MQUP Spring 2009 Catalogue

anthropology / 5architecture / 21art, art history / 2, 9Asian history / 42biography / 8, 9, 42business / 19Canadian history / 8, 19, 23, 24, 40, 41, 43conflict studies / 15cultural Studies / 3, 35, 36current events / 1, 20, 25economics / 30education / 31environmental studies / 4, 16European history / 21exploration / 8folklore / 17French history / 20genocide studies / 1geography / 2, 43health care, health policy / 18, 31history / 2, 8, 22, 40, 41history of ideas / 36history of medicine / 22history of religion / 17, 24Irish history / 6Jewish studies / 17law / 15, 16literature, literary studies / 7, 35, 36, 37,

38, 39military history, military studies / 21, 29,

30, 42music / 41Native American studies / 5, 16Northern studies / 8philosophy / 10, 11, 12, 13, 14poetry / 7policy studies, public policy / 4, 18, 22, 29,

30, 31, 34political economics / 22political science / 15, 16, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27,

28, 29, 32, 33post-colonial studies / 40religious studies / 29science / 19sexuality / 10social history / 23sociology / 20, 22sports / 19urban history / 21women’s studies / 9world history / 6

ContentsMcGill-Queen’s University Pressacknowledges with gratitude the assistance of the AssociatedMedical Services, the Associationfor the Export of Canadian Books,the Beaverbrook CanadianFoundation, the Canada Councilfor the Arts, Carleton University,the Faculty of Arts of McGillUniversity, the Government ofCanada through the BookPublishing Industry DevelopmentProgram, the Humanities andSocial Sciences Federation ofCanada, the Jackman Foundationof Toronto, the Smallman Fund ofthe University of Western Ontario,and the Social Sciences andHumanities Research Council ofCanada for their support of itspublishing program. Above all, thePress is indebted to its two parentinstitutions, McGill and Queen’suniversities, for generous, continu-ing support for the Press as anintegral part of the universities’research and teaching activities.

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Studies in the History of Medicine, Health,and Society / 22

McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook CanadianFoundation Studies in Art History / 9

Migration and Diversity: Comparative Issuesand International Comparisons / 29

Philosophy Now / 14Thematic Issues in Federalism / 33Understanding Movements in Modern

Thought / 12

AgenciesAcumen Publishing / 10, 11, 12Les Éditions du Septentrion / 26Queen’s Policy Studies / 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 42Centre for the Study of Democracy / 26, 27Institute of Intergovernmental Relations / 28Queen’s Centre for International Relations / 29School of Policy Studies / 30, 31, 42

Selected backlist / 44, 45, 46

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Accidental Indies, The / 7Adolescent Health / 18Afghanistan Challenge, The / 29Age of the Offered Hand / 27Ambitions Tamed / 21Annihilation / 13Art of the Landscape, The / 9Art of the State, The, Volume 4 / 34As affecting the fate of my absent husband / 8Between Languages and Cultures / 35C.B. Macpherson / 15Canada: The State of the Federation 2006/07 / 28Canadian Pentecostalism / 24Compositional Crossroads / 41Data Data Everywhere / 31Dear Gladys / 42Death / 10Each Man’s Son / 39Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of

Reform and Opening Up / 30Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Social Change

During Thirty Years of Reform / 30Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description / 37Essence of Indecision / 23Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems / 33Foreign Relations in Federal Countries / 32Gold in the Americas / 2Grenfell of Labrador / 43Harper’s Team / 25Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy / 18Identity Captured by Law / 16Imagining Holiness / 17Imagining Justice / 36In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow / 27In the Aftermath of Catastrophe / 17In the Eye of the Wind / 42Innovation, Science, Environment / 34International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity / 29Inventing Canada / 19Irish History of Civilization, An: Volume 1 / 6Irish History of Civilization, An: Volume 2 / 6Kiviuq / 1Leadership in Disaster / 4

Title Index

Author/Editor Index

Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Countries / 32Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World, The / 40Me / 11Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis

Management / 30Media, Memory, and the First World War / 35Middle Age / 11Montreal Olympics, The / 19Mosaic Orpheus / 7Native Peoples and Water Rights / 16Patriotic Elaborations / 14Politics of Purpose / 26Practice of Her Profession, The / 9Quest of the Folk, The / 23Reconciliation(s) / 15Rediscovered Self, The / 5Regulating Flexibility / 22Return of the Sphinx / 39Sadly Troubled History, A / 22Second Promised Land / 20Seeing Ghosts / 3Senate Reform / 28Sex / 10Silent Revolution?, A / 40Sods, Soil, and Spades / 43Spirit of Industry and Improvement, The / 41Stauffenberg / 8Strategy and Command / 21Thomas Nagel / 14Transatlantic Subjects / 41Transformation of Ontario’s Postsecondary Education System, The / 31Truth and Truth-Making / 13Two Solitudes / 39Under Conrad’s Eyes / 36Understanding Ethics / 12Understanding Postcolonialism / 12Waiting for the Wave / 25War with a Silver Lining, A / 24Watch that Ends the Night, The / 38We Are What We Mourn / 37When the French Tried to be British / 20World and Darfur, The / 1

Abele, Frances / 34Akenson, Don / 6Allan, John R. / 28Baenninger, Martin / 42Baenninger, Ron / 42Baskerville, Peter / 40Belshaw, Christopher / 13Blattberg, Charles / 14Bleakney, J. Sherman / 43Bouchard, Gérard / 40Boyce, William / 18Bramadat, Paul / 29Butlin, Susan / 9Chapman, Rosemary / 35Chappell, Tim / 12Chattopadhyay, Rupak / 33Christie, Nancy / 41Clark, Ian D. / 31Courchene, Thomas J. / 28, 34Davies, Diane / 18Dionne, Hélène / 2DiSanto, Michael John / 36Ehrhart, Hans-Georg / 29Elce, Erika Behrisch / 8Engle, Karen / 3

Finley, Robert / 7Flanagan, Tom / 25Flood, Colleen M. / 31Franklin, Lady Jane / 8Grammond, Sébastien / 16Grzyb, Amanda F. / 1Gunn, J.A.W. / 20Hamilton, Christopher / 11Heath, Gordon L. / 24Hiddleston, Jane / 12Hiller, Harry H. / 20Hoffmann, Peter / 8Howell, Paul Charles / 19Kincaid, John / 32Koenig, Matthias / 29Leiss, William / 15Leuprecht, Christian / 28Lewis, Justin Jaron / 17Lowe, E.J. / 13MacLennan, Hugh / 38, 39Maslove, Allan / 18Matsui, Kenichi / 16May, Todd / 10McGonegal, Julie / 36McGrath, James / 27

McIninch, Elizabeth / 26McKay, Ian / 23McMahon, Patricia I. / 23Meadowcroft, James / 34Meharg, Sarah Jane / 30Michelmann, Hans J. / 32Milani, Raffaele / 9Milnes, Arthur / 26, 27Moran, Greg / 31Morgan, Seiriol / 10Murphy, Raymond / 4Neusner, Jacob / 17Niezen, Ronald / 5Osmond, Gladys / 42Penney, Gilbert / 42Pentland, Charles / 29Pickard, Zachariah / 37Prete, Roy A. / 21Quinn, Joanna R. / 15Rami, A. / 13Reynard, Pierre Claude / 21Roche, Jennifer / 18Rompkey, Ronald / 43Samson, Daniel / 41Scott, Peter Dale / 7

Seidle, F.Leslie / 34Skolnik, Michael / 31Slack, Enid / 33Smith, Jennifer / 28Steytler, Nico / 32St-Hilaire, Frances / 34Stubley, Eleanor V. / 41Sweetman, Arthur / 30Taylor, Malcolm G. / 18Thomas, Alan / 14Thomas, Mark P. / 22Thompson, Mel / 11Toner, Glen / 34Trick, David / 31Turner, John N. / 26Uppal, Priscila / 37Van Deusen, Kira / 1Weaver, John C. / 22Wilkinson, Michael / 24Williams, David / 35Zeller, Suzanne / 19Zhang, Jun / 30

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The crisis in Darfur has led to systemic and widespread murder,rape, and abduction, as well as the forced displacement of millionsof civilians. It presents a defining moral challenge to the world.

The World and Darfur brings together genocide scholars from a range of disciplines – social history, art history, military history,African studies, media studies, literature, political science, sociology– to provide a cohesive and nuanced understanding of the inter-national response to the crisis in Western Sudan. Contributingauthors, including Eric Reeves, Frank Chalk, Eric Markusen, andSamuel Totten, look at the lessons learned from the United Nationsfailure to intervene during the Rwandan genocide, the representa-tion of Darfur in the mainstream media, atrocity investigations,activist and NGO campaigns, art exhibitions and political rhetoric,and the role of the international community in the discourse ofgenocide prevention and intervention. A common theme is thesuccession of political, bureaucratic, and informational barriersthat have prevented the international community from stagingeffective action to quell the crimes against humanity in Darfur.

The situation in Darfur continues to deteriorate and it is clearthat the current UN peacekeeping mission is woefully inadequatefor civilian protection. An effective genocide prevention campaigndepends on international response and public will. The World andDarfur is an important part of this dialogue, providing valuableinsights for scholars, human rights activists, and the concernedgeneral public.

Contributors include Major Brent Beardsley (Royal Canadian Regiment of theCanadian Army), Gerald Caplan (independent scholar, policy analyst, and politi-cal activist), Frank Chalk (Concordia University), Amanda Grzyb (University ofWestern Ontario), Danielle Kelton (master’s candidate, University of SouthernCalifornia), H. Peter Langille (University of Western Ontario), Daniel Listoe(University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee), Eric Markusen (Southwest MinnesotaState University), Eric Reeves (Smith College), Carla Rose Shapiro (postdoctoralfellow, University of Toronto), and Samuel Totten (University of Arkansas).

“A genuinely original and important book about how people in theWest see Darfur.”–Gerard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocideand Darfur: An Ambiguous Genocide

Amanda F. Grzyb is assistant professor of information and mediastudies, University of Western Ontario.

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The World and DarfurInternational Response to CrimesAgainst Humanity in Western Sudan Edited by Amanda F. Grzyb

Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences discuss how the internationalcommunity has responded to the firstgenocide of the twenty-first century.

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“Path-breaking ... one of the first books to analyze Darfur from a humanities and mediastudies perspective, and a major contribution to genocide research.” –Gregory Stanton,president, The International Association of Genocide Scholars

Step into the passionate world of gold in the Americas, from themoment Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors fellunder its spell and ventured forth to discover, colonize, and exploitthe New World and its resources, right up to the present day andrecent explorations for gold deposits in northern Quebec.

Gold’s natural properties are every bit as surprising as the pow-ers attributed to the mineral, which is why gold could engenderthe brutal but extraordinarily productive encounter of the peopleswho built the Americas of today. The Indians, Africans, Europeans,and Métis all contributed – through the alchemy of time and pas-sion – to forging the face of the nations and the landscapes of thevast territory of the Americas. From pre-Hispanic treasures to tech-nological marvels of the twenty-first century, the ways in whichgold has been used are as limitless as the human imagination. Letyourself succumb to gold fever and discover the Americas as youhave never before seen them.

The book includes a preface by Dany Laferrière; texts by anthropo-logists Jacques-M. Chevalier, Paul-Christiaan Klieger, Zélie Larose-Chevalier, José Lopez-Arellano, and Michael Taussig; texts byarchaeologists Claude Chapdelaine, Yves Chrétien, Hélène Côté,Richard Fiset, Michael Gates, Roberto Lleras, Louise-Iseult Paradis,Gilles Samson, and Sanitago Uceda-Castillo; texts by historiansHélène Daneau, Miguel Luque Talaván, and Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert; texts by arts historians Letizia Arbeteta-Mira, Clara-IsabelBotero, Paz Cabello-Carro, Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech, andWinifred Glover; a text by gold market analyst Jean-BernardGuyon; and texts by geologists Benoît Dubé, Jayanta Guha,Michel Guiraud, and Jean-Marc Lulin.

Hélène Dionne is a folklorist and museologist.

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Gold in the AmericasEdited by Hélène Dionne

THe passionate world of gold in the Americas,from Christopher Columbus to present day.


