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Merchant Writers
Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of...
Secret Service
Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance...
Measuring the Mosaic
An Intellectual Biography of John Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars. In the first biography of this important figure, Rick Helmes-Hayes provides a...
by Marshall McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.
Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since,...
Hegel and Canada
Unity of Opposites?
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Hegel has had a remarkable, yet largely unremarked, role in Canada's intellectual development. In the last half of the twentieth-century, as Canada was coming to define itself in the wake of World War Two, some of Canada’s most thoughtful scholars turned to the work of G.W.F. Hegel for insight.
Hegel...
Thinking Impossibilities
The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable scholarly boundaries. The philosophy of history from...
World Writing
Poetics, Ethics, Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2008
Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of literature. World Writing is therefore concerned...
The Feel of the City
Experiences of Urban Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced...
Herder
Aesthetics against Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged...
The Making of the Mosaic
A History of Canadian Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions,...
Jobs and Justice
Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that,...
Wrestling with Democracy
Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries...
Finding the Right Words
Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Isidore of Seville (circa 570-636) was the author of the Etymologiae,. the most celebrated and widely circulated encyclopaedia of the western Middle Ages. In addition, Isidore's Synonyma were very successful and became one of the classics of medieval spirituality. Indeed, it was the Synonyma that...
The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal edict). This meeting...