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  • Permanent Weekend
    Permanent Weekend

    Permanent weekend

    A timely examination of the causes and consequences of rural gentrification.

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  • Marian and the Major
    Marian and the Major

    Marian and the major

    In Marian and the Major Christl Verduyn brings together the story of Major William Kingdom Rains and the compelling fictionalized version of his life, "Elizabeth and the Golden City," created by novelist Marian Engel. Making this unfinished classic available, Marian and the Major also brings toge...

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  • Common Sense and Legal Judgment
    Common Sense and Legal Judgment

    Common sense and legal judgment

    An analysis of the surprisingly inscrutable idea of “common sense” and its relationship to reflective and accountable legal judgment.

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  • Rocke Robertson
    Rocke Robertson

    Rocke robertson

    The life of the war surgeon who became principal of McGill University in the midst of political, student, and faculty unrest.

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  • Seeing Ghosts
    Seeing Ghosts

    Seeing ghosts

    An evocative look at images of 9/11 and how they contribute to our cultural memory.

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  • Democracy in Canada
    Democracy in Canada

    Democracy in canada

    Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was...

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  • Sandino's Nation
    Sandino's Nation

    Sandino's nation

    How two of Latin America's greatest writers dramatized Nicaraguan nationhood before, during, and after the Sandinista Revolution.

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  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2
    The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2

    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.

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  • The Structures of Law and Literature
    The Structures of Law and Literature

    The structures of law and literature

    A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature.

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  • Gender, Communications, and Reproductive Health in International Development
    Gender, Communications, and Reproductive Health in International Development

    Gender, communications, and reproductive health in international development

    Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, reproductive health is at the center of discussions of gender equality. Asking how communications are used to shape policy, Carolina Matos explores feminist and health NGOs from across the world and how they are improving discourse o...

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  • Jean de Grandpré
    Jean de Grandpré

    Jean de grandpré

    Beginning as Bell Canada’s general counsel in 1966, Jean de Grandpré rose through the ranks and became president in 1973. A few years later he created Bell Canada Enterprises, one of America’s largest telecommunications companies. Offering insight into the secrets of his success, Jean de Grandpré...

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  • Making Sense of Myth
    Making Sense of Myth

    Making sense of myth

    For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Making Sense of Myth offers a series of conversations with Brisson on life, myth, and Plato.

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  • Trio
    Trio

    Trio

    One woman. Two lovers. It's a complicated dance.

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  • Prayers, Petitions, and Protests
    Prayers, Petitions, and Protests

    Prayers, petitions, and protests

    How the Ontario Schools Crisis turned into a violent public protest within the Catholic Church.

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  • Mixing Medicines
    Mixing Medicines

    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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  • Restless History
    Restless History

    Restless history

    Restless History re-examines the post-Stalinist period in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, and beyond – in all its tensions and contradictions – to offer the socialist past as an unfinished history, one that cannot be easily put to rest.

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  • Cause for Thought
    Cause for Thought

    Cause for thought

    An innovative exploration of causal agency as it functions in physical, biological, psychological, and cosmological domains.

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  • Lost in the Crowd
    Lost in the Crowd

    Lost in the crowd

    Gregory Kennedy presents a new kind of history focusing on the experiences of Acadian soldiers and their families before, during, and after the First World War. He significantly shifts common interpretations about recruitment in French Canada, service overseas, and the factors determining post-wa...

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  • Curative Illnesses
    Curative Illnesses

    Curative illnesses

    A necessary second opinion on the national implications of an epidemic of sick literary characters.

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  • Contesting Zion
    Contesting Zion

    Contesting zion

    Consulting a range of sources, including formerly classified papers in the Vatican archive, Contesting Zion examines relationships among the Vatican, Zionism, and American Catholics from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 through the creation of Israel in 1948 and the years that followed.

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  • British System of Government and Its Historical Development
    British System of Government and Its Historical Development

    British system of government and its historical development

    The essential elements of the British government as developed over a millennium.

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  • Configurations of a Cultural Scene
    Configurations of a Cultural Scene

    Configurations of a cultural scene

    In the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, resulting in a tightly-woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. Configurations of a Cultural Scene explores this growing community of artists with a focus on how sites of face-to-face inte...

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  • Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America
    Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America

    Twenty-first-century immigration to north america

    A revealing assessment of the policies, practices, and impact of immigration to Canada and the United States.

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  • Government
    Government

    Government

    Understanding the declining trust in Western governments is one thing; coming up with the right diagnosis another. Savoie suggests the political accountability and public nature of government operations shape the behaviour of civil servants, and policy makers have failed to see that efficacy in g...

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  • Voltaire's Workshop
    Voltaire's Workshop

    Voltaire's workshop

    Voltaire’s Workshop argues that the French translation of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, by Pierre-Antoine de La Place, was the single most important source for Voltaire’s Candide.

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  • The Canadian Founding
    The Canadian Founding

    The canadian founding

    A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty. Winner - John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History (2009)

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  • Des sociétés distinctes
    Des sociétés distinctes

    Des sociétés distinctes

    A political and social history of suburban governance on the island of Montreal.

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  • In the Eye of the China Storm
    In the Eye of the China Storm

    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...

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  • Blindfold
    Blindfold

    Blindfold

    Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, "For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have a hundred worlds to create and I am only losing one of them." Blindfold investigates the ways in which disability influences our lives and is...

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  • Government-Nonprofit Relations in Times of Recession
    Government-Nonprofit Relations in Times of Recession

    Government-nonprofit relations in times of recession

    An exhaustive study of changing nonprofit policy issues in response to the economic recession.

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  • The Strongmen
    The Strongmen

    The strongmen

    How should Europe deal with the men of global politics who don't play by the rules?

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  • Yogalands
    Yogalands

    Yogalands

    Promoted as a way of healing people from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga offers an “anti-world” to which practitioners can escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and contradictions of the real world. Yogalands encourages practitioners and critics to be cur...

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  • Watermelon Snow
    Watermelon Snow

    Watermelon snow

    Weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. Inspiring and deeply personal, this is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.

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  • History of Canadian Business, New edition
    History of Canadian Business, New edition

    History of canadian business, new edition

    R.T. Naylor traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and World War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation. He tells the often sordid story of the emergence and development of corporate capitalism in Can...

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  • Land of the Midnight Sun, Third Edition
    Land of the Midnight Sun, Third Edition

    Land of the midnight sun, third 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...

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  • The Habsburg Empire under Siege
    The Habsburg Empire under Siege

    The habsburg empire under siege

    Offering a trans-imperial perspective that reassesses the complex relationship between Hungarians, Habsburgs, and Ottomans, this book portrays the resistance of ordinary men and women and their hopes for liberation from Habsburg oppression, reclaiming their place in history.

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  • When Bad States Win
    When Bad States Win

    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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  • Evolutionary Intuitionism
    Evolutionary Intuitionism

    Evolutionary intuitionism

    It seems impossible that organisms selected to maximize their genetic legacy could also be moral agents in a world in which taking risks for strangers is sometimes morally laudable. Brian Zamulinski argues that it is possible if morality is an evolutionary by-product rather than an adaptation.

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  • Carving a Niche
    Carving a Niche

    Carving a niche

    The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.

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  • Property, Liberty, and Self-Ownership in Seventeenth-Century England
    Property, Liberty, and Self-Ownership in Seventeenth-Century England

    Property, liberty, and self-ownership in seventeenth-century england

    The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. This book traces the emergence and evolution of self-ownership over the course of this period, culminating in a reinterpret...

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  • Guerrilla Aesthetics
    Guerrilla Aesthetics

    Guerrilla aesthetics

    A bold rumination on 1970s West German urban terrorism and its haunting traces in contemporary art and memory.

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  • Canada in the Global Refugee Regime
    Canada in the Global Refugee Regime

    Canada in the global refugee regime

    Rethinking the regime not as a fixed system but as a contested space shaped by states’ interests and actions, Canada and the Global Refugee Regime is the first comprehensive examination of Canada’s involvement with the institutions, norms, and politics of refugee protection worldwide.

