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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
McGill-Queen's University Press A Peoples Reformation Building the English
Book SynopsisA People’s Reformation offers a reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival research, Lucy Kaufman argues that England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people, but because of them – through their active social, political, and religious participation.Trade Review“I am hugely impressed by this book. It fizzes with new insights and makes a genuinely substantial contribution to the field. It reframes the subject compellingly, asks questions that have not been asked but should have been, and answers questions that have generally been dismissed as unanswerable. It will become an indispensable point of reference.” Alec Ryrie, Durham University“Kaufman’s spirited and learned book, in terms of both new knowledge and the historiographical intervention it makes, represents a major contribution to research on the Elizabethan Church.” William J. Bulman, Lehigh University
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Lines Drawn across the Globe
Book SynopsisAround 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe’s boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England’s encounter with the world and the nation’s idea of itself, Fuller unlocks Hakluyt’s work for modern readers.Trade Review“Mary Fuller is one of the foremost scholars of early modern English travel writing, and Lines Drawn across the Globe is the result of a long career of nuanced assessment of writings on travel and encounter. Not just a textual study, this is also an investigation into early modern geography, European rivalries, and global expansion. It provides the most comprehensive guide to reading Hakluyt that is currently available.” Daniel Carey, University of Galway“Lines Drawn across the Globe is a magisterial work many years in the making, a personal reading of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations of the English Nation by a scholar of literature that deploys real expertise, and an indispensable analytical guide to a text whose size and diversity can be daunting. While Hakluyt is often interpreted in the context of the history of early English colonialism in the Atlantic, emphasizing long-term historical consequences and the mythology of New World exceptionalism, Fuller offers a more nuanced exploration of the book’s rich and varied contents.” Joan-Pau Rubiés, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
£40.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Enduring Work
Book SynopsisComparing the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, and integrating the perspectives of employers both reluctant and reckless, Catherine Connelly unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program and offers nuanced strategies to improve it.Trade Review“Enduring Work is well-grounded empirically, clearly written, and engaging – a valuable addition to the literature. The book closely examines the lives of Temporary Foreign Workers, using a clear human resources perspective, and enhances our understanding of the program and workers’ experiences with it.” Jason Foster, Athabasca University and co-author of Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces“Informative and accessible, Enduring Work offers useful reading to students of labour studies, sociology, migration, and geography, as well as anyone interested in Canadian issues.” Alison Braley-Rattai, Brock University and co-author of *Canadian Labour Relations: Law, Policy, and Practice *"This work takes the myth that there are any winners in Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) regimes head-on. Connelly compares the Canadian experience with that of other countries. Her findings conclude that Temporary Labor Migration programs are not the panacea everyone hopes for. Highly recommended." Choice
£99.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Religion and the Postrevolutionary Mind
Book SynopsisReligion and the Post-Revolutionary Mind demonstrates the central place religion occupied in the intellectual life of post-revolutionary France. Arthur McCalla gives nuance and context to the debates over the role of religion between Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals.Trade Review“With his sharp insight and astute analysis, McCalla shows the richness and variety of French theories of religion, bringing us into the cultural milieu most directly impacted by the French Revolution. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of ideas in France, European ideas generally, and to ongoing debates in the field of religious studies.” Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Booze Cigarettes and Constitutional DustUps
Book SynopsisIn 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau’s story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interprovincial trade.Trade Review“With Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-ups, Ryan Manucha helps explain the history of the internal trade barriers that have led to … head-scratching disparities. Manucha finds a would-be ‘trade-barrier dragon-slayer’ in Gerard Comeau, who in 2013 Was fined for bringing 49 bottles of beer and three bottles of liquor into New Brunswick from Quebec.” Literary Review of Canada“In Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups, Ryan Manucha brilliantly and accessibly writes about the difficult and often bizarre evolution of interprovincial trade in Canada. For decades, politicians and courts have grappled with this issue, often with unsatisfactory results. This important new book gives readers the history of something that is truly (and unfortunately) Canadian — why it is sometimes easier to import something from another country than it is to “import” something from another province.” 2023 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Jury (Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis, and Scott Young)“Canada’s economy has been hampered by interprovincial trade barriers for decades, … [Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups] sees reasons for hope the provinces can find more common ground.” Director Journal
