Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
“His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”
Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in helping Chinese immigrants...
Essential Song
Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
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Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree,...
Backpacks Full of Hope
The UN Mission in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Backpacks Full of Hope: The UN Mission in Haiti describes the experience of a Chilean general as Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) during the particularly turbulent year September 2005 to September 2006. It details the realities of commanding more...
Child Welfare
Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and...
Youth, Education, and Marginality
Local and Global Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
“Materializing Climate Change: Images of Exposure, States of Exception”
Nicole Shukin
Assessing representations of the north in an artwork and a film, Shukin critiques spectacularized treatments of climate change that prompt public declarations of emergency. Such declarations, she...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Following a critical review of previous theological scholarship on Heidegger and a survey of North American philosophy of religion, the book examines Heidegger’s philosophy of religion and its influence on the North American variety of the same.
Be Good, Sweet Maid
The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the accident of a childhood acquaintance....
by Magie Dominic
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
CHAPTER 15
Magie Dominic
We follow her to Pittsburgh and New York, from the 1960’s to the 1970’s, with quick brush stroke pages. It’s the tumultuous sixties with unbelievable highs and lows.
Babies for the Nation
The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement...
Long Night’s Journey into Day
Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity.
Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at...
Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine
A Bibliography / Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.
Through the Hitler Line
Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Laurence Wilmot’s Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot’s book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest...
Surviving Incarceration
Inside Canadian Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Chapter Seven
Rose Ricciardelli
Chapter seven speaks to what the future of Criminal Justice in Canada may ‘look like’. The changing infrastructure of prisons is also examined alongside how such changes may affect prisoner well-being and rehabilitation in the future.Â