Mqup imprint: 803 books
Harold Innis and the North
Appraisals and Contestations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives...
Subsistence under Capitalism
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between commercial and local food systems, especially since self-provisioning has never been limited to the margins. In fact, subsistence occupies a...
Blockades or Breakthroughs?
Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people. The adoption of direct...
Leadership in Disaster
Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The study looks into whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities to nature's forces, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As this extreme weather may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Murphy's interviews also explore the politics, economics, ethics,...
From White to Yellow
The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic...
God and Government
Martin Luther's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Martin Luther (1483–1546) famously began the Reformation, a movement that shook Europe with religious schism and social upheaval. While his Ninety-Five Theses and other theological works have received centuries of scrutiny and recognition, his political writings have traditionally been dismissed...
Resettling the Borderlands
State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, the South Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, Orthodox Christian Russia – and later the officially atheist Soviet Union – expanded into...
The Subtle Knot
Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain’s emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating...
Feelings of Structure
Explorations in Affect
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Sweatsuits and the apocalypse, the demands of a sofa, a life recalled through window frames, whale watching through cancer, the serendipity of geographical names … in Feelings of Structure, these are just some of the spaces and places, memories, and experiences addressed by the authors in writings...
Designed Words for a Designed World
The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Sometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments. Television, nuclear weapons, radio transistors, space travel, and colour photography all combined to drastically alter the representation of the world...
Singular Case
Debating China’s Political Economy in the European Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
China held a unique place in European thought during the eighteenth century. Considered a relatively unknown but advanced agrarian and commercial civilization, the Chinese Empire represented the apex of an economic system that was only beginning to be supplanted. Europeans did not assume their superiority...
Devouring Time
Nostalgia in Contemporary Shakespearean Screen Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
From Kenneth Branagh’s groundbreaking Henry V to Justin Kurzel’s haunting Macbeth, many modern filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare for the big screen. Their translations of Renaissance plays to modern cinema both highlight and comment on contemporary culture and attitudes to art, identity, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Languages have become more mobile than ever before, producing translations, transplantations, and cohabitations of all kinds. The early modern period also witnessed profound linguistic transformation, but in very different ways. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare undoes the illusion that...
Rediscovering Reverence
The Meaning of Faith in a Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Drawing on familiar experiences as well as aspects of western and eastern spiritual traditions, Heintzman argues that religious practice is rooted in two basic ways human beings act in the world. It is therefore an element in the structure of the human spirit, not a phase in its history. Explaining...