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press France in the World The Career of Andr233
Book SynopsisAndré Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.Trade Review“It is too easy to view Siegfried as ‘a man of his time.’ Instead, Kennedy aligns Siegfried's eclectic and wide-ranging theories with a racial and ethnic essentialism that is linked as much to eugenics and racial science as it is to the soft prejudices of his class and era. Revealing this thread throughout the academic’s entire life work, France in the World makes a devastating, convincing, and important argument that transcends the case of Siegfried and can be widely applied to a whole generation of interwar/postwar intellectuals.” Seth Armus, St Joseph's College and author of French Anti-Americanism 1930¬–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History"Kennedy’s intellectual biography of the French political scientist André Siegfried offers a multifaceted and insightful, if ultimately negative, appraisal of the legacy of this influential thinker. Recommended. Graduate students, and faculty.” Choice“André Siegfried (1875-1959) was that political oxymoron, a liberal-conservative. The label might appear to defy definition, but Sean Kennedy’s well-researched and judicious intellectual biography of the man gives flesh and meaning to the term.” H-France
£79.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Secession and Conflict Iraqi Kurdistan in
Book SynopsisThe overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 in Iraq opened the door for Kurdish nationalists to establish an independent state. Drawing on historical research and first-hand interviews, Secession and Conflict asks why Iraqi Kurdistan has not declared independence, and offers a comparative analysis into the calculations of Kurdish leaders as they navigate the complicated politics of Iraq.Trade Review“Well written and convincing, Zheger Hassan takes a qualitative comparative approach to Iraqi Kurdistan's referendum on independence and its outcome. This is an important analytical method from which future studies on the Kurds will benefit.” David Romano, Missouri State University
£77.35
McGill-Queen's University Press Uttering the Unutterable Aristotle Religion and
Book SynopsisUttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence as the defining criterion of literature.Trade Review“Groarke’s fascinating book looks at what lifts literature above fleeting prose into something loftier and lasting.” *Atlantic Books Today *
£84.15
McGill-Queen's University Press Red Mitten Nationalism Sport Commercialism and
Book SynopsisUnacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial features of this country’s sporting events. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates contemporary Canadian patriotism by exploring how understandings of Canadian identity are shaped at the intersection of sport, nationalism, and commercialism.Trade Review“Fresco engages with the timely and important issues of colonization, reconciliation, and Indigenous resistance through the lens of sport. Thoughtful, insightful, and benefitting greatly from the author's own considerable primary research, Red Mitten Nationalism makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the connections between the Olympic Games, nationalism, and commercialism.” Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University and author of Sport and Modernity
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Distant Stage Quebec Brazil and the Making of
Book SynopsisDistant Stage examines the neglected histories of Canada-Brazil relations and the role culture played in Canada’s pursuit of an international identity. French-Canadian artists, intellectuals, and diplomats are at the heart of both. Eric Fillion shows how Brazil served as a distant stage where Canadian identity politics and aspirations could play out.Trade Review“The research in Distant Stage is excellent, and the writing is really exceptional; it is a pleasure to be guided through the significance of the interwoven cultural episodes at the heart of this book. This is truly a study of two countries’ relations in the cultural and diplomatic fields, not simply Canada's approach to one country. Nonetheless, it does a great deal to rectify the neglect of Quebec, French Canada, and Catholicism in English scholarship on Canada and the world.” David Webster, Bishop's University and author of Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press The Boundaries of Ethnicity German Immigration
Book SynopsisBenjamin Bryce considers what it meant to be German in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. For the Germans who make up the core of this study, the distinction between insiders and outsiders was often unclear. The Boundaries of Ethnicity uncovers some of the origins of Canadian multiculturalism, and government’s attempts to manage this diversity.Trade Review“A well-written book, The Boundaries of Ethnicity convincingly demonstrates the complexity and fluidity of people’s understanding of ethnicity.” Carmela Patrias, Brock University“The strength of this book lies in its thorough reading of documents in both English and German to provide a picture of the complex nature of German and Germanness in Ontario during this time period.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Lost and Found Voices
Book SynopsisLost and Found Voices explores how four gay writers – Gombrowicz, Pereleshin, Taïa, and Mogutin – use language and exilic realities to voice their identities. Tracing their expressions of desire in language, culture, and community, Beaudoin offers a contextual queer reading that navigates the artists’ self-portrayals.Trade Review“Cogent and convincing, Lost and Found Voices juxtaposes the lives and writings of four queer émigré authors, working in different times, places, and languages, to allow transnational commonalities to emerge. Weaving his own personal experiences into the analysis, Beaudoin’s approach is bold and compelling.” Brian James Baer, Kent State University and author of Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire“An insightful study that is strengthened by the author’s personal reflections... . The volume proves particularly timely in today’s political moment, when a new wave of LGBTQ+ refugees are fleeing a Russia that has redoubled its anti-gay stance." Modern Language Review
£67.15
McGill-Queen's University Press Configurations of a Cultural Scene
Book SynopsisIn the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, resulting in a tightly-woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. Configurations of a Cultural Scene explores this growing community of artists with a focus on how sites of face-to-face interaction fostered creative work and forged identities.Trade Review“Configurations of a Cultural Scene is a major step forward in illuminating the vibrant and often radical cultural activities of the 1920s. Moreover, it demonstrates the crucial importance of collective engagement in fomenting artistic innovation.” Juli Highfill, University of Michigan and author of Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920–1930
£67.15
McGill-Queen's University Press Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery
Book SynopsisTrade Review“By presenting Montgomery’s fiction as conversing with past and present creative writers, contributors provide a helpful focal point within the broad framework of the collection, extending prior conceptual understandings of the cultural role of reading.” Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic“This collection [is] valuable and [a rarity] in academic literary studies. It is a book both for scholars and for the “Maud Squad.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press The Canadian Federal Election of 2021
Book SynopsisA group of distinguished political scientists and journalists reveals the significance of the 2021 federal election, providing an account of Canadian democracy in an age of increasing rancour and polarization, explaining why the Liberals did not win a majority government, and offering important lessons for the present, and for the election to come.Trade Review“A must‐read. Jon Pammett and Chris Dornan have assembled a stellar team of political analysts to dissect the last federal election. Approachable and engaging, their volume is the best post‐mortem in the country.” Kate Malloy, The Hill Times“Timely and thorough. This volume will be a staple on the shelves of anyone working in the field of voting, elections, and political parties in Canada, as well as on the syllabus of many related courses.” Joanna Everitt, University of New Brunswick and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Mixing Medicines
Book SynopsisMixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia’s involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.Trade Review“By shifting attention to the medicines themselves, Clare Griffin makes a novel contribution to long-standing discussions. Griffin provides new insights on Muscovy’s place in the world and on the functioning of the Apothecary Chancery itself. Mixing Medicines will be equally valuable to specialists in Russian history and specialists in the global history of medicine. The Appendices of the book, which list the ingredients recorded in Russian-language prescriptions, giving English or Latin equivalents and place of origin, constitute a much-needed reference glossary. Scholars of the history of medicine gain insight into premodern Russia, presented in terms of discussion familiar to them.” Social History of Medicine“In this slim but brilliant work ... Griffin makes a crucial contribution to drug history, Russian history, and the history of globalization. Mixing Medicines shows how the global impacts the local, by showing how imported drugs act on domestic lives, and has resonance today.” *Canadian Journal of Health History *
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Postcards from the Western Front
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people interested in the history of war, and its aftereffects.Trade Review‘This highly engaging and timely study gives historical precedents to understand contemporary examples of remembrance and mourning. There is no other work that examines the travel literature and ephemera of the Western Front in the way that Connelly does here.’ Ross Wilson, University of Nottingham and author of Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain “This book is thought-provoking and impressive in its scope and its attention to detail and is a must read for anyone curious about the experiences of those early visitors to the sites so familiar to us today.” The Western Front Association"A meticulously researched and vividly detailed analysis of the impact of war on the landscape and society of the battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Connelly’s study provides valuable insights into the motivations and significance of visiting battlefields and the first mass tourism to former sites of war and violence, as well as the emergence of a whole new industry." Francia-Recensio
