Search results for ""Queen's University""
McGill-Queen's University Press Stories of Women in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisBetween the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in Europe, not all women fit the stereotype of passive housewife and mother. Many led bold and dynamic lives. In this collection of historical portraits, Maria Teresa Brolis tells the fascinating tales of fashion icons, art clients, businesswomen, saints, healers, lovers, and pilgrims both famous and little known who challenge conventional understandings of the medieval female experience. Drawing on evidence from literary works and archival documents that include letters, chronicles, trials, testimonials, notary registers, contracts, and wills, Brolis pieces together an intricate overview of sixteen women's lives. With zest and compassion, she describes the mysterious visionary Hildegard of Bingen, the cultured Heloisa, the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, Saint Clare of Assisi, the rebel Joan of Arc, as well as lesser-known women such as Flora, the penitent moneylender, Bettina the healer, and Belfiore the pilgrim, among others. Following th
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Invisible Injured
Book SynopsisCanadian soldiers returning home have always been changed by war and peacekeeping, frequently in harmful but unseen ways. The Invisible Injured explores the Canadian military's continuous battle with psychological trauma from 1914 to 2014 to show that while public understanding and sympathy toward affected soldiers has increased, myths and stigmas have remained. Whether diagnosed with shell shock, battle exhaustion, or post-traumatic stress disorder, Canadian troops were at the mercy of a military culture that promoted stoic and manly behaviour while shunning weakness and vulnerability. Those who admitted to mental difficulties were often ostracized, released from the military, and denied a pension. Through interviews with veterans and close examination of accounts and records on the First World War, the Second World War, and post-Cold War peacekeeping missions, Adam Montgomery outlines the intimate links between the military, psychiatrists, politicians, and the Canadian public. He demTrade Review" In writing an excellent work of history, Montgomery has done a public service by connecting developments over more than a century, from the time of shell shock to that of battle exhaustion and then to post-traumatic stress disorder and its Canadian military variant of operational stress injury. It has been said that in the 1990s the Canadian people were at peace but the Canadian forces were at war. The searing Croatia inquiry showed this to be true, and Montgomery has used the moving testimonies given at the inquiry to great advantage. One of the many strengths of this book is that it brings to the fore names that will have a secure place in the annals of Canadian military history - in particular those of Rome o Dallaire, Joe Sharpe, Greg Passey, and Ste phane Grenier." Peter Neary, University of Western Ontario
£28.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Tax Order and Good Government
Book SynopsisWas Canada''s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one''s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of tax revolts, and Canada was no exception. Heaman shows that the competing claims of the propertied versus the people are hardwired constituents of Canadian political history. Tax debates in early Canada were philosophically charged, politically consequential dialogues about the relationship between wealth and poverty. Extensive archival research, from private papers, commissions, the press, and all levels of government, serves to identify a rising popular challenge to the patrician politics that were entrenched in the Constitutional Act of 1867 under the credo Peace, Order, and good GovernmenTrade Review"This book shows that the history of taxation is not only important - it can also be provocative, infuriating, and exciting. Tax, Order, and Good Government is an essential read for all historians of Canada." Eric Sager, University of Victoria "Elsbeth Heaman's outstanding book places taxation where it belongs, at the heart of Canadian history. She explores with great discernment and lucidity issues ranging from the nature of Confederation, and the changing ideologies of parties and their coal
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McGill-Queen's University Press Religion and Greater Ireland
Book SynopsisStimulating essays that break new ground on religion and Irish identity in modern world history.Trade Review"A cutting-edge work that explores crucial dimensions in the history of Ireland's globalization, Religion and Greater Ireland stands out for its wide range of geographical and cultural coverage and ground-breaking perspectives on religion and migration." Eugenio Biagini, University of Cambridge
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McGill-Queen's University Press Phoenix
Book SynopsisRestless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian. Brilliant, yet erratic, Bethune''s life was characterized by cycles of achievement and self-destruction and his adventurous spirit led him from the operating rooms of Montreal to the battlegrounds of Spain and China. In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune''s controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada. They also examine the reasoning that led Bethune to embrace Marxism and show the depth of his faith in the triumph of communism over fascism - a commitment that drove him to take risk after risk and ultimately led to his death from an infection caught while performing battlefield surgery in remote northern China. Based on extensive research in Canada, Spain, and ChinaTrade Review"Phoenix is a much enriched version of Bethune's life - eminently readable and riveting." Andree Levesque, McGill University "The authors have taken great care to review all the new information that has come to light and present their findings in a balanced, and effective manner." Larry W. Stephenson, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, Wayne State University "Phoenix will enable Canadians to understand how a son of the manse evolved into a grandfather of medical humanitarianism and how an outspoken and mercurial pariah became the most famous Canadian in history. Through their meticulous and unbiased research "At long last, the whole Bethune-flaws and contradictions intact, making the extraordinary accomplishments of this troubled and near tragic figure all the more remarkable to unravel. I was riveted, from beginning to end." Ken Gass, Artistic Director, Fac
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McGill-Queen's University Press Museum Pieces
Book SynopsisRuth Phillips argues that these practices are indigenous not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transTrade Review"Museum Pieces is eminently readable - written simply and elegantly. There is no other book that covers forty years of Canadian museology with such historical depth and theoretical thoughtfulness." Jennifer Kramer, anthropology, University of British Columbia "Ruth Phillips is one of the most well-respected and senior figures working in the domain of contemporary museum anthropology and critical museum studies. The great strengths of this volume are the author's careful research, her unique position within the "Ruth Phillips has been a key maker and shaper of new curatorial and institutional cultures but is also certainly the finest commentator on the progress, in fits and starts, of the museum world over the last thirty years. While the debates have suffered a
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McGill-Queen's University Press Tecumsehs Bones McGillQueens Native Northern
Book SynopsisGuy St-Denis is an award-winning independent scholar who has written extensively on southwestern Ontario history.Trade Review"This thoroughly original work casts new light on the enduring mystery of Tecumseh's fate, brilliantly demonstrating how history and myth converge." John Sudgen, author of Tecumseh, A Life "Through meticulous use of a variety of sources, Guy St-Denis lays to rest the many local stories and legends about the death of Tecumseh and the fate of his bones. There are no other works like this." Douglas Leighton, professor of history, Huron College, University of Western Ontario
£27.20
McGill-Queen's University Press Polar Castaways
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth account of the Ross Sea party based on previously unpublished interviews of survivors of the expedition.
£49.60
McGill-Queen's University Press The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney
Book SynopsisVolume V of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney covers a period of significant gains and losses for the young writer. Professionally, Burney consolidated her reputation as England''s premier novelist with the publication of Cecilia. Through a mutual friendship she gained an appointment as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, a position that provided both financial security and an insider''s view to life at Court. Burney''s professional success during these years was balanced by countless personal setbacks. Deprived of the companionship of her favourite sister following her sister''s marriage, she also lost the friendship of Hester Lynch Thrale who grew increasingly distant during her romantic attachment to Gabriel Piozzi (whom she married in 1784). The death of her dear friend and mentor Samuel Crisp causes Burney deep sadness, and her emotional turmoil is further exacerbated by her introduction to George Owen Cambridge, a young clergyman to whom she is clearly attracted
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McGill-Queen's University Press Fighting for a Hand to Hold
Book SynopsisLaunched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government''s practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain''s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment''s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with oTrade Review"Anyone who thinks that racism in Canada is more benign than it is in the United States--or that Canada has left its genocidal policies in the past--must read Samir Shaheen-Hussain's new book. Fighting for A Hand to Hold is an engaging and well-documented analysis of medical colonialism that deserves further discussion and, most important, action." Canadian Dimension"Fighting for a Hand to Hold is important in encouraging us to reflect and rethink it. Samir's call for the decolonisation of health care would entail reparations for Indigenous nations, which includes the return of land and sovereignty over the labour of care. Indigenous land defenders fighting colonial development, Indigenous projects of food sovereignty and agroecology, and the resurgence of Indigenous traditional knowledge, including practices of healing, all point to the importance of reclaiming sovereignty over care as pathways for decolonising health care." Race & Class"Fighting for a Hand to Hold reveals systemic challenges through an approach that offers a holistic look at the structures that hold injustices in place. Inspired by patients, Shaheen-Hussain examines the impacts of medical colonialism on the lives of Indigenous young people. This book made me think about how we can create the change that is necessary to address the anti-Indigenous racism of Canada's past and present." Margo Greenwood, The Lancet
£32.85
McGill-Queen's University Press Reimagining Cinema
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Expo 67's most ingenious screen experiments.Trade Review"Reimagining Cinema is a brilliant example of historical reconstruction that remains theoretically focused throughout. It is not mere nostalgia, but an advance in our understanding of a key moment in Canadian and international cultural history." Richard Cavell, Department of English, University of British Columbia