Mapping a ContinentHistorical Atlas of North America, 1492–1814Raymonde Litalien, Jean-François Palomino, and Denis Vaugeois9782894485279 $75.00T cloth

On September 11 more people clicked “on documentary news pho-tographs than on pornography for the first (and only) time in thehistory of the Internet,” reports writer David Levi Strauss. Thearchive of images associated with the tragic events of 9/11 meritscareful analysis. Artist Damien Hirst has suggested that theattacks were designed to be viewed – “The thing about 9/11 is thatit’s kind of an artwork in its own right. It was wicked, but it wasdevised in this way for this kind of impact. It was devised visually.”

Starting from the tremendous fascination with images of 9/11,Karen Engle asks what, in the context of a national trauma, makesan image appropriate or scandalous, exploring how diverse visualmedia have been mobilized in political projects of identification andpersonal narratives of empathy. Focusing on themes of memory,mourning, and history, Engle examines sculptural, photographic, andnew media responses to the 9/11 attacks in both contemporary andhistorical contexts, considers the public’s reaction to these visualproductions, and suggests that earlier presentations of America atwar play a pivotal role in the representations of 9/11 in both officialand popular media.

Seeing Ghosts is a groundbreaking theoretical study of how weremember, how we mourn, and how images of a particular eventinfluence our imagination of the future.

“Engle unifies a seemingly disparate assortment of 9/11 photo-graphs, cartoons, memorabilia, and memorials in a compellingargument regarding identity formation through mourning.Accessible and deeply engaging.”–John Tercier, University of California, San Francisco

Karen Engle is assistant professor, sociology and visual culture,University of Windsor.

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Seeing Ghosts9/11 and the Visual ImaginationKaren Engle

An evocative look at images of 9/11 and howthey contribute to our cultural memory.

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Disasters occur when hazards of nature strike socio-technologicalvulnerabilities. While science provides valuable indications of risk,it does not yield certainty, yet leaders must make sense of threats.Raymond Murphy’s case study of the management of the 1998 icestorm – the most costly disaster ever in Canada, northern New Yorkstate, and Maine – presents rare interviews with key political andemergency management leaders that provide an insider’s view ofthe challenge of responding to extreme weather. They documenta generally well managed crisis, but also reveal the slippery slopefrom transparency to withholding critical information as the crisisdeepened, and examine conflict resolution between leaders duringa disaster.

The study looks into whether technological development inad-vertently constructed new vulnerabilities to nature’s forces, there-by manufacturing a natural disaster. As this extreme weather mayforeshadow what will occur with global warming, Murphy’s inter-views also explore the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural pre-dispositions underlying climate change, investigating how modernsocieties create both risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them. An innovative comparison with Amishcommunities, where the same extreme weather had trivial conse-quences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-environmentalcalamities.

Leadership in Disaster is a major contribution to the analysis ofvulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environ-mental problems, such as global climate change, and a valuableresource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn moreabout how extreme weather disasters can be managed.

“Interviews with key decision-makers should mean this reaches anumber of lay-people as well as journalists. Leadership in Disasteris beautifully written and deserving of a wide readership.”–Peter Dickens, University of Cambridge

Raymond Murphy is emeritus professor of sociology, University of Ottawa, president of the Environment and Society ResearchCommittee of the International Sociological Association, and the author of numerous books, including Social Closure andRationality and Nature.

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Leadership in DisasterLearning for a Future with Global Climate Change Raymond Murphy

How leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly.

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How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalisticbumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak toCanadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today?How can artists present ancient legend in live perform-ance and film with sensitivity to the source?

After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira VanDeusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many suchquestions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends – that of hero/shamanKiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer’s Odysseus – told by forty Inuit elders. The elders’ voices engage us directly,inviting us to look at the unique qualities of arctic heroismand its application to present-day concerns. Rich detailsfrom each of the elders’ families help explain interper-sonal challenges to survival in the north and offer bothpractical and spiritual lessons. Van Deusen also points outintriguing cultural connections across the Bering Strait,past and present.

Kiviuq is a must-read for those interested in northerncultures, shamanism, oral storytelling, and cultural change.

“Missionaries forbade their converts any mention of thepre-Christian hero ‘Kiviuq,’ so each Inuit elder had to consider carefully before agreeing to speak out. If youread between the lines, this ancient story provides a key to human survival on earth.”–John Houston, filmmaker

Kira Van Deusen is a storyteller and musician who has done extensive research on the oral traditions ofSiberian indigenous peoples and the Canadian Inuit.Her previous books include Singing Story, Healing Drumand The Flying Tiger.

In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezendiscusses the ways new rights standards and networks ofactivist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims aboutculture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions,and group qualities.

Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic materialon aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezenillustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide areidentifying and acting upon new opportunities to furthertheir rights and identities. He shows how – within theconstraints of state and international legal systems,activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expec-tations – indigenous leaders are working to overcome theinjuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a criticalunderstanding of the ways in which people are seekingcultural justice while rearticulating and, at times,re-dignifying the collective self.

The Rediscovered Self shows how, through the processesand aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to beexpressed through new media, formal procedures, andtransnational collaborations.

“The Rediscovered Self cuts across a number of differentperspectives, both those of activists and academics, andNiezen is well positioned to bring these often opposingpositions together with a significant degree of empathyfor both – a poignant and welcome addition to the literature on Indigenous studies.”–H. Glen Penny, University of Iowa

Ronald Niezen is professor of anthropology, McGillUniversity, and Canada Research Chair in the ComparativeStudy of Indigenous Rights and Identity.

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The Rediscovered SelfIndigenous Identity and Cultural Justice Ronald Niezen

Indigenous peoples’ struggle for justiceand selfhood in an integrating world.

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KiviuqAn Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins Kira Van Deusen

Northern elders illuminate the heartof Arctic life through stories of Kiviuq,the eternal Inuit wanderer.

St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he arrives as a prisoner, Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin café. Ina daring, genre-breaking work, the world’s foremost scholar of theIrish diaspora fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic chroni-cle of civilization through Irish eyes. From St Patrick to WoodyGuthrie, Constantine to John F. Kennedy, India to the Australianoutback, Don Akenson’s An Irish History of Civilization is about theIrish at home and abroad, the great and the small, the noble andthe depraved, the wise and the foolish.

Akenson weaves ironic and playful historical miniatures of Irishmisery, folly, and glory. Like the archetypal stories in the Talmuds,the artful fictions in An Irish History of Civilization are universal,big truths that require a big canvas. Akenson follows his chosenpeoples on their odyssey around the globe in a story like no other,the lines between history and fiction irretrievably lost in the mists of Irish time.

“Don Akenson has one-upped Joyce and forged the consciousnessof a race.” –The Globe and Mail

“Great fun, terrifically written, and down to earth: scholarship andthe Irish diaspora as you have never seen them before!”–The Irish Times

“An Irish story presented in a Jewish form by a US-born Canadianhistorian of Swedish Protestant ancestry … This is a very odd book,but a genuinely brilliant achievement.” –The Independent

“I am at a loss as to how to best invite you into Don Akenson’s“micro-Talmud of humankind” … where you will be tickled andlashed all the way from the stone-age god-kings of Knowth, circa3000 BC, to Billy Graham at a Nixon White House prayer breakfast.”–Harper’s Magazine

“The stories are so absorbing that it was dangerous to begin read-ing the book late at night. The next thing I knew, it was close tomorning and I began to develop what is known as Akenson-lag.I suspect that many other readers will have a similar experience.”–David Wilson, author of Thomas D’Arcy McGee and professor of Celtic studies, St Michael’s College, University of Toronto

Don Akenson is the author of numerous books, includingSurpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds(nominated for the Governor General’s Award) and, most recently,Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself.He teaches history at Queen’s University.

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An Irish History of CivilizationDon Akenson

The grace of fiction combined with the power of history.

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Working always to connect the polemical to the personal,Peter Dale Scott’s political poems – from the tear gas ofBerkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai for-est monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation– are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning alsomarks his meditation poems, including a sequence on thedeath of his first wife.

In opposition to contemporary poems of studiedmeaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compul-sion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejectionsof the external world and turn to the refuges of poetsbefore him, the enduring commonplaces that are morethan clichés.

Praise for Coming to Jakarta“The most important political poem to appear in theEnglish language in a very long time.” –Robert Hass,former US poet laureate and 2008 Pulitzer Prize recipient

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and profes-sor of English, University of California, Berkeley, is anaward-winning poet, writer, and researcher. Author of six poetry collections, his previous books include the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum – Coming to Jakarta,Listening to the Candle, and Minding the Darkness.

The Accidental Indies is a lyrical tale that followsChristopher Columbus on a fantastic voyage throughwestern seas and Western imagination. Robert Finleyimagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus’problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating avivid and compelling world. It is a wondrous journey thatbegins with Columbus’ earliest explorations when he first“tests the heft and roundness of this earth against hisinfant head” by stepping from the edge of his rocking cra-dle to come up short on the boards of the nursery floor.Finley charts a course through the sea voyage, its recordsand commentaries, into the territory of Columbus’ imagi-nary “Indies” and the representation of this New World on his return to Spain.

“I was utterly enchanted by The Accidental Indies. Withhumour, inventiveness and an exquisite gift for words,Robert Finley has rescued Columbus’ adventures from the excesses of hagiography and the disparagements of outrage, and restored them, once again, to the realm of myth from whence they sprung.”–Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading andThe Dictionary of Imaginary Places

“The Accidental Indies is a gem – it is boldly imagined andsplendidly written.” –John Casey, author of the NationalBook Award winner, Spartina

“This is a beautiful book – a kind of magic, shamanicflight to find the inner meaning of Columbus.”–Hugh Brody, author of Maps & Dreams

Robert Finley is associate professor of English atMemorial University and the author of A Ragged Pen:Essays on Poetry and Memory.

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Mosaic OrpheusPeter Dale Scott

Maturing reflections on a changing world.

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WinnerCunard First Book Award – Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia (2001)

WinnerGovernor General’s Award – Literary Award in the category of FrenchTranslation (2004)


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The tragic fate of the lost Franklin expedition (1845–48) is a well-known part of exploration history, but there hasalways been a gap in the story – a personal account thatbegs to be told. In As affecting the fate of my absenthusband, Erika Behrisch Elce has collected the poignantletters of Sir John Franklin’s wife, Jane, which provide avital new perspective on the tragedy.

From her optimistic requests to whaling ships to herpersistent demands for Admiralty aid, Lady Franklinplayed a crucial role in the search for her husband. Hercorrespondence with British prime ministers, members of Parliament, lords of the Admiralty, and a US presidentpresents a private, domestic side to a national tragedyand sheds new light on what Sir John Franklin’s disap-pearance meant to England, its public, and its sense ofitself as an imperial power. With comprehensive annota-tions, a descriptive timeline, and an introduction thatoutlines the significance of Lady Franklin’s contribution to the “Arctic debate,” As affecting the fate of my absenthusband is a convincing portrait of the surprisingly dis-ruptive effects – on both the public consciousness andthe government bureaucracy – of a single, eloquent,voice of dissent.

As affecting the fate of my absent husband is essentialreading not only for anyone interested in Victorian adven-ture and the Arctic but as an introduction to one of themost fascinating women of the nineteenth century.

Erika Behrisch Elce is an assistant professor in the EnglishDepartment at the Royal Military College of Canada.

The attempt to assassinate Hitler is widely acknowl-edged, but few are aware of the individuals involved. Inthis detailed family history Peter Hoffmann reveals thetragic and heroic life of Claus, Count Stauffenberg,German aristocrat and would-be assassin of AdolphHitler.

Hoffmann details Stauffenberg’s formative years,showing how his relationship with his brothers Bertholdand Alexander, their association with the circle of thepoet Stefan George, and their professional and politicaldevelopment led them to resist the tyranny of Hitler andthe German government, first through established chan-nels but culminating in the attempted assassination andcoup of 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is based on a compre-hensive collection of sources, including family papers,correspondence, and information from numerous con-temporaries, as well as a unique collection of illustrativematerial. Hoffmann’s knowledge of Stauffenberg wassought for the highly anticipated feature film Valkyrie,for which he served as an advisor.

This revised edition includes a new preface byHoffman and important information he has uncoveredsince the book was first published.

“While presenting a sympathetic view of his protagonist[Hoffmann] has managed to remain remarkably objectivein portraying Stauffenberg’s highly nationalistic andscarcely democratic conception of the German Army as a political institution.”–Air Power History

Peter Hoffmann is William Kingsford Professor of History,McGill University, and the author of The History of theGerman Resistance, 1933–1945.

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As affecting the fate of my absent husbandSelected Letters of LadyFranklin Concerning the Searchfor the Lost FranklinExpedition, 1848–1860 Lady Jane Franklin Edited by Erika Behrisch Elce

A collection of Lady Franklin’s public letters offers a vital new perspective on one of the great tragedies of Victorian Britain.

N O R T H E R N S T U D I E S • C A N A D I A N H I S T O R Y B I O G R A P H Y • H I S T O R Y

StauffenbergA Family History, 1905–1944,Third EditionPeter HoffmannUpdated and with a new preface by the author

An intriguing portrait of the central fig-ure in the July 1944 bomb plot againstHitler and a gripping and authoritativeaccount of the planning and executionof the conspiracy.

Aesthetics deals with art, a human construction, but whatone experiences when placed before nature is also anaesthetic feeling – the countryside is a place of reflectionlike no other. In The Art of the Landscape, Raffaele Milaniinterprets natural landscapes as an aesthetic category.

Drawing from philosophical traditions, literature, andart, he calls the reader’s attention to a special conscious-ness, originally established during the pre-Romantic age,that has become a distinctive feature of contemporaryspirituality. Focusing on the definition of landscapes inrelation to the concepts of nature, environment, territory,and man-made settings such as gardens and cities, Milaniexamines the origins of the predilection for naturalscenery in the works of landscape painters and in travelliterature. He addresses the distinctness of the aestheticexperience of landscapes, analyses the role of aestheticcategories, and explores landscape art as a medium ofcontemplation.

What emerges is an original morphology of naturalbeauty derived from the scrutiny of landscape elementsmost frequently associated with aesthetic emotion – thecolour of water and the sky, earth and stones, fire and volcanic eruptions, ruins and the mountains – an analysisespecially relevant given the increasing fragility of ournatural environment.

Raffaele Milani is professor of aesthetics, University ofBologna, and the author of numerous books, includingThe Aesthetic Categories and The Adventure of Landscape.

Florence Carlyle (1864–1923), born in Galt, Ontario,emerged as one of the most successful Canadian artistsof her time. Trained in Paris, she lived and worked in NewYork City and in Canada, cultivating a career as a popularportrait and genre painter. Known for her masterful useof colour, Carlyle’s paintings are nuanced and perceptiveportrayals of feminine spaces, the female figure, andwomen’s domestic work.

In The Practice of Her Profession, Susan Butlin draws on unpublished letters and family memoirs to recountCarlyle’s personal and professional life. She exploresCarlyle’s artistic influences, her relationships with artistcolleagues and encounters with the cultural worlds ofParis, New York, and early twentieth-century Canada, andprovides a detailed examination of Carlyle’s paintings.Butlin’s vivid description of the artistic life of women ofthis era, from access to art training to the important roleof women’s art societies, introduces readers to Carlyle’smany accomplished contemporaries – Helen McNicoll,Mary Reid, Laura Muntz, Sarah Holden, Sydney Tully,Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, and others.

Florence Carlyle’s life – that of an independent risk-taker who actively constructed her own professional artis-tic practice and lived in a self-determined way that wasoften at odds with social convention – reveals muchabout the possibilities and limitations for a woman artistin the nouveau siècle. The Practice of Her Profession isimportant reading for all those interested in Canadian art and cultural history, and the history of women artistsin Canada.

Susan Butlin holds a doctorate from Carleton Universitywhere she has taught art history.

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A R T H I S T O R Y

The Art of the LandscapeRaffaele MilaniTranslated by Corrado Federici

A detailed guide to the aesthetic experience of landscapes.

A R T H I S T O R Y • B I O G R A P H Y

The Practice of Her ProfessionFlorence Carlyle, CanadianPainter in the Age ofImpressionism Susan Butlin

A compelling portrait of one of the mostsuccessful turn-of-the-century Canadianwomen painters.

A source of intense life-affirming pleasure when it is pres-ent and going well or frustration and misery when it isabsent or unsatisfying, sex is one of the central mecha-nisms through which individuals can bring happiness orhurt to the lives of others, as well as their own. It also hasa peculiar power to tempt us to act against our own bestinterests and judgments. Seiriol Morgan explores the phi-losophy of sex, offering an accessible analysis of the placeof sex in human life and a discussion of the kinds of sexuallives that might be compatible with living well. Shebegins with a discussion of the nature of sexual desire,using examples from anecdote and literature to bring outits complexities and focusing particularly on the ways inwhich bodily and psychological elements interact to con-struct the many and various sexual desires and quirks weexperience. Special attention is paid to the darker aspectsof eroticism and the dangers these can pose. Later chap-ters discuss such issues as fidelity, promiscuity, and seduc-tion, as well as more broadly social concerns such aspornography and the importance of the family.

Seiriol Morgan is senior lecturer in philosophy at theUniversity of Bristol.

For a full list of series titles please see pages 45 and 46.

The awareness that we will die, and that our death cancome at any time, pervades the entirety of our existence.While there are many ways to think about death, most ofthem are attempts to escape its actuality. Todd May seeksinstead to confront death and its power by consideringthe possibility that our mortal deaths are our final end. Ifthis is the case, what might it mean for our living? Whatlessons can we draw from our mortality?

In answering these questions, May brings togethertwo divergent perspectives on death. The first holds thatdeath is not an evil, or at least that immortality would be far worse than dying. The second holds that death isindeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact.May shows that in order to live with death, we need tohold these two perspectives at once. Their convergencegives our lives a beauty and a tragedy that are inextrica-bly entwined.

Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers andwriters – both ancient and modern – as well as personalreflection and experience, May puts forward a view ofhow we might think about and, more importantly, liveour lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In the end, he argues, the contingency of our lives must begrasped and folded into the time remaining to each of us.In so doing, we can live each moment as though it wereat once a link to an uncertain future and also the onlything we have.

Todd May is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, North Carolina.

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P H I L O S O P H Y

DeathTodd May

r e a n n o u n c i n g

SexSeiriol Morgan

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

Middle age, for many, marks a time of radical reappraisalof one’s life and way of living. The sense of time runningout and a feeling of loneliness engendered by the fearthat one’s life has been compromised and wastefulbecome ever clearer in mid-life and can lead to a period of dramatic self doubt.

Philosopher Christopher Hamilton (who is in his early40s) provides a philosophical exploration of the moods,emotions, and experiences of middle age in the contem-porary world, drawing on personal experiences as well as a wide range of sources – from the philosophical writ-ings of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Heidegger to the literature of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Conrad, andthe films of Woody Allen – to offer us a philosophy ofmiddle age.

Some of the many fascinating themes exploredinclude the strong sense of nostalgia experienced in mid-life for loss for one’s youth and of regret that life hasbecome boring, the recognition that one can never fullyescape feelings of guilt, and – central to the experience ofmiddle age – the question of what is the point of goingon at all. In the light of the “melancholy wisdom” of mid-life Hamilton suggests that pleasure becomes much moreimportant than at previous stages of life and he showsthat the enjoyment of pleasure can be something noble.

Insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking,Middle Age is fascinating reading and for anyone headingfor a “mid-life crisis,” it is much cheaper than buying asports car.

Christopher Hamilton is lecturer in philosophy of religionat King’s College, University of London.

“Who am I?” Faced with a world where religion, psychology,and philosophy have all tried, in their different ways, toprovide an answer and give meaning and coherence toindividual existence, how we should construct a mean-ingful “me” – and make sense of our lives – is the questionat the heart of Mel Thompson’s illuminating book.

Thompson begins by exploring the workings of thebrain but shows that considering the nature of the selfrequires going beyond argument about such things ashow mind relates to matter or whether neuroscience canfully explain consciousness. Such an approach fails to dojustice to the self that we experience and the selves thatwe encounter around us. We need to engage with morepersonal, existential questions, such as, how do I makesense of my life? Am I responsible for the person I havebecome?

Thompson investigates whether we are genuinelyknowable entities by looking at the gap between whatwe are and what others perceive us to be. He explores thecentral dilemma of how it is possible to maintain a fixedidea of what one is – of a “me” – that can be used toshape and direct one’s life when, in a world of constantchange, that fixed idea may vanish at any moment.

Drawing on literature, philosophy, religion, and science,as well as personal reflection and anecdote, Thompsonhas written an engaging and thought-provoking workthat reclaims the notion of “me” from the neuroscientistsand situates it at the heart of finding a place in the world.

Mel Thompson has a PhD in theology and is a full-timewriter. His books include Introduction to Philosophy andEthics and Philosophers Behaving Badly.

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P H I L O S O P H Y

Middle AgeChristopher Hamilton

P H I L O S O P H Y

MeMel Thompson


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Understanding Ethics presents a wide-ranging andthought-provoking introduction to the question, firstposed by Socrates, “How is life to be lived?” It treats ethicsas a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in whichthe abstract questions of metaethics and the real-worldissues of applied ethics are immediately and directly connected.

The book explores the connections and the tensionsbetween happiness and virtue, reason and commitment,motivation and justification, and objectivity and personalsignificance. It also re-examines familiar theories in nor-mative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics,Kantianism, and intuitionism from a fresh and revealingperspective. Understanding Ethics is an excellent primerfor students taking courses on moral philosophy

Tim Chappell is professor of philosophy at The OpenUniversity.

Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative waysof thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, aboutself and other, and about the discourses that perpetuatepostcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminalwork in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents inphilosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. UnderstandingPostcolonialism examines the philosophy of postcolonial-ism to reveal the often conflicting systems of thoughtwhich underpin it. In so doing, the book presents a reappraisal of the major postcolonial thinkers of thetwentieth century.

Ranging beyond the narrow selection of theorists to which the field is often restricted, the book exploresthe work of Fanon and Sartre, Gandhi, Nandy, and theSubaltern Studies Group, Foucault and Said, Derrida andBhabha, Khatibi and Glissant, and Spivak, Mbembe andMudimbe. A clear and accessible introduction to the sub-ject, Understanding Postcolonialism reveals how, almosthalf a century after decolonisation, the complex relationbetween politics and ethics continues to shape post-colonial thought.

“This is essential reading for all scholars and students inthe postcolonial field, a concise and timely introductionto the philosophical underpinnings of anti-colonial andpostcolonial criticism and a significant intervention in the field.” –Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool

Jane Hiddleston is lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

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P H I L O S O P H Y

Understanding EthicsTim Chappell

A wide-ranging introduction.

P H I L O S O P H Y

UnderstandingPostcolonialismJane Hiddleston

“A fresh and lucid presentation of majorstrands in postcolonial thought from Gandhionward, including a clear presentation forthe non-expert of the poststructuralist philo-sophical background necessary for under-standing current debates.” –Lynda Lange,University of Toronto at Scarborough

Annihilation explores the sense and significance of deathin general and human death in particular. The first part ofthe book examines questions about the nature of death.For example, is the death of the brain a necessary andsufficient condition of death? How does the death of ahuman being relate to the death of a person? The secondpart of the book questions whether death should be seenas bad, focusing on the Epicurean view that the fear ofdeath is irrational because it cannot be experienced,noting that, for instance, while we worry about futurenon-existence, we don’t concern ourselves with pastnon-existence. The final chapter considers whetherimmortality is desirable and whether cryonics, braintransplants, and data storage might allow us to cheatdeath. Christopher Belshaw’s examination focuses onquestions of value rather than on morality and his gener-al approach throughout is sceptical. The book will be ofinterest to philosophers concerned with the nature andimportance of death and provides a much-needed foun-dation for discussions of abortion, euthanasia, life support, and suicide.

“A very good book. It addresses many of the most inter-esting and important philosophical issues concerningdeath, is well-informed by the relevant literature, andoffers Belshaw’s distinctive and suggestive views on arange of issues. Belshaw offers a nice combination ofphilosophical rigour and a crisp, accessible writing stylethat should give the book a broad appeal.”–John Fischer, University of California, Riverside, and editor of The Metaphysics of Death

Christopher Belshaw is senior lecturer and staff tutor in philosophy at The Open University.

Truth depends in some sense on reality, but it is difficultto spell out this intuition in a plausible and precise way.According to the theory of truth-making the intuitionimplies that either every truth or every truth of a certainclass of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entitywhose existence accounts for truth. This book providesseveral ways of assessing the correctness of this contro-versial claim. It presents a detailed introduction to thetheory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker rela-tions, the ontological category of truth-making entities,and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays includethe most important articles on truth-making in the lastthree decades as well as new work by leading researchersin the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.