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  • Y Tu Mamá También
    Y Tu Mamá También

    Y tu mamá también

    Y Tu Mamá También explores the film as a touchstone for queer and sex cinema that continues to teach us how to find queer resonances across national and international film styles and to imagine queer media as complex networks of influence and rediscovery, more than two decades after its original ...

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  • A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
    A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac

    A surgeon in the army of the potomac

    Lured across the border by promises of opportunity and adventure, Francis M. Wafer - a young student from Queen's Medical College in Kingston - joined the Union's army of the Potomac as an assistant surgeon. From the battle of the Wilderness to the closing campaigns, Wafer was both participant an...

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  • A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury
    A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury

    A russian jew of bloomsbury

    A stirring account of the early-twentieth century, Jewish émigré life, and English and Russian letters, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury casts new light - and shadows - on the giants of English modernism.

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  • Conflicted Colony
    Conflicted Colony

    Conflicted colony

    A study of borderlands and state formation in nineteenth-century Newfoundland.

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  • Murmuration
    Murmuration

    Murmuration

    In a photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation and, for perhaps a singular moment, assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-chang...

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  • Rivals in Arms
    Rivals in Arms

    Rivals in arms

    As the UK leaves the EU and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Rivals in Arms is the untold story of the thriving yet complicated defence relationship of two countries, the UK and France, caught between strategic decline ...

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  • Commodity Politics
    Commodity Politics

    Commodity politics

    As the international community calls for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities becomes more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through responsibility rhetoric and presents research from Cameroon to provide a better understanding of the polit...

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  • Waiting for the Wave
    Waiting for the Wave

    Waiting for the wave

    In 1993, the neophyte Reform Party stunned the nation, winning 52 seats in the House of Commons, narrowly missing Official Opposition status. Having collected just 2% of the popular vote in the 1988 federal election, it garnered an astonishing 19% five years later.

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  • Laboratory of Modernity
    Laboratory of Modernity

    Laboratory of modernity

    Laboratory of Modernity is a history of Ukraine during the long nineteenth century, providing a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. In this first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Serhiy Bilenky traces the historical origins of some o...

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  • Immigration and Canada
    Immigration and Canada

    Immigration and canada

    A definitive and accessible guide to how Canada’s immigration system actually works, structured around a series of no-holds-barred questions most often raised in the news and debated in the public square.

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  • Fearful Asymmetry
    Fearful Asymmetry

    Fearful asymmetry

    The history of research into the function of the brain and language in nineteenth-century France.

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  • Where Is God?
    Where Is God?

    Where is god?

    In an extended interview with Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli, Julián Carrón examines our current place in time to revive the essential core of Christian faith. Where Is God? discovers and rediscovers the contents of Christianity, asking how they can be witnessed again in a society that is not ye...

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  • Needy Media
    Needy Media

    Needy media

    Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.

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  • The Lives of Lake Ontario
    The Lives of Lake Ontario

    The lives of lake ontario

    Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. The Lives of Lake Ontario examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this remarkably re...

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  • Looking After Miss Alexander
    Looking After Miss Alexander

    Looking after miss alexander

    In 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite her claims that she was perfectly well. A history of mental capacity law in twentieth-century England and Wales, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of mental illness, cit...

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  • Pensionnats du Canada : Enfants disparus et lieux de sépulture non marqués
    Pensionnats du Canada : Enfants disparus et lieux de sépulture non marqués

    Pensionnats du canada : enfants disparus et lieux de sépulture non marqués

    Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...

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  • Ink and Light
    Ink and Light

    Ink and light

    A bridge between the recognized and accepted truths of Claude Lorrain's art and his lesser known, yet equally masterful, graphic works.

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  • Encounters with Wild Children
    Encounters with Wild Children

    Encounters with wild children

    Since the early seventeenth century, stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances have been recorded, circulated, and reproduced in Europe and North America not simply as myths, legends, or good tabloid copy but as occurrences deserving serious scrutiny by philosophers and...

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  • Once upon a Time in the West
    Once upon a Time in the West

    Once upon a time in the west

    Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of t...