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press From White to Yellow The Japanese in European
Book SynopsisWhen Europeans landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. This book traces racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.Trade Review" From White to Yellow is a big book in every way. The product of immense research, it is an exceptionally ambitious work that makes a string of innovative and far-reaching arguments. Even more strikingly, it is simply the first of a planned two-volume series that, once completed, will span over six hundred years of European interactions with Japan. ... The scale of the task and the depth of the research invite a comparison to Donald Lach' s Asia in the Making of Europe, a groundbreaking series that can best be described as an almost supernatural feat of scholarship. ... Overall the work is a significant achievement that should be read by anyone working in the field. It moves Japan from the margins to the very center of discussions over the development of early modern racial discourse, making a powerful case for the importance of the European encounter with Japan. Japan represented a problem for Europeans, and Kowner brilliantly dissects the varied ways in which they struggled to deal with it in the early modern period." Monumenta Nipponica " A path-breaking book, rich in insights and extraordinary well researched, with a huge bibliography covering works in twelve languages. Kowner has meticulously explored the ramifications and details of encounters between Europeans and the various Others. [From White to Yellow] is unsurpassed in its careful examination of European writings on Japan." Journal of World History " A remarkable scholarly achievement. It throws valuable light on evolving European attitudes to race and to racial hierarchies and demonstrates how they were filtered through different social mechanisms - religion, trade, power." Ethnic and Racial Studies
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McGill-Queen's University Press Leading from Between
Book SynopsisHow the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants make a difference in Canada and Australia.Trade Review"Leading from Between offers numerous insights of great importance to those engaged in Indigenous studies, public administration, and policy studies in Australia and Canada. It will stimulate a new line of inquiry into the promise and the challenges of reconciliation. The authors lay down an evidence-based challenge to public services to fundamentally rethink how to advance and support Indigenous participation and leadership." Michael J. Prince, University of Victoria
£27.20
McGill-Queen's University Press Left Transnationalism
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the ways interwar communism sought to combat imperialism, support self-determination of nations, and promote racial equality.Trade Review“Mao’s appraisal of the Comintern as a force behind Communist movements worldwide and as an organizational body that applied obdurately its “Moscow Line” approach instead of adapting to suit specific movements, is where Left Transnationalism breaks new ground. At its heart … Left Transnationalism constitutes a “post-post-Cold War project” that throws overdue light on horizontal links that operated “without the direct involvement of Moscow.”” Histoire sociale/Social History“By offering a fresh perspective on urgent, but critically neglected, topics within a transnational framework, Left Transnationalism reinvigorates the study of international communism and provides a benchmark for future Comintern scholarship.” University of Toronto Quarterly
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McGill-Queen's University Press Iconoclasm
Book SynopsisCase studies that investigate the paradoxical nature of iconoclasm, when destroying icons only enhances their iconicity.
£87.55
McGill-Queen's University Press Art as Revolt Thinking Politics through Immanent
Book SynopsisUsing philosophies of immanence – conceived by Deleuze, Braidotti, and others – and the arts to challenge contemporary capitalist ways of being human subjects.Trade Review"The essays in this collection creatively and rigorously demonstrate the wide applicability of the theories of Deleuze and Guattari in a wide variety of aesthetic contexts, and in so doing they refine and develop our understanding of these concepts." Suzanne M. Verderber, Pratt Institute
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McGill-Queen's University Press Canadian Environmental Philosophy
Book SynopsisGrappling with the philosophical dimensions of our current ecological crisis, from a Canadian perspective.Trade Review"Profound, powerful, effective, and impressive, Canadian Environmental Philosophy is absolutely peerless. What a book." Darren Domsky, Texas A&M University
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McGill-Queen's University Press Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisHow Buddhist immigrants in Toronto transmit their teachings and traditions to the next generation.Trade Review"Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism offers an incredible amount of valuable, useful information that adds considerably to previous scholarship, enhancing the understanding of Buddhism in Canada in new and significant ways." Charles S. Prebish, Pennsylvania State University
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press The Night Chorus
Book SynopsisPoems that give voice and agency to marginal figures in rural places and cityscapes.Trade Review"'Intensify' is the Rilkean injunction that Harold Hoefle both declares and practises in this propulsive first collection of poems. I admire equally the energy of his lines and the range of his sympathies." Steven Heighton, 2016 Governor General's Poetry Award winner for The Waking Comes Late"The Night Chorus sings of a private world that spans from Lac La Pêche to the British Museum, from a rural ditch to the city bus. These poems access memories, intimate conversations, and seemingly ordinary moments that Harold Hoefle discerns with the bright precision of a jeweller. To read The Night Chorus is to drive along a road that, in Hoefle's words, "climbs, dips, arcs, cup[s] the world in a curve." Where you stop to rest is often where you will want to linger for a while longer." Gillian Sze, author of Panicle