Contributors include Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, GregRestall, David Lewis, David Armstrong, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra,Josh Parsons, Herbert Hochberg, Marian David, and Paul Horwich.

“The theory of truth-making has become in a few yearsone of the most exciting and difficult topics within theo-retical philosophy. This collection is very welcome and willbe of great help to newcomers and to afficionados alike.”–Pascal Engel, University of Geneva

E. J. Lowe is professor of philosophy at the University of Durham. A. Rami is lecturer in philosophy at theUniversity of Göttingen.

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P H I L O S O P H Y

AnnihilationThe Sense and Significance of Death Christopher Belshaw

A suggestive and broad examination of the philosophical issues surroundingdeath.

P H I L O S O P H Y

Truth and Truth-MakingEdited by E.J. Lowe and A. Rami

Deciphering the difficult theory of truth-making.

Thomas Nagel’s contribution to philosophy over the pastforty years has been enormously influential. In the firstsustained examination of Nagel’s ideas, Alan Thomas pro-vides readers with a detailed exploration of the centraldichotomy around which Nagel organizes his philosophy:the concern over how to reconcile “subjective” and “objec-tive” views of the world.

Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel’sbasic metaphysical contrast between subjective andobjective ways of thinking about the world. He showshow a proper understanding of radically perspectivalviews of the world allows one to defend some of Nagel’smost important claims about the mind, tracing his influ-ential work in the philosophy of mind from his earlypaper on physicalism to his recent defence of a form ofdual aspect theory. Thomas then turns to ethics, whereNagel’s influence is pre-eminent, following the develop-ment of his views from his contrast between subjectiveand objective reasons in his early work to his later hybridethical theory. The volume concludes with an examina-tion of Nagel’s political philosophy, particularly his recent controversial work on global justice.

Alan Thomas is senior lecturer in philosophy at theUniversity of Kent.

How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg sug-gests a “new patriotism,” one that reconciles conflictthrough a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversationover negotiation and the common good over victory.This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right.

Blattberg’s is a genuinely original philosophical voice.The essays collected here discuss how to reconceive thepolitical spectrum, where “deliberative democrats” gowrong, why human rights language is tragically counter-productive, how nationalism is not really secular, howmany nations should share a single state, a new approachto the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might havesomething to teach about the “war on terror.” We alsolearn about the right way to deny a role to principles inethics, how to distinguish between the good and thebeautiful, the way humour works, the rabbinic nature ofmodernism, the difference between good, bad, great, andevil, why Plato’s dialogues are not really dialogues, andwhy most philosophers are actually artists.

“A work of high quality, sophisticated and wide-ranging.”–Richard Vernon, University of Western Ontario

Charles Blattberg is associate professor, Departmentof Political Science, Université de Montréal. Educated at Toronto, McGill, the Sorbonne, and Oxford, he is theauthor of From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: PuttingPractice First and Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada.

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P H I L O S O P H Y

Thomas NagelAlan Thomas

The first sustained examination of the influential philosopher.

P H I L O S O P H Y

Patriotic ElaborationsEssays in Practical Philosophy Charles Blattberg

How an understanding of dialogue supports original approaches to politics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics.

Crawford Brough Macpherson, an extremely influentialwriter and teacher and Canada’s pre-eminent politicaltheorist, won an international reputation for his contro-versial interpretation of liberalism. In the first book toexamine the entire range of Macpherson’s writings,William Leiss seeks to place that interpretation of liberal-ism within the overall framework of Macpherson’s intel-lectual development.

Focusing on two key themes – property and the state –Leiss tracks Macpherson’s analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, begin-ning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laskiat LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson’s political philosophy – the distinctionbetween extractive and developmental powers – againstthe background of social change in the democracies of the West in the period since the end of the SecondWorld War.

A new preface by the author reviews books and arti-cles on Macpherson published in the period since thisbook first appeared in 1988.

William Leiss, a fellow and past-president of the RoyalSociety of Canada, is author or senior co-author of tenbooks including In the Chamber of Risks and, with DouglasPowell, Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk, now in its secondedition.

The transformation of conflict and postconflict societiesthrough transitional justice is now recognized as vital tothe process of peacebuilding, with mechanisms such astrials, truth commissions, and apologies seen as essentialfor effecting societal change. It is widely argued that“reconciliation” is a key element of this process, yet bothscholars and practitioners are unclear as to what the concept is or how the process works.

Reconciliation(s) considers the definition of the conceptof reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dia-logue that arises from the attempts to situate reconcilia-tion within a theoretical and analytical framework.Contributing authors champion competing definitions,but all agree that it plays an important role in buildingrelationships of trust and cohesion. The essays in thisbook also consider the nature and utility of reconciliationin a number of contexts, evaluating both its function and efficacy.

Contributors include Caitlin Donnelly (Queen’s Belfast), StephanusDu Toit (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation), Samar El-Masri(Prince Sultan University, Riyadh), Nicholas Frayling (Dean, ChichesterCathedral), Mark Freeman (International Center for TransitionalJustice), Trudy Govier (Lethbridge), Brandon Hamber (Ulster), JoanneHughes (Queen’s Belfast), Anita Isaacs (Haverford), Gráinne Kelly(INCORE, University of Ulster), Rosemary Nagy (Nipissing), VeerleOpgenhaffen (International Center for Transitional Justice), ValeriePerry (OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina), Joanna R. Quinn(Western), and Laurence Thomas (Syracuse).

Joanna R. Quinn is assistant professor of political science,and co-director, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict ResearchGroup, The University of Western Ontario.

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C.B. MacphersonDilemmas of Liberalism andSocialism, Second EditionWilliam LeissWith a new preface by the author

A detailed look at Crawford BroughMacpherson’s double commitment toradical social change and to academicscholarship.


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Reconciliation(s)Transitional Justice inPostconflict Societies Edited by Joanna R. Quinn

“Very well documented inquiries involvingoriginal research. This is an excellentbook.” –John Paul Lederach, KrocInstitute, University of Notre Dame

Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, andhydroelectric power generation in western Canada at theturn of the last century challenged the way Native peo-ples had traditionally managed the watershed environ-ment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial and federalpower as well as private industries, Native peoples sawopportunities to protect their self-governing rights andexplore reserve-based economy.

Through a combination of field work and archivalresearch, Kenichi Matsui offers an original and pioneeringoverview of the evolution of water law and agriculturalpolicies in the Canadian west. By incorporating the histo-ry of water law philosophies, water development tech-nologies, agricultural policies, and cross-cultural theories,Matsui constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of howboth Native peoples and non-native stakeholders strug-gled for better rights and livelihood through litigation,political campaigns, and direct actions.

The dramatic stories of early cultural, legal, and political conflict in interior British Columbia and Albertafeatured in Native Peoples and Water Rights enrich ourunderstanding of current Native rights disputes through-out North America.

Kenichi Matsui is assistant professor, sustainable environ-mental studies, University of Tsukuba.

In Canada, indigenous peoples and official-languageminorities benefit from certain rights that are not avail-able to the rest of the population, but exactly who canclaim membership in these groups remains a controver-sial issue. Protecting a group’s culture and resources isoften seen to be at odds with the freedom of individualsto claim membership in that group.

In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammondexplains how minority rights make identity legally rele-vant, providing a detailed account of struggles that havebeen fought concerning Indian status and admission tominority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the lawin the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology andpolitical theory, Grammond assesses whether a group’smembership rules are an accurate reflection of their eth-nicity and are based on sound justifications of minorityrights. He argues that membership rules do not violateequality rights if there is sufficient correspondencebetween the legal criteria that determine membershipand the group’s own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity.

Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in itscomparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minori-ties, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource for legal and political scholars and students, as well asanyone interested in the controversies surrounding thelegal recognition of identity.

Sébastien Grammond is professor of law, University of Ottawa, and the author of Aménager la coexistence:les peuples autochtones et le droit canadien, an award-winning treatise on Native law.

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N A T I V E S T U D I E S • E N V I R O N M E N T A L S T U D I E S

Native Peoples and Water RightsIrrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada Kenichi Matsui

The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.

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Identity Captured by LawMembership in Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities Sébastien Grammond

How the law decides who the members of minority groups are whileavoiding discrimination and respecting self-determination.

In In the Aftermath of Catastrophe Jacob Neusner contin-ues his project of making clear the importance of the first six centuries of the Common Era in the history ofJudaism. It is during this period, which began with thedestruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 andconcluded with formation of the Talmud of Babylonia andthe advent of Islam after 600, the system of Judaism thatwould attain normative status took shape and the Judaiccanon of law and theology came to definition. The nor-mative or Rabbinic Judaism, carried forward by today’sOrthodox, Reform, and Conservative Judaisms, alsoemerged at this time.

Neusner argues that the Judaism that emerged in lateantiquity experimented with solutions to a critical andenduring issue of culture that continues to engagehumanity – the crisis provoked by calamity. Exemplified in our time by the German war against the Jews from1933–1945, in antiquity calamity took the form of thedestruction in 70 C.E. of the Temple of Jerusalem and thecessation of its sacrifices, putting an end to the cultic cal-endar by which people had measured the passage of timein the heavens and maintained their relationship withGod on earth. Resolution of this crisis required a radicalsolution, the reversion to prophecy, which had as a conse-quence restoration of world order. Judaism as we know it responded then and continues to respond now to theparamount problem of that day and ours – the end of the old order and the advent of the new.

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of theHistory and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow,Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College.

Hasidic tales are often read as charming, timeless expres-sions of Jewish spirituality. The best-known versions ofthese stories, however, have been rewritten for audiencesoutside traditional Judaism and few works have exploredHasidic tales as they were created by Hasidic Jews.

In Imagining Holiness Justin Lewis offers a radical reap-praisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into ques-tion received notions of authenticity. He focuses his studyon the neglected Hasidic literature of the early twentiethcentury – primarily the work of Israel Berger andAbraham Hayim Michelson – and the literary and histori-cal dynamics of its emergence, posing questions aboutits place in Hasidic society, the attitude of the Hasidimtowards this literature, and orality in Hasidic tradition asmanifested in these Hasidic books. Berger and Michelsonwrote in the decade before the First World War, a time ofloss and decline for Hasidism. Their books resisted moder-nity and positioned Hasidism as authentic Judaism butalso reflected modern literary trends, expressed tensionswithin Hasidism itself, and depicted struggles betweenthe soul and body.

“Groundbreaking … Imagining Holiness is the mostimportant work on the topic yet produced in the English language.”–Nathaniel Deutsch, University of California, Santa Cruz

Justin Jaron Lewis is a storyteller, teacher of Jewish lore,and assistant professor of religion, University ofManitoba.

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J E W I S H S T U D I E S • H I S T O R Y O F R E L I G I O N

In the Aftermath of CatastropheFounding Judaism 70–640 Jacob Neusner

Why the emergence of the Common Erain the history of Judaism resonates today.


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Imagining HolinessClassic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times Justin Jaron Lewis

Hasidic tales as expressions of resistance to modernity, tensions with tradition, and struggles between soul and body.

Medicare in Canada is not only this country’s most treas-ured social program, it has become a defining nationalcharacteristic. Even with recent concerns over flaws in thesystem leading to questions about the possible benefitsof a two-tiered approach, the consensus is that single-payer, publicly funded health care has worked for fortyyears to provide Canadians with accessible, high qualityservices at a much lower cost than in the mainly for-profitsystem to the south.

In Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy, MalcolmTaylor describes the emergence of Medicare, providing aninteresting window into current health care debates. Hediscusses the seemingly endless series of federal-provin-cial exchanges and negotiations involving issues of juris-diction, cost allocations, revenue transfers, and taxingauthorities as well as efforts to accommodate oppositionfrom various special interests that would eventuallyevolve into a system that provided access to adequatehealth care for all Canadians on the basis of need, irre-spective of financial circumstances. A new introduction by Allan Maslove discusses the book’s relevance to contemporary debates and drives home that conflictsbetween federal and provincial governments are not newand that, in spite of opposition from various organizedinterests, strong popular support for Medicare insuredthat the initial project was not derailed.

Malcolm G. Taylor (1915–1994), professor of public policy,York University, served as consultant to seven provincialgovernments, medical and hospital associations, the Royal Commission on Health Services, and the HealthServices Review.

