Mqup imprint: 803 books
Reconciling France against Democracy
The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Kennedy describes how the Croix de Feu promised to restore patriotic unity to France but instead demonized the organization's enemies as unfit to be French; its successor, the Parti Social Français, professed a respect for democracy but actually promoted an authoritarian nationalist vision. Previous...
by John A. Dickinson, Brian Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated...
Something of a Peasant Paradise?
Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France? Did they enjoy a Golden Age? To what degree did a distinct Acadian identity emerge before the wars and deportations of the mid-eighteenth century? In Something of a Peasant Paradise?, Gregory Kennedy compares Acadie in North...
Uniting in Measures of Common Good
The Construction of Liberal Identities in Central Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Ferry examines a wide selection of voluntary societies - mechanics' institutes, mutual benefit organizations, agricultural associations, temperance societies, and literary and scientific associations. He reinterprets the history of these organizations in terms of their own internal tensions over liberal...
Latinocanadá
A Critical Study of Ten Latin American Writers of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
The exiles, immigrants, and travellers represented in Latinocanadá include Jorge Etcheverry (Chile), Margarita Feliciano (Argentina), Gilberto Flores Patiño (Mexico), Alfredo Lavergne (Chile), Alfonso Quijada Urías (El Salvador), Nela Rio (Argentina), Alejandro Saravia (Bolivia), Yvonne América Truque...
What's the Import?
Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2007
Kerry McSweeney critiques such readings of Romantic, Victorian, and 19th-century American poems. In What's the Import? he proposes and exemplifies an aesthetic or intrinsic critical model rooted in literary-historical contextualization that considers the determination of meanings to be only one of the...
Psychiatry Disrupted
Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it. Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry,...
The Perils of Pedagogy
The Works of John Greyson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider...
After Evangelicalism
The Sixties and the United Church of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head. In After Evangelicalism, Kevin Flatt...
Beyond the Line
Military and Veteran Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Caring for veterans returning from service is just as important as preparing troops for deployment. Beyond the Line is a collection of current research presented by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, an organization committed to finding the best solutions to address the...
Nunavut
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health...
A Practice of Anthropology
The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Marshall Sahlins (b. 1930) is an American anthropologist who played a major role in the development of anthropological theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Over a sixty-year career, he and his colleagues synthesized trends in evolutionary, Marxist, and ecological anthropology, moving them...
The Birth of New Criticism
Conflict and Conciliation in the Early Work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald...
by Jennifer Murray
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
It is unlikely that Jacques Lacan and Alice Munro were ever aware of each other's work. Yet, because of Munro's intuitive grasp of the complexities of human subjectivity and her ability to articulate subtleties and ambiguities, her fiction shares many of the insights of Lacan's theoretical advancements...