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  • A Logician’s Code of Conduct
    A Logician’s Code of Conduct

    A logician’s code of conduct

    Arguing for logic as a tool we can use for fairness instead of reinforcing injustice and exclusion, A Logician’s Code of Conduct reimagines logic as flexible, creating spaces of inquiry neutral in content and equitable in participation.

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  • The Perils of Pedagogy
    The Perils of Pedagogy

    The perils of pedagogy

    The first book to examine the works of controversial film and video-maker, queer activist, and agent provocateur, John Greyson.

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  • Journey with No Maps
    Journey with No Maps

    Journey with no maps

    Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

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  • Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature
    Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

    Ovid and masculinity in english renaissance literature

    A comprehensive and nuanced analysis of how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English Renaissance literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

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  • Recognition and Revelation
    Recognition and Revelation

    Recognition and revelation

    Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays about Canada and its land, peoples, politics, and literature, spanning her writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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  • Nation Branding and International Politics
    Nation Branding and International Politics

    Nation branding and international politics

    Today, nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries. In academia, however, the idea is often dismissed as unserious. Bringing nation branding to the scholarly discourse, Browning critically unpacks the trend, providing theoretical lenses through which to view the r...

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  • Sonic Experience
    Sonic Experience

    Sonic experience

    Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team ...

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  • Geopolitical Amnesia
    Geopolitical Amnesia

    Geopolitical amnesia

    Far-right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Donald Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest "first" are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriar...

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  • Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience
    Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience

    Canada’s residential schools: the inuit and northern experience

    Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

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  • The Body or the Soul?
    The Body or the Soul?

    The body or the soul?

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

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  • The Parliaments of Autonomous Nations
    The Parliaments of Autonomous Nations

    The parliaments of autonomous nations

    How the parliaments of minority national communities and central parliaments express identities and treat self-determination claims.

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  • Disparate Remedies
    Disparate Remedies

    Disparate remedies

    At present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of bo...

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  • Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?
    Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?

    Who was responsible for the troubles?

    Who was primarily responsible for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? is an original and controversial work that captures the terror and the pain but also the hope of life and pur...

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  • One of the Boys, Second Edition
    One of the Boys, Second Edition

    One of the boys, second edition

    A new edition of a book that has changed the way we think about sexual conduct and combat.

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  • Finding Freedom
    Finding Freedom

    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...

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  • The Merger Delusion
    The Merger Delusion

    The merger delusion

    The story of the fight against the forced merger of Montreal municipalities and the world's first metropolitan de-merger.

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  • Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens
    Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens

    Indigenous nationals, canadian citizens

    Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples. This is followed by a focus on the key Supreme Court decisions that have dram...

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  • The World in Canada
    The World in Canada

    The world in canada

    Just as Canada is increasingly at home in the world, the world is increasingly finding a home in Canada. The World in Canada confronts three questions: What are the implications of the dramatic and sustained shift in the Canadian ethnic mosaic for foreign policy? In what ways do diasporas influen...

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  • Little Resilience
    Little Resilience

    Little resilience

    Creating a national literature through a series of original poetry booklets.

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  • The Limits of Boundaries
    The Limits of Boundaries

    The limits of boundaries

    With city-regions becoming increasingly important as sources of innovation and wealth in our society, does it follow that their institutions of government will become increasingly autonomous, allowing them to become self-governing?

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  • Distant Stage
    Distant Stage

    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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  • Africa's Gene Revolution
    Africa's Gene Revolution

    Africa's gene revolution

    An evaluation of the potential for genetically modified crops to alleviate poverty and hunger in Africa.

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  • The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986
    The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986

    The life and times of raúl prebisch, 1901-1986

    Selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist.

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  • Staging Strife
    Staging Strife

    Staging strife

    A candid look at anthropological research methods, political theatre, and advocacy.

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  • Cast from Bells
    Cast from Bells

    Cast from bells

    Subtle and surprising poems connecting the use of bells in wartime with shifts in the nature of affection.

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  • On Their Own
    On Their Own

    On their own

    Cutting edge research on the contradictions of race, class, and gender in post-apartheid urban South Africa.

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  • The Teeth of Time
    The Teeth of Time

    The teeth of time

    Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tension...

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