Search results for ""McGill-Queen's University Press""
McGill-Queen's University Press Free Will Volume 1 Central Problems of Philosophy
Book SynopsisFree Will explores the determinist rejection of free will through detailed exposition of the central determinist argument and consideration of responses to each of its premises. At every stage familiar examples and case studies help frame and ground the argument.Trade Review"Very clearly written, in a plain, accessible, and attractive way and in a style and manner that is approachable and engaging to a high degree. Students will gain a clear and secure sense of a good and effective mode of philosophical discussion and assessment, where positions are presented, analysed and evaluated in a non-dogmatic, non-programmatic way, in careful, open and palpably honest fashion, acknowledging that there can always be more to be said, and that avenues always remain to be explored. It deserves to become a firmly established text for students of this topic." N. J. H. Dent, Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press Ethics
£23.74
McGill-Queen's University Press Turkey in the Global Economy Neoliberalism Global Shift and the Making of a Rising Power
Book SynopsisA rising power takes its place in an economically precarious world.
£33.20
McGill-Queen's University Press Cultivating Community
Book SynopsisCultivating Community explores women’s critical involvement in agricultural fairs’ growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women’s roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.Trade Review“In the ongoing scholarship around the question ‘Is there a rural feminism?,’ Nurse makes a major contribution with her research on women claiming space in the public domain and inserting themselves into the management of fair boards and agricultural societies. The writing is delightful and the argument is skilfully woven throughout.” Linda M. Ambrose, Laurentian University
£31.00
McGill-Queen's University Press The MacKenziePapineau Battalion
Book SynopsisMarking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, this is the story of the Canadians who went to fight in that epic conflict.
£22.79
McGill-Queen's University Press Griffith Taylor
Book SynopsisDrawing upon an extensive collection of private papers, the author brings to life the colourful story of Taylor, Canada''s premier geographer. He founded Canada''s first Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, and Australia''s first Geography Department at Sydney University. Taylor also had the distinction of being chief geologist on Scott''s historic 1910-1912 Antarctic Expedition.
£22.79
McGill-Queen's University Press A New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving
Book SynopsisA New Synthesis in Public Administration sets out a theoretical framework that takes this new reality into account. It reveals how government forms part of a co-evolving system between people and society, where public results are a shared responsibility and citizens are respected as important creators of public value.
£41.73
McGill-Queen's University Press Do Think Tanks Matter
Book SynopsisAssessing the evolution and influence of public policy institutes.Trade Review"Most of the serious research on Canadian think tanks has been done by Donald Abelson … His groundbreaking book … has proven enormously influential." The Walrus"Well written, carefully documented and articulate case for the antithesis of the title … a valuable treasure trove of interesting … information." Canadian Public Policy"Many interesting observations about the nature of think tanks and the policymaking process more generally." Cato Journal"An important contribution to a body of literature that is increasingly recognised in the social sciences as an undeveloped field and worthy of more extensive investigation. Abelson's comparative insights will have wider significance in drawing attention"Well-written and lucid ... this is a seminal contribution to the field. Abelson has a sophisticated and up-to-date understanding of the literature and the phenomena that he studies." Evert Lindquist, School of Public Administration, University of Victori
£34.79
McGill-Queen's University Press A Grand Adventure
Book SynopsisIn 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L''Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads' daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parents'' private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte's own participation in her parents'' excavations. Following young Helge Ingstad from his 1926 decision to abandon a successful law practice for North American expeditions through Canada''s Barren Lands, Alaska''s Anaktuvuk Pass, and the mountains of northern Mexico, the story recounts his governorship of Norwegian territories and marriage to Anne Stine Moe. The author then traces Helge and Anne Stine''s travels around the world, focusing in particular on their discovery of the Viking settlement at the northern tip of NewfouTrade Review"Benedicte Ingstad' s biography of her parents succeeds on many different levels. It is first and foremost a portrait of two remarkably different explorers who eventually made one of the most important archaeological discoveries of their time. The book is also a terrific adventure yarn and a wonderful scientific mystery story. Researchers had long puzzled over whether the descriptions in Scandinavian sagas of Viking voyages to Vinland were in fact true. Deeply fascinated by these accounts, Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad set out to solve the mystery. The author presents their superb detective work in a deft, engaging way. This book is a classic." Heather Pringle, author of In Search of Ancient North America: An Archaeological Journey to Forgotten Cultures
£29.70
McGill-Queen's University Press A Truffaut Notebook
