Publishing Division: 2717 books
By Great Waters
A Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
p>This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province’s history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical sources, which range in time from an...
Samson’s Cords
Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson’s Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond.
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by Jean-Charles Falardeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
This thought-provoking volume, which represents a re-shaping of the Plaunt Lectures delivered at Carleton University, 1960, offers impressions of the art of living in Canada by one who has been deeply concerned with the relationships between our two cultures. The purpose of the author is to stimulate...
The Mystical Science of the Soul
Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research...
(Re)Visualizing National History
Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians...
by Leon Harold Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian...
The Politics of Eloquence
David Hume's Polite Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
History has shown us that the power of political speech can be put to both positive and manipulative ends - while rhetoric is a powerful tool for those who seek to persuade others to adopt their views, it can also be employed to foment factionalism and undermine the very basis of a democratic society....
by Daniel Goldstick
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Dan Goldstick's Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its...
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
"On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from...
by Lucy M. Maulsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922*–1943* chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in...
Workplace Democracy
An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values...
The Woman's Page
Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, journalism, politics, and social advocacy were largely male preserves. Six women, however, did manage to come to prominence through their writing and public performance: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeannette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake...
Before the Country
Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2007
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced...
Religion, Culture, and the State
Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings,...