Mqup: 855 books
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition
A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1839
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country’s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant...
by Maxence Van der Meersch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Based on personal experience, survivor testimony, and documentary research, Invasion 14 portrays the German occupation of northern France during World War I. Regarded by critics as Maxence Van der Meersch’s finest work, the novel is set in Lille, Roubaix, and nearby villages along the Belgian border,...
Neoliberal Governance and Health
Duties, Risks, and Vulnerabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Provoking urgent questions about the politics of health in the twenty-first century, this collection interrogates how neoliberal approaches to governance frame health and risk in ways that promote individual responsibility and the implications of such framings for the well-being of the collective. The...
Welcome to Greater Edendale
Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender inequalities that...
Beyond Brutal Passions
Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house themselves and their families. Beyond Brutal Passions is a close study of the women who were accused...
The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife
Failures of Principle and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of Canada’s government and society to protect wildlife from human exploitation, Max Foran’s The...
From Old Quebec to La Belle Province
Tourism Promotion, Travel Writing, and National Identities, 1920-1986
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Tourism promoters strive to brand their destinations in anticipation of what they think travellers hope to experience. In turn, travel writers react in part to destinations in line with their expectations. While several scholars have documented such patterns elsewhere, these have remained understudied...
Permanent Weekend
Nature, Leisure, and Rural Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
North of the heart of Ontario’s scenic Muskoka District are the Almaguin Highlands, a loosely organized collection of villages, townships, and municipalities. In the mid-1800s, the region was home to loggers and farmers, as well as seasonal residents in simple cottages and camps. Since then, the impact...
The al-Baqara Crescendo
Understanding the Qur'an's Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Recent manuscript evidence from al-Jāmiˋ al-Kabīr in Ṣan ‘ā’ suggests that the Qur’an took its final shape well before 671 CE. Irrespective, however, of who composed it or when it was compiled, questions remain about whether the Qur’an followed any kind of preconceived plan or compositional...
The Public Work of Christmas
Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both festivity and controversy, hospitality and hostility. The Public...
Resilience and Contagion
Invoking Human Rights in African HIV Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa are progressing from traditional forms of advocacy to strategies that engage human rights principles, techniques, and language. Employing a comparative...
Tug of War
Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Selling Earth observation satellites on their abilities to predict and limit adverse environmental change, politicians, business leaders, the media, and technology enthusiasts have spent sixty years arguing that space exploration can create a more peaceful, prosperous world. Capitalist states have...
Whose Mission, Whose Orders?
British Civil-Military Command and Control in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland left intriguing questions unanswered: who made the crucial decisions about the use of the British Army during the Troubles - the politicians or the generals? And how did these decisions shape the army’s operations on the...
Shadow Woman
The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated...