Mqup: 855 books
Prayers, Petitions, and Protests
The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910-1928
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued the controversial Regulation 17 in an attempt to improve the quality of English-language teaching in the province, while effectively restricting French-language instruction within bilingual schools. Prayers, Petitions, and Protests explores popular...
Writing Herself into Being
Quebec Women's Autobiographical Writings from Marie de l'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution...
Au risque de la conversion
L'expérience québécoise de la mission au XXe siècle (1945–1980)
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they interweave with the socio-ecclesiastical transformations peculiar to Quebec and with those of Catholicism in mission countries. This tapestry, extending...
Places of Last Resort
The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Northerly locations were desperately sought out after more accessible land further south was taken up. Wood identifies the demographic characteristics of the surging population of land-seekers, showing how some aspects echoed those of earlier settlers. The northern settlers of the interwar years grappled...
by nancy viva davis halifax
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
See her? / Steadfast and firm her / branches graze the mantle of quiet clouds / as she elaborates her claim Haunted by indifference toward systemic violences and the disregard endured by those people labelled as "problems," nancy viva davis halifax’s poems articulate the constraints of discredited...
by Sylvia Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has sparked new discussions about reforming education to move beyond colonialist representations of history and to better reflect Indigenous worldviews in the classroom. Trickster Chases the Tale of Education considers the work of educators and Mi’kmaw...
Chora 5
Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
The fifth volume in this acclaimed series on the history and philosophy of architecture crosses a wide geographical and temporal range, moving from Greco-Roman antiquity to tenth-century India to contemporary Thailand and New York. The inter-disciplinary essays share a common theme in their reflections...
by John Dunning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Much to his chagrin, John Dunning was born into the movie business. But once he came to accept his career fate, he developed a great passion for making movies, and ultimately became Canada's pre-eminent B-movie producer, with a knack for developing young talent. In You’re Not Dead until You’re...
How Peary Reached the Pole
The Personal Story of His Assistant
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
In 1934 Donald B. MacMillan, an accomplished explorer, wrote about his early career as a member of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition. Now available for the first time since its original publication, this expanded edition of How Peary Reached the Pole features a biography of MacMillan...
Giuliano de' Medici
Machiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine...
Ink and Light
The Influence of Claude Lorrain's Etchings on England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), an eminent seventeenth-century landscape painter, was an equally talented graphic artist. Lorrain's etchings match the mastery and execution of his paintings and yet are largely unrecognized by contemporary collectors and art historians. Andrew Brink, an astute and discriminating...
Patriots and Profiteers
Economic Warfare, Embargo Busting, and State-Sponsored Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Almost everyone assumes that by enforcing trade sanctions and arms embargoes, modern democracies make tin-pot dictators and rogue states mend their ways - that the application of economic pressure is easily the most effective way to curb aggression and encourage respect for human rights. R.T. Naylor...
Alice in Shandehland
Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married Jack Horwitz. On the night of 24 November, Ben, Alice, and Jack met at Edelson Jewellers to "settle the thing." Words flew, a brawl erupted,...
Beyond the Border
Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are just "fly-over" country is a mistake. In the post-9/11 era, politicians and policy-makers are paying more attention to the region, especially where border enforcement is concerned. Beyond the Border provides interdisciplinary...