Press Publishing: 3010 books
The Measure of Democracy
Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1999
Politicians, government officials, and public relations officers lean heavily on polling when fashioning public policy. Proponents say this is for the best, arguing that surveys bring the views of citizens closer to civic officials. Critics decry polling's promotion of sycophantic politicians who...
Inside the Law
Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Law firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching...
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost...
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,...
Creative Canada
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide...
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...