did the British public v...

Hindu monastic life

Green meat?

It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable. Land is being eroded and destroyed, water resources overdrawn, greenhouse gases overemitted, and energy and crops unnecessarily diverted - all to satiate a growing and inequitable global overconsumption of meat....

Devolution and constitutional development in the canadian north

Six specialists on northern Canadian issues examine the transfer of power from the federal government to the governments of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Land claims, aboriginal self-government, division of the NWT, the territorial governments' pursuit of fuller recognition in Canadian fed...

Patrician families and the making of quebec

An analysis of two elite families in the shaping of English and French Quebec.

Confrontation at winnipeg, revised edition

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.

Techno-fixers

Over the past century, the potential of new technology to solve social dilemmas has captivated modern culture. From apps that encourage physical activity to airport scanners meant to prevent terrorism, the concept that clever innovation can improve society is irresistible, but faith in such techn...

The callisto myth from ovid to atwood

The Callisto myth demonstrates the vulnerability of women to the power of the patriarchy. Kathleen Wall opens her analysis with a discussion of the classical versions of the Callisto myth. She draws a discrete parallel between Callisto's rape by Zeus and the traditional rape of femininity by the ...

Charlevoix

When asked, "Where is Murray Bay?" US President Taft always replied, "Murray Bay is a state of mind." For over two hundred years the Charlevoix region has played host to some of the world's most famous and adventurous travellers. Considered the "Newport" of Canada, Charlevoix has been a meeting p...

Judicial administration in canada

Otter skins, boston ships, and china goods

James Gibson's thoroughly researched and highly detailed study is the first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America.

Missed opportunities

In Missed Opportunities, Marc Raboy reveals the short-sightedness behind the traditional view of Canadian broadcasting policy as an instrument for promoting a national identity and culture. He argues that Canadian broadcasting policy has served as a political instrument for reinforcing a certain ...

How ottawa spends, 1990-1991

This is the eleventh edition of How Ottawa Spends .Like previous editions, it focusses on particular departments and policy initiatives of the federal government. This year's edition also deals with some of the internal management issues that have emerged as important in the government's quest fo...

Frontline justice

A thought-provoking and balanced analysis, Frontline Justice seeks to remedy some of the more unfair and arcane proceedings of the Canadian military's summary trial system. Addressing important gaps in legal literature, Pascal Lévesque sets out to examine summary justice in Canada's military and ...

A history of the mcgill dental school

Places in the news

The last 20 years have witnessed a growing uneasiness about the future direction of the mass media. Places in the News examines the origin and destination of the news appearing in 21 of Canada's daily newspapers. It investigates the cities and countries that provide the preponderance of news, the...

Fear of the ride

Tales and traditions of the eskimo

Tender to the world

How pleasure, inversion, and story characterize five decades of connections between the United Church of Canada, Jean Vanier, and L'Arche.

Medium is the rear view mirror: understanding mcluhan

Protestants in a catholic state: ireland's privileged minority

This book traces the changing fortunes of the small Protestant community in the southern twenty-six counties of Ireland after independence was achieved in 1922.

What was history painting and what is it now?

How the most prestigious genre of painting collapsed into obscurity, only to rise again in new guises.

Global regimes and nation-states

At a time when environmental issues are prominent on many countries' political agendas, this book examines how one country, Australia, is handling the interplay between international and domestic environmental politics.

Sorrows of a century

An intimate analysis of the motives for suicide, set amidst the crises of the twentieth century.

Inuit, oblate missionaries, and grey nuns in the keewatin, 1865-1965

A lively introduction to an encounter between two completely different civilizations in the context of Christianization, hospitalization, and education.

The railway game

The Railway Game is a constructive study that demonstrates deficiencies of railway transportation in Canada and the U.S.

The multicultural states of east africa

What does "TRIBALISM" mean in the modern world? How does it affect the formation of political parties and the competition for office in the central governments of developing countries? What are the difficulties in modernizing local government and rural agricultural in countries where there are ma...

Middle power internationalism

The North-South dichotomy is evident not only to political economists and foreign policy makers but to anyone who pays attention to the news. The gravity of the situation has become more pronounced since the admission, by the richer states, of a fiscal deficit problem and the possibility of a rel...

David lodge and the tradition of the modern novel

An engaging study of one of the most popular contemporary British novelists.

Self-stabilizing systems

Self- governing control is a defining characteristic of autonomous computing machinery. Autonomy implies some degree of independence, and when a system's ability to achieve its mission is independent of how it is initialized, the system is self-stabilizing. Application of self-stabilization to sy...

Shaping the urban landscape

This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.

In duty bound

An exploration of state records and the forgotten people of Upper Canada.

Social scientists and politics in canada

Social scientists have played many roles in Canadian politics since the Second World War. Stephen Brooks and Alain Gagnon examine the forms and extent of social scientists' involvement in the political process, their relationship to the state, and the complexities of their class position. The uni...

Stanley's dream

The story of a passionate attempt to capture the entire biosphere of an isolated community facing ecological transformation.

Industrial transformation and challenge in australia and canada

Canadian and Australian economic geographers provide a comparative analysis of the economies of the two countries as both nations attempt to redefine their roles in a rapidly changing world.

Tax, order, and good government

The history of Confederation rewritten through the redistribution of wealth.

The children of aataentsic

The Children of Aataentsic is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649. Drawing upon the archaeological context, the ethnography presented by early explorers and missionar...

Social engineering

Social engineering in the 20th century has brought about some large-scale changes in society, often the result of visionary social projects, and plans designed on a grand and ideal scale. Such plans have often extracted terrible human costs. Numerous failures have marked 20th century social engin...

Political corruption in canada

Canadians assume that their politicians and institutions are relatively free of the corruption they associate with other nations. The editors of this volume argue that this questionable supposition is based on scant evidence and very little serious analysis.