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McGill-Queen's University Press We Find Ourselves Put to the Test
Book SynopsisA philosophical exploration of the question of whether the world we inhabit offers us hospitality or indifference.Trade Review"We Find Ourselves Put to the Test will interest students, scholars, and general readers alike. Crooks approaches the material with freshness and aplomb, and the result is an engaging and thoughtful interpretation of an important canonical text." Ron Srigley, Laurentian University"Crooks argues "that Job is best read as a careful description of how [one finds oneself] put to the test" to meet "reality point blank" and in silence. That experience is what leads Job to restoration. Crooks does not try to solve critical and exegetical issues; he attempts to find usefulness and meaning in what is a most opaque book. Recommended." Choice
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McGill-Queen's University Press Humboldts Mexico
Book SynopsisA study of a gifted scientist and visionary who embodies the spirit of adventure and discovery.Trade Review" A mediation inspired by Alexander von Humboldt' s journey in Mexico between in 1803- 04, Myron Echenberg has written an engaging, significant, and wide-ranging account. As a result of both diligent research and careful writing, Humboldt' s Mexico is an important contribution to both the study of Humboldt and to the examination of Mexico in the last years of its colonial experience." William Beezley, University of Arizona
£27.20
McGill-Queen's University Press The Education of African Canadian Children
Book SynopsisA crucial study of the education of African Canadian children as it reflects their citizenship and lives in their chosen country.Trade Review" There are very few books as comprehensive as this collection that investigate the experiences of African Canadians in Canada' s education system. Several of the authors are among the best scholars on the subjects of race, antiracism, and postcolonialism. In sum, an excellent work." Goli M. Rezai-Rashti, University of Western Ontario
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Rethinking Renaissance Drawings
Book SynopsisEssays on both newly discovered and famous drawings that reveal aspects of the Renaissance and how artists thought.
£102.00
McGill-Queen's University Press The Invention of Journalism Ethics Second Edition
Book SynopsisAn innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity to guide journalism today.Trade Review"This tightly written tour de force will be the authoritative work on objectivity and journalism." Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Invention of Journalism Ethics promises to stimulate new research and new thinking about the professional standards to which journalists should aspire in this age of rapidly changing technology and global communications." Fred Fletcher, York University
£25.19
McGill-Queen's University Press The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Book SynopsisThe untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru.Trade Review" The rich portrayal of these three doctors, make this book a fine contribution not only to the history of medicine in late colonial and early republican Peru, but more generally to the study of the experience of African descended peoples in the Americas." Social History of Medicine " This well-written book will be of interest to scholars of both the history of medicine and science in Spanish America, especially during the Enlightenment, and the history of race, social relations, and politics in late colonial and early republican Peru." Hispanic American Historical Review " Black Doctors of Colonial Lima is a window onto the surprising careers of Lima' s Afro-Peruvian medical professionals, but also onto the medical debates of that city' s Enlightenment intellectuals. It is a welcome addition to the literature on science in the Americas as well as the social history of race." Bulletin of the History of Medicine
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Psychiatry Disrupted Theorizing Resistance and
Book SynopsisA provocative argument against conventional study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of "mental illness."Trade Review"Psychiatry Disrupted speaks to a wide audience. It covers a range of relevant issues and debates, includes original material and perspectives, and presents in an accessible, nuanced, and engaging way the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry." Erica Burman, Manchester Institute of Education, The University of ManchesterTable of ContentsContributors Simon Adam (University of Toronto), Rosemary Barnes University of Toronto, Peter Beresford (Brunel University), Bonnie Burstow (University of Toronto), Chris Chapman (York University), Mark Cresswell (Durham University), Shaindl Diamond (York University), EL Chava Finkler (Dalhousie University), Ambrose Kirby (therapist in private practice, Brenda A. LeFrancois (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Mick McKeown (University of Central Lancashire), Robert Menzies (Simon Fraser University), China Mills (Oxford University), Tina Minkowitz (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry), Ian Parker (University of Leicester), Susan Schellenberg, Helen Spandler (University of Central Lancashire), and AJ Withers (York University)
£30.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Becoming Inummarik
