Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Manon Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Both yesterday's suffragists and today's feminists have battled for women to vote and hold office, and their successes have made it possible for countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Iceland, Liberia, and the United Kingdom to have female heads of state. Despite these notable advances, women...
The World in Canada
Diaspora, Demography, and Domestic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In response to these questions, contributors trace changes in Canada's demographic make-up, explore the relationship between domestic politics and Canadian foreign policy across the fields of diplomacy, development, defense and security, and immigration, and determine the extent to which Quebec's sensibilities...
Vanguard of the New Age
The Toronto Theosophical Society, 1891-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Vanguard of the New Age unearths a largely ignored dimension of Canadian religious history. Gillian McCann tells the story of a diverse group of occultists, temperance leaguers, and suffragettes who attempted to build a Utopian society based on spiritual principles. Members of the Toronto Theosophical...
A Culture of Faith
Evangelical Congregations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Many religious scholars have noted a decline in institutional forms of religion in Canada. With fewer Canadians regularly attending church or following denominational proscriptions, is institutionalized religion becoming a thing of the past? In A Culture of Faith, Sam Reimer and Michael Wilkinson argue...
Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
Canada and India
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature,...
Isuma
Inuit Video Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Since director Zacharias Kunuk was awarded the Camera d'Or Award at Cannes in 2001, Igloolik Isuma Productions has been among the most well-known and influential indigenous film companies in the world. Isuma's premier movie, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - the first-ever feature film produced by the...
Growing Up Canadian
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing Up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim,...
Witch Hunts
From Salem to Guantanamo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Rapley analyses witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds many of the same elements repeated in more recent miscarriages of justice - from the Dreyfus case for treason in late nineteenth-century France, to the persecution of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama for the gang rape of two...
by Hugh MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan's father's return brings tragedy to those around him.
Hurrah Revolutionaries
The Polish Canadian Communist Movement, 1918-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walęsa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this...
Witness to Loss
Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians...
Language in the Mind
An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Guillaume sees the word as the link between language as potential and as actual discourse. Meaning is both the representation of the speaker's momentary experience and the determining factor in the the word's use in discourse. Walter Hirtle illustrates Guillaume's general principles with examples...
Word and Its Ways in English
Essays on the Parts of Speech and Person
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language. While an obvious and irreplaceable concept in the minds of non-linguists, the entry "word" does not figure in the indexes of some books on linguistics. Why is there this neglect of the word among many contemporary linguists? Inspired by the work...
Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister
The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient...