Mqup imprint: 803 books
Travellers through Empire
Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were...
The Campbell Revolution?
Power, Politics, and Policy in British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How are we to assess Gordon Campbell’s decade-long premiership of British Columbia? While to many he was an ideologue set on revolutionizing provincial politics, he was a far more complex figure – polarizing and unpopular, but also a shrewd party manager and successful political operator. Beginning...
Educating the Neglected Majority
The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Educating the Neglected Majority is Richard Jarrell’s pioneering survey of the attempt to develop and diffuse agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Canada’s most populous regions. It explores the efforts and achievements of educators, legislators, and manufacturers as they responded...
Mobilizing Mercy
A History of the Canadian Red Cross
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed national history of the organization, Sarah Glassford reveals how the European-born Red Cross movement came to Canada and took root, and why it flourished....
Shifting Terrain
Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Canadian advocacy has evolved over the past few decades. A core function of the nonprofit sector, advocacy endures in an unsympathetic neoliberal landscape – one dominated by a rise in government surveillance, ongoing government funding cuts, and confusion over what activities are permissible. Exploring...
Kingdom of the Mind
How the Scots Helped Make Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.
The Fundamental Things Apply
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in...
by Abiodun Alao
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region. Three decades later, Zimbabwe became the focus of international attention for very different reasons: acrimonious racial relations, controversial elections, economic hardship, and military intervention in...
Becoming Sui Sin Far
Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton (1865–1914) published on a wide variety of subjects...
Safe Haven
The Wartime Letters of Ben Barman and Margaret Penrose, 1940-1943
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
In 1940, when Hitler's tanks reached the English Channel and German bombs fell on London, the invasion of the United Kingdom seemed imminent. Among the many thousands of British children finding a safe haven during the war, Benjamin Barman was sent by his parents to stay with the Penrose family in...
Desiring a Better Country
Forays in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Douglas Farrow seldom shies from controversy. Discussing several hot-button issues such as religion in public life, educational freedom, human rights, and the definition of marriage, Farrow challenges the common misconception that secular institutions can be religiously neutral. Inspired by current legal,...
by Diana Dimitrova
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. Her focus is on how different...
Equivocal City
French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English writings has long been subordinated to the demands of linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about national development. In this cross-linguistic study, Patrick Coleman models an inclusive and post-national literary...
The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor
Montreal's Square Mile and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects. In The Architecture of...