A church with the soul of a nation

"As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the U...

Performance studies in canada

Tracing performance studies paths in Canada.

The theory and history of ocean boundary-making

In the classical and neo-classical periods of international law, the law of the sea was chiefly concerned with the need to facilitate the movement of ships. In the post-World War II period, however, coastal states began to make juridictional claims to extensive areas of the ocean, requiring decis...

Limiting the proliferation of weapons

An international team of arms control experts addresses important questions raised by the use of export sales restrictions in controlling the spread of weapons. In non-technical language, they examine vital issues relating to ballistic missiles, as well as to nuclear, chemical, biological and con...

The al-baqara crescendo

A study of the poetics and hermeneutics of the Qur?an’s narrative structure, focusing on Surat al-Baqara.

Sport under communism

The birth of new criticism

A groundbreaking account of the origins of the twentieth century's most influential method for studying poetry.

The democracy of suffering

A philosopher's passionate intervention into the meaning of life, and the future of civilization, in the face of catastrophic climate change.

The daunting enterprise of the law

Reconsidering the law through the work of a pre-eminent scholar.

Strange contrarieties

Transatlantic methodists

How Methodism in nineteenth-century central Canada became British.

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume i, 1768-1773

Fanny Burney was best known in her own time as the author of Evilina and other novels. Her modern reputation, however, rests primarily on her extensive journals and letters. The third of eleven children of Charles Burney, an eminent musician, author, and composer, she began keeping a journal of h...

Finding freedom

Scholars generally think that Hegel's philosophy is conservative and reactionary with regard to women's rights and as a result dismiss his philosophical account of the relationship between family and the political community as irrelevant. Sara MacDonald argues that in fact the logic of Hegel's th...

Mosaic orpheus

Maturing reflections on a changing world.

Trickster chases the tale of education

How Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies can turn teaching and learning upside down and inside out.

Business and politics

This is the first comprehensive study of the origins, structure, membership, and resources of interest groups representing business firms in Canada. William Coleman shows how Canadian businesses have used such associations to acquire special privileges within the policy process and to avoid assum...

Images of sport in early canada / images du sport dans le canada d'autrefois

The edge of the precipice

Kafka wrote that a book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us: does that idea resonate with readers today?

Unfulfilled union, fourth edition

A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the 1990s.

The vitality of contradiction

How the fundamental tensions of social and political life teach us to be free.

Sport and politics in canada

Active Canadian government in sport is recent. Even after the passage of the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act in 1961, government activity was limited to small grants to national sport governing bodies and cost-sharing agreements with the provinces aimed at increasing participation in sport. By the ...

Network democracy

A unique hybrid of ancient and contemporary conservative thought that offers a radical challenge to Western liberalism.

Rantin' pipe and tremblin' string

The selected essays of sean o'faolain

The first collection of essays by one of the most important public intellectuals in Ireland.

Governing

A provocative discussion of the key debates, themes, and issues related to political governance, public administration, and regional development.

Aphorism in the francophone novel of the twentieth century

In this exploration of twentieth-century novels written in French, Mark Bell defines aphorism as a literary genre and demonstrates how it is used in seven texts that provide a cross-section of ideological stances and francophone communities.

George cartwright’s the labrador companion

A newly discovered manuscript that expands our knowledge of the eastern coast of Canada’s Labrador peninsula.

Dramaturgy of sound in the avant-garde and postdramatic theatre

New insight into the theatrical use of sound in avant-garde and postdramatic performance.

Welcome to greater edendale

A mid-sized South African city’s struggle against its legacies of environmental injustice.

The jesuit series

This bibliography encompasses all extant books of emblems, works illustrated with emblems, and books dealing with the theory and practice of emblematics written by members of The Society of Jesus. Also included are translations and adaptations in all languages of Jesuit works by Catholics and non...

Griffith taylor

Drawing upon an extensive collection of private papers, the author brings to life the colourful story of Taylor, Canada's premier geographer. He founded Canada's first Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, and Australia's first Geography Department at Sydney University. Taylor als...

Crisis and war

Using an analysis of patterns of international crisis and war from 1948 to 1975, Patrick James suggests why some international crises result in war while others do not. Over one hundred cases are used to assess the three most prominent explanations for crisis escalation to war: (1) war is the res...

Small matters

An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.

A social history of scottish dance

The body or the soul?

How a Quebec community fashioned a resilient balance between freedom and faith out of their culture and their Catholicism.

Christian ethics

Robert lepage on the toronto stage

How Robert Lepage met, transformed, and transported the Toronto stage.

Degrees of freedom

A comparative study of Canadian and American responses to the changing international economy and to changing patterns of social diversity in domestic society, Degrees of Freedom traces the impact of these pressures on the economic and social structure, culture, political institutions, and policy ...

Housing in postwar canada

Between 1945 and 1981 the Canadian population doubled, while the number of dwellings more than tripled. John Miron shows how changes in demographic structure and housing affordability affected postwar household formation and housing demand. He argues that no single explanation adequately reflects...

The architecture of andrew thomas taylor

How Andrew Thomas Taylor advanced the quality of architecture in Canada.

Awkward politics

A cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.

Nonparametric trend analysis

Voices from french ontario

Franco-Ontarians feel that they are both part of and rejected by Canada's two founding peoples. Although proud of their heritage, many hide the French side of their lives from the surrounding English majority. Some are pessimistic about their future; but for many in the region commonly known as N...

A medieval miscellany

This collection of occasional writings by renowned medieval scholar Margaret Wade Labarge considers an eclectic mix of themes and issues in the history of the Middle Ages. The varied lives of medieval women, their power and status within society, are depicted through their own writings; questions...