£30.60
McGill-Queen's University Press The Orangeman Second Edition
Book SynopsisFrom the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces.Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson's telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-Trade Review“A commentary upon an historical figure and the writing of history itself. This gives the book a delicious irony that just might herald the advent of post-modernism in Canadian historical scholarship.” Ontario History“A fascinating book that asks and answers the questions historians often avoid.” The Globe and Mail
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Drugging France
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century drug consumption permeated French society and encouraged the chemical enhancement of modern life. Drugging France highlights the medical histories of these drugs, chronicling how doctors transformed exotic botanicals and unpredictable chemicals into substances that reconfigured how people experienced their minds and bodies.Trade Review“Highly accessible and enjoyable to read, Drugging France is pathbreaking not only for the historical literature on France, but for the entire field of drug history.” Howard Padwa, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs“This fascinating work is an important contribution to the understanding of the practices of care, pleasure, and experimentation made possible by psychotropic drugs in the nineteenth century. Sara Black considerably enriches a historiography that has until now been too concentrated on the phenomenon of addiction, by showing how much the use of psychotropic drugs was in fact anchored in the practices of the French, and by extension of Westerners, in a complex and varied set of consumptions.” H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews"A meticulously researched and vividly detailed analysis of the impact of war on the landscape and society of the battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Connelly’s study provides valuable insights into the motivations and significance of visiting battlefields and the first mass tourism to former sites of war and violence, as well as the emergence of a whole new industry." Francia-Recensio
£30.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Shattering Silos
Book SynopsisIs truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant when political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain? Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, this book provides a path-breaking response to these questions to help redirect an allegedly post-truth society.
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Under Siege Islamophobia and the 911 Generation
Book SynopsisTwenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Under Siege examines how the global war on terror and heightened anti-Muslim racism have affected millennials who were socialized into a world where their faith and identity are under attack. Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth to unpack the dynamics of Islamophobia.Trade Review“Under Siege is an exceptionally poignant, meticulously researched, and profoundly detailed account of Islamophobia in Canada that will stir the soul and fire the intellect. It is the definitive contribution to the study of Islamophobia and questions relating to the representation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian society to date.” Tahir Abbas, Leiden University and author of Countering Violent Extremism: The International Deradicalization Agenda
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press The Pen the Sword and the Law Dueling and
Book SynopsisWhen duelling became widespread in early twentieth-century Uruguay, legislators facing this dilemma chose the unique and radical path of legalization. This book vividly explores how the only country in the world to decriminalize duelling managed the tension between these informal but widely accepted “gentlemanly laws” and its own criminal code.Trade Review“Uruguay is an attractive test case for a public sphere-centered political history. This book offers an engaging and productive way to approach that history from what would appear to be a side angle (the duel) but is in reality its central manifestation (the role of the press in public life).” Pablo Piccato, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America“Profundo y sutil, The Pen, the Sword, and the Law muestra la adopción del duelo como práctica moderna [y] ofrece al lector una interpretación luminosa de su persistencia en la larga duración y de su ocaso, así como de la esfera pública y de la política del Uruguay moderno.” Sandra Gayol, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe“Detailed and written in an engaging style, the book will hold appeal for legal historians and for scholars of the press and state-building in Latin America.” The Americas
£40.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Transforming Medical Education
Book SynopsisTransforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that critically foreground processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts. As a collection, this book makes a powerful argument about the contextual diversity of instruction and identity formation in medicine.Trade Review“Presenting several original perspectives based in archival research, Transforming Medical Education reaches beyond medical education to treat themes such as the structure of modern universities, intellectual and cultural history, the history of nursing, Canadian and American history, and post-secondary education studies. In particular, the inclusion of an interview with Professor Jacalyn Duffin is a significant historical contribution.” Frank Stahnisch, University of Calgary and author of A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences
£48.60
McGill-Queen's University Press From the Theater to the Plaza Spectacle Protest
Book SynopsisThis innovative study sketches the physical and imaginary contours of Lavapiés, one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods. By linking its role as a site and subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, Feinberg offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the contemporary city.Trade Review“From the Theater to the Plaza provides an indispensable look into the dialogic relationship between urban space and theater. Matthew Feinberg skillfully moves across three scales of experience (the local, the municipal, and the global) to offer a compelling reading of the urban history of both Madrid and Lavapiés.” Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University and author of Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology“Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapiés to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.” Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press New Leaders New Dawns
Book SynopsisIn late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised, a “new dawn” has not yet arrived in southern Africa.Trade Review“This edited volume provides a rich and authoritative account of the transitions in South Africa and Zimbabwe, presenting a critical and timely analysis of the political landscape of both countries. Each chapter skilfully captures the nuances and complexities of reform in each country, while situating these challenges in broader regional and international contexts of political transitions around the world.” International Affairs
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Through Their Eyes
Book SynopsisBy the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens.After securing the hill on 15 August, Canadian soldiers endured days of shelling, machine-gun fire, and poison gas as they repelled relentless enemy counterattacks. Through Their Eyes depicts this remarkable but costly victory in a unique way. With full-colour graphic artwork and detailed illustration, Matthew Barrett and Robert Engen picture the battle from different perspectives Currie's strategic view at high command, a junior officer's experience at the platoon level, and the vantage points of many lesser-known Canadian soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. This innovative graphic history invites readers to reimagine the First World War Trade Review“This innovative graphic history provides a new way of understanding the complexity and carnage of the First World War. Employing vivid graphics and authoritative history, Matthew Barrett and Robert C. Engen offer multiple and diverse perspectives to reclaim the Battle of Hill 70 for a new generation.” Tim Cook, author of Vimy: The Battle and the Legend“Creative and innovative, Through Their Eyes offers a new way to commemorate and connect to the history of the First World War.” Sean Carleton, University of Manitoba and the Graphic History Collective“Through Their Eyes presents a vivid depiction, both literally and figuratively, of the horrors of war. The authors view Hill 70 from the perspective of individuals at very different levels of status and responsibility, from the general to the frontline infantryman, interpreting scant evidence and imaginatively filling in the gaps.” Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton“A multifaceted and nuanced look at a complex battle in an incredibly complex war. It will have you looking at photos and paintings of The Great War in a new light, considering both what was shown and what was left out.” Winnipeg Free Press“Through their Eyes provides inspiration for historians who wish to be both thorough researchers and gripping storytellers. It is the ‘permanent evolution’ history writing deserves.” Prairie History
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada and Climate Change
Book SynopsisCanada has committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Canadian citizens need to understand why our most distinguished climate scientists and our senior political leaders think that we must meet this target. Canada and Climate Change explains the importance of policies that will ensure we meet the net-zero emissions target.Trade Review“There is much to admire in Canada and Climate Change. The research is impeccable, the writing accessible, and the tone measured. It clearly identifies the problem, and its proposed solution is spot-on, although deep decarbonization will not be easy. In fact, it will be bloody hard because, as Leiss notes, it will require halving global emissions in every decade between now and 2050 in order to achieve net zero – itself a controversial idea because net zero is not zero.” Literary Review of Canada“Grounded broadly in risk theory, Leiss provides an excellent climate primer: addressing what is meant by ‘climate’, detailing the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, and describing climate science methods and future projections. Leiss makes an impactful argument about the unique and vulnerable characteristics of the climate niche in which human society emerged and thrived in the last twelve thousand years, and the fact that ‘we have begun to move outside this range … at an accelerating rate, with no end in sight.’” H-Environment
£18.99
McGill-Queen's University Press From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
