Mqup imprint: 803 books
How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015
The Harper Government - Good to Go?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The 2014-15 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics and related fiscal, economic, and social priorities and policies, with an emphasis on the now long-running Harper-linked Senate scandal and the serious challenges to Harper's leadership and controlling style of attack politics....
TransCanadian Feminist Fictions
New Cross-Border Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
In this contradictory era of uneven globalization, borders multiply yet fantasies of borderlessness prevail. Particularly since September 11th, this paradox has shaped deeply the lives of border-crossing subjects such as the queer, the refugee, and the activist within and beyond Canadian frontiers....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Federal property issues - especially those involving divestiture - create political disputes at all levels of government. Federal Property Policy in Canadian Municipalities analyzes the emergence of many of these issues involving military bases, airports, and other facilities in communities across...
Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq
Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In 2003, just before the start of the US invasion of Iraq, military planners predicted that the mission’s success would depend on using diverse sources for their workforce. While thousands of US troops were needed to secure victory in the field, large numbers of civilian contractors – many from poor...
Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level
Views from Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower for municipal elections than it is for other levels of government. Second, the re-election rate of incumbent candidates is higher compared to provincial,...
Order and Disorder
Urban Governance and the Making of Middle Eastern Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
As Middle Eastern cities weather the second decade of the twenty-first century, they face a number of challenges to their economic resilience, competitiveness, and internal stability. In this uniquely tense realm for the urban public, an understanding of the dynamics of decision-making processes, citizen...
McMaster University, Volume 3: 1957-1987
A Chance for Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In 1957, McMaster was a small Baptist enclave of traditional higher learning on the western outskirts of Hamilton. Thirty years later it was home to the only nuclear reactor on a Commonwealth campus and had cultivated a thriving engineering program and a world-class medical school. In the third volume...
Connected Struggles
Catholics, Nationalists, and Transnational Relations between Mexico and Quebec, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices of political dissent in Canada, Catholics in both...
Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America
Newcomers in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Human migration has reached an unprecedented level, and the numbers are expected to continue growing into the foreseeable future. Host societies and migrants face challenges in ensuring that the benefits of migration accrue to both parties, and that economic and socio-cultural costs are minimized. An...
The Geography of Aging
Preparing Communities for the Surge in Seniors
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Gerald Hodge uses the latest statistics to map the current and future spatial distribution of Canada's seniors and their diversity. Drawing on tested aging-environmental research and years of planning experience, he delineates the everyday geography of seniors and proposes a comprehensive framework...
Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems
Sub-national Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Providing a comprehensive view of the constitutional architecture of federations, contributors address change and development in federal states from the standpoint of constitutional revision and reform. Oftentimes change comes from the constituent units that together form a federation. With this in mind,...
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors...
Essence of Indecision
Diefenbaker's Nuclear Policy, 1957-1963
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Tracing Diefenbaker's deliberations over nuclear policy, McMahon shows that Diefenbaker was politically cautious, not indecisive - he wanted to acquire nuclear weapons and understood from public opinion polls that most Canadians supported this position. However, Diefenbaker worried that the growing...
Sorrows of a Century
Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair. His study is set in twentieth-century New Zealand where - in spite of high standards of living and a commitment to social welfare - citizens...