Current policy initiatives that address the health of youth,a group where more than one set of developmental stan-dards may apply, are often based on conflicting evidence.At the same time, the UN Convention on the Rights of theChild has provided an over-arching ethical frameworkwith the goal of ensuring that all children and youth haveequal human rights, regardless of their personal or familycircumstances. How do these approaches coincide and are they working?

In Adolescent Health, the contemporary Canadian set-ting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence andethics in policy making. Individual chapters describe thesocial determinants of youth health (chronic conditions,ethnicity, family income, school and peer relationships)and youth health behaviours and outcomes (substanceuse, violence, sexual and physical activity). Within thisbroad landscape of youth health issues, the authors applythe human rights principles of the Convention to theirresearch to illustrate the often competing frameworks of evidence and ethics.

For a complete list of contributors please visitwww.mqup.ca

William Boyce is professor of community health and epidemiology and education and director of the Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen’s University.Jennifer Roche, a writer and freelance consultant inKingston, has been associated with producing a numberof reports with the Group over the past 15 years.Diane Davies, a population health researcher, is managerof the Centre for Obesity Research and Education,Queen’s University.

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

Health Insurance and Canadian Public PolicyThe Seven Decisions That Created the HealthInsurance System and Their Outcomes, Third EditionMalcolm G. TaylorWith a new introduction by Allan Maslove

“A brilliant analysis of health policy-making at federal and provinciallevels … well-informed, insightful, thought-provoking, and fun to read.”–Carl Meilike and Jan Storch, University of Alberta

H E A L T H P O L I C Y

Adolescent HealthPolicy, Science, and Human Rights Edited by William Boyce, Jennifer Roche, and Diane Davies

Why Canadian youth health policy lacks coherence.

The 1976 Summer Olympics were the most rivetingGames the world had ever seen, but planning efforts inMontreal were complicated by a willful mayor, an inexpe-rienced head of the IOC, a federal government that stayedat arm’s length, and a provincial government split alongfederalist/separatist lines.

Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player inthe Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers aninsider’s perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive,and highly politicized event was organized within theconstraints imposed by limited resources, an unyieldingdeadline, and intense pressures from international andlocal special interest groups. He looks at both the strug-gles and what went uniquely right in Montreal, settingthe record straight on operations, political involvement,and finance, including details of the well-publicized multi-billion dollar deficit that was misrepresented by the pressand misunderstood by the public for decades.

For students of organizations the Montreal 1976Games were a watershed – the first example of a large-scale sports endeavour that applied formal projectmanagement using computers as well as critical pathplanning and scheduling. Focusing on this historic eventto illustrate issues of organization, structure, planning,and execution, Howell offers valuable insights not only for those involved in planning Vancouver 2010 and futureGames but for anyone involved in ad hoc planning on amassive scale.

Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH HowellTechnologie, has planned large projects worldwide,including several Olympic Games, and lectured in the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC,Université de Montréal.

The Carleton Library Series makes available once againInventing Canada, Suzanne Zeller’s classic history of sci-ence, land, and nation in Victorian Canada. Zeller arguesthat the middle decades of the nineteenth century thatsaw the British North American colonies attempting toestablish a transcontinental nation also witnessed therise of an analytical tradition in science that challengedolder conceptions of humanity’s relationship with nature and the land.

Zeller taps a wide range of archival and publishedsources to document the prominent place of Victorian science in British North American thought and society.Her focus on the creative functions of Victorian geologi-cal, geophysical, and botanical sciences highlights the formation of a Canadian community of scientists, politi-cians, educators, journalists, businessmen, and otherswho promoted public support of scientific activities andinstitutions. By moving beyond the eighteenth-centurymechanical ideals that had forged the United States, theyreassessed the land and its possibilities to redefine thetranscontinental future of a northern variant of theBritish nation.

“For a nation seemingly intent on showing that its com-ponents have little in common, Zeller’s Inventing Canadais an important reminder of common bonds. Beyond that, it is refreshing evidence that while good historicalscholarship and writing are enjoyable to read they arealso stimulating to the mind and relevant to our existence, identity, and future.” –Manitoba History

Suzanne Zeller teaches history, history of science, andenvironmental history at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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The Montreal OlympicsAn Insider’s View of Organizinga Self-financing Games Paul Charles Howell

“The Montreal Olympics offers valuableinformation on the nature of planningand the need for constant revision andflexibility, as well as a good snapshot ofthe thousands of decisions that have to bemade in the process of competing tasks of great magnitude and complexity.”–Brian Milner, The Globe and Mail

C A N A D I A N H I S T O R Y • S C I E N C E

Inventing CanadaEarly Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation Suzanne ZellerWith a new introduction by the author

The classic study of science, land, and nation in Canada.

Explosive economic growth in resource-rich Alberta hasled to a stunning increase in its population. In contrast toOntario and British Columbia, which have grown primari-ly through international migration, Alberta has become amagnet for internal migrants, contributing to populationredistribution within Canada, with significant national,social, and economic consequences.

Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study,Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration toAlberta. His innovative approach begins with the individ-ual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience fromorigin to destination. Through interviews with hundredsof migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex anddynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but alsoprompted by a process that begins in the region of originthat makes migration possible and helps determinewhether migrants stay or return home.

By combining a social psychological approach withstructural factors such as Alberta’s transition from aregional hinterland province to its emerging role theglobal system, discussions of gender, the internet, andfolk culture, Second Promised Land provides a multi-dimensional and deeply human account of a contem-porary Canadian phenomenon.

“An interesting and well-written book and an importantcontribution to migration literature.”–Frank Trovato, University of Alberta

Harry H. Hiller is professor of sociology, the University of Calgary, and the author of Canadian Society: A MacroAnalysis and Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives.

The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 wasaccompanied by the grant of the Charte – a written con-stitution modeled on what its authors imagined to be thecontemporary British practice of parliamentary monarchy.A unique experiment, in effect it meant attempting toimplement institutions and practices that had little basisin French history and culture and that, in Britain, hadevolved slowly and largely without conscious planning.

In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn stud-ies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the setof common understandings that lent a comparative sta-bility to British government. The institutions of a loyalopposition and disciplined political parties seemed to beimplicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptancefoundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy topolitical opponents. A sophisticated minority – includingsuch major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme deStaël, and Guizot – recognized the need for somethingapproaching the British political culture, but the woundsopened by the Revolution could not readily be healed.A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagree-ment that was the spirit of the British model had toawait the Fifth Republic.

To a surprising degree, the French have remainedunaware of the struggle in the Restoration and after tomake political pluralism respectable. When the FrenchTried to Be British makes a significant contribution to thepolitical and intellectual history of Restoration Franceand, to a lesser degree, the July Monarchy and offersmuch food for thought for those attempting similar ventures today.

J.A.W. Gunn is Sir Edward Peacock Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, Queen’s University, and the author of Beyond Liberty and Property.

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Second Promised LandMigration to Alberta and the Transformation of Canadian Society Harry H. Hiller

Exploring the realities behind the “Alberta Advantage” and the redistribution of the Canadian population.


McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas

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F R E N C H H I S T O R Y • P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E

When the French Tried to be BritishParty, Opposition, and theQuest for Civil Disagreement,1814–1848 J.A.W. Gunn

France’s great effort to transplantand adapt the political institutions andpractices of its long-standing nationalenemy, Britain.

Histories of the First World War are often written from aBritish perspective, ignoring the coalition element of theconflict and the French point of view more generally.In Strategy and Command, Roy Prete offers a major new interpretation, supported by in-depth research in Frencharchival sources.

In the first of three projected volumes, Prete crafts abehind-the-scenes look at Anglo-French command rela-tions during World War I, from the start of the conflictuntil 1915, when trench warfare drastically altered the situation. Drawing on extensive archival research, Preteargues that the British government’s primary interestlay in the defence of the empire; the small expeditionaryforce sent to France was progressively enlarged becausethe French, especially Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre,dragged their British ally into a progressively greaterinvolvement. New information gleaned from French public and private archives – including private diaries –enlarge our understanding of key players in the alliedrelationship.

Prete shows that suspicion and distrust on the partof both sides of the alliance continued to inform relationswell after the circumstances creating them had changed.Strategy and Command clearly establishes the fundamen-tal strategic differences between the allies at the startof the war, setting the stage for the next two volumes.

Roy A. Prete is professor of history, Royal Military Collegeof Canada.

When Lyon’s population experienced significant growthin the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morandmade a radical proposal: France’s second city would ex-pand across the river Rhône, making him rich in the pro-cess. Intense work and bitter rivalries resulted, althoughthey bore fruit only long after Morand had died on theguillotine in 1794.

In Ambitions Tamed, Pierre Reynard profiles Morand’scareer to provide a case-study of the possibilities of urbanreform and refashioning within the courtly society of theOld Regime. Morand’s story offers fascinating insightsinto social and professional advancement in a societydefined by privilege, the workings of a complex urbanpolitical culture, relationships between a provincial cityand the capital, the role of factions in determining thesuccess or failure of enterprises and reforms, and thetechnical and financial aspects of late eighteenth-centuryurban projects.

Ambitions Tamed illuminates the literature andmethodologies of urban development, economic andentrepreneurial history, intellectual history, and environ-mental history in order to explain more fully the relation-ships among enlightened principles, established powerstructures, and new initiatives at the dawn of urbanexpansion.

“Reynard shows brilliantly how things did – and did not –get done, and why, and what obstacles stood betweenMorand and his dreams. A touching portrayal of Morand,and a masterful look at the complexities of eighteenth-century entrepreneurship.”–John Merriman, Yale University

Pierre Claude Reynard is associate professor of history,University of Western Ontario, and the author of Histoiresde papier : La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens.

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Strategy and CommandThe Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 Roy A. Prete

A fascinating look at Anglo-French command relations at the onsetof the First World War.


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E U R O P E A N H I S T O R Y • U R B A N H I S T O R Y

Ambitions TamedUrban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon Pierre Claude Reynard

Entrepreneurship and the promise of abetter city in an age of powerful ideas,eager moves, and mixed results.

In a contemporary labour market that includes growinglevels of precarious employment, the regulation of mini-mum employment standards is intricately connected toconditions of economic security. With a focus on the roleof neoliberal labour market policies in promoting “flexi-ble” employment standards legislation – particularly inthe areas of minimum wages and working time – MarkThomas argues that shifts toward “flexible” legislationhave played a central role in producing patterns of labourmarket inequality.

Using an analytic framework that situates employ-ment standards within the context of the broader socialrelations that shape processes of labour market regula-tion, Thomas constructs a case study of employmentstandards legislation in Ontario from 1884 to 2004.Drawing from political economy scholarship, and using aqualitative research methodology, he analyses class, race,and gender dimensions of legislative developments,highlighting the ways in which shifts towards “flexible”employment standards have exacerbated longstandingracialized and gendered inequities.

Regulating Flexibility argues that in order to countercurrent trends towards increased insecurity, employmentstandards should not be treated as a secondary form oflabour protection but as a cornerstone in a progressiveproject of labour market re-regulation.

Mark P. Thomas is assistant professor of sociology,York University.

More people die by suicide each year than by homicide,wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and sur-vivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psy-chologists, and social workers try to deal with it throughtheir professional routines; sociologists and psychiatristsattempt to provide theoretical explanations of it.

In a study of nearly 7000 suicides from 1900 to 1950,John Weaver documents the challenges that ordinarypeople experienced during turbulent times and, usingwitnesses’ testimony, death bed statements, and suicidenotes, reconstructs individuals’ thoughts as they decidewhether to endure their suffering. Bridging social andmedical history, Weaver presents an intellectual and political history of suicide studies, a revealing construc-tion and deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion ofgender, life stages, and socio-economic circumstances in relation to suicide patterns, reflections on reasoningprocesses and intent, and society’s reactions to suicide,including medical intervention.

A Sadly Troubled History marshals thousands of suicideinquests, replete with observations on the anxieties ofunemployment, the heartbreak of romantic disappoint-ment, the pain of domestic turmoil, and the torments of mental illness, to demonstrate that history – although,like biochemistry, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry,reliant on remarkable yet imperfect information – cancontribute to a better understanding of the suicidal actand its motives.

John C. Weaver is University Professor at McMasterUniversity, and the author of The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–1900.

