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Not Talking Union
An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
How does one write a labour history of a people who have not been involved in the labour movement in significant numbers and, historically, have opposed union membership? While North American Mennonites have traditionally been associated with rural life, in light of the adjustments demanded by post-1945...
Obligations and Omissions
Canada’s Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
On issues pertaining to women and girls, Stephen Harper’s federal government positioned Canada as a “beacon of light” in the world. Programs were developed in relation to women’s maternal health and the protection of the girl child, but other actions point to an ambiguous and even contradictory...
Bombs, Bullets, and Politicians
France's Response to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, the mainstream political elite in Washington, DC acquiesced to every major decision taken by George W. Bush's administration while partisan politics in Congress ceased. As a nation and its representatives rallied around their leader, the diversity of opinions...
Literary Impostors
Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of Canadian authors were revealed to have faked the identities that made them famous. What is extraordinary about these writers is that they actually "became," in everyday life, characters they had themselves invented. Many of their works...
Missing Link
The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor - is always in front of us. In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed...
by Jean Barman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois – principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke – left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
New manuscripts directly related to Canada’s history rarely come to light. The Labrador Companion, written in 1810 by Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), and discovered in 2013, is a fascinating and unusual find because of its level of detail, its setting in a hardly studied part of Britain’s...
Spaces and Places for Art
Making Art Institutions in Western Canada, 1912-1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
When the Edmonton Museum of Arts opened in 1924 it was only the second art gallery in Canada west of Toronto. Spaces and Places for Art tells the story of the financial and ideological struggles that community groups and artist societies in booming frontier cities and towns faced in establishing spaces...
Republicanism and Responsible Government
The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada. Both nations were born as British colonies and used violent and non-violent means to agitate for democratic freedoms. Republicanism and Responsible Government explores...
by Éric Bélanger, Richard Nadeau, Ailsa Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Quebec and Scotland, questions of constitutional change, national identity, and national grievance play an important role in the electoral calculations of political parties and voters. Taking a strong stance on the national question can have strategic benefits both for parties pushing for greater...
The Hand of God
Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Set against a background of intense religious and cultural change and tensions over the meanings of nationalism and federalism in both Quebec and Canada, Michael Gauvreau's The Hand of God traces the emergence of Claude Ryan as a public intellectual. This is the first comprehensive biography of Ryan...
Awkward Politics
Technologies of Popfeminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The increased use of digital tools for political activism has triggered heated debates about the effectiveness of digital campaigns for political change and feminist causes. While technology’s immediacy and transnational reach have broadened the potential impact of activism, it has, at the same time,...
Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs
College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Elizabeth Hillman enrolled at McGill University the week World War II began. As a freshman writing for the McGill Daily, she covered torchlight football parades and dances at the Ritz Carleton hotel while elsewhere the paper reported U-boats torpedoing convoys and war planes plummeting into the British...
by Michel Ducharme
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad...