Mqup imprint: 803 books
Revivalists
Marketing the Gospel in English Canada, 1884-1957
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
The history of religious change has been largely devoted to study of the churches. Revivalists focuses on evangelists, singling out several significant entrepreneurs - Hugh Crossley and John Hunter, active from 1880 to 1910; Oswald J. Smith, who built his independent Toronto church into a popular...
by Hugh MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 Andr?ervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover...
In Defence of the Faith
Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Joaquim Marques de Araújo ardently defended the Portuguese Inquisition for fifty years, only to find himself sidelined and forgotten. In Defence of the Faith offers an insightful examination of one man's career as a comissário of the Portuguese Inquisition in Pernambuco, Brazil, from 1770 to 1820....
Religion and Greater Ireland
Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1969
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Impelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth-century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle. So decisive was the role of religion in the worlds of Irish settlement that it helped to create a "Greater...
Beating against the Wind
Popular Opposition to Bishop Feild and Tractarianism in Newfoundland and Labrador
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
There are many analyses of Tractarianism – a nineteenth-century form of Anglicanism that emphasized its Catholic origins – but how did people in the colonies react to the High Church movement? Beating against the Wind, a study in nineteenth-century vernacular spirituality, emphasizes the power of...
Stauffenberg
A Family History, 1905-1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The attempt to assassinate Hitler is widely acknowledged, but few are aware of the individuals involved. In this detailed family history Peter Hoffmann reveals the tragic and heroic life of Claus, Count Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and would-be assassin of Adolph Hitler. Hoffmann details Stauffenberg's...
Leave No Doubt: A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams
A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Mike Babcock is the only hockey coach in the history of the game to lead teams to victory in the Stanley Cup, the World Championship, and the Olympic Games. Currently head coach for the Detroit Red Wings, he is arguably the best coach in the game today. In this book, against the dramatic backdrop of...
Canada's Game
Hockey and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal...
Gael Force, Second Edition
A History of Football at Queen's, 1882-2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Football at Queen’s University has one of the richest and longest histories of any sport in Canada. The Golden Gaels have been a presence in Canadian football at both the amateur and professional levels since 1882. Gael Force traces this history, chronicling the team’s ups and downs and integrating...
by R.T. Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
An unprecedented work in Canadian historiography, The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 has been chosen by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as one of the twenty most outstanding works in the field in the last half of the twentieth century.
Empty Promises
Why Workplace Pension Law Doesn’t Deliver Pensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Workplace pensions are a vital part of Canada’s retirement income system, but these plans have reached a state of crisis as a result of their low coverage and inadequate, insecure, and unequally distributed benefits. Reviewing pension plans through a legal and historical lens, Empty Promises reveals...
How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013
The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies. Leading scholars from...
Inside the NDP War Room: Competing for Credibility in a Federal Election
Competing for Credibility in a Federal Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The federal election campaign of 2005-06 offered the usual mix of lofty rhetoric, competing interests, and skullduggery. Nonetheless, this campaign laid the foundation for a major shift in Canadian politics, bringing the Conservative Party to power and changing the balance of opposition parties. Inside...
Leadership Under Fire: The Challenging Role of the Canadian University President
The Challenging Role of the Canadian University President
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Paul illuminates some of the ways in which Canadian universities are unique and uses these differences to make clear the importance of organizational cultural and institutional fit for leaders confronting critical academic issues such as academic leadership and accountability, student success and...