Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Luigi Giussani
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1998
Giussani argues that if we accept the hypothesis that the mystery entered the realm of human existence and spoke in human terms, the relationship between the individual and God is no longer based on a moral, imaginative, or aesthetic human effort but instead on coming upon an event in one's life....
Fearful Asymmetry
Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the Localization of Language, Paris, 1825-1879
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Paul Broca made the most significant discovery in nineteenth-century human biology when he found that speech resides within the left frontal lobe of the human brain. As a young surgeon working at the hospice at Bicêtre on the outskirts of Paris – a repository for the criminal, the insane, the indigent,...
Small Matters
Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded. During the first half...
Sexual Diversity in Africa
Politics, Theory, and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars? In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors...
Creating Kashubia
History, Memory, and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In recent years, over one million Canadians have claimed Polish heritage - a significant population increase since the first group of Poles came from Prussian-occupied Poland and settled in Wilno, Ontario, west of Ottawa in 1858. For over a century, descendants from this community thought of themselves...
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq
A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of this...
The Devout Hand
Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
After the Counter-Reformation, the Papal State of Bologna became a hub for the flourishing of female artistic talent. The eighteenth-century biographer Luigi Crespi recorded over twenty-eight women artists working in the city, although many of these, until recently, were ignored by modern art criticism,...
Wild Geese
Buddhism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
The most comprehensive study of Buddhism in Canada to date, Wild Geese offers a history of the religion's evolution in Canada, surveys the diverse communities and beliefs of Canadian Buddhists, and presents biographies of Buddhist leaders. The essays cover a broad range of topics, including Chinese,...
by Dilys Leman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Although relatively few First Nations joined the 1885 Métis insurgence, the Canadian government reacted punitively, instituting draconian "Indian" policies whose ill-effects continue to resonate today. The Winter Count traces these developments alongside another narrative - the debate over the sanity...
by Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic...
Still Renovating
A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness, housing is once again an important issue. In Still Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the story of the rise and...
Forgotten
Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness...
Telling it to the Judge
Taking Native History to Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s. For over twenty-five years he has been a part of landmark litigation concerning treaty rights, Aboriginal title, and Métis rights. In Telling...
Being Arab
Ethnic and Religious Identity Building among Second Generation Youth in Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Eid looks at the significance of religion to ethnic identity building, a largely understudied issue in ethnic studies, and the extent to which social and cultural practices are structured along ethnic and religious lines. Being Arab also analyzes whether gendered traditions act as identity markers...