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Invaders as Ancestors
On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders...
Acculturation and Its Discontents
The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008
Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
The...
Solution-Focused Interviewing
Applying Positive Psychology, A Manual for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Too often doctors, therapists, and social workers ask “what’s wrong in your life?” rather than “what do you want?” Ronald E. Warner’s Solution-Focused Interviewing is a practical guide to talking to clients using a solution-driven and strength-based approach that empowers clients and helps...
Paradise
Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
What was life like in the 1950s in small communities in Ontario? Lower-class and upper-class residents might have different memories of those days, but on one thing they would agree: it is a much different world in rural Ontario today. The old guard has lost most of its power, displaced partly by...
Do Men Mother?
Fathering, Care, and Domestic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2006
More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother? provides groundbreaking...
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Art, Science, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of...
Brothers or Enemies
The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia from the 1840s to the 1870s
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies, Johannes Remy reveals that the roots of Ukrainian independence were planted fifty years earlier.
Remy contextualizes the Ukrainian national movement...
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic...
by Paul Szarmach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some...
Canadian Content
Culture and the Quest for Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
A nation is given shape in large part through the cultural activities of its builders. Historically, nationalists have turned to the arts and media to articulate and institute a sense of unique national identity. This was certainly true of Canada in the twentieth century. Canadian Content explores...
Respectable Citizens
Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and...
Drawing Out Law
A Spirit's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2010
The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life. In Drawing Out Law, John Borrows (Kegedonce) skillfully juxtaposes Canadian legal policy and practice with the more broadly defined Anishinabek perception of law as it applies to community life, nature,...
O.D. Skelton
A Portrait of Canadian Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
When O.D. Skelton became Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s foreign policy advisor in 1923, he was already a celebrated critic of the status quo in international and domestic affairs, a loyal Liberal Party man, and a fervent nationalist who believed Canada needed to steer a path independent of Britain....
Red, White, and Kind of Blue?
The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American...