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The Once and Future Great Lakes Country
An Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise...
Rocke Robertson
Surgeon and Shepherd of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Rocke Robertson (1912 - 1998) was a McGill-trained surgeon who served at the front lines in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns in World War II. His post-war experience took him to the top of the medical profession and appointments as chief of the Department of Surgery at McGill and surgeon-in-chief at...
by Francis M. Wafer, Cheryl A. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Cheryl Wells provides an edited and fully annotated collection of Wafer's diary entries during the war, his letters home, and the memoirs he wrote after returning to Canada. Wafer's writings are a fascinating and deeply personal account of the actions, duties, feelings, and perceptions of a noncombatant who experienced the thick of battle and its grave consequences.
Fleeting Empire: Early Stuart Britain and the Merchant Adventurers to Canada
Early Stuart Britain and the Merchant Adventurers to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Before the future of North American rule was decided by the battle between British and French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Britain’s emerging imperial interests were represented by ambitious merchants and privateers. A Fleeting Empire examines the lives and exploits of early European adventurers...
Seeing Ghosts
9/11 and the Visual Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Starting from the tremendous fascination with images of 9/11, Karen Engle asks what, in the context of a national trauma, makes an image appropriate or scandalous, exploring how diverse visual media have been mobilized in political projects of identification and personal narratives of empathy. Focusing...
A Place in the Sun
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians’ activities in the global south influence future debates about migration and Quebec society? How did migrants, in turn, shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? A Place in the Sun explores...
Around 1945
Literature, Citizenship, Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Near the end of the Second World War, new ideas about citizenship, national identity, belonging, and rights emerged as the atrocities of the war – coupled with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – spurred writers and citizens around the world to think about their responsibilities...
A World of Paper
Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign...
A Social History of the Cloister
Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2001
In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from...
by Colleen Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Gray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congrégation superiors - Marie Barbier, Marie-Josèphe Maugue-Garreau, and Marie Raizenne. By exploring the implications of the hierarchies of power within the convent and providing a thorough analysis...
From Cohen to Carson
The Poet's Novel in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A.M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. In tracking the authors’...
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The...
Anne around the World
L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
What makes Anne of Green Gables an international, time-honoured classic? International audiences have described reading L.M. Montgomery's most celebrated novel as an experience in enchantment. Balancing criticism and celebration, Jane Ledwell and Jean Mitchell bring together essays that consider the...
L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys
The Ontario Years, 1911-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marrying Rev. Ewan Macdonald in 1911, she lived in Ontario for three decades. There she became a mother of two...