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Genre, patrimoine et droit civil
Les femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie québécoise en procès, 1900-1930
Language: French
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages… la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire. Ces femmes n'étaient pas totalement à l'abri, néanmoins. Dans Genre, patrimoine et droit civil, Thierry Nootens examine...
Fous, prodigues et ivrognes
Familles et déviance à Montréal au XIXe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2007
À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins. Tournant le...
Techniciens de l'organisation sociale
La réorganisation de l’assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974)
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Early in the Great Depression, English and French business leaders in Montreal presided over the reorganization and rationalization of Catholic charities in their communities with the blessing, but not the active participation, of the Church. Thus started a decades-long transition from religious charity...
Nourrir la machine humaine
Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Nutrition advice is ubiquitous. So many experts give their opinion on which foods to favour and which to avoid that the question of diet has now become a matter of obsession. While alerting the public to the dangers of obesity, diabetes, and other potential issues that await undisciplined eaters,...
Des sociétés distinctes
Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In 2006 fifteen suburban municipalities of Montreal partially regained the autonomy they lost during the 2002 mergers. The fact that most of these were affluent suburbs did not go unnoticed. Supporters of the "one island, one city" project saw the demerged municipalities as fiscal and linguistic enclaves...
Off Balance
The Travails of Institutions That Govern the Global Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Award-winning journalist and author Paul Blustein has received wide acclaim for his books about the inner workings of international economic institutions, notably the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. In Off Balance, he weaves a compelling narrative that details the failings of...
Making Policy in Turbulent Times
Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How is policy made in higher education, particularly in the wake of recent economic turbulence? Has policy development converged internationally, and if so, what impact has this had on academic life and institutions? What role does policy-oriented research play in shaping the direction of higher education?...
by Kim Nossal, Stéphane Roussel, Stéphane Paquin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The fourth edition of this widely used text includes updates about the many changes that have occurred in Canadian foreign policy under Stephen Harper and the Conservatives between 2006 and 2015. Subjects discussed include the fading emphasis on internationalism, the rise of a new foreign policy agenda...
Canada: The State of the Federation, 2013
Aboriginal Multilevel Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Traditionally associated with the federal government, Aboriginal policy has arguably become a far more complex reality. With or without formal self-government, Aboriginal communities and nations are increasingly assertive in establishing their own authority in areas as diverse as education, land management,...
Crisis and Reform
Canada and the International Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The financial crisis that erupted in 2008 severely affected the global economy, plunging most countries into a recession with aftershocks still being felt today. Canada was able to weather the crisis well in comparison to many euro-zone countries and the United States, but it did not escape unscathed....
Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers
Emerging Perspectives on the New G20
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers addresses the challenge that the rising powers pose for global governance, substantively and institutionally, in the domain of financial and macroeconomic cooperation. It examines the issues that are before the G20 that are of particular concern...
Canada-Africa Relations
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
A wave of optimism has swept the African continent in the past decade. The pace and extent of social change in recent years, when measured in life expectancy, child and infant mortality rates, literacy, numeracy and the completion of higher education, is quite remarkable. The urban middle class is emerging...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and...