Un homme grand

The essays collected in this volume constitute a breakthrough in an understanding of the life and works of Kerouac. Fellow Beats, biographers, critics, poets and scholars write about their views of a man who epitomizes both the American Dream and the French-Canadian experience on this continent. ...

Barbarous dissonance and images of voice in milton's epics

Elizabeth Sauer brings a new perspective to Milton scholarship through her examination of the relative status and authority of the multiple narrative voices in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. She argues that Milton's epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices, episodes, and dramatic ...

Discrepant parallels

An examination of the divergent Canadian cultural investments in the Canada-US border.

Maturing in hard times

From the management of Canada's fledgling economy to the complex economic structures created to deal with the Great Depression, Robert Bryce's history of the Canadian Department of Finance traces the growth of one of the federal government's most important and complex departments.

Stranger gods

In Stranger Gods Roger Clark offers an ambitious and wide-ranging study of Salman Rushdie's seven published novels, with a special focus on his earliest, Grimus, and his most powerful and provocative, Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses. Clark shows how Rushdie employs cosmology, m...

Rockefeller foundation funding and medical education in toronto, montreal, and halifax

In 1919 a five million dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift to certain Canadian medical schools, coupled with a major donation from Sir John Craig and Lady Eaton, helped bring Canadian medical education into the twentieth century. Marianne Fedunkiw charts how this significant gift affected the univ...

The jena system, 1804-5

Translated into English for the first time in this edition, The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics is an essential text in the study of the development of Hegel's thought. It is the climax of Hegel's efforts to construct a neutral theory of the categories of finite cognition ("logic") as ...

The grandmothers' movement

Grandmothers' alliances across distance and difference - unlikely mobilizations, unexpected change.

André malraux

More attention has been paid up to now to Malraux's life and thought than to his creativity. To respond to this neglect, David Bevan explores facets as diffuse as Tibetan symbolism, free indirect style, humour, film, death, and oratory in a series of interconnecting essays which, offering a certa...

Writing lovers

Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Méira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In Writing Lovers she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse of...

Toward a healthcare strategy for canadians

A comprehensive look at reforming Canada's mediocre public healthcare system from a system-wide strategic perspective.

Land of the midnight sun, new edition

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-World War II res...

Gender and land reform

Zimbabwe's nationalist and post-colonial ambitions have been largely defined by land reform. Allison Goebel assesses Zimbabwe's successes and failures in incorporating gender issues into the broader project of land redistribution. Based on fieldwork in the Sengezi resettlement area in east centra...

The permanent nature of everything

A childhood of freedom and risk, of navigating the shoals of a combative family, and reaching out for an understanding of the world.

The native peoples of atlantic canada

These selections date from early contact of the native peoples of Atlantic Canada with, among others, Norse sailors, and a French priest in 1612. Some excerpts look at the now-extinct Beothuk people of Newfoundland, but most pertain to the Micmac peoples.

Money and banking in canada

This collection of original documents, contemporary commentaries and articles outlines the major developments in the history of money and banking in Canada.

The defence of the undefended border

This book studies the official and unofficial thought in Canada and the United States about the problem of fighting a war in North America, especially from the British withdrawal up to the consummation of alliance in 1939.

Continental community?

The western interior of canada

This volume consists of excerpts from journals, diaries and reports of geographical explorations into the western interior of Canada from the first known journeys of Jens Munck and Luke Foxe up to the scientific surveys undertaken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Canadian foreign policy, 1966-1976

This volume demonstrates Canada's continuing involvement with the United Nations and nato, the shifting emphasis away from some traditional concerns, and the Canadian perspective.

A foremost nation

The crisis of quebec, 1914-1918

The Crisis of Quebec was first published in 1937 and remains the most vivid and comprehensive study of the conscription crisis of 1917.

A history of transportation in canada, volume 1

First published in 1938, A History of Transportation in Canada is regarded as the standard work on the subject. Its great merit lies in the way in which it skillfully links advances in transportation with the course of Canadian political and economic history. Volume 1 covers the history of transp...

Freedom and order

The agricultural economy of manitoba hutterite colonies

The Hutterite way of life originated in central Europe nearly 450 years ago. Today, Hutterite colonies are unique features of the agricultural landscape of Manitoba. This pioneering study, based on years of field research, presents a thorough account of every aspect of the agricultural base of th...

