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Book SynopsisAcclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the brilliant seventeenth-century Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first complete English translation of the work.Trade Review"The Swan of the Well by Titia Brongersma offers an attractive and thorough study through its insights into Brongersma as a writer and person, the cultural depths revealed by Eric Miller, and the skilful translation of the texts." Lia van Gemert, University of Amsterdam

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Book SynopsisSuggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on readers to appreciate how our past relationship with birds might help transform our current relationship with nature.Trade Review"This delightfully detailed and diverse book takes the reader on a journey that explores the deep history of our emotional and religious ties to birds and ponders our modern-day betrayal that has left a shocking one in ten bird species threatened with extinction." Bridget Stutchbury, author of Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them"From bird worship to poetic reveries and imitations of flight and birdsong, Richard Pope offers a learned survey of our age-long fascination with all things winged and feathered. Flight from Grace promises to become a first-stop resource for anyone interested in avian cultural history and its relation to our current ecological crisis." Bruce Boehrer, co-editor of Animals, Animality, and Literature“This is a finely produced and beautiful book about birds in history. The author is a lifelong birder and the ornithological background knowledge to the book is strong. A well-written, stimulating read.” Mark Avery, author of Remarkable Birds“This is a hard book not to love.” University of Toronto Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAnna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants.Trade Review"Indentured Servitude is an important contribution to the social, legal, and labour history of the British colonies. Suranyi walks her readers through the many points of the indenture process, the experience of a variety of servants, masters' treatment of different groups of servants in the colonies, servants' means of recourse against abusive masters, and life after servitude, while also directing them to the important connections between servitude and the evolving understanding of citizenship." Patrick O'Brien, Kennesaw State University“Suranyi’s work provides us with a picture of an era of horrific cruelty preceding and overlapping with the barbarity of slavery. She does not fail to impress upon the reader the difference between servants and the enslaved. Indentured Servitude will be useful to those teaching the seventeenth century, for in depicting the lives of people the same age as our students, the history will resonate and help move them toward empathy with those who suffer exploitation, then and now.” Agricultural History“Indentured Servitude encourages readers to grapple with important yet difficult questions on inequality and unfreedom to help illuminate changing conceptions of rights, oppression, and exclusion in a society that would later—and contradictorily—champion democratic ideals.” William and Mary Quarterly“The text will be accessible to a broad range of audiences, as the individual stories, ranging from poignant to bizarre, breathe life into and paint a complex picture of the indenture experience.” The American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisAt the core of the music industries is the artist. There are thousands of aspiring performers yet only a handful can be truly successful. What propels one artist where others fail? Talent? Originality? Ambition? Or pro-active, well-informed career management?Professional management of the artist's career is critical to their eventual and sustained success, and managers are a pivotal and understudied part of the music industries, central to all the activities within them.In recent years, the role has changed dramatically. AI, online resources and platforms, streaming and social media have opened doors for the self-managing artist as well as the astute professional music manager. In many instances, managers have assumed roles vacated by record companies meaning that their responsibilities have multiplied as potential sources of income have shrunk.This book addresses these issues and others as it supports and guides those wishing to work in artist development or the management of their own career.

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Book SynopsisThrough a synoptic historical sweep of Canada, Spain, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, The Symbolic State shows us that institutions may be more important for what they mean than for what they do. This book is timely in an era when the power of symbols – Brexit, the Donald Trump presidency, the Black Lives Matter movement – is shaping global politics.Trade Review"The Symbolic State is a theoretically and empirically ambitious book that challenges scholars of decentralization and secessionism to consider the distinctive dynamics that occur within multinational states. In particular it challenges broad-brush theories of federalism and 'indirect rule' that assume a universal relationship between territorial concessions and self-determination demands. The phenomenon is far more complex and contingent than much of the existing research acknowledges." Jason Sorens, Saint Anselm College and author of Secessionism: Identity, Interest, and Strategy“An innovative perspective on secessionist claims in multinational states. … Basta’s contribution opens up new ways to address secessionist claims in multinational states, the symbolic sway of institutional recognition, and the importance of unambiguous signalling by majority groups in the run-up to secession. In particular, by analysing processes and the symbolic meaning of institutions, he provides a useful contribution to the scholarship on multinational states and comparative politics.” Europe/Asia Studies“Basta’s study represents a much welcomed, needed, and highly recommendable book for multiple strands of scholarship, not just for the comparative study of multinational states, but even on the state as well as comparative politics in general." *Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft *

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Book SynopsisFor the first generations of university women, higher education was a transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, University Women explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women’s contested entrance into higher education.Trade Review"A book on the entrance of women into institutions of higher education in Canada is long overdue and this will become the definitive work on the topic for many years to come." Catherine Gidney, St Thomas University and author of A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920–1970

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Book SynopsisThe Racial Mosaic demonstrates how cultural pluralism in Canada was founded upon, and easily coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism. Looking at how Canadians interpreted diversity before multiculturalism became official policy, it compels readers to consider how racism has structured Canada's settler-colonial society.Trade Review"An excellent book. The Racial Mosaic has forced me to rethink multiculturalism's historical, racial, and even eugenic roots. Although there is a lot of scholarship on multiculturalism, this is the first serious and sustained attempt to historicize one of Canada's defining policies." Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick and author of Canada: A Very Short Introduction“The Racial Mosaic is an eye-opening book that details the problematic history of nation-building leading up to the post-war era. … Meister unmasks the legacies of eugenics, genocide, and humanism that illuminate the limits of multiculturalism. With detailed anecdotes and Indigenous histories, The Racial Mosaic offers stunning clarity.” The Quill & Quire“Diversity and inclusion initiatives across institutions are now calling for a re-examination of multiculturalism and the limits of race representation. Those leading the charge would do well to consider Meister’s insights into the fabrication of Canada’s ‘mosaic.’” Literary Review of Canada“[The Racial Mosaic] is a model of scholarly insight and clarity as it takes the reader into a hitherto under-researched slice of Canadian history. … fascinating, deeply textured, and meticulously researched.” Canadian Ethic Studies“A well-written and thoroughly researched history of the development of cultural pluralism, … Meister’s discussion of the erasure of Indigenous people by these advocates of cultural pluralism is particularly well done.” The Canadian Historical Review

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the cultures of suburbia in English Canadian fiction published from the 1960s to 2019. Exploring works of various Canadian authors, Cowdy argues there is no one authentic definition of a Canadian suburban imaginary but multiple, at times contradictory, representations that disrupt the dominant cultural discourse of homogeneity.Trade Review“Canadian Suburban makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on often-denigrated but complex urban peripheries, arguing for the role of the humanities in the field of suburban studies. Clearly written and highly readable, this book will be of interest to scholars in any discipline who work on the built environment, as well as literary studies and Canadian studies. The suburbs, which compose such a large proportion of the constructed environment, appear to be entering scholarly and popular discourses with increasing frequency. Like other parts of the city, the suburbs are undergoing continuous change, not only in their physical fabric but also in how they are experienced and understood.” H-Environment“A compelling account of Canadian writers' resistance to the suburbs that flourished after WW II.” Choice“Cheryl Cowdy’s study of the fiction of Canadian suburbia invites us to re-evaluate our assumptions about the influence of place on identity and community. Cowdy’s adjustment of the boundaries of literary history to accommodate a new category of fiction is compelling.” *Canadian Literature *"Canadian Suburban … should encourage social scientists to pay more attention to fiction as a means of understanding urban places, while conveniently offering a useful reading list and many interpretative suggestions. In an era of disciplinary and subdisciplinary specialization, Canadian Suburban bridges academic solitudes. You could say that it occupies a liminal space.” Canadian Geographic

