Mqup imprint: 803 books
Two-Edged Sword
The Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In the first major study of the Royal Canadian Navy's contribution to foreign policy, Nicholas Tracy takes a comprehensive look at the paradox that Canada faces in participating in a system of collective defence as a means of avoiding subordination to other countries. Created in 1910 to support Canadian...
Beardmore
The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades,...
Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide
Cooking with a Canadian Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee – this was an ordinary backwoods...
Capitol Idea
Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development...
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse...
Imprisoning Our Sisters
The New Federal Women's Prisons in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Using extensive interviews and previously unexplored archival material, Hayman examines the work of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women and assesses the opening of the first three prisons. She questions the notion that prisons can simultaneously "heal" and punish, suggesting that the power of "the prison" inevitably triumphs over the good intentions of reformers.
by Arthur J. Ray
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals that have been established through the second half of the twentieth century to address Aboriginal land claims have consequently created a particular way of presenting Aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that emerges from...
From Quaker to Upper Canadian
Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends, 1801-1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
From Quaker to Upper Canadian is the first scholarly work to examine the transformation of this important religious community from a self-insulated group to integration within Upper Canadian society. Through a careful reconstruction of local community dynamics, Healey argues that the integration of...
by Michael Penny
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
"My best actions are a parrot's / bright feathers in the dark jungle / trying to catch your eye / with the colour and flight / which says, I am here / and trying to do what’s right." Do we make the universe, or does it make us? In Outside, Inside, Michael Penny positions each of us at the centre of...
Call of Empire
From the Highlands to Hindostan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences...
Should We Change How We Vote?
Evaluating Canada’s Electoral System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the “first past the post” electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast. In early 2017, the Liberals reneged...
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet...
Form of Politics
Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking’s The Form of Politics interprets the texts of Plato and Aristotle and emphasizes the role that friendship has in enduring philosophical and contemporary...
British Generals in the War of 1812
High Command in the Canadas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999
In British Generals in the War of 1812 Wesley Turner takes a fresh look at five British Generals - Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond - who held the highest civil and military command in the Canadas. He considers their formative experiences...