Canadian commercial revolution, 1845-1852

Statistical account of upper canada

This account was compiled originally in 1822 to promote an immigration scheme for Upper Canada, but its disclosures of backward development and governmental mismanagement made it the focal point of a violent controversy.

A critical spirit

This volume contains the major writings of this neglected figure in the intellectual history of Canada: his defence of the intellectual life; his advocacy of a scientific, evolutionary ethos; his indictment of the political morality and popular government of his day; and his application of the cr...

The mackenzie pipeline

This volume focuses mainly on the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline proposal, the most gigantic resource undertaking ever considered by Canadians.

A history of transportation in canada, volume 2

First published in 1938, Volume two deals with Canadian transportation from 1867 to the late 1930s, and includes what is regarded as one of the best short discussions of the Canadian "railway problem."

The anatomy of the brain and nerves

Network democracy

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

Writers' rights

A timely study of freelance journalists’ working conditions and what is at stake for the future of journalism in precarious times.

Speaking truth to canadians about their public service

The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada’s development. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service provides a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting the public service, how the relationship between politicians and career officials has evolved in recent years...

New media and revolution

Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, this book shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. It interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from hidden practices of digital diss...

Dirty money

“Dirty Money offers valuable insight into this vexing and important topic. The expert perspectives of its contributors shed light on money laundering, financial crime, and the ever-present shadow of corruption – all real concerns for today’s governments and the public at large.” The Hon. Austin C...

Ivan mazepa and the russian empire

A political biography of the famous Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and his clash with the emerging Russian empire.

Permanent state of emergency

An objective and unflinching analysis of the destruction of America’s constitutional order and the creation of an elective dictatorship.

Florence nightingale and the medical men

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy.

Writing in the flesh

Writing in the Flesh confronts the struggle of writing the self, recounting Waugh’s transitions and transformations from preacher’s kid to porn teacher, New Left activist, and expert in documentary, queer, and Canadian film.

Growing with canada

During the second half of the twentieth century musical life in Canada flourished as never before, due in large measure to a generation of European émigrés who worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of classical music by teaching, performing, and composing "in the key of Canada."

Luminous creatures

How a striking phenomenon people have observed for millennia became a field of scientific inquiry and revolutionized molecular biology and medical research.

Remaining loyal

How social democrats have changed with the times while their key values have stayed the same.

Turbulent empires

An examination of global politics, emphasizing American hegemony and the rise of Asian economies.

Chiefs of the plantation

An inside look at the ways in which labour relations are constituted and contested in South African agriculture.

Refereeing identity

What "national pastime" novels tell us about our country.

The symbolic state

Karlo Basta’s surefooted treatment of asymmetric federalism to accommodate the presence of more than one nation in a single state is as original as it is sound. Joining the logic of political economy to that of symbolic recognition, he produces a coherent picture of the interplay between central ...

The art of the city

A consideration of both how the “soul” of a city is expressed through architectural forms and how the age of globalization threatens its survival.

Uttering the unutterable

Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence ...

Writing herself into being

Quebec women’s struggle for self and portrayal of their society in autobiographies, letters, and private diaries.

The quebec conference of 1864

A new interpretation of a key period in Canadian political history.

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...

The ones we let down

The “decade of darkness” was a tumultuous time for women in Canada’s military. A human rights tribunal ordered the military to open combat positions to women and reach full gender integration by 1999. Charlotte Duval-Lantoine looks at failed efforts to accomplish this goal, revealing an organizat...

Vanguard of the new age

The story of the small "new age" religious group that introduced Victorian Toronto to Eastern thought and theology, vegetarianism, reincarnation, cremation, and the pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi.

Euphoria and symposia

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is es...

Women, gender, and anatomy in enlightenment france

A visually rich and expansive medical history that centres women’s bodies and labour in eighteenth-century French anatomical practice, revealing the gendered foundations of modern medical science.

Wildlife, land, and people

A wide-ranging study of people's diverse and often contradictory relationships with wild animals in the prairie provinces after 1870.

Total defence forces in the twenty-first century

This volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward de...

Beyond the noise of solemn assemblies

Reflections on the rise and transformative power of a new social consciousness.

Timing canada

Time as a form of power in Canadian society, literature, and cultural imagination.

Ecological nation

Canada faces two existential threats: runaway climate change and the rising global tide of right-authoritarian imperialism. The inextricable relationship between the two highlights the need to safeguard Canada’s environmental and political sovereignty, requiring bold vision and sacrifice to build...

Sorrows of a century

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

Writing rogues

In Writing Rogues de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia...

