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The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analysed in this collaborative volume. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies, successes, and failures of each of Canada's major political parties.

A wide-ranging study of the politicizing effects of social program participation, Take a Number introduces a compelling new dimension to our understanding of why some citizens are politically active while others remain quiescent.

If feminism has always been characterised by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. A hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the 21st century.

Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the brilliant seventeenth-century Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first complete English translation of the work.

A critical account of the ANC Health Department's medical delivery and anti-apartheid agenda in exile.

Addressing broader questions about how religious movements organise, establish an identity, and develop a subculture that flourishes, After the Revival explores the fascinating history of Pentecostalism in Canada and the ways the church engages with Canadian society.

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales.

A new English translation of an acclaimed 1970 novel reveals a stark, powerful story, an Inuit worldview, and the unique voice of Markoosie Patsauq.

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a series of articles by Henri Ellenberger, presented here for the first time in English.

Set in the context of a new field of engineering, driven apace by conflict, this fascinating history follows the mathematicians and scientists who learnt to fly in order to expand our understanding of aeronautics. Tony Royle makes accessible the mathematics and the personal stories that forever changed the course of aviation.

A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century. North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

As the US challenges the liberal international order, fights back China's ascendency, and reconsiders its traditional alliances, this book analyses key lessons from Europe's experience and provides comparative insight into the likely dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the 21st century.

In the realm of political discourse there is a distinct gap in understanding between Russia and the West. To an outsider, the ideas that animate the actions of Russia's ruling elite, opposition, and civil society remain shrouded in mystery. This key text is a major contribution to our understanding of this world power.

From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. Borge shows how aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopoly and squash competition.

An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies.

How experts, businessmen, and volunteers reorganized Catholic charities in twentieth-century Quebec.

The everyday material world of rural Canadian families in the nineteenth century.

A revealing biography of one of twentieth-century Nova Scotia's most prominent religious figures.

Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.

Opening discussions about the possible futures of Canadian art history in a time of global analyses.

A political and social history of suburban governance on the island of Montreal.

An exploration of the hinterland between the havens of faith and the rough terrain of doubt.

An indispensable and richly illustrated collection of essays by Melvin Charney, with interpretations by established scholars.

An examination of the Royal Canadian Navy and its promotion of sovereignty through collective defence.

Explores the intricate lives and apostolic work of the Oblate Sisters. This book demonstrates that the Sisters played an important role in building a French Canadian identity in Manitoba and Quebec and provides a glimpse into their complex relationship with the Oblate Fathers including their role as auxiliaries in the residential schools.

In this religious and moral critique of liberalism, Travis Kroeker investigates what happens when religio-ethical discourse is translated into the economic policy discourse of North American liberalism.

This text examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem.

Focusing on the words and experiences of the poor themselves, this book rewrites our understanding of English social policy for the period from the 1750s to 1830s.

A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province's leading archaeologists.

A social and occupational health history of the St Lawrence fluorspar mines.