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To most Canadians, the Molson name is part ofthe very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when JohnMolson founded his first brewery in Montreal, ithas become synonymous with beer, hockey, andphilanthropy. Few realize, however, how close thefamily came in recent years to losing control ofthe enterprise. Back to Beer … and Hockey offersintimate details of the life and work of Eric Molson, who not only saved the company, butpositioned it to thrive as a global brewery into the twenty-first century.

With unprecedented access to the Molson fam-ily, Helen Antoniou traces Eric Molson’s evolutionfrom a young brewmaster captivated by the chem-istry of beer-making to chairman of Molson. Quietby nature, he had to confront big egos, navigatecomplex boardroom politics, and even battle a dis-ruptive cousin who tried to push him out of theway. Antoniou’s carefully researched account de-tails how the introverted Eric overcame his aver-sion to conflict to take the company from a failingconglomerate back to its core business of beer,eventually turning it into one of the world’s leadingbrewers. Today, he has passed the torch to hissons, the seventh generation, but his steadfast vision prevails.

An absorbing account of one man’s struggle atthe helm of an international brewing giant, Back to Beer … and Hockey shows how Eric Molson’sguiding principles influenced the future of Molson– both the enterprise and the family.

“A fascinating portrait of a man, a time, and acompany. Elegantly written and based on unparal-leled access, the book is a delight of remembrancesand vignettes. It stands with the best of this genreand is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of family businesses.”Yvan Allaire, executive chair of the Institute forGovernance of Private and Public Organizations

Helen Antoniou is an executive coach for corpo-rate leaders and family business owners, as well asa volunteer board member in the areas of health,education, and the arts. She lives in Montreal.

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Back to Beer … and HockeyThe Story of Eric Molson

helen antoniou

A personal look into a quiet man’s quest to make Molson a global brewer.

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“Canada’s prime minister is a dictator.” “The SunKing of Canadian government.” “More powerfulthan any other chief executive of any other demo-cratic country.” These kinds of claims are fre-quently made about Canada’s leader – especiallywhen the prime minister’s party holds a majoritygovernment in Parliament. But is there any truth tothese arguments? At the Centre of Government notonly presents a comprehensively researched workon the structure of political power in Canada butalso offers a first-hand view of the inner workingsof the Canadian federal government.

Ian Brodie – former chief of staff to PrimeMinister Stephen Harper and former executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada – argues that the various workings of the PrimeMinister’s Office, the Privy Council Office, thecabinet, parliamentary committees, and the roleof backbench members of Parliament underminepropositions that the prime minister has evolvedinto the role of an autocrat, with unchecked con-trol over the levers of political power. He correctsthe dominant thinking that Canadian prime min-isters hold power without limits over their party,caucus, cabinet, Parliament, the public service,

and the policy agenda. Citing examples from histime in government and from Canadian politicalhistory he argues that in Canada’s evolving politi-cal system, with its roots in the pre-Confederationera, there are effective checks on executive power,and that the golden age of Parliament and thebackbencher is likely now.

Drawing on a vast body of work on governanceand the role of the executive branch of govern-ment, At the Centre of Government provides afact-based primer on the workings of Canadiangovernment and sobering second thoughts aboutmany proposals for reform.

Ian Brodie is associate professor of political science at the University of Calgary.

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At the Centre of GovernmentThe Prime Minister and the Limits on Political Power

ian brodie

An insider’s account of democracy in Canada and its relationship to liberalism,

constitutionalism, and good public policy.


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Over the past few years, public attention focusedon the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of JudgeGreg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, andthe judicial disciplinary proceedings against for-mer Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexualassault trial process under significant scrutiny.Less than one percent of the sexual assaults thatoccur each year in Canada result in legal sanctionfor those who commit these offences. Survivorsoften distrust and fear the criminal justice process,and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual as-saults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fearsare well founded.

In this thorough evaluation of the legal cultureand courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides aneven-handed account of the ways in which the legalprofession unnecessarily – and sometimes unlaw-fully – contributes to the trauma and re-victimiza-tion experienced by those who testify as sexualassault complainants. Gathering conclusive evi-dence from interviews with experienced lawyersacross Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs,recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers’ publicstatements and commercial advertisements, PuttingTrials on Trial demonstrates that – despite promi-nent contestations – complainants are regularlysubjected to abusive, humiliating, and discrimina-tory treatment when they turn to the law to re-spond to sexual violations.

In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmfulto sexual assault complainants as well as survivors

of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials onTrialmakes serious, substantiated, and necessaryclaims about the ethical and cultural failures of theCanadian legal profession.

“Putting Trials on Trial is a riveting exposé ofcriminal defence lawyers who regularly engage inaggressive and humiliating cross-examination, ofCrown attorneys who fail to meet their duties tocomplainants, and of judges who fail to interveneto prevent abusive cross-examination and who failto properly apply substantive law. It is a must-readfor those who seek to change the way that sexualassault law is practised and adjudicated.”The Honourable Marie Corbett, author of January: A Woman Judge’s Season of Disillusion

“Many of us struggle to understand what is goingso disastrously wrong with sexual assault trials.For everyone who is distraught about this, andmore so for those who are not, this book is a must-read. Elaine Craig brilliantly interrogates how defence lawyers, Crown attorneys, professionalregulatory bodies, state-funded legal counsel, andjudges contribute to the mess we find ourselves inand what we must do to change it.”Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa, andauthor of Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law inCanada, 1900–1975

Elaine Craig is associate professor in the SchulichSchool of Law at Dalhousie University.

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Putting Trials on TrialSexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

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An interrogation of sexual assault law and a legal process that

traumatizes complainants.


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Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinc-tion or endangerment of yet another animalspecies, followed by urgent but largely unheededcalls for action. An eloquent denunciation of thefailures of Canada’s government and society toprotect wildlife from human exploitation, MaxForan’s The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlifeargues that a root cause of wildlife depletions andhabitat loss is the culturally ingrained beliefs thatunderpin management practices and policies.

Tracing the evolution of the highly contestableassumptions that define the human–wildlife rela-tionship, Foran stresses the price wild animals payfor human self-interest. Using several examples ofgovernment oversight at the federal, provincial,and territorial levels, from the Species at Risk Act to the Biodiversity Strategy, Protected AreasNetwork, and provincial management plans, thisvolume shows that wildlife policies are as much –

or more – about human needs, priorities, andprofit as they are about preservation. Challengingestablished concepts including ecological integrity,adaptive management, sport hunting as conserva-tion, and the flawed belief that wildlife is a renew-able resource, the author compels us to recognizeanimals as sentient individuals and as integralcomponents of complex ecological systems.

A passionate critique of contemporary wildlifepolicy, The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife callsfor belief-change as the best hope for an ecologi-cally healthy, wildlife-rich Canada.

Max Foran is professor emeritus of communica-tion at the University of Calgary.

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The Subjugation of Canadian WildlifeFailures of Principle and Policy

max foran

A wake-up call to reform conservation practices and policies and to recognize

the value of wildlife in Canada before further extinctions.


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The twenty-fifth of August 2018 marks the250th anniversary of the departure of the Endeavour from Plymouth, England, and the first of three voyages by James Cook thatwould nearly complete the map of the world.

Interweaving accounts of scientific discoverywith the personal stories of the voyages’ keyparticipants, William Frame and Laura Walkerexplore the charting of the Pacific and the natu-ral world, the first encounters and exchange between Western and indigenous cultures, andthe representation of the voyages in art. The illustrations, many of which have never beforebeen published, include drawings by all theartists employed on the voyages, includingAlexander Buchan, Sydney Parkinson, WilliamHodges, and John Webber. It also includes theonly surviving paintings by Tupaia, a Polyne-sian high priest and navigator who joined thefirst voyage at Tahiti and sailed with Cook to New Zealand and Australia.

A stunningly illustrated object-centred his-tory, James Cook: The Voyages offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to discover the extensive Captain Cook collection of the BritishLibrary, including original maps, artworks,journals, and printed books.

William Frame is head of modern archives andmanuscripts at the British Library.

Laura Walker is lead curator of modern archivesand manuscripts at the British Library.

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James CookThe Voyages

william frame and laura walker

Explore the voyages of James Cook through the artwork, charts, and journals

created on the voyage.


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Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, andfuturistic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, andthe people we used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks”have ridden their popularity and visibility to main-stream recognition. It seems it’s finally hip to besquare. Yet these conventionalized representationsof geek culture typically ignore the real people who have invested time and resources to make it what it is.Getting a Life recentres our understanding of

geek culture on the everyday lives of its partici-pants, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops,game stores, and conventions, including in-depthinterviews with ordinary members of the over-lapping communities of fans and enthusiasts. Benjamin Woo shows how geek culture is a set ofinterconnected social practices that are associatedwith popular media. He argues that typical depic-tions of mass-mediated entertainment as some-thing that isolates and pacifies its audiences areflawed because they do not account for the conver-sations, relationships, communities, and identitiesthat are created by engaging with the products of mass culture.

Getting a Life combines engaging interview material with lucid interpretation and a clear,interdisciplinary framework. The volume is bothan accessible introduction to this contemporarysubculture and an exploration of the ethical possibilities of a life lived with media.

Benjamin Woo is assistant professor of communi-cation and media studies at Carleton University.

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Getting a LifeThe Social Worlds of Geek Culture

benjamin woo

What the “triumph of the nerds” can tell us about the place of

media in people’s lives.


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As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of themajor imperial powers sought their independenceat the same time that the United States extendedits economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires Mike Mason analyzes thestruggles for post-colonial sovereignty and eco-nomic domination and how these competingforces led to conflicts and shifting alliancesaround the postwar world. Turbulent Empires surveys the major polities

and economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America,Russia, and the West and traces the trajectory of nationalist ruling classes bent on exercising sovereign control over economic resources. It em-phasizes the convulsions that brought about unan-ticipated realignments and shocking reversals, suchas the rise and fall of regimes, continuous interven-tions in the Muslim world, the sudden collapse ofthe commodities supercycle, and the continuingchallenge of inequality. By the second decade of thetwenty-first century, the global economic crisis of2008 raised the question of a new global orderwhile the question of American decline, capturedin the slogan “Make America Great Again,” be-came commonplace.

Both erudite and accessibly written, TurbulentEmpires provides an insightful and sweepinganalysis of world political and economic historythat is an ideal introduction to postwar politicalscience, history, and development studies.

Mike Mason has taught in high schools, collegesand universities in Canada, Nigeria, and theUnited Kingdom for over fifty years. He is the author of Global Shift: Asia, Africa, and LatinAmerica, 1945–2007.

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Turbulent EmpiresA History of Global Capitalism since 1945

mike mason

An examination of global politics, emphasizing American hegemony

and the rise of Asian economies.


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Hate to tell you, but you’re going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off thewisdom while it’s warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom.

Sarah Tolmie’s second collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, ahow-to book on the practices of dying. Confronting the fear of death head-on,and describing the rituals that mitigate it, the poems in The Art of Dying takea satirical look at the ways we explain, enshrine, and, above all, evade death in contemporary culture.

Some poems are personal – a parent tries to explain to a child why a grand-father is in hospital, or stages a funeral for a child’s imaginary friend – whileothers comment on how death figures in the news, on tv, and in social media.Some poems ask if there is any place left for poets in our rituals of memory andcommemoration. A few examine the apocalyptic language of climate change.Others poke fun at the death-defying claims of posthumanism.

A thoughtful and irreverent collection about serious concerns, The Art of Dying begins and ends with the fact of death, and strips away oureuphemisms about it.

Sarah Tolmie is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo.Her poetry collection, Trio, was shortlisted for the 2016 Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forestfires. / Frost thickening the stoop.

In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts hisCatholic upbringing in a household dealing with the common but too oftentaboo subject of mental illness.

In unflinching fashion, Chafe reveals the unintended disasters that followthose who struggle with depression and the frustration of loved ones left topick up the pieces. Other sections of the book shine a light on the wounds in-flicted by systems of patriarchy, particularly organized religion, and the caus-tic nature of humanity. Imagery and metaphor illuminate Chafe’s writing in a range of poetic forms, both modern and traditional. A boy stares helplesslythrough the walls of the family home, watches “filaments in glass skullsbuzzing.” A father’s birthmark is described as a “scarlet letter.” Grandma is portrayed as a “forgotten girl on a Ferris wheel of feelings.”

Vivid and haunting, at once tender and terse, Short Histories of Lightcaptures what it feels like to be a short circuit in a world of darkness.

Aidan Chafe is a public school teacher and the author of the chapbooks Right Hand Hymns and Sharpest Tooth. He lives in Burnaby, bc.

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Short Histories of Lightaidan chafe

Vivid, haunting, and rhythmical, these poems

illuminate the struggles of mental illness and

uncover the sinister side of religion.

The Art of Dyingsarah tolmie

A satirical look at the euphemistic practices

of dying today.

A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is thestory of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in FirstWorld War–era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose loveincreases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other.”

The novel centres around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling thedifferences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and herfamily, and the French identity of his father. Against this backdrop the countryis forming, the chasm between French and English communities growingdeeper. Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” asreferring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians.

“Two Solitudes is MacLennan’s best-known novel, one of those rare bookswhose title alone shaped how this country speaks and thinks.” The Walrus

“Two Solitudes, Hugh MacLennan’s 1945 masterpiece, sets out to do nothingless than explain Quebec to the rest of Canada and harmonize the dominionof future citizens.”Toronto Review of Books

“Here is the substance of Canada, her countryside, her cities, her conflictingcultures, and, above all, her people.”The Canadian Forum

Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native CapeBreton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for theson he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan’s father’s return brings tragedy to those around him.

“Each Man’s Son has many of the qualities that we have come to admire inMacLennan’s work. It has a clear and, at times, eloquent prose style; it hasmany individual scenes that are sharply and sympathetically projected; and it gives constant evidence of a lively and flexible mind.”The University of Toronto Quarterly

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Hugh MacLennan (1907–1990) taught atMcGill University from 1951 to 1981 and wrote novels and essays that helpeddefine Canadian literature. His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), TheWatch That Ends the Night (1959), Return of the Sphinx (1967), and Voicesin Time (1980). He also published several nonfiction works, including CrossCountry (1949), Thirty and Three (1955), Scotsman’s Return and Other Essays (1960), and The Colour of Canada (1967).

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Each Man’s Sonhugh maclennan

With a new introduction by Richard Marchand

“What is distinctive about Each Man’s Son is its

warmth and intimacy … Expertly planned and

executed, it is the most human of his books.”

The Globe and Mail

Two Solitudeshugh maclennan

With a new introduction by Michael Gnarowski

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction

Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013

n ew e d i t i o n s o f t h e ma j o r wo r k s o f a s em i n a l c a n a d i a n w r i t e r

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s firstblind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly deci-mated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo andNew Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indianphilosophy that changed his life.

Advaita Vedanta, the most iconoclastic and liberating of the classical In-dian philosophies, profoundly altered the author’s experience of self andworld. He found that the true self, as distinct from the individual ego, far ex-ceeds the boundaries of individuality. It lies beneath sightedness or blindnessand is absolutely unaffected by the latter. This welcome shift of perspectivewas reinforced by startling discoveries in contemporary physics, evolutionarybiology, and developmental psychology that are fully consistent with Advaiticmetaphysics. As for the practical applications of metaphysics, this bookdemonstrates step by step how Advaitic insight and practice significantly re-duce physical and psychological tension. The most telling examples have to dowith adjustments compelled by extreme circumstances. Thus Jones describeshow he drew upon Advaitic mindfulness techniques to maintain his whitecane mobility skills in the teeth of permanent spinal, nerve, and muscle pain.

The arc of Beyond Visionmoves from the claustrophobically personal to the openness of the transpersonal. It begins in a dysfunctional family background, breaking out into a full life encompassing an adventurous foreign service career, spiritual exploration, and an unconventional kind of marital love.

Allan Jones is a former diplomat who served in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Ottawa. He lives in Ottawa.

Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference? This question iscentral to the spiritual literature of all cultures. In We Find Ourselves Put tothe Test James Crooks returns to the Bible’s book of Job to explore the endur-ing relevance of that question and its philosophical dimensions.

Beginning with the puzzle of Job’s famous stoicism and nihilism in the faceof loss, Crooks explores the contradictions of suffering as dramatized in thedialogue between Job and his friends. How is it that the friends’ attempt tocomfort Job with a rational explanation of his misfortune devolves seamlesslyinto victim blaming? How is it that Job’s own renunciation of life at the nadirof his pain converts into an intellectual patience that outlasts the advocates ofrational explanation? We Find Ourselves Put to the Test gives a portrait of thesuffering protagonist looking into the heart of a creation that is, by necessity,both indifferent and hospitable.

A philosophical exploration of one of the most enigmatic books in theBible, We Find Ourselves Put to the Test goes beyond critical interpretationand suggests a way of reading the book of Job that is animated by a considera-tion of the reader’s narratives and communities, and the limits of his or herown understanding.

James Crooks teaches philosophy, liberal arts, music, and musical theatre atBishop’s University.

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We Find Ourselves Put to the TestA Reading of the Book of Job

james crooks

A philosophical exploration of the question of

whether the world we inhabit offers us hospitality

or indifference.

Beyond VisionGoing Blind, Inner Seeing, and the

Nature of the Self

allan jones

How the fearful descent into blindness can

unexpectedly open up into a selfhood that is

deeper than body or senses.

The heating Arctic has become a key issue inglobal politics. While Canada, China, Russia, andthe United States send submarines and icebreakersto militarize the North Pole, the ice itself contin-ues to recede, creating new trade routes and newopportunities for mining gas and oil. With moreArctic land mass than any other country, Canadais a major player in the region, claiming sover-eignty over the continental shelf and the ArcticArchipelago.

In 2014 the Kingdom of Denmark, through itscolonial claim on Greenland, declared ownershipof the entire European hemisphere of the Arctic.Denmark’s claims on a territory larger than Scandi-navia overlap with more than five hundred squarekilometres claimed by Russia, who has planted aflag on the ocean floor underneath the North Pole.In Cold RushMartin Breum describes an aggres-sively militarized Arctic, with researchers encoun-tering Russian submarines, spy-plane pilots flyingover aircraft carriers, and the inhabitants of Green-land forced into a new, contentious place in inter-national relations.

What is quietly unfolding in the polar north isturning into a “great game” for territory and forresources such as oil, uranium, and nickel, all setagainst a backdrop of environmental destructioncaused by climate change. Cold Rush brings thisstory to life in vivid detail.

Martin Breum, a renowned Arctic expert, is leadcorrespondent for the Arctic Journal and a journal-ist for the Danish Broadcasting Association.

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Cold RushThe Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North

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A fascinating narrative on the global militarization of the Arctic.


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Naturalists in antiquity worked hard to dispel fanciful ideas about the meaning of living lights,but remained bewildered by them. Even CharlesDarwin was perplexed by the chaotic diversity of luminous organisms, which he found difficult to reconcile with his evolutionary theory. It fell tonaturalists and scientists to make sense of the dazzling displays of fireflies and other organisms.In Luminous CreaturesMichel Anctil shows howmythical perceptions of bioluminescence graduallygave way to a scientific understanding of its mech-anisms, functions, and evolution, and to the recog-nition of its usefulness for biomedical and otherapplied fields.

Following the rise of the modern scientificmethod and the circumnavigations and oceano-graphic expeditions of the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries, biologists began to realize thediversity of bioluminescence’s expressions in lightorgans and ecological imprints, and how wide-spread it is on the planet. By the end of the nine-teenth century an understanding of the chemical

nature and physiological control of the phenome-non was at hand. Technological developments ledto an explosion of knowledge on the ecology, evo-lution, and molecular biology of bioluminescence.Luminous Creatures tracks these historical

events and illuminates the lives and the trail-blazing accomplishments of the scientists involved.It offers a unique window into the awe-inspiring,phantasmagorical world of light-producing organ-isms, viewed from the perspectives of casual observers and scientists alike.

Michel Anctil is honorary professor of biology at Université de Montréal and author of Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the

Origin of Nervous Systems.

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Luminous CreaturesThe History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms

michel anctil

How a striking phenomenon people have observed for millennia became a field

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It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakersand other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter?Donald Abelson ar-gues that the question of how think tanks have evolved and under what condi-tions they can and do have an impact continues to be ignored.

Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing majorpolicy debates and government legislation, and many journalists and scholarsbelieve the explosion of think tanks since the latter part of the twentieth cen-tury is indicative of their growing importance in the policy-making process.Abelson goes beyond assumptions, highlighting both the visibility and rele-vance of public policy institutes in what has become a contentious and polar-ized political arena in the United States, and in Canada, where, despite recentgrowth in numbers, they enjoy less prominence than their US counterparts. By focusing on how think tanks engage in issue articulation, policy formation,and implementation, Abelson argues that they have helped to shape the politi-cal dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but indifferent ways and at different stages of the policy cycle.

This expanded and revised third edition includes additional institutionalprofiles of key think tanks, an updated chapter on presidents and think tanks, a new chapter on the efforts of a group of public policy institutes to shape thediscourse around the possible construction of the controversial Keystone xlpipeline, and dozens of new graphs and tables that track the public visibilityand perceived policy relevance or impact of top-tier think tanks.

Donald E. Abelson is professor and chair of political science at the Universityof Western Ontario and the author of A Capitol Idea: Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy and Northern Lights: Exploring Canada’s Think Tank Landscape.

Catering to those who want to be as health conscious as they are passionateabout food, The Smart Palate is a delightful cookbook featuring over 180triple-tested recipes, full-colour photographs, chef’s tips, smart food facts, andnutritional analyses for every meal from breakfast to dessert, covering every-thing from smoothies, soups, and salads to grains, meats, and sweets.

Providing information on how to incorporate wholesome, perhaps unfa-miliar, ingredients into everyday menus, this book showcases novel methodsto prepare traditional favourites in healthful ways. Sugars and fats are ad-justed in the recipes to minimal amounts or substituted altogether with alter-native ingredients without compromising taste. While fresh, local ingredientsare emphasized, the need for frozen and canned goods in a fast-paced, busylife is also taken into account. Popular Montreal chemistry professor JoeSchwarcz weighs in with science-based information on the health benefits ofmany of the foods featured here, as well as fascinating historical facts abouttheir origins.

Tina Landsman Abbey is a self-taught home cook and baker, and a co-editorof several cookbooks including Cooking with Love: The Best Recipes fromMontreal’s Finest Cooks. Gail Goldfarb Karp’s love of great food stems fromboth her paternal Polish grandmother and her maternal Hungarian grand-mother from whom she inherited a keen sense of taste. Joe Schwarcz is direc-tor of the McGill Office for Science and Society, a columnist for the MontrealGazette, and host of The Dr Joe Schwarcz Show on cjad 800 in Montrealand cfrb in Toronto.

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The Smart PalateDelicious Recipes for a

Healthy Lifestyle

edited by tina landsman abbey,

gail goldfarb karp,

and joe schwarcz

A comprehensive cookbook that emphasizes

delicious and nutritious eating.

Do Think Tanks Matter?Assessing the Impact of Public Policy

Institutes, Third Edition

donald e. abelson

Assessing the evolution and influence of public

policy institutes.

If journalism is the first draft of history, it’s equally important to see how thework stands the test of time. If the writing isn’t prescient and perspicacious, it doesn’t meet that test. This collection of columns and articles by L. Ian MacDonald – a sequel to Politics, People & Potpourri – meets that test.

Much has happened in the politics of Canada and Quebec, as well as to theleaders who have defined and shaped the first two decades of the twenty-firstcentury, since the first collection was published in 2009. The successful elec-tion campaigns of Harper and Trudeau form the political bookends of thepresent decade in Canada and the opening chapters of the book. Betweenthese governments, there are the events, personalities, and issues that haveshaped the political narrative and policy debate, from fiscal frameworks toclean energy and pipelines, from the Senate expense scandal and democraticreform to national security at home and the mission against isis abroad. Inhis columns, and longer pieces from Policy Options and Policymagazines,MacDonald provides clear-minded commentary on political issues salient toall Canadians – including the election of Donald Trump in the United States.He also profiles a diverse group of political figures, and writes moving tributesto departed, nationally respected figures such as Jean Béliveau, Jim Flaherty,Jack Layton, and Tom Van Dusen.

This intelligent and entertaining collection presents MacDonald at his best,and offers a captivating view of Canadian politics and life.

L. Ian MacDonald is a columnist, author, editor, broadcaster, and publicspeaker. He lives in Montreal.

Liberal democratic societies with diverse populations generally offer minori-ties two usually contradictory objectives: the first is equal integration and par-ticipation; the second is an opportunity, within limits, to retain their culture.Yet Canadian Jews are successfully integrated into all domains of Canadianlife, while at the same time they also seem able to retain their distinct identitiesby blending traditional religious values and rituals with contemporary cultural options. Like Everyone Else but Different illustrates how Canadian Jews have cre-

ated a space within Canada’s multicultural environment that paradoxicallyovercomes the potential dangers of assimilation and diversity. At the sametime, this comprehensive and data-driven study documents and interpretsnew trends and challenges including rising rates of intermarriage, newer pro-gressive religious options, finding equal space for women and lgbtq Jews,tensions between non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews, and new forms of realand perceived anti-Semitism often related to Israel or Zionism, on campusand elsewhere.

The striking feature of the Canadian Jewish community is its diversity.While this diversity can lead to cases of internal conflict, it also offers opportu-nities for adaptation and survival. Seventeen years after its first publication,this new edition of Like Everyone Else but Different provides definitive up-dates that blend research studies, survey and census data, newspaper accountsand articles, and the author’s personal observations and experiences to pro-vide an informative, provocative, and fascinating account of Jewish life andmulticulturalism in contemporary Canada.

Morton Weinfeld is professor of sociology and holds the chair in CanadianEthnic Studies at McGill University.

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Like Everyone Else but DifferentThe Paradoxical Success of

Canadian Jews, Second Edition

morton weinfeld with randal

f. schnoor and michelle shames

A timely analysis of the possibilities and

challenges of multiculturalism as seen in the

iconic case of Canada’s Jewish community.

Inside Politicsl. ian macdonald

An illuminating collection of writings from one of

Canada’s most recognized political columnists.

In a post-9/11 sea of social and political discord,one state stands apart. As an increasingly powerfulanti-Islamic social movement rises in the West,Canada alone remains a viable multicultural state.

Employing survey and statistical data as well as a series of interviews conducted with religiousleaders and policy officials, Protecting Multicultur-alism explores public safety and security concerns,while pointing out the successes, pitfalls, andsometimes countervailing effects of governmentmeasures on Muslims in Canada. Engaging withdebates surrounding the cultural accommodationof diverse communities, John McCoy focuses ontwo inter-related themes at the heart of the crisis ofmulticulturalism: social integration and nationalsecurity. Even in Canada, McCoy argues, Muslimscan face acute xenophobia and racism, problem-atic national security practices, inimical politi-cians, and other troubling warning signs. Yet,despite these challenges, these diverse communitiescontinue to display remarkable resilience.

An open-minded and substantive reflection onthe day-to-day realities for Muslim communities,Protecting Multiculturalism seeks a way forwardfor the Canadian multicultural experiment – a future that is marked by dignity and diversity in an increasingly fraught era.

John S. McCoy is adjunct professor of political science at the University of Alberta and the direc-tor of applied research with the Organization forIdentity and Cultural Development.

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Protecting MulticulturalismMuslims, Security, and Integration in Canada

john s. mccoy

A provocative look at the viability of Canadian multiculturalism and the

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While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events inCanadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon’s longand diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such asHerschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-Second World Warresource boom, a lengthy struggle for responsible government, and the emergence of Indigenous political protest remain poorly understood.

Placing well-known historical episodes within the broader sweep of thepast, Land of the Midnight Sun gives particular emphasis to the role of FirstNations people and the lengthy struggle of Yukoners to find their placewithin Confederation. This broader story incorporates the introduction ofmammoth dredges that scoured the Klondike creeks, the impressive Elsa-Keno Hill silver mines, the impact of residential schools on Aboriginal children, the devastation caused by the sinking of the Princess Sophia, theYukon’s remarkable contributions to the national First World War effort,and the sweeping transformations associated with the American occupationduring the Second World War.Land of the Midnight Sun has long been the standard source for under-

standing the history of the territory. This third edition includes a new prefaceto update readers on developments in the Yukon’s economy, culture, andpolitics, including Indigenous self-government.

Ken S. Coates is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University ofSaskatchewan. William R. Morrison is professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens offers a new paradigm for the rela-tionship of Indigenous peoples with the settler societies in Canada. ThomasCourchene argues this model should be preferred to Canadian nationals,Canadian citizens (the traditional Assembly of First Nations vision) as wellas to Indigenous nationals, Indigenous citizens (the Trudeau-Chrétien White Paper proposal).

Courchene begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the150th anniversary of Confederation, followed by chapters on the Truth andReconciliation Commission and recent dramatic and empowering SupremeCourt decisions. The two penultimate chapters detail the manner in whichthis Indigenous nationals/Canadian citizens model has been successfully applied to the Yukon First Nations as well as to the four Inuit Land ClaimsAgreements. The final substantive chapter applies this model hypotheticallyto the entirety of the more than seventy First Nations in the province ofSaskatchewan. Referred to as the Commonwealth of Sovereign IndigenousNations (csin), the model would embrace provincial-type powers within,and closely coordinated with, the province of Saskatchewan. Among otherfeatures, csin would embody the requisite degree of self-government andscale economies essential for the Saskatchewan-based First Nations to suc-cessfully make the transition to Indigenous nationals and Canadian citizens.

Thomas J. Courchene is professor emeritus in the School of Policy Studies andan adjunct professor in the economics department at Queen’s University.

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Indigenous Nationals, Canadian CitizensFrom First Contact to Canada

150 and Beyond

thomas j. courchene

Land of the Midnight SunA History of the Yukon,

Third Edition

ken s. coates

and william r. morrison

“A must for anyone interested in the Yukon’s

history from the pre-gold rush days through the

‘lean’ years and both wars to the present.”

The Northern Review

L.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluiddepictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the naturalworld. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, andburgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) repositions the Canadian author’s relationship to nature in terms ofcurrent environmental criticism across several disciplines, introducing a freshapproach to her life and work.

Drawing on a wide range of Montgomery’s novels as well as her journals,this collection suggests that socio-ecological relationships encompass ideas ofreciprocity, affiliation, autonomy, and the capacity for transformation in boththe human and more-than-human worlds, and that these ideas are integral toMontgomery’s vision and her literary legacy. Framed by the twin themes ofmateriality and interrelationships, essays by scholars of literature, law, animalstudies, anthropology, and ecology examine place, embodiment, and differ-ence in Montgomery’s works and embrace the multiplicities embedded in theconcept of nature.

Through innovative critical approaches, L.M. Montgomery and the Matterof Nature(s) opens up conversations about humans’ interactions with natureand the material environment.

