Mcgill Queen S University Press: 33 books

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining representing and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.

The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure simple idyllic people is false argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values.

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use computer-generated "techno" music and all-night dance parties rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to a neo-hippie...

The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system showing that customary rights are insecure certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation and leases are temporary. As well analysis of legislation...

In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place Mills pulls back the curtain on the decades activists and intellectuals showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew...

The National Film Board of Canada now in its seventh decade is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB born out of a nation-building project continues to be inextricably involved in the discourses of nation technology and social scientific knowledge that shape the Canadian cultural landscape.

When Canada in the European Age 1453-1919 was first published it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights in...

The communications revolution and increased democratization and globalization have made every country more aware of its image and reputation - its "national brand." Whether a country needs to build international coalitions against terrorism encourage cooperation to protect the environment or attract...

From her optimistic requests to whaling ships to her persistent demands for Admiralty aid Lady Franklin played a crucial role in the search for her husband. Her correspondence with British prime ministers members of Parliament lords of the Admiralty and a US president presents a private domestic side...

During the second half of the twentieth century musical life in Canada flourished as never before due in large measure to a generation of European émigrés who worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of classical music teaching playing and composing "in the key of Canada.

From pornography to autobiography from the Cold War to the sexual revolution from rural roots and mythologies to the queer meccas of Vancouver Toronto and Montreal The Romance of Transgression in Canada is a history of sexual representation on the large and small screen in English Canada and Quebec.

Flanagan shows that this orthodoxy enriches a small elite of activists politicians administrators and well-connected entrepreneurs while bringing further misery to the very people it is supposed to help. Controversial and thought-provoking First Nations? Second Thoughts dissects the prevailing ideology...

Forgiveness explores what it is we are doing when we forgive and why that might be a good thing in itself. It shows that learning to forgive should not be seen as simply a goal of self-development like overcoming shyness dealing with loss or getting past rejection but is more difficult more complex and...

Baker argues that coordinate interpretation a model which requires both elected and appointed officials to interpret the Charter allows for the creation of a more robust democracy alleviating some of the tension between constitutionalism and democracy while limiting judicial activism. Drawing on literature...