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Book SynopsisTransforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that critically foreground processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts. As a collection, this book makes a powerful argument about the contextual diversity of instruction and identity formation in medicine.Trade Review“Presenting several original perspectives based in archival research, Transforming Medical Education reaches beyond medical education to treat themes such as the structure of modern universities, intellectual and cultural history, the history of nursing, Canadian and American history, and post-secondary education studies. In particular, the inclusion of an interview with Professor Jacalyn Duffin is a significant historical contribution.” Frank Stahnisch, University of Calgary and author of A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences

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Book SynopsisThe Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities and representations in the mainstream.Trade Review“This thoughtful and insightful book reframes and deepens the conversation about Boys Don’t Cry. Joynt and Page make a strong case for reading the film’s influence in ways that break the long-established impasse of the ‘butch/FTM’ border wars. A useful guide to a major filmic text.” Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution“A thorough and insightful discussion of the films strength's and weaknesses, and a manifesto for future trans representation." Times Literary Supplement“A much-needed intervention into the kneejerk reactions to Boys Don’t Cry that moves the critical discussion out of the cycle of antagonism that has spiralled around the film since its release.” Cael Keegan, Grand Valley State University

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a theoretical, empirical, and normative analysis of the debates surrounding the accommodation of ethnocultural and societal diversity in contemporary liberal democracies. It invites readers to explore questions about pluralism and accommodation and proposes political reforms to meet the challenges arising from diversity.Trade Review“Taking Pluralism Seriously is on the leading edge of literature that engages the contemporary debate around the need to do justice to diversity in modern democratic societies. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book advances strong and well-supported arguments for democratic policy reform.” Charles Blattberg, Université de Montréal and author of From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First

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Book SynopsisThis collection employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and artwork to reconstruct plant work by figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in mid- and late-century Ontario and Australia.Trade Review“Refreshingly interdisciplinary, Flora’s Fieldworkers is replete with new information and insights, even on known figures like Dalhousie and Traill. The volume offers innovative perspectives on women’s involvement in botany and plant culture, making strides in the historiography on science in Canada and the fields of women, gender, and science.” Donald L. Opitz, DePaul University“[Flora’s Fieldworkers] challenges the equation of ‘amateur’ with ‘unskilled’ and ‘insignificant’ and brings women botanists out of the shadows, giving their rigorous investigations the scientific credibility they deserve. This fascinating gathering of academic essays shows women collectors as astute observers and appreciators of plants in the wild.” Literary Review of Canada“Flora’s Fieldworkers is a richly stimulating collection of studies looking at specific 19th-century Canadian (and Australian) women from a wide variety of situations who were engaged with the plant world in a wide variety of ways, and often under- or even unappreciated. It provides welcome views into Canadian botanical, cultural, and social history.” Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries“Flora’s Fieldworkers is an ambitious collection of new scholarship on women’s botanical labor in nineteenth century Canada. Excitingly interdisciplinary and broadly accessible, this new volume is a significant contribution to the study of gender, identity, and class in early histories of women and science.” Isis

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Book SynopsisJust Fodder addresses ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters rather than as foodstuffs. Josh Milburn offers a novel theory of animal rights that insists that figuring out the full range of our obligations to animals requires asking questions about the nature and circumstances of our relationships with them.Trade Review“[Just Fodder] brings a significant and imperative contribution for animal advocates (and/or activists), social scientists, philosophers and other academic sectors parties to think about and understand the animal-human relationship from a broader point-of-view. For animal lovers, animal activists or animal advocates who have (or don't have) relationships with animals, it is worth reading this book and thinking more profoundly about the ethical questions raised by the author.” The Vegan Society“Just Fodder paves the way for a new road of enquiry into a topic that is not itself new at all: we have been directly or indirectly impacting on animals’ diets for millennia. That philosophers—to say nothing of political theorists—have largely failed to seriously address the ethics of feeding animals is likely a reflection of how they have, until relatively recently, failed to take animal ethics in general seriously.* Just Fodder*—beyond being itself a lucid and thoughtful account of an important topic—is therefore a heartening indication of the current state of animal ethics, and an exciting sign of the inquiries still to come.” *Journal of Moral Philosophy *“The book is a very valuable contribution to a debate that we must eventually have in our societies.” Daily Philosophy“That philosophers—to say nothing of political theorists—have largely failed to seriously address the ethics of feeding animals is likely a reflection of how they have, until relatively recently, failed to take animal ethics in general seriously. Just Fodder—beyond being itself a lucid and thoughtful account of an important topic—is therefore a heartening indication of the current state of animal ethics, and an exciting sign of the inquiries still to come.” *Contemporary Political Theory *