Rita Bode is professor of English literature at Trent University and co-editorof L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys. Jean Mitchell is associate professorof anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island and co-editor ofAnne around the World.

From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the rcmp security service – prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion – monitored and infiltrated the women’sliberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates whyand how this movement was targeted, weighing carefully the presumed threatits left-wing ties presented to the Canadian government against the defiantchallenge its campaign for gender equality posed to Canadian society.

Based on a close reading of thousands of pages of rcmp documents declas-sified under Canada’s Access to Information Act and the corresponding Pri-vacy Act, Just Watch Us demonstrates that the security service’s longstandinganti-Communist focus distorted its threat assessment of feminist organizing.Combining gender analysis and critical approaches to state surveillance,Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt consider the machinations of the rcmp,including its bureaucratic evolution, intelligence-gathering operations, and impact, as well as the evolution of the women’s liberation movement from itsbroad transnational influences to its elusive quest for unity among womenacross lines of ideology and identity. Significantly, the authors also grapplewith the historiographical, methodological, and ethical difficulties of workingwith declassified security documents and sensitive information.

A sharp-eyed inquiry into spy policies and tactics in Cold War Canada, JustWatch Us speaks to the serious political implications of state surveillance forsocial justice activism in liberal democracies.

Christabelle Sethna is professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studiesat the University of Ottawa. Steve Hewitt is senior lecturer in the Departmentof History and the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre at theUniversity of Birmingham.

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Just Watch UsRCMP Surveillance of the

Women’s Liberation Movement

in Cold War Canada

christabelle sethna

and steve hewitt

A remarkable investigation of state spying on

women’s liberation during the Cold War.

L.M. Montgomery and theMatter of Nature(s)edited by rita bode

and jean mitchell

A critical study of L.M. Montgomery’s relationship

to the material world and the revealing intercon-

nections between nature and culture.

Many of today’s digital platforms are designed ac-cording to the same model: they encourage users tocreate content for fun (a mode of production thatsome have termed playbour) and to earn points.On Facebook, for example, points are based on auser’s number of friends and how many likes andshares a comment receives. New cultural and liter-ary formations have arisen out of these feedbackand reward systems, with surprising effects on am-ateur literary production.

Drawing on social-text analysis, platform stud-ies, and game studies, Elyse Graham shows thatembedding game structures in the operations ofdigital platforms – a practice known in corporatecircles as “gamification” – can have large cumula-tive effects on textual ecosystems. Making the pro-duction of content feel like play helps to drive upthe volume of text being written, and as a result,gamification has gained widespread popularity on-line, especially among social media platforms, fanforums, and other sites of user-generated content.The Republic of Games argues that a consequenceof this profound increase in the volume of textbeing produced is a reliance on self-contained, user-based systems of information management to dealwith the mass of new content.

Opening up new avenues of analysis in contem-porary media studies and the humanities, The Republic of Games sifts through the gamified patterns of writing, interacting, and meaning-making that define the digital revolution.

Elyse Graham is assistant professor of digital humanities at Stony Brook University.

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The Republic of GamesTextual Culture between Old Books and New Media

elyse graham

An exploration of the consequences of introducing game mechanics to digital

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The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriouslylaments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most fa-miliar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong tobring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering.Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodiedlimitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radicalhuman-enhancement technologies.

In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life Jeff Noonan presents pessimismand technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from thepremise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He ar-gues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark lifeare fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitationsof embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only fortheir own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaningis not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labour upon our-selves, others, and the world. Meaningful labour is threatened equally by un-just social systems and runaway technological development that aims toreplace human action, rather than liberate it.

Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodi-ment, and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common goodis our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future.

Jeff Noonan is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor and author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference, Democratic Society and Human Needs, and Materialist Ethics and Life-Value.

Most scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir’s fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatoryvision. Though Beauvoir’s political thinking is not as closely studied as herfeminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her navigate thedilemmas raised by revolutionary thought in the postwar period. In Emanci-patory Thinking Elaine Stavro brings together Beauvoir’s philosophy and herpolitical interventions to produce complex ideas on emancipation.

Drawing from a range of work, including novels, essays, autobiographicalwritings, and philosophic texts, Stavro explains that for Beauvoir freedom is a movement that requires both personal and collective transformation. Free-dom is not guaranteed by world historical systems, material structures, wilfulaction, or discursive practices, but requires engaged subjects who are able to take creative risks as well as synchronize with existing forces to work to-wards collective change. Beauvoir, Stavro asserts, resisted the trend of anti-humanism that has dominated French thinking since the 1960s and also man-aged to avoid the pitfalls of voluntarism and individualism. In fact, Stavro argues, Beauvoir appreciated the impact of material, socio-economic, institu-tional forces, without forgoing the capacity to initiate.

Applying Beauvoir’s existential insights and understanding of embodiedand situated subjectivity to recent debates within gender, literary, sociological,cultural, and political studies, Emancipatory Thinking provides a lens to explore the current political and theoretical landscape.

Elaine Stavro is associate professor of political studies at Trent University.

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Embodiment and the Meaning of Lifejeff noonan

A brazen defence of the good of human limitations

in the face of naive technological optimism.

Emancipatory ThinkingSimone de Beauvoir and

Contemporary Political Thought

elaine stavro

A sustained defence of the political importance

and ongoing relevance of the ideas of the French

writer, feminist, and philosopher.

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Flesh RebornThe St Lawrence Valley Mission

Settlements through the

Seventeenth Century

jean-françois lozier

A groundbreaking view of how Indigenous

communities emerged in the heartland of

New France.

The St Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of howthis region emerged as the heartland of French colonial society have been thoroughly outlined by historians, much remains unknown or misunderstoodabout how it also witnessed the formation of a string of distinct Indigenouscommunities, several of which persist to this day.

Drawing on a range of ethnohistorical sources, Flesh Reborn reconstructsthe early history of seventeenth-century mission settlements and of their Algonquin, Innu, Wendat, Iroquois, and Wabanaki founders. Far fromstraightforward byproducts of colonialist ambitions, these communities arose out of an entanglement of armed conflict, diplomacy, migration, subsis-tence patterns, religion, kinship, leadership, community-building, and identityformation. The violence and trauma of war, even as it tore populations apartand from their ancestral lands, brought together a great human diversity.

By emphasizing Indigenous mission settlements of the St Lawrence valley,Flesh Reborn challenges conventional histories of New France and earlyCanada. It is a comprehensive examination of the foundation of these commu-nities and reveals the fundamental ways they, in turn, shaped the course ofwar and peace in the region.

Jean-François Lozier teaches history at the University of Ottawa and is a curator at the Canadian Museum of History.

McGill-Queen’s French Atlantic Worlds Series

series editors

Nicholas Dew

Department of History and Classical Studies

McGill University

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec

Département d’histoire

Université de Sherbrooke

The French Atlantic world has emerged as a rich and dynamic

field of historical research. This series will showcase a new

generation of scholarship exploring the worlds of the French

Atlantic – including West Africa, the greater Caribbean re-

gion, and the continental Americas – from the sixteenth cen-

tury to the mid-nineteenth century. Books in the series will

explore how the societies of the French Atlantic were shaped

and connected by trans-oceanic networks of colonialism, how

local and indigenous cultures and environments shaped colo-

nial projects, and how the diverse peoples of the French At-

lantic understood and experienced their worlds. Especially

welcome are histories from the perspectives of the enslaved

and dispossessed. Comparative studies are encouraged and

the series will accept manuscript submissions in English and

in French. Original works of scholarship are preferred, though

translations of landmark books in the field will be considered.

Spanning from the West African coast to theCanadian prairies and south to Louisiana, theCaribbean, and Guiana, France’s Atlantic em-pire was one of the largest political entities inthe Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France’sstatus as a nation at the forefront of architec-ture and the structures and designs from thisperiod that still remain, its colonial buildingprogram has never been considered on a hemi-spheric scale.

Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings,photographic field surveys, and extensivearchival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on theFrench state’s and the Catholic Church’s idealsand motivations for their urban and architec-tural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail,Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world thathas been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires – from Cap-François (nowCap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces inthe styles of Louis XV and formal gardens pat-terned after Versailles, to failed utopian citieslike Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated withexamples of grand buildings, churches, and gar-dens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this

volume also brings to life the architects whobuilt these structures, not only French militaryengineers and white civilian builders, but alsothe free people of colour and slaves who con-tributed so much to the tropical colonies.

Taking readers on a historical tour throughthe striking landmarks of the French coloniallandscape, Architecture and Urbanism in theFrench Atlantic Empire presents a sweepingpanorama of an entire hemisphere of architec-ture and its legacy.

Gauvin Alexander Bailey is professor and Alfred and Isabel Bader Chair in SouthernBaroque Art at Queen’s University.

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Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic EmpireState, Church, and Society, 1604–1830

gauvin alexander bailey

A pioneering reconstruction of the architecture, urban planning, and gardens

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Canadian readers have enjoyed their own graphicsatire since colonial times and Canadian artistshave thrived as they took aim at the central issuesand figures of their age. Graphic satire, a combina-tion of humorous drawing and text that usually involves caricature, is a way of taking an ethicalstand about contemporary politics and society.First appearing in short-lived illustrated weekliesin Montreal, Quebec City, and Toronto in the1840s, usually as unsigned copies of engravingsfrom European magazines, the genre spreadquickly as skilled local illustrators, engravers,painters, and sculptors joined the teams of publish-ers and writers who sought to shape public opinionand public policy.

A detailed account of Canadian graphic satire,Sketches from an Unquiet Country looks at a cen-tury bookended by the aftermath of the 1837–38Rebellions and Canada’s entry into the SecondWorld War. As fully fledged artist-commentators,Canadian cartoonists were sometimes gentlyironic, but they were just as often caustic and vio-lent in the pursuit of a point of view. This volumeshows a country where conflicts crop up between

linguistic and religious communities, a countryoften resistant to social and political change forwomen and open to the cross-currents of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fascism that flaredacross Europe and North America in the earlytwentieth century.

Drawing on new scholarship by researchersworking in art history, material culture, and com-munication studies, Sketches from an UnquietCountry follows the fortunes of some of the artistsand satiric themes that were prevalent in the centres of Canadian publishing.

Dominic Hardy is professor of Quebec and Canadian art history and historiography at theUniversité du Québec à Montréal.

Annie Gérin is professor of modern art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Lora Senechal Carney is an art historian specializ-ing in twentieth-century Canadian art history and the author of Canadian Painters in a ModernWorld, 1925–1955: Writings and Reconsiderations.

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Sketches from an Unquiet CountryCanadian Graphic Satire, 1840–1940

edited by dominic hardy, annie gérin,

and lora senechal carney

Graphic satire in Canada – from rebellious colony to independent nation

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Notions of identity have long structured women’s art. Dynamics of race, class,and gender have shaped the production of artworks and oriented their subse-quent reassessments. Arguably, this is especially true of art by women, and ofthe socially engaged criticism that addresses it. If identity has been a problemin women’s art, however, is more identity the solution?

In this study of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art in Canada,Kristina Huneault offers a meditation on the strictures of identity and an ex-ploration of forces that unsettle and realign the self. Looking closely at indi-vidual artists and works, Huneault combines formal analysis with archivalresearch and philosophical inquiry, building nuanced readings of objects thatrange from the canonical to the largely unknown. Whether in miniature por-traits or genre paintings, botanical drawings or baskets, women artists reck-oned with constraints that limited understandings of themselves and others.They also forged creative alternatives. At times identity features in women’sartistic work as a failed project; at other times it marks a boundary beyondwhich they were able to expand, explore, and exult.

Bringing together settler and indigenous forms of cultural expression andforegrounding the importance of colonialism within the development of art in Canada, I’m Not Myself at All observes and reactivates historical art bywomen and prompts readers to consider what a less restrictive conceptualiza-tion of selfhood might bring to current patterns of cultural analysis.

Kristina Huneault is a professor of art history at Concordia University and co-editor, with Janice Anderson, of Rethinking Professionalism: Women andArt in Canada, 1850–1970.

Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de’ Medici(1479–1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability forpolitics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure,Josephine Jungić re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici partisans who feared his popularityand respect for republican self-rule.

Rejecting the autocratic rule imposed by his nephew, Lorenzo (Duke ofUrbino), and brother, Giovanni (Pope Leo X), Giuliano advocated restraintand retention of republican traditions, believing his family should be “firstamong equals” and not more. As a result, the family and those closest tothem wrote him out of the political scene, and historians – relying too heav-ily upon the accounts of supporters of Cardinal Giovanni and the Mediciregime – followed suit. Interpreting works of art, books, and letters as testi-mony, Jungić constructs a new narrative to demonstrate that Giuliano wasloved and admired by some of the most talented and famous men of his day,including Cesare Borgia, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolò Machiavelli,Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael.

More than a political biography, this volume offers a refreshing look at a man who was a significant patron and ally of intellectuals, artists, and religious reformers, revealing Giuliano to be at the heart of the period’s most significant cultural accomplishments.

Josephine Jungic (1942–2013) was professor of art history at Capilano University.

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I’m Not Myself at AllWomen, Art, and Subjectivity

in Canada

kristina huneault

Is there an alternative to paradigms of identity

in women’s art history?

Giuliano de’ MediciMachiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art

josephine jungic

Unfairly maligned for over five centuries, Giuliano

de’ Medici at last receives his first major and

sustained biography.

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Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenthcentury they painted them too. Flax from Canadaand the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were foughtover fibre and when increased urbanization de-manded expanded paint markets. Flax Americanare-examines the changing relationships betweenfarmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canada’s first and most importantindustrial crop.

Initially a specialty crop grown by Mennonitesand other communities on contracts for small-town mill complexes, flax became big business inthe late nineteenth century as multinational lin-seed oil companies quickly displaced rural mills.Flax cultivation spread across the northern plainsand prairies, particularly along the edges of dry-land settlement, and then into similar ecosystemsin South America’s Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen’sdetailed examination of archival records reveals

the complexity of a global commodity and its impact on the eastern Great Lakes and northernGreat Plains. He demonstrates how internationalnetworks of scientists, businesses, and regulatorsattempted to predict and control the crop’s fron-tier geography, how evolving consumer concernsabout product quality and safety shaped the mar-ket and its regulations, and how the nature ofeach region encouraged some forms of businessand limited others.

The northern flax industry emerged because ofborder-crossing communities. By following theplant across countries and over time Flax Ameri-cana sheds new light on the ways that commodi-ties, frontiers, and industrial capitalism shaped the modern world.

Joshua MacFadyen in an assistant professor in theSchool of Historical, Philosophical and ReligiousStudies and the School of Sustainability at ArizonaState University.

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Flax AmericanaA History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent

joshua macfadyen

How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire

to North America.


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Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shapedand reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstancesin both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on the prow of northeastern North America: St John’s, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries.

These three port cities, home to diverse Irish populations in different stagesof development and in different national contexts, provide a fascinating set-ting for a study of intergenerational ethnicity. Mannion traces how Irishnesscould, at certain points, form the basis of a strong, cohesive identity amongCatholics of Irish descent, while at other times it faded into the background.Although there was a consistent, often romantic gaze across the Atlantic to theold land, many of the organizations that helped mediate large-scale public en-gagement with the affairs of Ireland – especially Irish nationalist associations –spread from further west on the North American mainland. Irish ethnicity did not, therefore, develop in isolation, but rather as a result of a complex interplay of local, regional, national, and transnational networks.

This volume shows that despite a growing generational distance, Irelandremained “a land of dreams” for many immigrants and their descendants.They were connected to a transnational Irish diaspora well into the twentieth century.

Patrick Mannion is a sshrc postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Boston College.

In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writ-ing in the French daily press. Yet, while they undeniably opened doors for thenext generations of educated women, sexist hiring practices, assumptionsabout women’s aptitudes as reporters, and more subtle gender biases contin-ued to saturate the industry in the decades that followed. Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940 investigates

the careers and written work of ten women who regularly reported in the national, Paris-based dailies. Addressing the role of mentorship, family con-nections, gendered behaviours, reporting styles, and subject matter, MaryLynn Stewart debunks lingering essentialist notions about women’s entry intojournalism. She shows that struggling newspapers, attempting to reverse de-clining circulation, hired women to cover subjects that expanded to include international relations, colonial conflicts, trials, local politics, and social prob-lems. Through content analysis and systematic comparisons of several womenand men reporting on the same or different events, she further queries claimsabout a feminine style, finding more similarities than differences between masculine and feminine reporting.

Documenting the persistence of gender discrimination in the hiring, assign-ing, and assessment of women reporters in the French daily press, Gender,Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940 demonstrates that,through the support of their female colleagues, women managed to succeeddespite a variety of challenges.

Mary Lynn Stewart is professor emerita of Simon Fraser University.

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A Land of DreamsEthnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish

in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and

Maine, 1880–1923

patrick mannion

A comparative history of Irish community and

identity in St John’s, Halifax, and Portland.

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Gender, Generation, andJournalism in France, 1910–1940mary lynn stewart

After the pioneer women in French newspapers,

how did the next two generations, still a minority

in the newsroom, fare?

F R E N C H H I S TO R Y • G E N D E R S T U D I E S

On 15 September 1896, nearly a thousand people prepared to board a steamerin the port of Montreal, headed for Santos, Brazil, and on to the coffee planta-tions of São Paulo, while a crowd of a few thousand pleaded with them to stay.

Families were split as wives boarded without husbands, or husbands with-out wives. While many prospective migrants were convinced to get off theboat, close to five hundred people departed for South America. Ultimately theexperience was a disaster. Some died on board the ship, others in Brazil; yetothers became indigent labourers on coffee plantations or beggars on thestreets of São Paulo. The vast majority returned to Canada, many of themhelped back by British consular representatives. While the story was widelycovered in the international press at the time, a century later it is virtually un-known. In Mad Flight? John Zucchi consults a range of primary and second-ary sources, including archival material in Canada, Brazil, France, and theUnited Kingdom, to recreate the stories of the migrants and open up an impor-tant research question: why do some people migrate on impulse and begin ajourney that will almost inevitably end up in failure?

Historical studies on migration most often account for successful outcomesbut rarely consider why some immigrant experiences are destined to fail. MadFlight? uncovers the history of an otherwise little-known episode of Canadianmigration to Brazil and provokes further discussion and debate.

John Zucchi is professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, theSouth Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, OrthodoxChristian Russia – and later the officially atheist Soviet Union – expanded intothe densely populated Muslim towns and villages and began a long process of resettlement, deportation, and interventionist population management inan attempt to incorporate the region into its own lands and culture.

Exploring the policies and implementations of the Russian Empire and theSoviet Union, Resettling the Borderlands investigates the nexus between impe-rial practices, foreign policy, religion, and ethnic conflicts. Taking a compara-tive approach, Farid Shafiyev looks at the most active phases of resettlement,when the state imported and relocated waves of German, Russian sectarian,and Armenian settlers into the South Caucasus and deported thousands ofothers. He also offers insights on the complexities of empire-building andmanaging space and people in the Muslim borderlands to reveal the impact of demographic changes on the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict.

Combining in-depth and original analysis of archival material with a clearand accessible narrative, Resettling the Borderlands provides a new interpreta-tion of the colonial policies, ideologies, and strategic visions in the RussianEmpire and the Soviet Union.

Farid Shafiyev holds a PhD from Carleton University and an mpa from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Prague.

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Mad Flight?The Quebec Emigration to the

Coffee Plantations of Brazil

john zucchi

How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on

São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.

E U RO P E A N H I S TO R Y • S L AV I C S T U D I E SL AT I N AM E R I C A N H I S TO R Y • Q U E B E C S T U D I E S

Resettling the BorderlandsState Relocations and Ethnic

Conflict in the South Caucasus

farid shafiyev

A study of Imperial Russian and Soviet resettle-

ment policies in the South Caucasus and their

impact on the ethnic conflict.

The concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processesof life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascinationand controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has hauntedhumanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the ScientificRevolution and beyond.

Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish moder-nity, Nicolás Fernández-Medina’s Life Embodied offers a novel and provocativeassessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabri-ada’s landmark Carta filosófica, médico-chymica of 1687 and ending withRamón Gómez de la Serna’s avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fernández-Medina in-corporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, historyof medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served aspowerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Pay-ing close attention to how the body’s capabilities were conceived and strategi-cally woven into critiques of modernity, Fernández-Medina engages the work ofMiguel Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, SebastiánGuerrero Herreros, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovel-lanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, Ángela Grassi, Julián Sanz del Río, Miguel deUnamuno, and Pío Baroja, among others.

Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks newground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanishmodernity.

