Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Frederick George Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George Scott was an improbable volunteer, but also an invaluable war memoirist about life at the front. Enlisting at the very beginning of the conflict and serving on the Western Front until the Armistice, Scott...
Towards a Francophone Community
Canada's Relations with France and French Africa, 1945-1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Using extensive archival research, Gendron rebuts the argument of Quebec nationalists and scholars that the Canadian government's neglect of French Africa forced Quebec to develop its own international identity. Towards a Francophone Community shows that there had been active federal interest in French...
Outside the Box
The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Years later, Maria took on the daunting task of sorting through Mona's mountain of papers to create an archive for the University of Toronto's Fisher Rare Book Library. The chaotic state of the boxes reflected Mona's flamboyant and demanding personality, yet they also drew an important picture of...
The Limits of Trust
The Millennium Development Goals, Maternal Health, and Health Policy in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
When the United Nations announced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, approximately half a million women worldwide died each year from complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth. The fifth MDG aimed to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 75 per cent between 1990 and 2015,...
Spirited Commitment
The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Showing how the SSBFF has balanced its commitments to Jewish charitable causes and to Canadian culture, Spirited Commitment explores how the Foundation dealt with the challenge of respecting the wishes of its famous founders while still making a difference in contemporary Canadian society. A detailed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
At a time when nationalist movements are forcefully looking for new forms of political, institutional, and constitutional accommodation – if not seeking independence altogether – insight into their dynamics is more useful than ever. In The Parliaments of Autonomous Nations, Guy Laforest and André...
My Life for the Book
The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Available at long last, this volume is the posthumous memoir of a peasant from the depths of old Russia who rose to great wealth and influence as his country's most successful publisher. Though never fully literate, Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was a shrewd businessman who made millions by publishing...
Restructuring the European State
European Integration and State Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Since 1950, devolution reforms have been widespread across Western Europe, leading to constitutional transformation in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as the potential for state breakup, as witnessed by independence referendums in Scotland and Catalonia. Over the same period,...
The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law
Legal Concepts and Reasoning in the English, Arabic, and Chinese Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Gu's original perspective on legal history challenges established theories of law based on political science, sociology, and philosophy. She argues that language at a specific time and place determines how the law works in each culture. As each language accumulates too many meanings and connotations,...
Education of African Canadian Children
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and outside of school. Recognizing that the education these young people receive will shape their lives as citizens, the contributors to this volume provide an important, timely analysis...
by Heather Simeney MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
What have you forgotten and what have you lost? The Little Yellow House investigates recollection - searching for people and the objects that bind them to memory - to uncover the story or the small moment between people and things. Heather Simeney MacLeod explores masterpieces, biblical stories, scientific...
The Experience of Beauty
Seven Essays and a Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The notion of beauty as a point of transit between the sensuous and the ideal is well-established in the history of Western philosophy. Describing this transition and seeking to rethink the ways in which humans understand the things they find beautiful in life, Harry Underwood’s The Experience of...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-1957
Community or Alliance?
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
Milloy challenges the view that creating greater alliance unity has usually been only a Canadian preoccupation - other members, notably the United States and Britain, displayed a sincere interest as well - and further suggests that Canadian actions sometimes acted as an impediment. He argues that...
Between Education and Catastrophe
The Battle over Public Schooling in Postwar Manitoba
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
After the Second World War, progressives and traditionalists waged a quieter battle over schools. In Between Education and Catastrophe, George Buri connects the educational debates of the 1950s to the broader Canadian postwar political conversation about the social welfare state and Keynesian versus...