Trickster chases the tale of education

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

From multilateral failures to unilateral successes?

For decades Canadian constitutional debate seemed largely dormant. But since 2021 provincial initiatives and amendments have reignited change, challenging assumptions, reshaping federalism, and offering new insights into unilateral and multilateral pathways of constitutional reform.

The selected essays of sean o'faolain

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

The canadian federal election of 2025

An accessible analysis of the remarkable 2025 Canadian federal election, examining campaign strategy, media coverage, public opinion, disinformation, and voting behaviour – and what this portends for future elections.

Twofold

The form of the diptych shapes language and meaning, symmetry and difference. Edward Carson’s twofold delivers a liminal gathering of short diptych poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence, framed within Ovidian and H...

Lordship and state transformation

Lordship and State Transformation examines the role of lordship in the Habsburgs’ attempts at state formation from the Thirty Years’ War to Charles VI. By foregrounding the interactions of state and non-state actors, the Habsburgs were instrumental in developing early modern composite monarchies.

Call of empire

A treasure trove of original correspondence reveals the experiences of four generations of a Scottish family in the service of the East India Company.

Gender, religion, and modern hindi drama

An exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960s.

Phoenix

The life and loves of Norman Bethune - Canadian doctor and activist and battlefield surgeon in China during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s.

Side effects may include strangers

Poetry that explores the beauty of themes often considered undesirable - pain, disability, and the aging body.

Caught in the current

While Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current expl...

A social history of the cloister

A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.

Chora 5

Architecture is at a crossroads - to survive as a vehicle of contemporary human culture it must extend beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions but this requires determining how to affirm its relevancy within a globalized and technological culture. In a world where the supposed ...

Look here look away look again

To look is to fill our thoughts and consciousness with an experience of the other.

Hijacking history

How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.

Jerusalem on the amur

In 1928 the Soviet Union proposed the establishment of an autonomous socialist Jewish republic in the far eastern reaches of Russian territory. In Birobidzhan the eternal search for a Jewish homeland would be realized and Jews would possess their own institutions, which would function in Yiddish....

Stories of women in the middle ages

An insightful window into the lives of women in the Middle Ages.

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...

Genre, patrimoine et droit civil

Une reconstitution minutieuse des périls juridiques, financiers et domestiques qui guettaient les épouses de l'élite à l'aube du 20e siècle.

Legislative, executive, and judicial governance in federal countries

Comparative studies examine the constitutional design and actual operation of governments in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Contributors analyze the structures and workings of legislative, executive, and ju...

National security entrepreneurs and the making of american foreign policy

By analysing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering an account of national security entrepreneurship under the recent presidents, this book argues for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity.

The new twenty years' crisis

The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall o...

Under siege

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Under Siege examines how the global war on terror and heightened anti-Muslim racism have affected millennials who were socialized into a world where their faith and identity are under attack. Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth to unp...

Everyday sacred

The first English-language volume on religion in contemporary Quebec.

Civic freedom in an age of diversity

James Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.

D.h. lawrence and attachment

Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns l...

On to civvy street

The bungled demobilization of Canadians returning from the First World War contributed to a period of intense political, social, and economic upheaval. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Ottawa - having learned from the previous domestic turmoil - immediately began planning for the return o...

Asleep at the switch

Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.

Native peoples and water rights

The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.

The laughing people

The Laughing People recounts Serge Bouchard’s anthropological research in the 1970s in Ekuanitshit, documenting the Indigenous Innu people and illuminating how wide-scale injustice and cultural meaning manifest in individual terms. The book invites readers to take part in preserving Innu history,...

A house of one's own

An intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.

Documenting displacement

This project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by ...

Bombs, bullets, and politicians

An in-depth and comparative inquiry into the reactions of political elites in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

There's always something to do

Peter Cundill, a philanthropist and investor whose work has been praised by the likes of Warren Buffett, found his life changed forever when he discovered the value investment principles of Benjamin Graham and began to put them into action. There's Always Something to Do tells the story of Cundil...

Building resistance

How tuberculosis infection and disease impacted the bodies, families, and lives of children before antibiotics.

Race riots

From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging the common reluctance to take such comedy seriously, Michael Ross shows how humour directed at ethnic "others" exposes deep-seated national attitudes. Race Riots explores the d...

Without compassion, there is no healthcare

New technologies are transforming healthcare work, changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. This book is a call for healthcare providers, educators, and organisations to lead with compassion through times of rapid technological change.