Nicolás Fernández-Medina is associate professor of Spanish and philosophyand co-director of the Spanish and Italian Modernist Studies Forum at Pennsylvania State University.

The first three centuries of Christianity are increasingly seen in modern schol-arship as sites of complexity. Sacred Ritual, Profane Space examines theChristian meeting places of the time and overturns long-held notions aboutthe earliest Christians as utopian rather than place-bound people.

By mapping what is known from early Christian texts onto the archaeolog-ical data for Roman domestic spaces, Jenn Cianca provides a new lens for examining the relationship between early Christianity and sites of worship.She proposes that not only were Roman homes sacred sites in their own rightbut they were also considered sacred by the Christian communities that usedthem. In many cases, meeting space would have included the presence of theRoman domestic cult shrines. Despite the fact that the domestic cult was poly-theistic, Cianca asserts that its practices likely continued in places used forworship by Christians. She also argues that continued practice of the domesticcult in Roman domestic spaces did not preclude Christians from using housesas churches or from understanding their rituals or their meeting places as sacred.

Raising a host of questions about identity, ritual affiliation, and domesticpractice, Sacred Ritual, Profane Space demonstrates how sacred space wasconstructed through ritual enactment in early Christian communities.

Jenn Cianca is associate professor of classical studies and liberal arts at Bishop’s University.

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Life EmbodiedThe Promise of Vital Force

in Spanish Modernity

nicolás fernández-medina

A compelling tour through the scientific,

philosophical, and cultural meanings of

vital force in Spanish modernity.

R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S • H I S TO R Y H I S TO R Y O F I D E A S • E U R O P E A N H I S TO R Y

Sacred Ritual, Profane SpaceThe Roman House as Early

Christian Meeting Place

jenn cianca

A reassessment of earliest Christian worship

spaces as a crucible of sanctity, identity, and

cultic affiliation.

In 1882, Robert Koch identified tuberculosis as an infectious bacterial disease.In the sixty years between this revelation and the discovery of an antibiotictreatment, streptomycin, the disease was widespread in Canada, often infectingchildren within their family homes. Soon, public concerns led to the establish-ment of hospitals that specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis, including theToronto sanatorium, which opened in 1904 on the outskirts of the city.

Situated in the era before streptomycin, Building Resistance explores chil-dren’s diverse experiences with tuberculosis infection, disease, hospitalization,and treatment at the Toronto sanatorium between 1909 and 1950. This earlysanatorium era was defined by the principles of resistance building, recogniz-ing that the body itself possessed a potential to overcome tuberculosis throughrest, nutrition, fresh air, and sometimes surgical intervention. Grounded in arich and descriptive case study and based on archival research, the book holis-tically approaches the social and biological impact of infection and disease onthe bodies, families, and lives of children.

Lavishly illustrated, compassionate, and informative, Building Resistancedetails the inner dimensions and evolving treatment choices of an early mod-ern hospital, as well as the fate of its young patients.

Stacie Burke is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at theUniversity of Manitoba.

The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radi-cal political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization ofthe medical profession. During this tumultuous period of transition, physi-cians and surgeons merged in an effort to monopolize the field and ensuretheir professional survival in a postcolonial, liberal republic. Carving a Niche traces the evolution of various medical occupations in

Mexico from the end of the colonial period to the beginning of the regime ofPorfirio Díaz, demonstrating how competition and collaboration, identity,ever-changing legislation, political instability, and foreign intervention re-sulted in a complex, gradual, and unique process of medical professionaliza-tion – one that neither conformed to theoretical models nor resembledhierarchies found in other parts of the world. Through extensive research,Luz María Hernández Sáenz analyzes the uphill struggle of practitioners toclaim their place as public health experts and to provide and control medicaleducation in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Highlighting the significance of race, class, gender, and nationality, Carvinga Niche demonstrates that in the case of Mexico, liberal reforms praised bytraditional works often hindered, rather than promoted, the creation of amodern medical profession and the delivery of quality health care services.

Luz María Hernández Sáenz is associate professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.

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Building ResistanceChildren, Tuberculosis, and the

Toronto Sanatorium

stacie burke

How tuberculosis infection and disease

impacted the bodies, families, and lives of

children before antibiotics.

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Carving a NicheThe Medical Profession in Mexico,

1800–1870

luz maría hernández sáenz

The first comprehensive analysis of the profession-

alization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.

The importance of research on the notion of trust has grown considerably inthe social sciences over the last three decades. Much has been said about thedecline of political trust in democracies and intense debates have occurredabout the nature and complexity of the relationship between trust and democ-racy. Political trust is usually understood as trust in political institutions (including trust in political actors that inhabit the institutions), trust betweencitizens, and to a lesser extent, trust between groups. However, the literatureon trust has given no special attention to the issue of trust between minorityand majority nations in multinational democracies – countries that are notonly multicultural but also constitutional associations containing two or morenations or peoples whose members claim to be self-governing and have theright of self-determination.

This volume, part of the work of the Groupe de recherche sur les sociétésplurinationales (grsp), is a comparative study of trust, distrust, and mistrustin multinational democracies, centring on Canada, Belgium, Spain, and theUnited Kingdom. Beliefs, attitudes, practices, and relations of trust, distrust,and mistrust are studied as situated, interacting, and coexisting phenomenathat change over time and space.

Dimitrios Karmis is associate professor in the School of Political Studies at theUniversity of Ottawa. François Rocher is professor in the School of PoliticalStudies at the University of Ottawa.

State building is an ongoing process that first defines legitimate citizenshipand then generates citizens. Political analysts and social scientists now use theconcept of citizenship as a lens for considering both the evolution of states and the development of their societies. In Citizenship as a Regime leading politicalscientists from Canada, Europe, and Latin America use insights from compar-ative politics, institutionalism, and political economy to understand and analyze the dynamics of contemporary policies and politics.

Contributors present original research, critically assess the idea of a citizen-ship regime, and suggest ways to further develop Jane Jenson’s notion of a“citizenship regime” as an analytical tool. Research essays in this volume consider various social forces and dynamics such as neoliberalism, inequality,lgbtq movements, the rise of populism amid nationalist movements in multi-national societies – including Indigenous self-determination claims – and howthey transform the politics of citizenship.

The only volume focused on citizenship regimes, this book provides an enriched opportunity to reflect on the future of citizenship in Canada andthroughout the world.

Mireille Paquet is assistant professor of political science at Concordia University. Nora Nagels is assistant professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Aude-Claire Fourot is associate professor of political science at Simon Fraser University.

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Trust, Distrust, and Mistrust in MultinationalDemocraciesComparative Perspectives

edited by dimitrios karmis

and françois rocher

The first collaborative, critical, historical, and com-

parative survey of the dynamics of trust, distrust,

and mistrust in multinational democracies.

Citizenship as a RegimeCanadian and International

Perspectives

edited by mireille paquet, nora

nagels, and aude-claire fourot

What citizenship reveals about a society, its politics,

its history, and its current challenges.

P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S • P O L I T I C A L P H I L O S O P H Y P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin hiding the reality. A closerlook reveals that the provinces – responsible for delivering essential public andsocial services such as education and healthcare – shouldered the burden.The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity examines public-sector austerity

in the provinces and territories, specifically addressing how austerity was im-plemented, what forms austerity agendas took (from regressive taxes and newuser fees to public-sector layoffs and privatization schemes), and what, if any,political responses resulted. Contributors focus on the period from 2007 to2015, the global financial crisis and the period of fiscal consolidation that followed, while also providing a longer historical context – austerity is not anew phenomenon. A granular examination of each jurisdiction identifies howchanging fiscal conditions have affected the delivery of public services and restructured public finances, highlighting the consequences such changes havehad for public-sector workers and users of public services.

The first book of its kind in Canada, The Public Sector in an Age of Auster-ity challenges conventional wisdom by showing that Canada did not escapepost-crisis austerity, and that its recovery has been vastly overstated.

Bryan M. Evans is professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. Carlo Fanelli is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at York University.

Renewing and expanding national infrastructure is critical to the wellbeingand productivity of Canadians. Not only are the required investments daunt-ingly large for all three levels of government, but so too is the required level ofintergovernmental cooperation if our goals are to be realized. The 2015 Stateof the Federation volume advances our understanding of these infrastructurechallenges and identifies how best to resolve them.

The contributors to the volume provide historical or international compar-ative perspectives and utilize legal, economic, or administrative approaches toexamine the nature and magnitude of the so-called infrastructure deficit andthe question of how best to finance the necessary investments. The possibleroles played by deficits and debt are considered, together with options such as public-private partnerships and asset recycling, and a possible Aboriginalresource tax to finance the on-reserve infrastructure needs of First Nations.Other contributors examine the infrastructure-investment-decision processesat the federal and provincial levels and consider the optimal allocation of responsibility for infrastructure investments among the different levels of government, and the related issue of the role of intergovernmental transfers to underwrite this allocation.

John R. Allan is a fellow and former director of the Institute of Intergovern-mental Relations at Queen’s University. David L.A. Gordon is professor in theSchool of Urban and Regional Planning and Department of Geography andPlanning at Queen’s University. Kyle Hanniman is associate director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen’s University. André Juneauis a fellow and former director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relationsat Queen’s University. Robert A. Young (1950–2017) was professor emeritusin the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontarioand a fellow of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.

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P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S • P U B L I C A DM I N I S T R AT I O N P U B L I C P O L I C Y • P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S

Canada: The State of theFederation 2015Canadian Federalism

and Infrastructure

edited by john r. allan,

david l.a. gordon, kyle hanniman,

andré juneau, and robert a. young

The Public Sector in an Age of AusterityPerspectives from Canada’s

Provinces and Territories

edited by bryan m. evans

and carlo fanelli

Challenging conventional wisdom on austerity in

Canada after the global financial crisis.

An unprecedented political, economic, social, and legal storm was unleashedby the United Kingdom’s June 2016 referendum to leave the European Unionand the government’s response to the vote. After decades of strengtheningEuropean integration and independence, Brexit necessitates a deep under-standing of its international law implications on both sides of the EnglishChannel in order to chart the stormy seas of negotiating and advancing beyond separation.

In Complexity’s Embrace, international law practitioners and academicsfrom the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and the United States look be-yond the rhetoric of “Brexit Means Brexit” and “no agreement is better thana bad agreement” to explain the challenges that need to be addressed in thediverse fields of trade, financial services, insolvency, intellectual property, environment, and human rights. The authors in this volume articulate, withunvarnished clarity, the international law implications of Brexit, providingpolicy makers, commentators, the legal community, and civil society withcritical information they need to participate in negotiating their future withinor outside Europe.Complexity’s Embrace explores the many unprecedented questions about

the UK’s future trading arrangements.