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History of Medicine, Health, and Society

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P O L I T I C A L E C O N O M Y • P U B L I C P O L I C Y

Regulating FlexibilityThe Political Economy of Employment Standards Mark P. Thomas

A timely analysis of employment standards legislation that calls for a new approach to labour market regulation.

H I S T O R Y • S O C I O L O G Y

A Sadly Troubled HistoryThe Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age John C. Weaver

A comparative history of suicide,consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.

The nuclear issue was a minor political matter when JohnDiefenbaker became prime minister in 1957. By 1963, itserved as a catalyst for his defeat, with many attributinghis demise to the indecision with which he handled it.Patricia McMahon tells a more nuanced story in Essenceof Indecision.

Tracing Diefenbaker’s deliberations over nuclear policy,McMahon shows that Diefenbaker was politically cautious, not indecisive – he wanted to acquire nuclearweapons and understood from public opinion polls that most Canadians supported this position. However,Diefenbaker worried that the growing anti-nuclear move-ment might sway public opinion sufficiently to under-mine his political support. He also feared that Liberalleader Lester Pearson could use the issue for politicaladvantage. As long as Pearson opposed Canada’s mem-bership in the nuclear club, he could portray Diefenbaker’sgovernment as an irresponsible proponent of nuclear proliferation. Despite these reservations, Diefenbaker was involved in nuclear negotiations with the Americansthroughout his tenure as prime minister, and an agree-ment was within reach on a number of occasions. When,in January 1963, Pearson reversed his position, Diefen-baker felt trapped – in making a clear public statement infavour of nuclear weapons it would appear as though hewas merely following his opponent’s lead. When Canadaacquired nuclear weapons in 1963, it was under the leadership of Pearson, not Diefenbaker.

Essence of Indecision is key to understandingDiefenbaker’s formulation of nuclear policy, and the environment, both international and domestic, in which that policy was created.

Patricia I. McMahon is a lawyer and historian.She lives in Toronto.

The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, sim-ple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Questof the Folk he shows how the province’s tourism industryand cultural producers manipulated and refashioned thecultural identity of the region and its people to projecttraditional folk values.

McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of afolk ideology into the art and literature of the region andthe use of the idea of the “Simple Life” in tourism promo-tion. He examines how Nova Scotia’s cultural history wasrewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society,class and ethnic differences, and women’s emancipation.In doing so he sheds new light on the roles of HelenCreighton, the Maritime region’s most famous folklorist,and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, increating this false identity.

“Magnificent analysis bristling with insight. The Questof the Folk is among the best cultural history that hasbeen produced in this country.”–Keith Walden, history, Trent University

“Seldom do we see intellectual analyses engage as precisely and comprehensively with lived experience as does The Quest of the Folk.”–Dorothy Turner, HNet Reviews

Ian McKay is professor of history, Queen’s University,and the author of For a Working-Class Culture in Canada:A Selection of Colin McKay’s Writing on Sociology andPolitical Economy, 1897–1939.

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

Essence of IndecisionDiefenbaker’s Nuclear Policy,1957–1963 Patricia I. McMahon

The politics of Canada’s nuclear policyunder John Diefenbaker and LesterPearson, and the influence of the anti-nuclear movement.

C A N A D I A N H I S T O R Y • S O C I A L H I S T O R Y

The Quest of the FolkAntimodernism and CulturalSelection in Twentieth-CenturyNova Scotia Ian McKayWith a new introduction by the author

Debunking the myth of Nova Scotians as “simple folk.”

On 11 October 1899, Britain was officially at war in SouthAfrica against the Transvaal Republic and the Orange FreeState. While the war was thousands of kilometres away,and Canada’s contribution of over 7,000 troops to theimperial cause was relatively small, the war is consideredto be one of the critical events in the nation-buildingprocess of the young dominion.

Gordon Heath’s A War with a Silver Lining is a ground-breaking analysis of why the Canadian Protestant church-es enthusiastically supported the war effort. Extensivearchival research allows Heath to show how the churches’concern for international justice, the development of thenascent nation Canada, the unifying and strengtheningof the empire, and the spreading of missions led to pas-sionate and widespread support for the war effort.

Providing a valuable link between Victorian and twen-tieth-century Protestantism, war, and the British Empire,A War with a Silver Lining is a revealing account of the significant role that churches played in nineteenth-century Canadian public life.

“A War with a Silver Lining makes a distinct contributionto our understanding of the church’s role in shapingCanadian discourse on the South African War and itsnational significance. There is a growing literature on religion, missions, imperialism and war, all subjects thatinform and will be informed by this study.” –CarmanMiller, McGill University, author of Painting the Map Red:Canada and the South African War, 1899–1902

Gordon L. Heath, assistant professor of Christian historyat McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, is author ofDoing Church History: A User-friendly Introduction toResearching the History of Christianity.

One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and developmentof Pentecostalism. The fastest-growing form of Christiani-ty, with over five hundred million followers worldwide,this widely diverse movement has influenced many sec-tors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America,and Asia, and also affecting Canada.

Bringing together a previously scattered and some-what hidden literature, Canadian Pentecostalism providesthe first comprehensive overview of the subject. The collection is broad in focus, examining classical Pentecost-alism, charismatic movements in the Roman Catholic andmainline Protestant traditions, and neo-Pentecostalism.Contributing authors examine historical debates aboutthe origins of the movement, the response of Pente-costalism to institutionalization and globalization, andthe roles of women, aboriginals, and immigrants withinthe Canadian movement.

A multi-disciplinary study – with contributions fromscholars in history, sociology, cultural studies, theology,and religious studies – Canadian Pentecostalism providesan important window into the Pentecostal/Charismaticmovement and fills a gap in our general understanding of religion in Canada.


Michael Wilkinson is associate professor of sociology,and director of the Religion in Canada Institute, TrinityWestern University.

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A War with a Silver LiningCanadian Protestant Churchesand the South African War,1899–1902 Gordon L. Heath

Why the Canadian Protestant churcheswere enthusiastic supporters of Canada’swar effort in South Africa.

C A N A D I A N H I S T O R Y • H I S T O R Y O F R E L I G I O N

Canadian PentecostalismTransition and Transformation Edited by Michael Wilkinson

A comprehensive examination of the formation, transition, and transformationof Canadian Pentecostalism in relation to globalization.

In five years, Stephen Harper went from private citizen to prime minister of Canada. Tom Flanagan was his chiefcampaign organizer for most of that period. In Harper’sTeam, Flanagan tells the story of Harper’s rise to power –how a small group of colleagues, with little experience innational politics, transformed themselves into the disci-plined, professional campaign team that brought downPaul Martin and the Liberals.

Harper’s team fought four campaigns in five years:two leadership races and two national elections. Throughtrial and error – and determination – they learned to com-bine the Reform Party’s strength in grassroots politicswith the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertisingand media relations, while simultaneously adopting thelatest advances in information and communications technology.

Harper’s Team is a rare insider’s view of how politicalcampaigns are planned, organized, managed, and paid for. Combining forty years of experience as an academicpolitical scientist with five years of organizational workfor Stephen Harper, Flanagan offers a unique perspectiveon how to win power in Canada. This updated editionincludes a new chapter on the 2008 federal election.

“Hits the sweet spot for political junkies of all stripes … a crisply written behind the scenes lesson in winningpower.” –Policy Options

In 1993, the neophyte Reform Party stunned the nation,winning 52 seats in the House of Commons, narrowlymissing Official Opposition status. Having collected just2% of the popular vote in the 1988 federal election, itgarnered an astonishing 19% five years later.

In Waiting for the Wave, Tom Flanagan studies therapid rise of the Reform Party and presents some fascinat-ing insights into the party and its leaders. He corrects twopopular misconceptions about Preston Manning: that hispolitical philosophy is directly derived from his religiousconvictions, and that he is an extreme right-wing conser-vative. Flanagan examines Manning’s strategy of pop-ulism (listening to “the common sense of the commonpeople”) and illustrates how he used this strategy to“catch waves” of popular discontent to boost support forhis party. Having held various positions within the party,Flanagan is able to portray its inner workings, revealingsome of the personal ideologies of party members andshowing how these conflicted with Manning’s strategyof populism.

Flanagan updates the story of Reform through the cre-ation of the Canadian Alliance and the merger with theProgressive Conservatives to form the Conservative Partyof Canada. Led by Stephen Harper, who was chief policyofficer for the Reform Party in its early years, the Con-servative Party won the 2006 federal election, thus fulfilling Preston Manning’s dream of creating a new governing party with greater Western influence.

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C U R R E N T E V E N T S • P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E

Harper’s TeamBehind the Scenes in theConservative Rise to Power,Second EditionTom FlanaganWith a new chapter by the author

“If you want a window onto what isgoing on in Ottawa, look to TomFlanagan.” –The Toronto Star


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Waiting for the WaveThe Reform Party and theConservative MovementTom Flanagan

An inside look at the early years of theReform Party of Canada, which changedCanada’s politics forever.

Tom Flanagan is professor of political science at the University of Calgary, former director of research for the ReformParty, and former campaign manager for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party.

To understand a public figure like John Turner it is necessary to start with what he said and what he wrote. This volume is anupdated edition of Turner’s 1968 book of speeches, Politics ofPurpose, published as part of his efforts campaigning for leader-ship of the Liberal Party of Canada upon the retirement of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

This revised edition contains many of the original entries butalso brings the public record up-to-date with his post-1968 reflec-tions on Parliament, government, the Liberal Party, law, and theenvironment. Most significantly, this book documents Turner’sprominent ongoing battle against the Free Trade Agreement withthe United States that culminated in the 1988 federal election;the 20th anniversary of this election was marked by the Centre for the Study of Democracy with a conference at Queen’s Universityin October 2008 in honour of the 17th prime minister. Mrs Geills M. Turner, a professional photographer, now retired, has contributeda selection of her personal family photographs to illustrate this volume.

Elizabeth McIninch is an international business consultant and editor of the Friendship Beyond Borders series. A former Canadianhistory and government professor at John Abbott College, she has been archival assistant to the Rt Hon. John Napier Turner since1989. Arthur Milnes, a journalist and fellow of the Queen’sUniversity Centre for the Study of Democracy, served as researchassistant to the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney in the writing of his memoirs.

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Library of Political Leadership Series

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Politics of Purpose40th Anniversary EditionThe Right Honourable John N. Turner,17th Prime Minister of Canada Edited by Elizabeth McIninch and Arthur Milnes Introduction by Thomas S. Axworthy

L I B R A R Y O F P O L I T I C A L L E A D E R S H I P S E R I E S Series Editor: Thomas S. Axworthy

One of the first questions to be asked about any leader is what are his or her priorities and do they run with or againstthe grain of history? An essential way of determining this is to research the public record and then compare goals withaccomplishments. We live in the age of tattle-tale history, with biographers keen to pry into the private lives of theirsubjects and so-called friends happy to dish the dirt as long as the interviews are unattributed. But it is the publicrecord of measured words that remains the most reliable barometer of consistency or change in purpose. Andbecause the written word is key to describing ruling currents and interpreting sovereign forces, we need a copious,accurate, and well-digested catalogue to serve as an authority. To understand a public figure in politics, it is necessaryto start with what he or she said and wrote.

The Queen’s University Centre for the Study of Democracy’s Library of Political Leadership occasional series highlightsthe written and spoken words of Canada’s prime ministers, premiers, and opposition leaders, as well as those of sig-nificant foreign leaders in their addresses involving Canada.

On an August morning in 1938, Franklin Roosevelt, thethirty-second president of the United States, received anhonourary degree at a special outdoor convocation on theQueen’s campus. He pledged that day, in a speech thathas gone down in Canadian history, that his nation woulddefend Canada if the Dominion was ever attacked. Thisspeech was examined in world capitals as the outbreak ofwar became imminent. His address is widely consideredone of the most significant speeches ever given by aUnited States president on Canadian soil.

In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow highlights Roosevelt’sspeech and examines his visit to Kingston. The volumedelves deeper into the topic by providing all the subse-quent addresses to Canada’s Parliament made by US presidents after Roosevelt. Many individuals associatedwith Queen’s University feel abundant pride in their connection to President Roosevelt through his visit to the campus 70 years ago, and the visit 10 years later bythe late president’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. By assessingRoosevelt’s speech in its greater context, this book is a testament to those feelings.

Arthur Milnes, a journalist and fellow of the Queen’sUniversity Centre for the Study of Democracy, served as research assistant to the Right Honourable BrianMulroney on the latter’s Memoirs.

