Mqup: 855 books
Opium and Empire
The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated...
Collapse of a Country
A Diplomat's Memoir of South Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The first Canadian diplomat to be posted to war-torn Sudan, Nicholas Coghlan was a natural choice to lead Canada’s representation in the new Republic of South Sudan soon after the country was founded in 2011. In late 2013, Coghlan and his wife Jenny were in the capital, Juba, when it erupted in...
Who Killed the Queen?
The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabeth as a base, Who Killed the Queen? investigates Canada's mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds between 1994 and 1998. The book shows that the resulting 20% loss of beds - a figure unparalleled in the history of any other...
What Makes Clusters Competitive?
Cases from the Global Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
While global competitiveness is increasingly invoked as necessary for economic success stories, there are few answers available about how it can be achieved or maintained. The idea of stimulating industries to spur on economies is often proposed, but industrial policy can be seen as a boondoggle of government...
Making Witches
Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Drawing from her own interviews and a wealth of material from the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive, Barbara Rieti explores the range and depth of Newfoundland witch tradition, looking at why certain people acquired reputations as witches, and why others considered themselves bewitched....
HA!
A Self-Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
A "documentary fiction" - a category which includes In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song - HA! is a seminal work that reinvents the audio-visual revolution of the last century. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin...
Revitalizing Rural Economies
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Rural communities in Canada are facing a new reality where traditional economic bases such as agriculture, forestry, and manufacturing have eroded. The digital divide, whereby rural Canada lags in access to broadband, has created further barriers to participating in the emerging knowledge economy. Revitalizing...
Making and Moving Knowledge
Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
It has been clear for some time that research does not automatically translate into knowledge, nor does knowledge necessarily translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, research efforts are wasted...
Policing the Banks
Accountability Mechanisms for the Financial Sector
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Describing how formerly secretive financial institutions have been slow to accept responsibility for the consequences of their investments - especially the problems that can result from projects in developing countries - she shows that financing institutions can cause significant social and environmental...
Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs
World War I and the Politics of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Suzanne Evans finds commonalities between the many images of war mothers - the Canadian Silver Cross mother, the ancient Jewish Maccabean mother of seven martyred sons, the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber. She compares the lore about mothers of martyrs in the Judeo-Christian, Muslim, and Sikh...
One of the Boys, Second Edition
Homosexuality in the Military during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Using a wide array of sources – including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories – Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers...
Boundary Bargain
Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
City-county separation is a form of governance in which rural and urban areas are formally separated. Although these areas were once thought to be distinct because of their diverse sets of values, economies, labour trends, and ways of life, more recently, and in response to regional growth, governments...
Setting All the Captives Free
Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small...
by Hugh MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New Left. Hugh MacLennan weaves a complex and story of two generations in conflict. Originally published in 1967, Return of the...