Oonagh E. Fitzgerald is director of the International Law Research Programat the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Eva Lein is professorat the University of Lausanne and senior research fellow at the British Instituteof International and Comparative Law.

Marking 150 years since Confederation provides an opportunity for Canadianinternational law practitioners and scholars to reflect on Canada’s rich historyin international law and governance, where we find ourselves today in the com-munity of nations, and how we might help shape a future in which Canada’srules-based and progressive approach to international law gains ascendancy.This collection of essays, each written in the official language chosen by the au-thors, provides a thoughtful perspective on Canada’s past and present in inter-national law, surveys the challenges that lie before us, and offers renewed focusfor Canada’s pursuit of global justice and the rule of law.

Part I explores the history and practice of international law, includingsources of international law, Indigenous treaties, international treaty diplo-macy, domestic reception of international law, and Parliament’s role in interna-tional law. Part II explores Canada’s role in international law, governance andinnovation in the broad fields of economic, environmental, and intellectualproperty law. Part III explores Canadian perspectives on developments in inter-national human rights and humanitarian law, including judicial implementa-tion of these obligations, international labour law, business and human rights,international criminal law, war crimes, child soldiers, and gender. Reflections on Canada’s Past, Present and Future in International

Law/Réflexions sur le passé, le présent et l’avenir du Canada en droit interna-

tional demonstrates the pivotal role that Canada has played in the develop-ment of international law and signals the essential contributions the country is poised to make in the future.

Oonagh E. Fitzgerald is director of the International Law Research Programat the Centre for International Governance Innovation (cigi). Valerie Hughesteaches international trade law at Queen’s University. Mark Jewett is a cigisenior fellow with the International Law Research Program.

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Complexity’s EmbraceThe International Law

Implications of Brexit

edited by oonagh e. fitzgerald

and eva lein

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Reflections on Canada’sPast, Present and Future inInternational Law/Réflexionssur le passé, le présent etl’avenir du Canada en droitinternationaledited by oonagh e. fitzgerald,

valerie hughes, and mark jewett

This collection is the result of a 2016 national leaders conference sponsoredby Queen’s University to explore the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcareinnovation strategy. The conference themes were inspired by the 2015 reportof the federally commissioned Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, led by David Naylor, which examined how the federal government could support innovation. A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda features original commis-

sioned chapters from academics and healthcare leaders addressing a range ofissues such as the meaning of healthcare innovation, how a national health-care agency and investment fund could be governed, the need for big data andevidence, adding value through Canadian supply-chain management, over-coming regulatory barriers to innovation, policy innovations for indigenous,military and elderly populations, the role of medical professions in promotinginnovation, education, and the development of medical innovators. The Cana-dian healthcare system is so fragmented that any thought of a system-widestrategy for healthcare innovation is considered a far-distant ideal at best. Thisbook presents a contrary view, outlining an agenda for Canadian healthcareinnovation. It shows that Canada does indeed have the building blocks for innovation, and concludes that the time to act is now.

A. Scott Carson is professor of governance and strategy in the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. Kim Richard Nossal is professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University.

For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed.But students, employers, governments, and taxpayers are now demanding evidence of educational quality and value. At the same time, fiscally strappedgovernments are raising questions about how institutions are funded and therole quality should play in setting funding levels.

In the face of these mounting pressures, jurisdictions around the world areworking toward designing meaningful indicators to measure the performanceof postsecondary institutions that go beyond enrolment numbers, graduationrates, and ever-popular reputational rankings. Assessing Quality in Post-secondary Education presents a collection of thought-provoking essays byworld-renowned higher-education thinkers and policy experts that discussways of defining and measuring academic quality. The papers were presentedat a conference convened by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontarioin May 2017 and provide valuable insight into this pressing issue and under-score the need for reform.

Harvey P. Weingarten is president and chief executive officer of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Martin Hicks is executive director of data and statistics at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.Amy Kaufman is director of special projects at the Higher Education QualityCouncil of Ontario.

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edited by a. scott carson

and kim richard nossal

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Assessing Quality in Postsecondary EducationInternational Perspectives

edited by harvey p. weingarten,

martin hicks, and amy kaufman

What effect has feminism had on Canadian education since the 1970 RoyalCommission on the Status of Women, and to what end? Transforming Conversations explores post-commission feminist thought and action in the contexts of primary, secondary, post-secondary, and adult education.

In this volume, teachers, professors, and educational administrators –many trailblazers themselves – document the historical experiences and out-comes of feminist action in university faculties of education, departments ofeducational administration, academic and professional societies, teachers’unions, and community groups over the past five decades. They begin by exploring liberal feminism as an initial response to the historical context inwhich female educators spoke up for women’s rights and reshaped formal education systems. The contributors further explore how feminist theory wasreconceptualized as women moved into formal leadership roles across educa-tion sectors. Last, contributors consider female educators at the intersection ofgender and other systems of exclusion, such as race and class, despite ostensi-bly inclusive feminist theory that continues to be bounded by Western, colo-nial, neoliberal ideologies.Transforming Conversations considers the complex effects feminism has

had and continues to have on Canadian education, acknowledges voices thathave been marginalized, and invites readers to continue a transformative feminist dialogue.

Dawn Wallin is a professor in the College of Education at the University ofSaskatchewan. Janice Wallace is professor emerita in the Faculty of Educationat the University of Alberta.

In June 1985, David Peterson was sworn in as the leader of Ontario’s first Lib-eral government in forty-two years. This collection of speeches explores theactivist agenda the London, Ontario, lawyer pursued through his premiership,which sought to ensure all Ontarians were able to participate fully in provin-cial society. When Peterson was asked what he viewed as his most importantaccomplishment, he thought for a brief moment and then whispered with ob-vious emotion, “breaking down walls and barriers.”

Through his speeches, readers can see Premier Peterson on the wider Cana-dian stage by addressing the economic challenges faced by the federation –most notably free trade – and by supporting the Meech Lake Accord, whichwas designed to bring Quebec into the constitutional family. His speeches alsoshow him on the global stage, engaged in the challenges of the transformationof world politics and Canada’s trading relationship with the United States. Bythe time Peterson’s premiership had come to an end in 1990, the Berlin Wallhad fallen, Europe was increasingly integrated, a fragmented Soviet Unionwas beginning to collapse, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreementwas in full force and effect, and the age of globalization had begun.

Through this selection of speeches, the editors also present insights into arange of other figures, from former premiers and Peterson’s political contem-poraries to the British royal family. Particularly powerful tributes include Nelson Mandela’s first visit to Canada and Peterson’s eulogy for mpp DaltonMcGuinty, Sr, the father of Ontario’s 24th premier. tvontario’s Steve Paikinprovides an in-depth introduction that puts the life and political times of Premier Peterson and his government in broader perspective.

Arthur Milnes is a journalist and was a speechwriter for Prime MinisterStephen Harper from 2012 to 2014. Ryan Zade has held research, policy, educational, and management positions in the public and non-profit sectors.

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P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S E D U C AT I O N • WOM EN ’ S S T U D I E S

Without Walls or BarriersThe Speeches of Premier

David Peterson

edited by arthur milnes

and ryan zade

Introduction by Steve Paikin

Transforming ConversationsFeminism and Education in Canada

since 1970

edited by dawn wallin

and janice wallace

An accounting of feminism’s effect on Canadian

education policy and practice since the Royal

Commission on the Status of Women.

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due tothree crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower formunicipal elections than it is for other levels of government. Second, the re-election rate of incumbent candidates is higher compared to provincial, terri-torial, and federal elections. Third, corruption and other scandals havetarnished the image of local democracy. Are cities sufficiently capable of re-sponding to crises and representing the interests of their residents? Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level addresses these

issues through qualitative and quantitative analysis, focusing on some of themost important characteristics of the Canadian municipal scene, including thecontexts of partisanship and non-partisanship, the careers and daily work ofmunicipal officials, and multilevel governance. This volume also assists di-rectly in the collection and dissemination of data about cities as there is cur-rently no centralized system for capturing and organizing electoral statistics at the municipal level.

Municipal democracy in Canada suffers from a representation deficit. Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level is an importantfirst step in building high-quality comparative information on the politics of Canada’s cities.

Sandra Breux is associate professor at the Centre Urbanisation Culture Sociétéof the Institut national de la recherche scientifique. Jérôme Couture is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société of the Institutnational de la recherche scientifique.

In Quebec and Scotland, questions of constitutional change, national identity,and national grievance play an important role in the electoral calculations ofpolitical parties and voters. Taking a strong stance on the national questioncan have strategic benefits both for parties pushing for greater autonomy andfor those endorsing the status quo.

In this in-depth look at issue voting, authors Éric Bélanger, Richard Nadeau,Ailsa Henderson, and Eve Hepburn examine how the national question affectspolitical parties and voter behaviour in both substate nations. Through partymanifestos, interviews with legislators, and opinion survey data, this bookdemonstrates that calls for constitutional change influence political debate,competition, voter choice, and the outcome of elections not only within Que-bec and Scotland but also across Canada and the United Kingdom. Minoritynationalist parties, the authors show, can gain support by claiming ownershipof issues with widespread public agreement, such as self-determination andprotecting the identity and interests of the nation.

A comprehensive analysis of recent electoral politics, The National Question and Electoral Politics in Quebec and Scotland greatly enhances our understanding of the electoral impact of substate nationalism.

Éric Bélanger is professor of political science and director of the Quebec Stud-ies Program at McGill University. Richard Nadeau, a Fulbright scholar andformer chief advisor to the premier of Quebec, is professor of political scienceat the Université de Montréal. Ailsa Henderson is professor of political scienceat the University of Edinburgh and the author of Hierarchies of Belonging:National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec. Eve Hepburnis honorary fellow at the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh andthe managing director of PolicyScribe Ltd.

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Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal LevelViews from Canada

edited by sandra breux

and jérôme couture

Are municipal governments democratic simply

because they are elected?

P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S • U R B A N S T U D I E S P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S • I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S

The National Question andElectoral Politics in Quebecand Scotlandéric bélanger, richard nadeau,

ailsa henderson, and eve hepburn

A comprehensive look at the intricacies of issue

voting in substate nations.

Network Democracy uses the contemporary tools of ecology and networkthinking to unearth the ancient, intellectual ruins of traditional conservativethought.