2008 is the 20th anniversary of the great free tradedebate that culminated in the majority victory of PrimeMinster Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conserva-tives, who championed FTA, as well as the 20th anniver-sary of the election of George H.W. Bush. Bush’s initialperiod as the 41st president saw significant events inCanada and the United States that led to the realizationof NAFTA. Age of the Offered Hand features speeches byboth leaders, correspondence between them, and tran-scripts of joint press conferences between 1989 and 1993, when the two men held office.

This book also includes introductions by former USSecretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher and formerCanadian ambassador to the United States Derek H.Burney and features photographs from the BushPresidential Library and the private collection of the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney.

James McGrath has worked for George H.W. Bush since 1991, at the White House, as his postpresidentialspokesman, and currently as his speechwriter.Arthur Milnes, a journalist and fellow of the Queen’sUniversity Centre for the Study of Democracy, served as research assistant to the Right Honourable BrianMulroney on the latter’s Memoirs.

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Age of the Offered HandThe Cross-Border PartnershipBetween President George H.W.Bush and Prime Minister BrianMulroney, A DocumentaryHistory Edited by James McGrath and Arthur Milnes


In Roosevelt’s BrightShadowA Collection in Honour of the70th Anniversary of FDR’s 1938Speech at Queen’s Universityand Marking Canada’s SpecialRelationship with America’sPresidents 1938 to Present Day Edited by Arthur MilnesForeword by David Mitchell

In 2006 Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservativegovernment introduced two bills to reform the Senate:one to establish limited terms for senators, replacing theexisting system of appointment until age 75 and theother to establish consultative elections for the Senatewith the prime minister nominating the winners of theelection. Both bills have been heard in the House ofCommons and the Senate but neither bill has been enact-ed into law. The government’s initiatives are proving con-troversial for two reasons. One is the contents of the bills.The other is procedural and concerns the federal govern-ment’s strategy of treating Senate reform as a matter forParliament alone to determine – a matter of federal legis-lation rather than an amendment of the constitution.

Contributors examine all angles of the debate onSenate reform. They address the constitutionality of theproposals and bring to light features of the bills that havenot yet been analyzed, assessing their significance for theconduct of a reformed chamber. They consider whetherthe objectives of the reformers are likely to be met bythese proposals or whether the result will have unintend-ed consequences. They demonstrate how complicatedSenate reform is, full of unexpected twists and turns, andshow that successful reform requires a deep understand-ing of the country’s parliamentary system and cultureand a delicate approach to institutional change.


Jennifer Smith is professor of political science,Dalhousie University.

Canada: The State of the Federation 2006/07 deals withtransitions that have been initiated by a variety of factorsand have profound implications. Scholars analyze theimplications of these transitional forces, bringing histori-cal, analytical, fiscal, and political perspectives to bear onissues arising from equalization and fiscal imbalance.

They examine the ramifications of recent majorchanges to equalization and show how these changeswill have far-reaching and, in some cases, troubling impli-cations. Further transitions arise in the area of federal-provincial relations as a result of Prime Minister Harper’scommitment to “open federalism.” In this context, con-tributors re-examine the role and use of federal spendingpower and explore whether the Canadian federationmight be better served by a totally new approach to federalism. Finally, the implications of transitions affect-ing the role and place of cities in the Canadian federationare considered. Particular attention is given to the signifi-cance of the on-going information revolution, which privileges cities – most importantly “global city regions” –as the new, dynamic drivers of growth, innovation,and trade.


John R. Allan is associate director, Institute of Intergovern-mental Relations, Queen’s University. Thomas J. Courcheneis the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic andFinancial Policy, Queen’s University. Christian Leuprechtis assistant professor of political science, Royal MilitaryCollege of Canada.

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Senate ReformOnce More into the Breech Edited by Jennifer Smith

An in-depth examination of the Tory Senate reform proposal and what it means for government.


Canada: The State of theFederation 2006/07Transitions: Fiscal and PoliticalFederalism in an Era of Change Edited by John R. Allan,Thomas J. Courchene,and Christian Leuprecht

The first book in the new series Migration and Diversity,International Migration and the Governance of ReligiousDiversity explores the wide range of social and politicalresponses to religious diversity found in Western states.Contributors focus on changes in the political, legal, andsocial responses to religious diversity that have resultedfrom increased international migration and the public visibility of new religious minorities in the West. Theyexamine contemporary theoretical debates about thegovernance of religious diversity in immigrant-receivingcountries and present original in-depth analyses of specif-ic national contexts, allowing readers to observe socialforces at work in the governance of religious diversity.Contributors put these national case studies into compar-ative perspective through an examination of both inter-national normative frameworks for policy-formulationand the impact of contemporary world events on interna-tional public discourse about the relationship betweenreligious diversity and migration.


Paul Bramadat is director, Centre for Studies in Religionand Society, University of Victoria. Matthias Koenig is professor, Department of Sociology, University ofGöttingen, Germany.

Canada and Germany are among the largest contributorsto the international mission in Afghanistan, with troopsin different parts of the country, fulfilling different roles.Canada’s higher ratio of combat to development work isreflected in a higher rate of casualties. Canadians havesometimes joined in criticisms of Germany and otherEuropean allies for their unwillingness to take on riskiermilitary tasks in Afghanistan’s southern and easternprovinces. Some Germans, in turn, have chided Canada forstressing war – fighting at the expense of approachesmore centred on development.

This Canadian-German dialogue reflects a largerdebate, both operational and existential, within NATOconcerning Afghanistan and the future of the alliance.This collection of essays by leading German and Canadianexperts assesses the present state and future prospectsof the Afghanistan mission, both to advance the dialogueand to suggest better approaches to the policy questionsthat continue to confront the alliance.


Hans-Georg Ehrhart is director, Centre for European Peaceand Security Studies, Institute for Peace Research andSecurity Policy, Hamburg. Charles Pentland is director,Centre for International Relations, Queen’s University.

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The Afghanistan ChallengeHard Realities and Strategic Choices Edited by Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Charles Pentland

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M I G R A T I O N A N D D I V E R S I T YC O M P A R A T I V E I S S U E S A N D I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O M P A R I S O N S

Series editors: James Frideres and Paul Spoonley

Migration and Diversity: Comparative Issues and InternationalComparisons is a partnership of the Metropolis Project andQueen’s University’s School of Policy Studies. Volumes aredeveloped at the annual International Metropolis Conferencesand are published as part of the Queen’s Policy Studies Series.The series editors work with the editors of each volume toensure that the books speak to both research and policy.

International Migration and theGovernance of Religious DiversityEdited by Paul Bramadat and Matthias Koenig

The international community has become increasinglyinterested in measuring the effectiveness of its activitiesin war-affected environments. This interest is partiallymotivated by a need to calculate the costs of these veryexpensive ventures and partially by the recognition thatactivities have not always been successful. While stake-holders are interested in measuring the effectiveness oftheir work in places like Afghanistan, they may be reticentto discover that their military, policing, and humanitarianactivities are ineffectual or, worse, have had negativeeffects on recipient populations recovering from armedconflicts.

Sarah Jane Meharg analyses why various mechanisms– results-based management, measures of effectiveness,log frames, essential task matrices – are used in attemptsto reduce complex intervention activities to simple success stories. She argues that the stakeholders involvedcould benefit from a deeper understanding of the theo-ries, concepts, philosophies, and assumptions of otherstakeholders in the peace operations and crisis manage-ment environment. She suggests ways to achieve this understanding through the strategic exercise ofmeasuring effectiveness in relation to organizationalrequirements and recipient population’s priorities in post-conflict societies.

Sarah Jane Meharg is senior research associate, PearsonPeacekeeping Centre, and adjunct assistant professor,Department of Politics and Economics, at the RoyalMilitary College of Canada.

Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: ThirtyYears of Reform and Opening Up first puts the currenteconomic situation into context and looks at issues relatedto economic growth, finance, technological upgradingand the environment.

Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: SocialChange During Thirty Years of Reform addresses issuesranging from land tenure and housing to migration,inequality, labor markets, healthcare and demographics.

The two volumes have contributions from 40 leadingscholars from Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom,and the United States.


Arthur Sweetman is director of the School of PolicyStudies at Queen’s University, where he holds theStauffer-Dunning chair in public policy. Jun Zhang isCheung Kong Professor of Economics and director of theChina Center for Economic Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.

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Measuring What Mattersin Peace Operations andCrisis ManagementSarah Jane Meharg

The first comprehensive overview of theories, mechanisms, and stakeholderapproaches for measuring the successand progress of interventions within the global community of nations.

P O L I C Y S T U D I E S • E C O N O M I C S

Economic Transitions with Chinese CharacteristicsThirty Years of Reform and Opening Up

Social Change During Thirty Years of ReformEdited by Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang

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The large scale publicly funded system of postsecondaryeducation in Ontario developed in the 1960s has beenlargely successful in fulfilling important societal needs in the areas of education, human resource development,and research. Existing approaches, however, are unlikelyto be sufficient to address the challenges of the comingdecade.

The Transformation of Ontario’s Postsecondary EducationSystem examines the developments that are re-shapingthe province’s postsecondary system, including higherenrolments, further development of a knowledge-basedeconomy, increased demands for research focused oncompetitiveness and productivity, and Ontario’s transitionto a multicultural, internationally connected, urban, andaged society. Universities and colleges are also adjustingto internal changes in the composition of the studentbody and staff, faculty work profiles, and funding arrange-ments. The authors consider possible changes in the system’s structure, policy, and governance that may behelpful in dealing with the anticipated changes in socie-tal needs, and expectations related to postsecondary education.

Ian D. Clark is professor in the School of Public Policy andGovernance, University of Toronto. Greg Moran is a mem-ber of both the clinical and developmental groups withinthe Department of Psychology, University of WesternOntario. Michael Skolnik is professor emeritus in theOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. David Trick is president of David Trick andAssociates, consultants in higher education strategyand management.

Hospitals, doctors’ offices, and pharmacies are sitting onsome very valuable information – your medical informa-tion. As health-care providers enter the digital world andcomputerize their patients’ records in an effort to improvethe efficiency and quality of care, they are also building avaluable health research tool. The files in their databasesmay contain the answers to many medical questions wecurrently face, but they also contain private informationthat could potentially be misused. Data Data Everywherehighlights the challenges that lie ahead and proposes a uniquely Canadian framework for striking a balancebetween the benefits of allowing researchers to accessmedical information and the privacy concerns of individu-als. In addition to contributing towards a sustainablemodel for secondary use of data in health research, thebook also contributes significantly to research in this fieldand serves as an essential comparative reference for similar jurisdictions.


Colleen M. Flood is scientific director, Canadian Institutesof Health Research, Institute of Health Services PolicyResearch.



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The Transformation of Ontario’sPostsecondary Education SystemIan D. Clark, Greg Moran, Michael Skolnik, and David Trick

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Data Data EverywhereAccess and Accountability? Edited by Colleen M. Flood

This fifth book in the Global Dialogue series explores for-eign policy in federal countries, which often varies amongsuch countries and differs considerably from that of uni-tary countries. Foreign policy has traditionally been theresponsibility of central governments. In countries with a unitary system of government this state of affairs is rel-atively unproblematic since most powers accrue to, andmost public policy is conducted at, the national level. Infederal countries, however, constitutional powers andresponsibility for the conduct of public policy are sharedbetween the federal government and constituent units –states, provinces, cantons, and so on – with each order of government responsible for a set of functions.

Foreign Relations in Federal Countries addresses ques-tions such as: What constitutional powers do the federalgovernments and constituent states have to conduct for-eign affairs? To what degree are relations between ordersof government regularized by formal agreement or infor-mal practice? What roles do constituent governmentshave in negotiation and implementation of internationaltreaties? The volume offers a comparative perspective onthe conduct of foreign relations in twelve federal coun-tries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada,Germany, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland,and the United States.


Hans Michelmann is professor of political studies,University of Saskatchewan.

While local government is found in all federal countries,its place and role in the governance of these countriesvaries considerably. In some countries, local governmentis considered an essential part of the federal nature of thestate and recognized in the constitution as such, whereasin others it is simply a creature of the subnationalstates/provinces. When referring to local government itis more correct to refer to local governments (plural), asthese institutions come in all shapes and sizes, perform-ing widely divergent functions. They range from metro-politan municipalities of mega-cities to counties, smalltown councils, and villages. Their focus is either multi-purpose in the case of municipalities or single purpose in the case of special districts and school districts. Whatunites these institutions of state is that there is no levelof government below them. That is also their strengthand the source of their democratic claim – they are thegovernment closest to the people. Political science ex-perts from across the globe examine local governmentsby drawing on case studies of Australia, Austria, Brazil,Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland,Spain, South Africa, and United States.