Book SynopsisA critical look at how Inuit men balance traditional values and social circumstances to find their place in the contemporary Arctic.Trade Review"Not since Jean Briggs' Never in Anger has an ethnography been so open and honest with the trials and tribulations of conducting anthropological research in a small, close-knit community in the North. Collings provides details of community life that are authentic, intimate, and insightful; his candour and clarity in describing the everyday life of cultural anthropologists doing fieldwork is poignant and gripping." Edmund Searles, associate professor of anthropology, Bucknell University " Anyone interested in men and maleness, coming of age, ethnographic methods and ethics, hunting societies, Inuit culture, and the contemporary Arctic will be richly rewarded by reading Becoming Inummarik." American Anthroplogist
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Married Women and the Law
Book SynopsisInquiries into how law shaped the effects of marriage for generations of women.Trade Review"Married Women and the Law makes a significant contribution to conceptualizing coverture's ever changing impact on women and families and each chapter is interesting and provocative in its own right." Amy Froide, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County "A much needed and powerful study of married women's status in law." Joanne Bailey, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oxford Brookes University "The collection provides a number of fresh insights into issues that do not naturally arise in the discussion of a legal doctrine. Authors from a variety of disciplines present an analysis of coverture, which itself has an impact on a diverse set of matters. The result [is] a collection that is accessible and appealing to a multitude of readers." Saskatchewan Law Review
£34.72
McGill-Queen's University Press Journey with No Maps
Book SynopsisPoet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.Trade Review"This first full biography of a multitalented poet and visual artist, who won applause from such disparate figures as Stephen Spender, Joseph Brodsky and Margaret Atwood, is a foundational work future studies will consult for a full appreciation of Page's astonishing career as a major artist of our time." David Staines, The Globe & Mai "Journey with No Maps is not just a biography of a poet, but of a painter, and a relentless explorer of the human condition." Montreal Review of Books "[Journey with No Maps] is a body of work that will endure for generations." The Gazette
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McGill-Queen's University Press Chess Game for Democracy
Book SynopsisIn the turbulent years between 1944 and 1947, Hungarian politics was marked by constant conflict between the two most powerful parties in the governing coalition - the Independent Smallholders Party and the Communist Party. The history of this struggle reads like a series of moves in a dramatic chess game, where no one could predict the outcome.Trade Review"[Chess Game for Democracy] sets new standards in the English-language historiography of post-war Hungary. It will become essential reading for anyone interested in the process by which the Communist Party came to power in that country in the aftermath of the Second World War." Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe " Ma ria Palasik makes a valuable contribution to the debate. She is a conscientious scholar, extremely well acquainted with the Hungarian archival materials, and has read the available secondary sources. On the basis of her work we can make informed judgments concerning the establishment of Communist rule in Hungary and, by extension, the development of Soviet foreign policy in the immediate postwar years." Journal of Cold War Studies " A major contribution to our understanding of the process of Sovietization in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the changing relations between the superpowers. By highlighting the efforts of those that led the struggle to establish a multiparty democratic system, she counters the myth that communism was introduced immediately after World War II and that there was no chance for democracy. Her book will be essential reading for those interested in the unique period from 1945 to 1948 and the process by which the Communist Party came to power in Hungary." H-Net Reviews
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McGill-Queen's University Press Island Enclaves
Book SynopsisAn examination of the unique governance of islands and their role in contemporary global politics.Trade Review"This book develops an original thesis: it argues cogently for the existence of sub-national island jurisdictions as a specific set of policies that exploit the current phase of globalisation and their geographies to practise a clever use of jurisdiction." Paul K. Sutton, London Metropolitan University, U.K. "This book provides a striking array of examples to illustrate 'offshoring strategies' deployed more easily by non-sovereign island territories because of their amorphous political status resulting from their relatively small and insular character, as wel "The book is as luxuriant (with ideas) as some of the tropical islands are (with flora) that feature within it [...] this is a rather pathbreaking and encyclopaedic text - one that can be dipped into at any point and that equally rewards reading from cove
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press The Children of Aataentsic A History of the Huron
Book SynopsisTrigger''s work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the heroic age of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evalTrade Review"Unforgettable drama and a fascinating disquisition on cultural adaptation ... a work of such historical imagination and literary quality that Trigger deserves to rank with Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan ..." Boyce Richardson, Saturday Night. "Indispensable reading for anyone interested in Amerindian or early Canadian history. Cornelius J. Jaenen, The Canadian Historical Review.