Questioning the West’s veneration of freedom, equality, contractual citi-zenship, economic progress, cosmopolitanism, secular institutionalism, andreason, Jared Giesbrecht illuminates how these ideals fuel violence and insecu-rity in our high-speed lives. While the modern age witnesses the rise of a vio-lent conservatism in the form of revolutionary movements enacting terror andvengeance for the interventions of the liberal West, this study reveals a differ-ent kind of conservatism – one that has emerged in direct conversation withliberal thought. Giesbrecht highlights the need for intermediate institutionsand civil enterprises that form relations and traditions independent of the statein order to develop resistance to the insecurity of the liberal age. This book of-fers not only a poignant critique, but a constructive and peaceable alternativeto the violence of both liberalism and reactionary anti-liberalism.

Attuned to the new realities of globalization, advanced technology, and social acceleration, Network Democracy is a masterful hybrid of ancient and cutting-edge political philosophy that casts a new light on the values underlying Western civilization.

Jared Giesbrecht practises law in Fort Saint John, British Columbia.

Honorific rewards are all about status and illustrate status processes in a waythat few other social phenomena do. Why do we have so many honorificawards and prizes? Although they are a major feature of modern societies,they have received little scholarly attention.

Samuel Clark argues that answering this question requires a separate his-torical analysis of different awards and prizes. He presents a comprehensiveexplanation of the origins and evolution of state honours in the British Isles,France, and the Low Countries. Examining cultural, social, and politicalchanges that led to the massive growth in state honours and shaped their char-acteristics, Distributing Status also demonstrates their functions as instru-ments of cultural power, collective power, disciplinary power, and statuspower. Clark supports his conclusions with a cross-cultural statistical analysisof twenty societies.

Lucid and logical, Distributing Status explicates an important historicalchange in Western Europe while at the same time contributing to several bod-ies of sociological literature, including evolutionary theory, theories of collec-tive action, writings on discipline in modern societies, and studies of statusprocesses.

Samuel Clark is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of WesternOntario and author of State and Status: The Rise of the State and AristocraticPower in Western Europe.

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n ew i n p a p e r

Network DemocracyConservative Politics and the

Violence of the Liberal Age

jared giesbrecht

"An innovative critique of modern liberalism that

should interest scholars of both liberal and conser-

vative political thought. Highly Recommended.”

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S O C I O LO GY • E U R O P E A N H I S TO R Y P H I L O S O P H Y • P O L I T I C A L S T U D I E S

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Distributing StatusThe Evolution of State Honours in

Western Europe

samuel clark

“In this broad-ranging and innovative study,

enriched by methodologies drawn from the social

sciences, Samuel Clark shows how honorific

awards have evolved across the centuries.”

Alan Forrest, University of York

What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What isdaily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form ofpower? A House of One’s Own explores these enduring questions as theyunfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes.

In a lively, intimate account of the social complexities that arise in post-disaster settings, Alicia Sliwinski recounts the trajectories of fifty familieswho received different forms of humanitarian aid, from emergency assistanceto housing reconstruction. Drawing on seminal anthropological theoriesabout gift giving and moral economy, the author thoughtfully discusses thecomplications and challenges of humanitarian action that aims to rebuildcommunities through participation. At the crossroads of disaster studies andthe anthropology of humanitarianism, the book’s insights speak to timelyand recurring issues that relocated populations face in regimented andmorally charged resettlement initiatives.

A richly textured, analytically nuanced ethnography, A House of One’sOwn is a perceptive firsthand account of what happens on the ground in a post-disaster setting.

Alicia Sliwinski is associate professor of global studies at Wilfrid LaurierUniversity.

One of the notable distinctions of Biełarusian authors, compared to otherwriters in Slavic literatures, is their depiction of Jewish characters as nativeto the land. The Jewish population in historic Biełarusian territories was thecountry’s largest minority, and Yiddish was one of the state languages ofBiełaruś between 1919 and 1938. The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature sheds light on

this little-known yet important part of Slavic and Jewish studies. Zina Gimpelevich demonstrates that the works produced by Biełarusian writersover a long period of time display a more consistent tolerance and sympathytowards Jews than has generally been recognized. Beginning several centuriesago but concentrating on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she offers excerpts – and textual and comparative analyses – of works byBiełarusian poets, novelists, and dramatists, most of whom have not beenpreviously translated into English. Each writer is discussed in terms of theirsocio-political background and the country’s history during the period inwhich they lived and wrote.

Biełarusian literature has influenced and enlightened public consciousnesssince the middle of the sixteenth century, despite the destructive actions of itsmany rulers. The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature offersdeep insights into how the region’s Biełarusian, Jewish, and other cultures interacted over many centuries.

Zina J. Gimpelevich is professor emeritus of Slavic studies at the University of Waterloo and the author of Vasil Bykaŭ: His Life and Works.

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S L AV I C S T U D I E S • J EW I S H S T U D I E S A N T H RO PO LO GY • D E V E LO PM E N T S T U D I E S

The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literaturezina j. gimpelevich

An insightful introduction to the relationship

between Biełarusians of Christian and Jewish

origins, as recorded in Biełarusian literature.

A House of One’s OwnThe Moral Economy of Post-

Disaster Aid in El Salvador

alicia sliwinski

An intimate study of everyday humanitarianism

in post-earthquake El Salvador.

In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scien-tific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers andnatural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soulled to the brain’s emergence as a curiosity in its own right.

Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the worksof authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to WilliamHarvey, Margaret Cavendish, and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tellshow early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter but asa wealth of other wondrous possibilities – a book in which to read the soul’swriting, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectualconception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and therebymakes us human. For seventeenth-century thinkers, she argues, these com-parisons were not simply casual metaphors but integral to early ideas aboutbrain function.

Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot tells the story of how the mindcame to be identified with the brain.

Lianne Habinek is assistant professor of English at Bard College.

The North American entertainment industry is rapidly consolidating, andnew modes of technological delivery challenge Canadian content regulations.An understanding of how Canadian culture negotiates its rapport withAmerican genres has never been more timely.West/Border/Road offers an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary

Canadian manifestations of three American genres: the western, the border,and the road. It situates close readings of literary, film, and television narra-tives from both English Canada and Quebec within a larger context of Cana-dian generic borrowing and innovation. Katherine Ann Roberts calls uponcanonical works in Canadian studies, theories of genre, and a wide range ofscholarship from border studies, cultural studies, and film studies to examinehow genre is appropriated and sometimes reworked and how these culturalnarratives engage with discourses of contemporary Canadian nationhood.The author elucidates Guy Vanderhaeghe’s rewriting of the codes of the historical western to include the trauma of Aboriginal peoples, Aritha vanHerk’s playful spoof on American western iconography, the politics and per-ils of the representation of the Canada-US border in cbc-produced crime television, and how the road genre inspires and constrains the Québécois and Canadian road movie.

A reminder of the power and limitations of American genres, West/Border/Road provides a nuanced perspective on Canadian engagement with cultural forms that may be imported but never foreign.

Katherine Ann Roberts is associate professor of North American studies and French at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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The Subtle KnotEarly Modern English Literature

and the Birth of Neuroscience

lianne habinek

When and how did we come to think of the brain

as the vehicle of the mind, and what role did

literature play in forging a link so crucial to our

understanding of ourselves?

West/Border/RoadNation and Genre in Contemporary

Canadian Narrative

katherine ann roberts

A captivating look at how recent Canadian fiction,

film, and television appropriate and redefine

American genres.

Founded in 1934 as a small community hospital – open to all patients, regard-less of race, religion, language, or ethnic background – Montreal’s JewishGeneral has grown to become an internationally recognized facility, and amajor component of McGill University’s medical school.

This comprehensive account of an esteemed institution begins by outliningthe historical connections between Judaism and medicine, and the establish-ment of Jewish hospitals throughout the Western world at the end of thenineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Specifically Jewish hos-pitals originated in response to the prevalent anti-Semitism that made post-graduate training for Jewish physicians in hospitals nearly impossible andalso due to the need for kosher facilities for patients. Doctor Frank Guttman,who trained at the Jewish General from 1959 to 1964 and joined its staff in1965, provides a detailed account of the hospital’s history and its various di-rectors, tracking the progress and medical breakthroughs of each departmentand presenting the exceptional clinicians and scientists who have made thehospital’s progress possible.

This book tells the story of Montreal’s Jewish General, from humble begin-nings to a world-class university hospital, committed to service, teaching, re-search, and innovation.

Frank Myron Guttman is a retired professor of pediatric surgery and formerchief of general pediatric surgery at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Football at Queen’s University has one of the richest and longest histories ofany sport in Canada. The Golden Gaels have been a presence in Canadianfootball at both the amateur and professional levels since 1882. Gael Forcetraces this history, chronicling the team’s ups and downs and integrating themwithin the history of the university, the country, and the sport in general.

Providing a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well asprofiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players, Merv Daubtakes the reader through more than a century of Queen’s football. Drawingfrom a wealth of sources, Daub recounts the team’s key milestones includingtheir first Dominion championship in 1893 with “Curtis and his boys,” threeconsecutive Grey Cup wins in the 1920s, the 1934–35 victory of the “FearlessFourteen,” the 1955 season when Gus Braccia, Ronnie Stewart, Gary Schrei-der, Lou Bruce, Al Kocman, “Jocko” Thompson, and the rest of that “band ofmerry men” brought Queen’s back into the limelight, the golden years of the1960s, and the 1978 and 1992 Vanier Cup championship seasons.

Adding twenty more years of football history since Gael Forcewas firstpublished in 1996, this new edition includes the 2016 season played at the re-vitalized Richardson Stadium. It is both a tribute to a long-standing footballlegacy at Queen’s and an important historical and sociological study of collegesport in Canada.

“They’re the Montreal Canadians, the New York Yankees, the Boston Celtics of Canadian college football. And they’re the team other teams love to beat.”Globe and Mail

Merv Daub is a retired professor in the School of Business at Queen’s Univer-sity. He was co-captain of the Golden Gaels in 1965 and coached the team inthe 1970s and in 1991.

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The Sir Mortimer B. DavisJewish General Hospitalfrank myron guttman

and alexander wright

A compelling look at the remarkable progress

of Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, from a

community hospital to a first-class medical and

research centre.

Gael ForceA History of Football at Queen’s,

1882–2016, Second Edition

merv daub

An engaging record of the legacy of one of the

best and oldest college football teams in Canada.

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