Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
Joey Jacobson's War
A Jewish Canadian Airman in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany. Nearly half of them were killed or captured within a year. This is the story of one of those airmen, as told through his own letters...
Debating Rights Inflation in Canada
A Sociology of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that whereas framing grievances as human rights violations has become an effective strategy, the increasing...
Canada's Dream Shall Be of Them
Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War and its terrible cost in lives than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that...
Activating the Heart
Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge...
Love Strong as Death
Lucy Peel’s Canadian Journal, 1833-1836
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
A transcription of Lucy Peel’s wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent’s house in Norwich, England. Sent in regular installments to her transatlantic relatives, the journal presents an intimate narrative of Lucy’s Canadian sojourn with her husband, Edmund Peel,...
The Niagara Companion
Explorers, Artists, and Writers at the Falls, from Discovery through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people?
What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear?
In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when...
How Silent Were the Churches?
Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Winner of the 1997 Jewish Book Committee award for scholarship on a Canadian Jewish subject.
Ever since Abella and Troper (None Is too Many, 1982) exposed the anti-Semitism behind Canada’s refusal to allow Jewish escapees from the Third Reich to immigrate, the Canadian churches have been...
Tell el-Hesi
Modern Military Trenching and Muslim Cemetery in Field I (Strata I-II)
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1985
Tell el-Hesi, located in southern Israel at the juncture of the Negev Desert and the foothills of the Judean Mountains, provides an excellent opportunity for the archaeological study of the impact of a variety of physical environments on the peoples who inhabited a single site. The site has been occupied...
by Milo Sweedler, Colman Hogan, Marta Marín-Dòmine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Act of Killing is a documentary film on the Indonesian genocide that took place between October 1965 and March 1966, during which time an estimated 500,000 to 2.5 million accused communists, including landless farmers, unionized workers, labour organizers, intellectuals and ethnic Chinese Indonesians,...
Finding Diefenbunker
Canadian Nationalism and Cold War Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s “Diefenbunkers”—eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect the Canadian national and provincial governments from a nuclear strike. While many of these...