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Book SynopsisCETA Implementation and Implications provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, its most important elements, and its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Contributors offer a nuanced look at CETA and its implications for global trade in turbulent times.Trade Review“Robert Finbow successfully brings together authors from different backgrounds in an ambitious assessment of CETA’s impact on various parts of society and policy thus far. Any scholar or practitioner who is working in the area of CETA will find this a very valuable resource.” Valerie D’Erman, University of Victoria

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Book SynopsisFeaturing lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives reveals, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 – an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrection, and utopian beginnings.Trade Review“This thoroughly-researched volume brings to life an era when journalism – in its particular Russian literary form – really was the first draft of history. Soviet victory at Stalingrad changed the course of the Second World War, and consequently the course of European and world history. Ian Garner’s impressive achievement here is to combine commentary and context with lively translation. It is extremely timely at a moment when journalism – not least in Russia – once again finds itself on the frontline.” James Rodgers, City, University of London, and author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin“A long-overdue study of what is probably the most important body of war correspondence ever written.” Robert Chandler, translator of Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad and Life and Fate

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Book SynopsisA film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift from lesbian feminist text to queer film classic.Trade Review“An original and timely reading of Sally Potter’s 1992 film. I was utterly captivated by Sheaffer’s reading of the ways in which the cinematic language and visual grammar of Potter’s film take up the call of Woolf’s ‘common sentence,’ with the film’s oscillating point of view, invitation to the audience through its use of direct address, and collaborative sharing of the filmic gaze suggesting ways in which women can queerly both originate and inherit each other’s stories. This culminates in a rich concluding discussion of the film’s final scene, when Orlando’s daughter turns the camera on her mother.” Peter Dickinson, author of My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community

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Book SynopsisThough forensic genetic technologies are upheld as important tools of justice the development of these technologies has been accomplished through the ongoing genetic servitude of Indigenous Peoples. Forensic Colonialism explores how these controversial methods serve only privileged populations, and keep others exploited and criminalized.Trade Review“There is so little scholarly analysis of biotechnology, colonization, and policing theory – particularly regarding the Uyghurs, one of the most urgent sites of contemporary settler colonization – and it is vital that this research be shared with scientists and the public. Mark Munsterhjelm expertly takes on this difficult task with his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of DNA collection in this unique, engaging, and important book.” Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University and author of In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony

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Book SynopsisForty per cent of the world’s population lives in federal countries, each facing their own crises and successes. Rethinking Decentralization explores what makes a successful federal government by centering the unique role of public attitude in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism.Trade Review“Rethinking Decentralization breaks new theoretical ground in its multidimensional understanding of subsidiarity. Showcasing his deep knowledge on the peculiarities of eight different countries, Jacob Deem elegantly weaves his findings into case-specific narratives. There is no other book on this subject with the same conceptual, theoretical, historical, and empirical breadth.” Sean Mueller, University of Lausanne and author of Theorising Decentralisation: Comparative Evidence from Subnational Switzerland

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Book SynopsisChris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current attitudes toward intellectual disability.Trade Review“The Beautiful Unwanted is wide-ranging in its discussion, covering historical terrain and past bioethical controversies, but doing so by interweaving personal experiences and continually linking up these discussions with the present day. Since Kaposy doesn’t follow a linear, temporal narrative, he effectively shows how we’ve inherited deeply rooted beliefs and attitudes that inform choices today.” Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different

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