£31.35
McGill-Queen's University Press A Thirst for Wine and War
Book SynopsisTo maintain morale amongst soldiers in the wretched trenches of World War I, the French army provided regular rations of wine and other alcohol that became a defining feature of French soldiers’ experience. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army’s strategic distribution of alcohol as a method of emotional and behavioural control.Trade Review“This book not only contributes substantially to the history of intoxicants and their consumption, but it also extends well beyond these topics to expand our understanding of the histories of France, of the Great War, and of war more generally. It is hard to see the events of the First World War in France in quite the same way after reading this work.” Richard S. Fogarty, University at Albany, SUNY and author of Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914–1918
£30.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Total Defence Forces in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisThis volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward defence goals in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“This volume tackles a highly topical theme: analyzing change dynamics in the organization of defence establishments. Recent international events underscore the need to understand how warfare has changed and to unpack the implications for the operations of military forces and the organization of national defence.” Jozef Bátora, co-author of Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order: The 'New' Heteronomy“Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century provides a very rich analysis of the changed landscape of the wider defence sector and will prove a gold mine for much future research.” Andrea Ellner, co-editor of When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military
£31.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Eyewitness Textures UserGenerated Content and
Book SynopsisJournalists are increasingly incorporating user-generated content into news stories. Tracing recent shifts in journalism practice around the world, Eyewitness Textures examines the creative adaptation and strategies of journalists and news organizations in the face of transformative technological change.Trade Review“This book explores the breadth of new dimensions crucial to understanding the implications of user-generated content today. While this kind of content has become commonplace, the blurred distinctions between it and citizen witnessing, or between witnessing in general and the processes of publication, are not easily resolved. The global case studies and dialogues in Eyewitness Textures constitute a particularly thoughtful and enriching discussion that moves beyond the familiar accounts of user-generated content we are so used to hearing.” Scott A. Eldridge II, University of Groningen and author of Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Before Canada Northern North America in a
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This collection builds upon earlier scholarship on Canada’s distant past and pushes resolutely at its boundaries. The variety of topics is dazzling, offering a valuable sample of current research on this elusive period of global history.” Margaret Conrad, University of New Brunswick and author of A Concise History of Canada
£40.82
McGill-Queen's University Press What Television Remembers
Book SynopsisWhat Television Remembers explores the relationship between the medium of TV and the city of Toronto. In a close reading of CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting changing ideas about Canadian identity, community, and citizenship.Trade Review“A great book to think with, an excellent contribution to the history and study of Canadian television, and an important meditation on the central problem of performing research on Canada’s media culture when there is such a paucity of archival resources, What Television Remembers is also a pleasure to read. VanderBurgh’s writing is clear, concise, and evocative.” Ira Wagman, Carleton University
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Fashioning Acadians
Book SynopsisWhat people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are compared with documentation about early Acadia, a fascinating picture of the society's early fashions is revealed.Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men's and women's wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery. While Acadians retained many aspects of the fashion systems of France, New France, and New England, a distinctive Acadian identity can be seen to take shape as their dress evolved andTrade Review“Fashioning Acadians is an innovative and path-breaking study that is not only a crucially important work in Acadian history but also a leading model of the importance of material culture analysis in early modern history more generally.” John G. Reid, Saint Mary's University and author of Essays on Northeastern North America: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries“A major contribution to the literature, this book will be a solid reference work for years to come for researchers of Canadian dress and culture. Hilary Doda’s methodology – of assessing the archaeological evidence for what is missing, and the documentary evidence for what is known – offers a great example for future studies on dress cultures for which little material evidence exists.” Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island and co-author of Fashion History: A Global View
£48.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Conscripted to Care Women on the Frontlines of
