Mqup: 855 books
Conflicted Colony
Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland...
Canada and the United Nations
Legacies, Limits, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A nation of peacekeepers or soldiers? Honest broker, loyal ally, or chore boy for empire? Attempts to define Canada’s past, present, and proper international role have often led to contradiction and incendiary debate. Canada and the United Nations seeks to move beyond simplistic characterizations by...
No Easy Fix
Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual...
The Quebec Conference of 1864
Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach. The Quebec Conference of...
Report on Social Security for Canada
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world. It outlined what governments could do to ensure that all citizens could afford the food, clothing, and shelter necessary to participate fully in their community. Authored...
The Meaning of Sunday
The Practice of Belief in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Fewer Canadians identify with a religion, believe in a god, or attend weekly religious services than in past decades. What explains higher and lower levels of religiosity? Is secularization a myth or reality? What impact does religiosity or secularity have on a society’s social and civil fabric?...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
At the start of 2014, more people were displaced globally by conflict and human rights violations than at any time since the Second World War. Although many of those displaced, from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Colombia, Kenya, and Sudan, have survived grave human rights abuses that demand redress,...
Liberal Nationalisms
Empire, State, and Civil Society in Scotland and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of Scottish and Quebec nationalisms that were closely intertwined with liberal philosophies. The Young Scots' Society and the Ligue nationaliste canadienne carried these liberal nationalist ideas. This book offers a comparative and historical examination...
The Grandmothers' Movement
Solidarity and Survival in the Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
At the height of the African AIDS crisis older women mobilized across two continents and an ocean of difference to change the lives of innumerable African women confronting insecurity, violence, grief, and illness. In 2006 the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched its Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign,...
The Politics of the Pantry
Stories, Food, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
"What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways. These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie...
Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators
Canada's Imperial and Foreign Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and regarding Hitler as a benign fellow mystic. In Mackenzie...
No Place for Fairness
Indigenous Land Rights and Policy in the Bear Island Case and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Aboriginal land policy in Canada began as an Aboriginal initiative. In No Place for Fairness, David McNab - a long time advisor on land and treaty rights for both government and First Nations groups - looks at the Bear Island Indigenous rights case, initiated by the Teme-Augama Anishinabe, to explore...
A Subtle Balance
Expertise, Evidence, and Democracy in Public Policy Governance, 1970-2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
A Subtle Balance critically reflects on major trends and enduring challenges over the last four decades of public policy and governance. During this time, a tension has existed between two aims for public decisions: that they be based on the best available evidence and analysis, and that they be fully...
War as Paradox
Clausewitz and Hegel on Fighting Doctrines and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Two centuries after Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War, it lines the shelves of military colleges around the world and even showed up in an Al Qaeda hideout. Though it has shaped much of the common parlance on the subject, On War is perceived by many as a “metaphysical fog,” widely known but hardly...