Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Jeff Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In Democratic Society and Human Needs Noonan examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy, arguing that contemporary democracy was created through needs-based struggles against classical liberal rights, which are essentially exclusionary. For him, a democratic society is one in which human...
Building the Nation
N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Denmark became a nation amidst the turbulence of the nineteenth century, an era plagued by war, bankruptcy, and territorial loss. Building the Nation is an insightful study of this formation, emphasizing the crucial role of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the father of modern Denmark. Persevering through years of...
by Michel Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Most states are multination states, and most peoples are stateless peoples. Just as collectives can behave as sovereign states only if they are recognized by the international community, liberal multination states must recognize stateless peoples in order to determine their political status within...
Common Sense and Legal Judgment
Community Knowledge, Political Power, and Rhetorical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
What does it mean when a judge in a court of law uses the phrase “common sense”? Is it a type of evidence or a mode of reasoning? In a world characterized by material and political inequalities, whose common sense should inform the law? Common Sense and Legal Judgment explores this rhetorically...
Emancipatory Thinking
Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Most scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir’s fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatory vision. Though Beauvoir’s political thinking is not as closely studied as her feminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her navigate...
Ghost Storeys
Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Most studies of modern Gothic media assume that, beyond the 1830s, modern Gothic architecture and literature had very little in common. The work of Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942), America’s most prolific Gothic Revival architect and an author of ghost stories, challenges that assumption. The first...
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss
William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned...
Some Family
The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Using supporting evidence that runs from the Solomon Islands and classical China to ancient Ireland, Akenson argues that there are four basic genealogical forms. Highly significant on its own, this insight also provides the information needed to assess the Latter-day Saints' efforts to provide a single...
Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King
Reactions to Oliver Cromwell's Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Oliver Cromwell had not a drop of royal blood in him. Yet in 1657, prompted by the political chaos that followed the execution of Charles I and inspired by a belief that a return to monarchy was the only way to stabilize the nation, parliament offered Cromwell the crown of Britain. In Perceptions of...
Transatlantic Subjects
Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social practices that were adapted and changed through the process of migration from the British archipelago to the new settlement societies. Contributors...
Magda and André Trocmé
Resistance Figures
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Magda Trocmé (1901-1996) was the Italian-born wife of Reverend André Trocmé (1901-1971), a French pastor deeply involved in the social gospel movement that saw Christianity embedded in progressive political struggles. Together, they worked heroically, and under dangerous circumstances, to prevent...
by Augusto Del Noce
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War. The Crisis of Modernity makes available for the first time in English a selection of Del Noce's essays and lectures on the cultural history of the twentieth...
Too Critical to Fail
How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths...
Truth Matters
Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Why should we seek and tell the truth? Does anyone know what truth is? Many are skeptical about the relevance of truth. Truth Matters endeavours to show why truth is important in a world where the very idea of truth is contested. Putting philosophers in conversation with educators, literary scholars,...