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.Trade Review“With a thoughtful and intersectional application of feminist political economic theory, Conscripted to Care identifies multiple structures that shifted the responsibility for care onto the women who worked during the COVID-19 response, and informs more equitable pandemic response, recovery, and preparedness. This timely and meaningful analysis of the crisis leaves no excuse for ignoring the unequal effects of the pandemic.” Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge
£84.15
McGill-Queen's University Press Picturing the Game An Illustrated Story of
Book SynopsisPicturing the Game showcases the gifted, forward-thinking graphic journalists throughout hockey’s history whose bold aesthetic and deft draughtsmanship could always make the butt of their satire look perfectly asinine. Their work embodied a truly acerbic spirit that was nothing short of groundbreaking, and the game is better for it.Trade Review“Inside these pages is not just an illustrated chronicling of hockey in Canada by historically renowned illustrators. It’s also a raw view of the game’s most iconic and evolutionary moments as seen through the art of some of the crankiest, most wretched trolls in journalism: editorial cartoonists. What’s not to like?” Bruce MacKinnon, cartoonist, The Chronicle Herald“Picturing the Game takes readers on a wonderful journey that tells the history, the histrionics, and the hilarity of our storied game. It’s a treasure.” Roy MacGregor, author of The Home Team: Fathers, Sons & Hockey and Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey“What an insightful and mischievous romp through Canada’s national sport! Loaded with stories and details and animated with painfully smart drawings of unflinching irreverence. After all, hockey players and cartoonists strive for the same goal, that perfect shot!” Susan Dewar, cartoonist, Postmedia“Don Weekes has caught a truly rare glimpse of game play. Rigorously sourced, the narrative is punctuated with illustrations and editorial cartoons that are both entertaining and thought-provoking, some dating to Lord Stanley’s time. Bravo, Don! I loved this book!” Kevin Shea, author of The Hall: Celebrating Hockey’s Heritage, Heroes and Home and Barilko: Without a Trace“Cartoons are a handy shortcut that helps us understand history. Don Weekes has put together a brilliant collection of drawings and other graphic material on hockey. In the process he has helped increase our populist knowledge of the game.” Terry Mosher (Aislin), cartoonist, The Montreal Gazette“A fascinating look at our shared history through a unique lens. Undoubtedly this will bring back countless memories for hockey fans.” Ryan Kennedy, editor-in-chief, *The Hockey News *“There are books which are just wonderful to hold in your hands and flip through the pages. Picturing the Game: An Illustrated Story of Hockey by Don Weekes is one of those books.” Yorkton This Week“Please read this overdue look at editorial cartooning in hockey from the irreverent artists’ viewpoint, vividly reproduced from a century of newspapers, magazine covers, adverts and game programs.” Lance Hornby, The National Post“An ideal gift for your favourite hockey fan.” The Winnipeg Free Press“This book is a trip to the Hockey Hall of Fame, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Toronto Reference Library all without having to leave the comfort of your couch on a snowy winter morning. It’s a significant piece of scholarship worthy of a Ph.D, yet it’s highly entertaining and very readable.” Policy Magazine“Picturing the Game is an incisive, comprehensive, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking retelling of the history of the game as seen not through the camera lens but through pens and pencils. There are so many gorgeous illustrations that it’s easy to forget there is a narrative here and a powerful one. Weekes has always been able to put together a solid hockey book, but he has outdone himself. The writing is up to the quality of the work of cartoonists like Aislin and Michael de Adder and that’s a high compliment.” Jack Todd, The Montreal Gazette
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Prophets of Love
Book SynopsisReimagining Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul as spiritual siblings, Prophets of Love offers an introduction to some of the latest scholarship on Paul, combatting centuries of Christian anti-Judaism, and sheds new light on the biblical worldviews and language underlying every line of Cohen’s poetry.Trade Review“Apples and oranges? Lusty Leonard versus celibate Paul? The so-called Godfather of Gloom compared to the author of much of the New Testament? Anderson's compelling work makes it abundantly clear that the pair share far more similarities than differences. His in-depth but easily digested comparisons show us that Cohen and the apostle were two great poetic writers. Both were masters of persuasion, performing artists, and two Jews fascinated by Jesus, and Anderson shows most convincingly that both would agree that three things will last forever: faith, hope, and the greatest, love.” Bob Mersereau, author of The Top 100 Canadian Singles“Prophets of Love puts Paul and Leonard Cohen into conversation and finds all manner of parallels and contrasts. It also considers the critical reception of each, including lively discussions about the meaning of lyrics and letters, debates about what constitutes their respective canons, and more besides. This unusual and engaging exercise allows readers to meet the apostle and the artist again … for the first time.” Michael J. Gilmour, Providence University College“By providing a detailed comparison between two key figures that are not readily