Book SynopsisFrançois Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film critic, and founding member of the French New Wave. His most celebrated films include The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Day for Night, and The Last Metro. A Truffaut Notebook is a lively and eclectic introduction to the life and work of this major cinematic figure. In entries as brief as a page, as well as in full-length essays, it examines topics such as Truffaut''s mentors, the autobiographical nature of his films, his place in the film tradition, his film criticism, his reputation, his relationships with other directors, and the formal and thematic coherence of his body of work. Sam Solecki also argues for Truffaut''s continuing appeal and relevance by examining his influence on filmmakers like Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach, Alexander Payne, Patrice Leconte, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and on writers such as Julian Barnes, Trade Review"In its idiosyncratic layering of personal memory with close scrutiny, A Truffaut Notebook duplicates how many of us relate to film, allowing it to infiltrate our lives in the same way that literature does. Solecki's digressive brilliance is exhilarating: without question, we are in the presence of a passionate mind that has absorbed an enormous amount of information not only about Truffaut but about cinema and its role in culture." Isabel Huggan, author of Belonging: Home Away from Home
£29.45
McGill-Queen's University Press The Herbal of alGhafiqi
Book SynopsisHerbals - collections describing plants used for medicinal purposes - were among the ancient and medieval world''s most valued scientific texts, synthesizing a vast treasury of medical learning to facilitate scientific edification for scholar, bibliophiles, or practical consultation by physicians. Abu Ja?far al-Ghafiqi (d. ca. 1165 CE) lived in the Arab-Islamic zone of the southern Iberian peninsula called al-Andalus, a land of many cultures, religions, and languages. His Herbal reflects the diverse milieu in which he lived, drawing from ancient Greek sources like Dioscorides and Galen as well as over thirty other works from India as well as the Hellenistic and Islamic worlds. The manuscript reproduced in this edition was purchased in 1912 by Sir William Osler and is now housed in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. It has entries for herbal, mineral, and animal-derived drugs, illustrated by almost 400 coloured, hand-drawn images of plants and animals. A
£145.00
McGill-Queen's University Press A World of Paper
Book SynopsisHistorians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state''s foundation and the reign of France''s Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King''s last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. Torcy, who served as foreign secretary from 1696-1715, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant foreign ministers of the ancien regime. Building on the work of his predecessors, he fashioned a skilled team of collaborators as he managed the complex issues of war and peace during the turbulent final decades of Louis XIV''s reign. John Rule and Ben Trotter examine Torcy''s department to depict administrative structures as they emerged through the circulating stream of paper that connected his office with provincial administrators and diplomats abroad. They explore the collection and centralization of information during Torcy''s tenure Trade Review"A World of Paper is one of the finest works showing the mechanics and culture of state power. It is a major work of administrative history and will stand as a classic in its field. It is deep scholarship and required reading for all students of the history of politics and information studies." Jacob Soll, Department of History, University of Southern California "A World of Paper raises our knowledge and understanding of the development of France's foreign office to wholly new levels and represents a massive contribution to scholarship of later-Louis XIV absolutism. It has been a very long time since I've read a "State espionage was initially inflicted on a limited demographic: the Privy Council spied on the British court, the Venetian doge on diplomatic and ecclesiastical circles. But when spying became surveillance-the word is seventeenth-century French, and wa
£48.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Womens Work Womens Art
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated study of the dress and adornment traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic.Trade Review"There is nothing remotely like this authoritative and definitive work. The combination of detailed garment research with historical and ethnographic data informed by community-based research, makes Women's Work, Women's Art a model which surpasses anything to date. It will be a standard reference work for curators, material culture and native studies scholars, and members of Athapaskan communities." Laura Peers, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford "There are few publications on Northern Athapaskan clothing and none that cover the subject in such breadth and detail, showcasing the skills and knowledge of the makers - the women. Women's Work, Women's Art will make these museum collections more access "Comprehensive but straightforward, Women's Work, Women's Art is an exciting resource for a range of scholars and an interesting, engaging read for the layperson." Worn Through
£55.10
McGill-Queen's University Press An Aristotelian Account of Induction
Book SynopsisPresents a historical and critical account of 'the problem of induction' from an Aristotelian perspective. This book discusses the intellectual process through which we access the 'first principles' of human thought - the most basic concepts, the laws of logic, the universal claims of science and metaphysics, and the deepest moral truths.
£36.81
McGill-Queen's University Press Patriots and Profiteers
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that economic warfare fails almost everywhere it is attempted, and that even when it succeeds, it has consequences that are not only unintended, but also frequently the precise opposite of their advertised result.Trade Review"Patriots and Profiteers makes for compelling reading in the age of global trade. It's well researched and dizzyingly relentless in its detail." Paul Weinberg "Combines scholarship with immediacy and gripping good stories." Vancouver Sun "Lively, informative, and thought-provoking." Globe and Mail
£22.99
McGill-Queen's University Press J.W. McConnell
Book SynopsisJ W McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally. This is his biography.Trade Review"A man of large spirit, great generosity and above all, abiding Canadianism." Lester B. Pearson
£34.20
McGill-Queen's University Press Realism and AntiRealism Volume 14 Central
Book SynopsisStuart Brock is senior lecturer, philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Edwin Mares is associate professor, philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).Trade Review"Essential reading for anyone who is interested in the contemporary realism/anti-realism debate." Eugenio Lombardo, University of Leeds
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher
Book SynopsisFrom the book: They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ship into the wind that pinned it down, but the rudder had lifted clear of the surface and took no purchase. Water poured over the side, roaring into hatches as the wind drove the vessel across the waves and the crew clung frozen in despair. Only the captain acted, scrambling along the almost-horizontal upper sides, casting off lines to spill wind from the sails, forcing the crew into action to cut away the mizzenmast and the broken foreyard, then preventing them from doing the same to the mainmast. Finally Gabriel rose sluggishly, heavy with seawater but steering slowly off the wind. A tangle of broken rigging and sodden sails, she wallowed before the storm through the remainder of the day and all of the following night, while the captain restored order and set men to pumping the ship Trade Review"Robert McGhee's The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher conclusively demonstrates that human venality and cupidity four centuries ago was well up to modern standards. McGhee casts new light upon one of the most controversial of all arctic ventures - a colossal mining scam perpetrated by Martin Frobisher and his associates in the late sixteenth century - which McGhee tellingly likens to the infamous Bre-X fraud of our own times." Farley Mowat
£28.49
McGill-Queen's University Press The American Empire and the Fourth World
Book SynopsisCovers a range of movements whose leaders have sought to implement alternative visions of globalization to those that have prevailed since the Columbian conquests began in 1492. This work presents accounts of policies toward Aboriginals that have done much to shape the interconnected histories of the United States, Canada and Latin America.Trade Review"A very important book, full of challenging insights, fascinating information, and with a strong message." Boyce Richardson, author of People of Terra Nullius: Betrayal & Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada and Strangers Devour the Land "Hall has a wide-ranging grasp of the literature dealing with the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of both European and Indian that led to the formation of the Canadian and American societies of today. This study is both thorough and carefully worked out. I know of no other works that have synthesized such a range of thought on the establishment of the British empire in the Americas, its interweaving with indigenous politics, and the consequent rise of the United States and Canada." Olive Dickason, author of Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime
Book SynopsisWar and Society in Europe of the Old Regime provides a detailed account of how the rise of nationalism and people's armies prepared the way for the dawning of a new age.Trade Review
£23.74
McGill-Queen's University Press Dread Talk The Language of the Rastafari
Book SynopsisDescribes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how it is distinct both from Creole and Standard English. This title examines the effects of Rastafarian language on Creole in other parts of the Carribean, its influence in Jamaican poetry, and its effects on standard Jamaican English.Trade Review"Dread Talk is one of the most dramatic examples of the imbrication of language, culture and society to be found anywhere, and no one has explored this topic with as much sensitivity, detail, and insight as Velma Pollard. I regard this book as required reading for sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists, and I recommend it enthusiastically to scholars in social and cultural anthropology, sociology, comparative literature, lexicography, Caribbean Studies, and Africana/Black Studies." John R. Rickford, Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of Linguistics and Director, African and Afro-American Studies, Stanford University.Table of ContentsForeword to the first edition Rex Nettleford; Preface; Dread talk - the speech of the Rastafari in Jamaica; The social history of dread talk; Rastafarian language in St Lucia and Barbados; Dread talk - the speech of Rastafari in modern Jamaican poetry; The lexicon of dread talk in standard Jamaican English; Globalization and the language of Rastafari; The road of the dread - Lorna Goodison
£18.04
McGill-Queen's University Press Ireland a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle
Book SynopsisAs he travels through the North, Wilson gets beneath the political surface to portray both the tragedy and comedy of everyday life in the Protestant and Catholic communities. Aware of the polarized image that each side has of the other, he emphasizes the importance of finding common ground and of asserting the middle against the extremes. Just as traditional Irish music is characterized by ornamentations and elaborations on a melodic theme, Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle is full of variations and wanderings on the theme of the trip itself. And just as traditional Irish musicians will follow a sad slow air with a lively foot-tapping reel, Wilson''s mood ranges from the nostalgic and reflective to the irreverent and mischievous. If there is a lament in one ear, there is a song in the other.Trade Review"Wilson writes of Ireland and its people with wit, humour, imagination, and empathy and in a style that reveals the Irish love and understanding of language." Max Ferguson, host of The Max Ferguson Show, CBC Stereo Network.
£18.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture
Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive and critical assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work on culture, Dariusz Brzeziński offers a comparative analysis of the theories of one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foregrounding the sociologist and philosopher's Polish period, Brzeziński introduces Bauman to a new international audience.Trade Review"In this first comprehensive and critical assessment of Bauman’s lifelong work on culture, Brzeziński includes Bauman’s Polish-language papers and books, as well as his works discovered only posthumously, presenting them to an international audience." Polish Sociological Review“Brzezinski has produced a valuable and original text which provides new resources for scholars interested in Bauman’s work. It is true to Bauman’s overall goal in his sociology which always sought a critical perspective which, in defamiliarizing the familiar, encouraged his readers to think afresh about what is and what could be. … Brzezinski shows how this key trait of Bauman’s sociology, expressed in his hyperbolizing texts, can be traced back to his earliest consideration of culture in the 1960s and forward into his final pieces. In doing so, he shows how the Bauman pre-exile should count in our consideration of his sociology.” European Journal of Social Theory“Brzeziński skilfully guides the reader through much material not published in English, together with some unpublished and difficult-to-obtain material.” European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
£118.75
McGill-Queen's University Press Putting Trials on Trial
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elaine Craig offers a compelling, timely, and empirically rigorous indictment of Canadian legal professionals for their collective failure to act lawfully and ethically towards complainants in sexual assault cases." Canadian Journal of Law & Society"This thorough and convincing book should be required reading for students and practitioners of criminal law and for the law societies that govern professional conduct. It will be a useful resource for feminists concerned about the treatment of women in sexual assault trials and the psychology professionals who deal with the aftermath suffered by victims." Quill & Quire"Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession - a rigorous and damning indictment of the justice and legal systems' handling of sexual-assault cases in Canada - was finished before the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements seized national headlines. But it is arguably now more relevant than ever. For actors in and outside the legal profession, there is no shortage of answers in Craig's excoriating study. This book will undoubtedly generate controversy as it delivers a verdict upon the Canadian legal system: guilty." The Globe and Mail
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement
Book SynopsisA revealing reading of Jean Paul Riopelle's artistic method through the enduring influence of a short and intense involvement with the Automatiste movement.Trade Review"This fascinating, important, and superbly structured book has the effect of asserting Riopelle's originality not only with respect to the Montreal Automatistes, but also to American painting and to Pollock in particular. Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement stands out for its originality, its profound insights, and the beauty of its language." Lora Senechal Carney, author of Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955: Writings and Reconsiderations"This well-illustrated study of Canadian abstract painter Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) examines the artist's student days in the early 1940s at Montreal's École du Mueble and his work in the decade following, work often compared to the widely celebrated paintings of Jackson Pollack. In the present book the late Gagnon (whose father was a contemporary of and commentator on Borduas and the Automatistes) links Riopelle's independent and rebellious temperament to technique. When Riopelle broke with the Automatistes, abandoning subconscious influence for a realm of total chance, he declared, "When I hesitate, I don't paint: when I paint, I don't hesitate."" Choice
£36.05
McGill-Queen's University Press Attitudes of Play
Book SynopsisGabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.Trade Review“Attitudes of Play is essential reading for any member of society who pursues excellence. The book addresses the fundamental attitude required for all people in all fields to thrive and flourish.” Mark Nyvlt, Dominican University College and author of Aristotle and Plotinus on the Intellect: Monism and Dualism Revisited"Attitudes of Play is a compelling thinking task that has consequences for educators, leaders, managers and any of us who struggle with the complexity of life. It is a useful reminder of what it means to be human, and the need for all of us to slow down and engage in the art of living." Winnipeg Free Press“This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on play, and will stand beside such classics as Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1950) and Roger Caillois’s Man, Play, and Games (1961).” Choice
£23.39
McGill-Queen's University Press Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Book SynopsisA timely critique of the entrenchment of tradition in Islam, with solutions to recover the religion's dynamism.Trade Review"Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice offers many original and compelling insights into Qur'anic exegesis, Muslim laws, and Islamic traditions and is likely to open up new interpretive horizons for rethinking religious knowledge." Asma Barlas, Ithaca College and author of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
£105.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Diplomacy and the Arctic Council
Book SynopsisShining a light on the diplomatic dynamics of the Arctic Council and the implications of its club-like structure.Trade Review"Diplomacy and the Arctic Council takes on an innovative perspective, providing new insights into the complex organization and function of the Arctic Council, with contemporary examples." Maria Ackrén, University of Greenland"An original contribution to our understanding of the operation of the Arctic Council and to our understanding of diplomatic practices generally." Oran Young, University of California, Santa Barbara"Burke bases her conclusions on her semi-structured interviews with representatives of the Arctic states and permanent participants, and one of the volume's strengths is commentary from respondents with practical diplomatic experience." Choice"Burke's book is the first place I have seen [the exclusion of Greenpeace] earn serious analysis. As a collection of Arctic Council organizational challenges, it is comprehensive and provides details not easily found elsewhere." Arctic
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Zoo Studies
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.Trade Review"This is one of the first attempts to propose ideas and perspectives for a distinct field of zoo studies. There is a clear editorial voice here and a sense of issues being rethought and reworked. The contributors take the reader into the zoo in interesting ways, and beyond the zoo to explore issues such as conservation and cultural politics." Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, London and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Pressing Interests The Agenda and Influence of a
Book SynopsisThe first extended history of colonial Kenya's press, 1899-1960s.Trade Review"Considering the big-picture issues that affect Kenya in its analysis of Africanist literature and literacy in the newspaper publishing sector, Pressing Interests is a sophisticated and informed contribution to Kenya's already rich historiography." James Robert Brennan, University of Illinois
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Embodiment and the Meaning of Life
Book SynopsisA brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism.Trade Review"Embodiment and the Meaning of Life is a welcome addition to both scholarly and public discussions of meaningful life, spurred by the social and cultural malaise we are seeing around us. It will appeal to scholars as well as anyone interested in reflecting on an ethical life, one that never forgets the pluralism of our social worlds." Diane Enns, McMaster University"Noonan offers a careful treatment of a particularly overwrought topic by adopting a dignified stance toward humans' vulnerable, finite, and mortal nature. Meaning is the product of nonalienated labor or work that creates distinct connections between others and oneself. Thus, the meaning of life is derived from the continuity of the human project, an enterprise that, importantly, not only acknowledges the open-endedness of possible human achievement over time but also accepts death as a means of fixing identities and actions on living well. Recommended." CHOICE"Noonan's book addresses an extraordinarily prescient issue, presents a compelling thesis, supports his claims with rigorous argumentation, depth of feeling, poignant references and rich examples, all of which are rendered in a clear, accessible manner. I highly recommend Noonan's book as an outstanding achievement in the philosophy of technology, theories of labor and contemporary activism." Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity
Book SynopsisChallenging conventional wisdom on austerity in Canada after the global financial crisis.Trade Review"Provinces and territories play a fundamental role in developing and implementing economic and social policy. The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity significantly advances our understanding of how austerity measures, at once far-reaching and diverse, have altered not just specific policies but the basic nature of the provincial-territorial state." Graham White, University of Toronto"Fundamental changes to our economic system have occurred, changes that have created an extended austerity, precarious employment, and a weakening of workers' rights – sobering thoughts when considering the future of our country. How did this happen? This book provides a detailed examination of the forces that have created these changes." David Warner, chair of the Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press WestBorderRoad Nation and Genre in Contemporary
Book SynopsisA captivating look at how recent Canadian fiction, film, and television appropriate and redefine American genres.Trade Review"The author makes an engaging, cross-disciplinary, cross-genre, cross-cultural argument for the importance and interaction of the border genre, the road genre, and the American western (as a concept and construct) in cultural production in Canada. An extremely ambitious and innovative study." Jane M. Koustas, Brock University and author of Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage"Katherine Ann Roberts applies this practice [of North American cultural criticism] to a manageably large set of close readings of Canadian and American literature, television, and film. The interpretations are diligently explanatory. Roberts' chosen texts are not merely representations of a trans/national situation; they are also examples of genres evolving transnationally from American models that are economically incentivized (thus inevitable) but also subject to critique. West/Border/Road is a welcome and significant addition to the scholarly body of work that Roberts synthesizes and expands." Canadian Literature"Through her nuanced awareness of the complexities of an asymmetrical relation between US and Canadian culture, Roberts goes beyond the few existing previous studies of the Western genre in Canada that worked largely contrastively and dismissed US culture as un- Canadian. Roberts begins to show that the engagement with US genres in Canadian culture, as in Vanderhaeghe's works, goes beyond a parodic rejection and warrants a more careful examination." Western American Literature
£77.35
McGill-Queen's University Press A House of Ones Own The Moral Economy of
Book SynopsisAn intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.Trade Review"A House of One's Own provides an excellent, grounded, and accessible ethnographic analysis of the work of aid organizations on the ground." Roberto E. Barrios, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
£25.19
McGill-Queen's University Press The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital
Book SynopsisA compelling look at the remarkable progress of Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, from a community hospital to a first-class medical and research centre.
£55.80
McGill-Queen's University Press The Life of Luigi Giussani
Book SynopsisA detailed account of the life and legacy of the founder of the Communion and Liberation movement.Trade Review"Alberto Savorana has written a comprehensive, deeply researched, and insightful biography of Luigi Giussani." Reading Religion
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Contract Workers Risk and the War in Iraq
Book SynopsisUnderstanding why low-skilled workers in developing countries migrated to Iraq to support the US War on Terror.Trade Review"This book will no doubt stimulate further sociological research in many ways. It is elegantly composed, informatively written, and carefully argued. Moreover, Thomas cautiously and courageously addresses both urgent social issues and the previous research used in the analysis." American Journal of Sociology“Through a meticulous and cohesive mixture of migrants’ perspectives, empirical evidence, theoretical grounding, and policy recommendations, Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq presents a thoughtful discussion on labor migration that adds tremendously to the fields of public policy, political science, international relations, and African studies.” Abdul Karim Bangura, American University"Throughout his text, Thomas skillfully weaves together a myriad of methodologies and ideologies from disparate disciplines to critically analyze the contemporary phenomenon of Sierra Leonean labor migration to a conflict zone. Perhaps most significantly, Thomas's study bears the question of the role and responsibility of the American military in developing and enforcing policies for the fair recruitment, treatment, and protection of laborers, particularly in high-risk situations, where it is increasingly employing migratory contract workers. The contemporary cost of waging war needs to better account for the assumption of risk by migrant laborers, who increasingly find themselves employed in places where few others dare to go." H-War"Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq is a significant contribution to scholarship on military contracting and raises important questions about high-risk migration into warzones." International Migration Review"Thomas's exploration of race, in particular in looking at dynamics between African migrants and African-American soldiers, is rich and could be a study in and of itself. The processes and products of return migration that Thomas interrogates, specificall"Thomas' account of contract workers in Iraq provides detailed and first-hand insights from contract workers on military bases that will help to inform wider sociological work investigating the nature of contract work in the 21st century in all its forms.
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Look It Up
Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes guide that reveals how online information affects both patients and clinicians.Trade Review“Look It Up! should be required reading for patients who want to be better informed about how to navigate the health system in any country.” Mark H. Ebell, MD, University of Georgia and author of Evidence-Based Diagnosis: A Handbook of Clinical Prediction Rules“A fresh, easy-to-read, engaging work that will be of interest to patients and clinicians alike.” Denise Campbell-Scherer, MD, University of Alberta
£25.19
McGill-Queen's University Press Obligations and Omissions
Book SynopsisA critical examination of government practices concerning gender.Trade Review" This is an excellent collection in an important and underexplored area, with all chapters contributing to the broader agenda of critically interrogating gender in Canada' s foreign (and domestic) policy." Adrienne Roberts, University of Manchester
£28.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Governing PublicPrivate Partnerships
Book SynopsisA look at the dilemmas involved in using the private sector to deliver public infrastructure.Trade Review" Governing Public-Private Partnerships offers a fresh perspective on the study of public-private partnerships by connecting this literature with broader scholarship on governance and public policy. It also provides a detailed analysis of two major infrastructure projects, supported by documentary analysis and elite interviews." Daniel Henstra, University of Waterloo
£30.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Mourning Nature
Book SynopsisA pioneering work exploring the implications for politics, ethics, and praxis.Trade Review" This is a major collection that addresses an issue that has received relatively little attention despite its long-standing centrality to environmental concerns. It will become a place-maker for very important future work." Mick Smith, Queen' s University " This multidisciplinary collection will appeal to readers who work in ecocriticism, animal studies, extinction studies, psychology, counselling and therapy, social work, place studies, geography, the Anthropocene, sustainability issues, and the environmental arts. While scholarly in nature, it is accessible to general readers who might be struggling with feelings related to environmental loss, geographical displacement, and activist burnout." Pamela Banting, University of Calgary
£31.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Picturing Toronto
Book SynopsisIn 1911, when Arthur Goss was hired as Toronto's first official photographer, the city was at a critical juncture. Industry expansion and population growth produced pressing concerns about housing shortages, sanitation, and the health and welfare of citizens. Dispelling popular misconceptions, Picturing Toronto demonstrates that Goss and other photographers did not simply document the changing conditions of urban life their photography contributed to the development of modern Toronto and shaped its inhabitants. Drawing on archival sources from the early twentieth century, Sarah Bassnett investigates how a range of groups, including the municipal government, social reformers, and the press, used photography to reconfigure the urban environment and constitute liberal subjects. Through a series of case studies, including the construction of the Bloor Viaduct, civic beautification plans, urban reform in the Ward, immigration and citizenship, and Goss's portrait photography, Bassnett exposTrade Review"Picturing Toronto offers a visually compelling look at the history of Toronto in its quest for modernity, and offers a glimpse into how a new form of technology could be a transformative force in a rapidly evolving city." Spacing
£49.30
McGill-Queen's University Press Designing Fictions Literature Confronts
Book SynopsisFrom Tono-Bungay to Mad Men - how fiction has treated the omnipresent influence of advertising.Trade Review"An engagingly written, effective, and important book that will appeal not only to those who are interested in literature but also to those interested in advertising and marketing as key features of contemporary capitalist culture." John Xiros Cooper, University of British Columbia "Designing Fictions has a genial style, a learned demeanor, genuine insight, and gracious erudition. The range of reference is pleasantly wide and subtle and Ross's scholarship and methodology are excellent." Allan Hepburn, McGill University
£20.69
McGill-Queen's University Press Then and Now Collecting and Classicism in
Book SynopsisA fresh account of the British aristocracy's relationship with the classical world.Trade Review" Coutu deftly handles the intersection of English classicism, collecting and political culture in compelling case studies that are filled with significant new finds and insights." Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia " Then and Now often strikes the reader as a study that exemplifies the virtues of beauty and grace it explores in the mid-eighteenth-century collections it features. Tightly structured, it moves smoothly from the micro to the macro level, integrating its signature case studies within a larger discussion of the triangulation of politics, collecting, and classicism in eighteenth-century culture. It offers impressively detailed accounts of the genesis, scope, and significance of each of the four individual collections it showcases, each brought to life through rich and plentiful illustration." H-Net " This highly theoretical and erudite book offers a thorough analysis of a narrow selection of individuals within a limited time-frame, setting them in the wider context of the collecting tastes and patterns of the eighteenth century as a whole." Journal of the History of Collections
£87.55
McGill-Queen's University Press Maps and Memes
Book SynopsisA critical introduction to Canadian cartography and counter-mapping in indigenous, legal, and educational contexts.Trade Review"A thought-provoking book, Maps and Memes adds to our understanding of the colonial legacies of cartography in indigenous Canada. Gwilym Eades makes the important argument that maps have shaped native reality by defining the pre-existing spatial structures of the land with imposed names and borders." Hans M. Carlson, author of Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land
£29.45
McGill-Queen's University Press The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal
Book SynopsisA first-hand account of the Eternal City in wartime Italy from within the Vatican's inner circle.Trade Review“The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal opens a window on the war years of the Fascist regime, and presents insights of the growing opposition within Italian society to Mussolini’s dreadful decision of joining the fray in 1940.” H-Net
£28.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Passage to Promise Land Voices of Chinese
Book SynopsisHow the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.Trade Review"This remarkable work gives voice to women who defied the odds to wrestle ownership of their own lives and provide their children with an education. They remind us that the multicultural mosaic of Canada must be built on an understanding of cultural differences and on leveraging the richness of talents that diversity brings." Anna Wu, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press The Illustrated History of Canada
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada''s leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these elements created a sweeping chronicle of Canada from its earliest times to yesterday''s news. Now The Illustrated History of Canada has been fully updated to bring readers into the twenty-first century, with new material on such topics as the rise of small government, the recognition of Native land claims, Canada''s role in the post-Cold War peace, and the 2011 federal election. More than ever, The Illustrated History of Canada is a must-have reference guide for all Canadians interested in the history - and the future - of our country. Contributors include Ramsay Cook (emeritus, York University), Christopher Moore (Toronto writer), Desmond Morton (McGill University), Arthur Ray (emeritus, UnivTrade Review"... the best general history of Canada written during the past three or four decades." Kingston Whig Standard "This splendid new look at Canada's history ... deserves a place in the homes of informed Canadians." Calgary Herald "... a page-turning good read and good everyman's reference book." Vancouver Sun
£31.35
