Publishing Division: 2717 books
The Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is...
by John G. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationship between native inhabitants and colonial settlers a defining characteristic of Acadia/Nova Scotia...
by Bruce Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression....
Colour-Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1999
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal...
Loyalties in Conflict
A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion,1812-1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by Loyalists from New York, and followed by much larger numbers of land seekers from New England, this was...
The Loyal Atlantic
Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted...
by Brian Cherney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.
Harry Somers,...
The New Bibliopolis
French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books....
Dying from Improvement
Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that...
Wagner and the Wonder of Art
An Introduction to Die Meistersinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of genius ever achieved by any artist...
Musical Canada
Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical...
More of a Man
Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed...
Writing with a Vengeance
The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote...
Testimonies and Secrets
The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844–1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of...