or often compared to each other, and by engaging biblical and New Testament studies with current culture, Prophets of Love will surprise and intrigue readers inside and outside of academia.” Bernard Wills, Grenfell Campus of Memorial University“It's not often that scholars are deft at translating the cutting edge of what's happening in their field into writing that's readable, let alone entertaining. Yet this is exactly what Matthew Anderson does with recent scholarship on Paul and his deep knowledge of the life and writing of Leonard Cohen. As a scholar of gender, I particularly appreciate the fresh and frank look at the two men's attitudes to women, and their negotiation of ideals of masculinity into which they fit uncomfortably at best. This book will be enjoyed by a wide range of people, from fans of Leonard Cohen, to scholars of gender, to readers of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.” Shayna Sheinfeld, Augsburg University“Engaging, scholastic and wise, Prophets of Love examines the surprising similarities, as well as differences, between two passionate men who lived 2,000 years apart.” The Vancouver Sun“Prophets of Love is an engaging, easily readable exploration of love, divinity, and poetry for Bible scholars, Leonard Cohen enthusiasts, and anyone in between.” Atlantic Books
£18.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Neurowaves
Book SynopsisNeurowaves demonstrates how the brain’s inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains – neurowaves – is the basis of our mental experiences of the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Brain’s Mental Surfing 3 1 Brain Time 12 2 From Brain Time to World Time 26 3 The Tango of Brain Time and Body Time 42 4 Self Time and Its Duration 58 5 Time Speed in Brain and Mind 74 6 Beyond Human Time 86 Coda: Copernican Revolution in Neuroscience and Philosophy 102 References 107 Index 117
£21.59
McGill-Queen's University Press Disparate Remedies Making Medicines in Modern
Book SynopsisAt present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production.Trade Review“Disparate Remedies demonstrates the eclecticism of every aspect of the drug trade, illustrating how a lack of legislation and regulation largely resulted in a ‘free-for-all’ in the making, supply, and sale of remedies with the consequent ubiquity of counterfeiting, adulteration, and supply of substandard medicines. The great contribution of this book is that it provides a longer historical perspective and narrative than many previous works, suggesting that the rapid rise of the pharmaceutical industry in India can only be understood by knowing its historical context.” Stuart Anderson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
£34.20
McGill-Queen's University Press Touching Beauty The Poetics of Kim Th250y
Book SynopsisTouching Beauty is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Vietnamese-born Quebec author Kim Thúy. It examines the themes that have animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of her writing. Thúy contributes a previously unpublished poem and an extended interview.Trade Review“Kim Thúy is one of the best selling and most celebrated writers of the Vietnamese diaspora in Francophone literary history. Informed by diverse and refreshing perspectives and cogent analysis of the ideas, art, and textual details in Thúy's many works, Touching Beauty offers an overdue exploration of Thúy's fiction and development as a writer.” Xinyi Tan, Coastal Carolina University
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Rethinking Decentralization Mapping the Meaning
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
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Caught in the Current British and Canadian
Book SynopsisWhile Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current explores how and why evangelicals are changing.Trade Review“Sam Reimer significantly expands our understanding of the shifting religious landscape in Canada and the UK through a comparative lens. This is particularly valuable since Canada lacks the volume of commentary on the topic that we see in the US, and in-depth analysis of evangelical convictions are generally missed by the mainstream media. Written by one of the top experts in the field, Caught in the Current is rich in data and incisive in its commentary.” Peter J. Schuurman, Global Scholars Canada and Redeemer University, and author of The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
£25.19
McGill-Queen's University Press Outspoken
Book SynopsisOutspoken interrogates the meaning and practice of being outspoken in a world of right-wing populism, global capitalism, and climate emergency. Some of the world’s most radical thinkers – Rosi Braidotti, Henry A. Giroux, Amelia Jones, and Slavoj Žižek, among others – chart progressive courses for political antagonism and social intervention.Trade Review“Original, interesting, and written by a team of leading figures in contemporary philosophy and critical theory, Outspoken defines our present moment in terms of an imbricated social and environment crisis and redirects our efforts beyond tried-and-true methods to new forms of political organization and artistic and commercial engagements.” Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College and author of Radical Democracy and Political Theology
£84.15
McGill-Queen's University Press Scapegoat Carnivales Tragic Trilogy
Book SynopsisBetween 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus. This book reproduces Scapegoat’s adaptations and invites readers to encounter these texts, giving them the tools to better understand where they came from and their relevance in contemporary theatre and life.
£91.80
