The University Of Alberta Press imprint: 88 books
The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior
A History of Canadian Internment Camp R
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain feared might...
Pursuing China
Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution;...
Apartheid in Palestine
Hard Laws and Harder Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
“Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most extreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza, where Ghada Ageel was one of the victims from childhood. This collection...
Sanctioned Ignorance
The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of the Literatures of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"There is no such thing as 'the ivory tower.' Rather, there sit side by side numerous windowless towers of knowledge, each seeming to have only a small entrance and no discernable exit." -Paul Martin Multilingual, multicultural, and vast, Canada enjoys a rich diversity of literatures. So,...
Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere
Place and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
“Notwithstanding their differing approaches—digital, archival, historical, iterative, critical, creative, reflective—the essays gathered here articulate new ways of seeing, investigating, and apprehending literature and culture.” – From the Preface This collection of essays enriches digital...
Conrad Kain
Letters from a Wandering Mountain Guide, 1906-1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek-a life-long friend-offer a candid view into the deepest thoughts of the Austrian mountain guide, and are a perfect complement to his autobiography, Where the...
Gendered Militarism in Canada
Learning Conformity and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” —from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning...
Seeking Order in Anarchy
Multilateralism as State Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
"The idea of multilateralism is not something that can be forced on states, nor does it come naturally to them." —Tom Keating Seeking Order in Anarchy offers insights into both the theoretical foundations and the real-world outcomes of multilateralism in world affairs. Recognizing that...
by Myrl Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
“As soon as she was gone from this earth, I felt an overwhelming need for more of her. I had to find her again. But how do you find someone after they’re gone for good?” After her mother succumbed to a rare form of dementia, Myrl Coulter turned the eulogy she had written for the funeral into...
Counterblasting Canada
Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes...
Apostrophes VIII
Nothing Is But You and I
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there it pauses as one might pause to take a breath —from “Lost” Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking final volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. Lyrical grace meets exquisite...
by E.D. Blodgett
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of unknowing as they encounter the world. These sparse poems move through acceptance...
The Dragon Run
Two Canadians, Ten Bhutanese, One Stray Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Tony Robinson-Smith, his wife Nadya, and ten Bhutanese college students set out to run 578 kilometres (360 miles) across the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas. Joined by a stray dog, they slogged over five mountain passes, bathed in ice-clogged streams, ate over log fires, and stopped at every store,...