Mqup imprint: 803 books
Going to War?
Trends in Military Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Going to War? investigates the reasons why countries enter conflicts by considering the depth and complexity of issues surrounding military deployments. Showing how such conditions affect future decisions about the use of force, contributors to this volume study recent experiences with military interventions...
by John Kierulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine has in many respects set back post-Cold War improved relations between Russia, the United States, and Europe. The continued war in Syria threatens the security and stability of many countries in the Middle East and...
by Joshua Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Governments around the world are clamouring to engage the private sector in order to build infrastructure and deliver public services. However, the role of the state in managing new relationships with companies is often murky. Is the government a slow and wasteful bureaucracy that must be held at bay...
Keeping Promises
The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required...
Strangers with Memories
The United States and Canada from Free Trade to Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In the early 1990s North America was the vibrant centre of an increasingly democratic and revitalized western hemisphere. The United States and Canada were close allies working together to implement a bilateral free trade agreement and build an integrated manufacturing and export economy. By the late...
Trade and Health
Seeking Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
Trade and Health answers this question by exploring the entire array of avenues through which trade affects health, and examining a number of case studies on how best to achieve policies that integrate health objectives. The contributors represent the full range of stakeholders in the trade-health...
Imperial Irish
Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Between 1914 and 1918, many Irish Catholics in Canada found themselves in a vulnerable position. Not only was the Great War slaughtering millions, but tension and violence was mounting in Ireland over the question of independence from Britain and Home Rule. For Canada’s Irish Catholics, thwarting Prussian...
The Constitutions that Shaped Us
A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Proclamation...
Power without Law
The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In Power without Law Alex Cameron enlivens the debate over judicial activism with an unprecedented examination of the details of the Marshall case, analyzing the evidence and procedure in the trial court and tracing the legal arguments through the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. He argues...
English Atlantics Revisited
Essays Honouring Ian K. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Inspired by the major themes in Steele's scholarship, the original essays in English Atlantics Revisited examine British Atlantic contexts and political economy, as well as maritime, military, Amerindian, and social history. The contributors offer challenging new findings and perspectives as they...
alcides lanza
Portrait of a Composer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
In the first full-length biography of one of Canada's most gifted and influential composers, Pamela Jones draws from extensive interviews with composers, performers, students, friends, and family members. She offers an analysis of lanza's key compositions and discusses his musical development in a vivid...
Creating This Place
Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city. This interdisciplinary collection examines the key roles played by women in the creation of this state...
Canada before Television
Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Before screens could be stared at, listeners lent their ears to radio, and Canadian listeners were as avid as any. In Canada before Television, Len Kuffert takes us back to the earliest days of broadcasting, paying particular attention to how programs were imagined and made, loved and hated, regulated...
Garden Plots
Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley Boyd focuses on private, domestic gardens tended by individual gardeners, to show how modest, everyday spaces provide fertile grounds for the imagination....