Book SynopsisTrade Review“From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg acquaints the English-language reader with an important document about the Holocaust. It’s especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of creating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat.” Forward Reviews“This book is a must-read for any student and scholar of the Holocaust. It is a captivating documentation of life in the Vilna Ghetto, with valuable additional material about the poet’s Nuremberg testimony and encounters with Soviet Yiddish writers. Cammy and Novershtern’s stellar editing and translation make the book an indispensable tool for delineating the complex historical and political contexts of Sutzkever’s poetry during and after the war.” LA Review of Books
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Religion Ethnonationalism and Antisemitism in the
Book SynopsisIn the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism – a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined ethnic community – at the centre of its analysis.Trade Review“Kevin Spicer and Rebecca Carter-Chand have assembled an impressive range of contributors for this book, many of whom are recognized scholars in their particular fields. The term ethnonationalism is woefully underutilized by historians, and this book is a strong argument in favour of its insertion into established narratives about nationalism and antisemitism in the interwar period.” Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University and author of Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation“The tension [of a ‘dualistic view of antisemitism’], weaves through many chapters [and] deserves special emphasis and examination. Such an approach could help create a better understanding of the dynamics of the ethnicization of religion. One will find more than enough stimulus [for future research] here.” European History Quarterly“The project is ambitious … each part reminds historians that the combination of religion, ethnic identity, and antisemitism were a constant in the vast majority of the cases included in this volume. The book ends with an exceptional overview of the major themes encountered in the essays [that] poignantly reminds us that Christianity, ethnonationalism, and antisemitism combined in a lethal way in the 1930’s and 1940’s, that this dangerous mixture still exists in today’s society, and that this should encourage further research.” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations“This important collection of essays adds a welcome dimension to our understanding of antisemitism in the interwar period and provides a challenge for those who believe that religious faith has something positive to contribute to politics and society.” Canadian Slavonic Papers
£48.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Hidden Scourge
Book SynopsisAnalyzing over 100,000 industrial spills from Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Montana, and the Northwest Territories, this book takes the reader behind the firewall of disinformation to uncover scientific truths about crude oil and saline water spills and the cumulative impacts of the fossil fuel industry on ecosystems and society.Trade Review"This is a remarkable investigation that should open many eyes, and perhaps many hearts." Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature"This book is bound to become a seminal work for anyone concerned with the impact of the fossil fuel industry on our land, health, and governments. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment." Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State“A must-read for oil historians and environmental historians seeking to understand the ecological impacts of fossil fuel industry spills.” H-Environment
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Women at the Helm
Book SynopsisWomen at the Helm explores the accomplishments of the first three women to direct the National Gallery of Canada during three transformative decades in its history. From leadership styles to challenges faced to contributions to the institution, Nemiroff considers their remarkable careers and the obstacles still faced by women in leadership today.Trade Review"In addition to its thorough analysis of the challenges faced by women in leadership positions, this is a book about women leaders and their everyday work. Women at the Helm paints a rich picture of what it means to lead a major art institution and tells us as much about the history of the National Gallery of Canada as it does about the women who led the institution during a very formative period." Anne Whitelaw, Concordia University and author of Spaces and Places for Art: Making Art Institutions in Western Canada, 1912–1990"Seldom have I read a book in which the issues facing institutions and their directors are so deeply researched, so clearly synthesized, and so engagingly presented. Diana Nemiroff demonstrates the complex circumstances in which each director found herself and lays out in detail the obstacles of bureaucracy, the veiled challenges to women in leadership positions, and the need for arm's-length governance of national cultural institutions. Women at the Helm is a fascinating page-turner." Joyce Zemans, York University and co-editor of Museums after Modernism: Strategies of Engagement“In this vibrant intellectual history of the National Gallery of Canada, Diana Nemiroff draws out the leadership and legacy of three women guiding this key Canadian institution from the 1960s to the 1990s. Written with a deft knowledge of cultural policy, the gallery’s internal workings, and the importance of curators and artists, this fine book reveals the many challenges of the gallery in navigating this turbulent and transformative period. Nemiroff never loses sight of the research, exhibitions, and artworks that were often at the centre of debate, discussion, and controversy under these three exceptional directors.” 2022 Ottawa Book Awards jury"This is an important book, and the successes and failures that Nemiroff lays bare make for essential reading for anyone interested in Canada’s artistic heritage or in institutional leadership." RACAR
£31.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Flora
Book SynopsisIn Flora!, co-authored by Geoffrey Stevens, the politician and humanitarian Flora Isabel MacDonald tells her amazing journey, from her childhood in Cape Breton through her years in backroom politics and elected office, ending with her exceptional humanitarian work in war-torn Afghanistan and other developing countries.Trade Review"Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World is an inspirational presentation of a life of great achievement and feminist trail-blazing. Flora MacDonald was an extraordinary person who had an exemplary career as politician and feminist. This (auto)biography will be essential to preserving her memory.” Sandford Borins, University of Toronto“Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World is a captivating tale of hopes and dreams, schemes and crushing disappointment. [Steven’s] decision to maintain the first person — writing as Flora might have — lends authenticity and intimacy while dispelling any ideas that this is a purely objective account. What emerges is a proud, private person with fierce determination, a commitment to social justice, and a strong sense of self.” Literary Review of Canada“Flora! is more than the history of a groundbreaking feminist (who, it must be said, never embraced that label). It is also a glimpse of Progressive Conservative Party politics in midtwentieth- century Canada. Typical of its time, the party was dominated by middle-aged white men, but it was also a party that had room for progressive Red Tories, such as MacDonald herself. She elbowed her way into those backrooms and has left a lively account of the policy battles and personality clashes in which she participated. For any student of party evolution in Canada, Flora! is a valuable source.” Charlotte Gray, Canada’s History“A fascinating, seamless, and complete memoir of Flora MacDonald, a truly exceptional woman.” The Miramichi Reader“Reflecting on her life Flora states that “it is hard for anyone to assess his or her own accomplishments. I knew I had made a contribution, and I hoped I had made a difference in some of the causes that I took on.” Flora! makes it clear that she definitely made both a contribution and a difference.” Canadian Historical Review
£55.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Documenting Displacement
Book SynopsisThis project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers.Trade Review“Documenting Displacement advances and challenges our thinking and approach to conducting ethically sound research with people on the move. It effectively questions our more traditional research tools and approaches while providing guidance in how to explore alternatives.” Susan McGrath, York University
£116.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Disputing New France
Book SynopsisChallenging the traditional narrative of an orderly establishment of law, sovereignty, and authority in the colony, Disputing New France reveals how negotiations and contestations among a range of actors actively shaped empire building, offering readers an intertwined history of French state formation and empire building in New France.Trade Review“Dewar’s book is a compelling and incisive study of early New France and a tremendous contribution to the flourishing field of French colonial scholarship.[…] Disputing New France succeeds wonderfully as a challenge to the odd historiographical wall of disapproval that inevitably faces those who study the history of France’s overseas colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” H-France
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Berruyers Bible
Book SynopsisBerruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state.Trade Review“Berruyer’s Bible is an exceptional contextual analysis and account of one of the great theological and literary scandals of eighteenth-century France. Berruyer’s drama is historically significant in itself, but the use of his book’s origin and fate to shed light on the religious, cultural, and political tensions of eighteenth-century France (and vice versa), and the continuation of that exploration into a nineteenth century too often detached from early modern phenomena, make this a work of genuine scholarly originality, power, and importance.” Alan Charles Kors, University of Pennsylvania“Daniel Watkins has told a complex story with clarity and style. It is supported with extensive archival research, particularly in Jesuit records and correspondence. He argues convincingly that Berruyer’s version of the Bible became a major player in political and religious confrontations as public opinion was formed or gained influence. At every point where a reader might wish for cultural or other contexts, they are provided. Scholars are fortunate to now have access to a book-length study of Berruyer’s Histoire, and a very fine study it is.” XVIII. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press The Making of a Museum
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chronicling a century of cultural engagement with a focus on Guelph's growing artistic community, Judith Nasby weaves personal recollections with reflections on her journey: building a collection, creating an exhibition, publication, and education program, and profiling Indigenous and Canadian art. The Making of a Museum is as much a portrait of Guelph's art centre as it is the story of the development of generations of contemporary artists in Canada. With this book, Nasby focuses attention and research on Guelph's active and engaged artistic communities." Georgiana Uhlyarik, curator of Canadian art"The Making of a Museum is a timely account of the creation and growth of a mid-sized Canadian university art museum. The themes are broadly conceived around cultures of display, yet this is not a study of abstract museology. Judith Nasby interweaves her story with personal anecdotes that tell the tale of the art institution, while revealing the passion and behind-the-scenes manoeuvres that have sustained it. The end result is something quite rare and unexpected – the story of a university art gallery brought to life by a narrator who has dedicated her career to the art museum." Carmen Robertson, Carleton University
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Hitlers Cosmopolitan Bastard
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An evocative portrait of an underappreciated statesman, someone who embraced the ideal of a united Europe long before others. In the time of Brexit and other manifestations of contemporary populism, it is well worth recalling the turbulence of the mid-twentieth century and the bravery of those who stood up against tyranny." John Kampfner, author of Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country"The writing of Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard sparkles. At last, the story of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi can be widely shared in the English-speaking world. This is an enthralling tale of vanished worlds and a charismatic personality. It is a stunning achievement, telling the story of his fight for a United States of Europe alongside his complex personal life, and deserves rich praise." Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died under Nazi Occupation"A comprehensive study of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his profound influence on the pan-European outlook of Churchill and Amery could not be more timely as a Conservative government forces the UK to turn its back on the grand European project that was Coudenhove's conception. Drawing on many hitherto unavailable family papers, Martyn Bond has constructed a rich, seamless narrative describing this mesmerizing personality." Richard Bassett, author of Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Canadas Waste Flows
Book SynopsisFrom shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory.Canada''s Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveals waste as less of a technological problem and more of a material, economic, political, historical, and cultural concern. Canada''s Waste Flows demonstrates that Canadians are misdirecting their attention to post-consumer waste and their responsibility for minimizing it through recycling; waste must be understood as a social justice issue, and in particular as a symptom of ongoing settler colonialism. Through a comparative Trade Review"Canada's Waste Flows generatively redirects the reader's vision away from urban recycling and domestic waste towards the larger problems of waste contamination generated by settler colonialism, neoliberal government, and resource extraction in the Canadian North. Rigorously researched and tightly theorized, Myra Hird's compelling book demonstrates how waste is much more than a technical challenge for specialists: waste has become a pervasive geological stratum, an index of the Anthropocene, which poses urgent challenges for social thought and political action in Canada and beyond." Andrew Barry, University College London"Canada's Waste Flows is one of the first attempts not just to discuss the challenges posed by waste in a municipal or national framework, but to connect these municipal and national politics to global events. Hird examines Canada's waste problems and their colonial legacies in a detailed and holistic way. A fascinating read." Sabrina Peric, University of Calgary
£29.45
McGill-Queen's University Press Cautiously Hopeful Metafeminist Practices in
Book SynopsisIf feminism has always been characterised by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. A hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the 21st century.Trade Review"Cautiously Hopeful is a genuine pleasure to read and offers an original and timely contribution to feminist literary scholarship in Canada. Carriere moves deftly between Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois texts with sensitivity and awareness, demonstrating her nuanced understanding and expertise." Heather Milne, University of Winnipeg and author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics
£28.45
McGill-Queen's University Press Progress Pluralism and Politics
Book SynopsisWilliams examines the colonial and anti-colonial arguments of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and L.T. Hobhouse. He reveals some of the central ambiguities that characterise the ways that liberal thought has dealt with the reality of an illiberal world.Trade Review"Progress, Pluralism, and Politics reconstructs a significantly more intricate story of liberalism than what is typically told. The subtlety of Williams' analysis, and his willingness to provide a nuanced account of both the liberal tradition and the individual authors that he considers in his book, are really appreciated." Brian Schmidt, Carleton University"Progress, Pluralism, and Politics makes a timely contribution to the recent debates on liberalism's historical liaisons with imperialism. David Williams insightfully reconstructs the philosophical aporias that liberal anticolonialism has found difficult to avoid and even more difficult to resolve." Onur Ulas Ince, Singapore Management University and author of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism
£98.60