John Kincaid is Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and director of theMeyner Center for the Study of State and LocalGovernment, Lafayette College. Nico Steytler is the director of the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape.

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Foreign Relations inFederal CountriesEdited by Hans Michelmann

“Thanks to the Forum of Federations’Global Dialogue, the international dimen-sion of federalism finally is being ade-quately included into public discourse.”–Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Minister-Presidentof the German Community, Belgium


Local Government and MetropolitanRegions in Federal CountriesEdited by John Kincaid and Nico Steytler

Examining the various functions of local governments.

Capital cities are unique because they are the seat of thenational government as well as the host for nationalinstitutions – legislative buildings, museums, arts centres– for which the federal government is responsible. Theytake on political, administrative, and cultural/symbolicroles that are different from those of other cities. At thesame time, they are cities in which people live, use localservices, and engage in local political activity. Althoughmany of the political, cultural, and symbolic functions of capital cities in federal countries are similar, there isconsiderable variation in many of the other characteris-tics of these cities. In terms of finance and governance,national capitals differ with respect to the local governingstructure; their roles, responsibilities, and revenues; andtheir fiscal relationship with the federal government.These distinguishing features reflect differences innational cultures, historical development, constitutions,political structures, and ideologies.

Using capital cities in Australia, Belgium, Canada,Ethiopia, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa,Switzerland, and the United States as case studies, con-tributors examine federal policies towards capital cities,with a particular emphasis on how capital cities are fundedand governed, and the extent to which the federal gov-ernment compensates them for their unique role.

Contributors include Mario Delgado Carrillo (Secretary of Finance,Mexico City), Rupak Chattopadhyay (Forum of Federations), IsawaElaigwu (Institute of Governance and Social Research, Nigeria),Assefa Fiseha (Ethiopian Civil Service College, Ethiopia), Natwar M. Gandhi (Chief Financial Officer, Washington D.C.), Daniel Kuebler(University of Zürich, Switzerland), Om Prakash Mathur (NationalInstitute of Public Finance and Policy, India), Graham Sansom(University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Enid Slack (University of Toronto), Nicolaas Steytler (University of the Western Cape),Almos Tassonyi (Government of Ontario), Caroline Van Wynsberghe(Université Catholique de Louvain), and Horst Zimmermann (Philipps Universität).

Enid Slack is director of the Institute on MunicipalFinance and Governance at the Munk Centre forInternational Studies, University of Toronto.Rupak Chattopadhyay is senior director of GlobalPrograms, and head of International Conferences for the Forum of Federations.

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Finance and Governance of CapitalCities in Federal SystemsEdited by Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay

Examining federal policies towards capital cities.

A N N O U N C I N G A N E W S E R I E ST H E M A T I C I S S U E S I N F E D E R A L I S M

As part of its increased focus on comparative work on sectoral issues in federal systems, this new series from theForum of Federations complements and parallels the Global Dialogue series. More policy oriented than its sister series,each of the volumes has been planned around a template of questions that will provide information and analysis rel-evant to the needs of practitioners of federalism. Each volume will be a comparative work edited by leading expertsin the field and built around an author’s conference that will allow for exchange of ideas and provide direction withregard to the final publication. The first two volumes in the series will deal with the financing and governance ofcapital cities in federal countries and with oil and gas in federations. Future volumes will address policing and publicsecurity, environmental assessment and regulation, natural resources, language policy, internal markets, poverty andregional development, and climate change.

This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environmentincludes reflections from a number of Canada’s leadingsustainable development thinkers, two decades after the1987 publication of the seminal United Nations reportOur Common Future. Published by the World Commissionon Environment and Development, the report popularizedthe concept of sustainable development which continuesto influence economic, environmental, and social policydecisions and structures in individual countries and international organizations.

Contributors analyse a number of dimensions of theCanadian experience in implementing sustainable devel-opment and critically assess how the country has doneover this twenty year period. They discuss both the breakthroughs and disappointments of the Canadianexperience, and look toward the future to discuss whatadditional steps need to be undertaken domestically ifCanada is to once again achieve a position of leadershipin the world and get on a truly sustainable trajectory.


Glen Toner is professor of public policy and director of theCarleton Research Unit in Innovation, Science andEnvironment, Carleton University. James Meadowcroft isprofessor of political science and public policy, CarletonUniversity.

The North is an increasingly important focal point of pub-lic policy. The impact of climate change on the environ-ment and community life underlines the urgent need formeasures to slow this trend and facilitate adaptation touncertain conditions. International events have under-lined the importance of safeguarding Canada’s sovereign-ty in its Arctic regions, and the federal government hasannounced a series of measures to further this objective.

The result of a wide-ranging IRPP research program,this multidisciplinary volume explores the followingthemes: Canada in the circumpolar world; First Nations,Inuit and public governance; economic development, sus-taining people; and developing a northern policy for thefuture. Public policy specialists review the implications ofthe unprecedented changes in governance that havetaken place in the three territories and in Aboriginal com-munities in northern Quebec and Labrador over the pastthree decades and analyze challenges that must be facedin order to strengthen economic development and qualityof life for northern residents. Contributions from Inuitand First Nations leaders, former territorial premiers,and Aboriginal youth activists add further depth and perspective.


Frances Abele is professor, School of Public Policy andAdministration, Carleton University. Thomas J. Courcheneis Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic andFinancial Policy, Queen’s University. F. Leslie Seidle is senior research associate, Institute for Research on PublicPolicy. Frances St-Hilaire is vice president of research,Institute for Research on Public Policy.

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Innovation, Science,EnvironmentSpecial Edition: ChartingSustainable Developmentin Canada, 1987–2007 Edited by Glen Toner and James Meadowcroft

Assessing Canada’s performance in implementing sustainable developmentinitiatives since the 1987 publication of Our Common Future.

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The Art of the StateNorthern Exposure: Peoples,Powers and Prospects inCanada’s North, Volume 4Edited by Frances Abele,Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle,Frances St-Hilaire

Indentifying public policy areas thatrequire particular attention to fully realizethe economic and human potential of Canada’s northernmost regions.

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québecliterature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years ofher life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, asa member of Manitoba’s francophone minority, bilingual-ism was a necessary strategy for survival and success.How did this bilingual and bicultural background helpshape her work as a writer in French? The implications ofher linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chap-ters looking at education, language, translation, and therepresentation of Canada’s other minorities, from theimmigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava.What emerges is a new reading of Roy’s work.

Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory,and translation studies, Between Languages and Culturesexplores the traces and effects of Roy’s intimate know-ledge of English language and culture, challenging andaugmenting the established view that her work is distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois.

“A fresh approach to the work of a major Canadian writer.Fascinating from beginning to end.”–Mary Jean Green, Dartmouth College, author of Womenand Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text

Rosemary Chapman is reader in French and Canadianstudies, University of Nottingham, and author of Sitingthe Quebec Novel: The Representation of Space inFrancophone Writing in Quebec.

Why does the Great War seem part of modern memorywhen its rituals of mourning and remembrance were tra-ditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly originalhistory of memory, David Williams shows how classicGreat War literature, including work by Remarque, Owen,Sassoon, and Harrison, was symptomatic of a cultural crisis brought on by the advent of cinema. He argues thatimages from Geoffrey Malins’ hugely popular war filmThe Battle of the Somme (1916) collapsed social, temporal,and spatial boundaries, giving film a new cultural legiti-macy, while the appearance of writings based on cine-matic forms of remembering marked a crucial transitionfrom a verbal to a visual culture. By contrast, today’s digi-tal media are laying the ground for a return to Homericmemory, whether in History Television, the digitalMemory Project, or the interactive war museum.

Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digitaltheorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists,Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparativestudy that shows how the dominant mode of communi-cation in a popular culture – from oral traditions to digital media – shapes the structure of memory withinthat culture.

“Media, Memory, and the First World War is fascinating in its inter-disciplinarity – the author has a good grasp on a wide range of sources and raises excellent analyticalpoints throughout the book.”–Jonathan Vance, University of Western Ontario

David Williams is professor of English, St. Paul’s College,University of Manitoba, and the author of several novelsand critical books, including Imagined Nations: Reflectionson Media in Canadian Fiction.

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Between Languages and CulturesColonial and PostcolonialReadings of Gabrielle Roy Rosemary Chapman

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Media, Memory, and the First World WarDavid Williams

A history of memory from the Trojan War to the Great War,implicating electronic media in a new Homeric mode.

Joseph Conrad’s novels are recognized as great works offiction, but they should also be counted as great works of criticism. A voracious reader throughout his life, Conradwrote novels that question and transform the ideas heencountered in non-fiction, novels, and scientific andphilosophic works.

Under Conrad’s Eyes looks at Conrad’s revaluations ofsome of his important nineteenth-century predecessors –Carlyle, Darwin, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, andNietzsche. Detailed readings of works from Heart ofDarkness to Victory explore Conrad’s language and style,focusing on questions regarding the will to know and theavoidance of knowledge, the potential harmfulness ofsympathy, and the competing instincts for self-preserva-tion and self-destruction. Comparative analyses showhow Conrad transforms aspects of Bleak House into TheSecret Agent and Middlemarch into Nostromo. Especiallycompelling are explorations of Conrad’s ambivalencetowards Carlyle’s faith in work and hero-worship as rejuvenators of English culture and his views onNietzsche’s assault on Christianity.

This important new study of a novelist of profoundcontemporary relevance demonstrates how Conrad exem-plifies the artist as critic while challenging both the cate-gories we impose on texts and the boundaries we erectbetween literary periods.

“DiSanto has a great enthusiasm for Conrad and for ideas.This is a compelling and original work that makes a sig-nificant contribution to Conrad studies and to intellectualand literary history of the nineteenth century.”–Pericles Lewis, Yale University

Michael John DiSanto is assistant professor of English,Algoma University.

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation haveemerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiationsin states struggling with the legacies of colonialism.While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuateexisting power relations, they can also encourage remem-brance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimatelybring about social transformation.

Drawing on critical and theoretical material bythinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon,Mahatma Ghandi, and Julia Kristeva, Julie McGonegalsupplements indigenous models and approaches withthose produced within Euro American discourse. In theprocess, she develops an understanding of forgivenessand reconciliation based on the interventive power of literature. Through insightful readings of four novels,McGonegal demonstrates the ways in which literaturecan create the conditions that make processes of post-colonial reconciliation possible.

The first book to approach the political demands forreconciliation from the perspective of postcolonial literarycriticism and theory, Imagining Justice demonstrates thatreading can have potentially radical social and politicaleffects. While the primary focus is on literary texts, theissues at stake are germane to historians, political scien-tists, theologians, and sociologists.

Julie McGonegal is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellowat the University of Tasmania, Australia.

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Under Conrad’s EyesThe Novel as Criticism Michael John DiSanto

An innovative account of Joseph Conrad’sengagement with nineteenth-centurythought.


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Imagining JusticeThe Politics of PostcolonialForgiveness and Reconciliation Julie McGonegal

An understanding of forgiveness and reconciliation based on the power of literature.

Many readers are struck by Elizabeth Bishop’s use of clear,striking descriptions of the physical world, and no scholarhas ever asked how Bishop’s commitment to descriptionshapes her writing and thinking.

Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description argues thatattention to the material realm informs everythingBishop does. Seen through this lens, many familiar topicslook remarkably different. Bishop’s relationship to travel,epiphany, surrealism, and imagery are all transformed,and a timely new Bishop emerges – one quite differentfrom the postmodern poet that has dominated recentscholarship.

Zachariah Pickard eschews academic jargon and con-centrates on the poems themselves as well as a numberof key prose passages that have long been overlooked. Hisstudy combines scholarly rigor with clarity and commonsense to present a moving new account of Bishop’s workthat will appeal to educated readers within and withoutthe academy.

“One of the strongest, clearest, most carefully argued, andmost convincing books about any modern poet in quite a while. Anyone interested in Bishop should see Pickard’sbook; anyone interested in what interested her – in howthe natural sciences enter literary writing, for example –will find plenty to learn here.”–Stephen Burt, Harvard University

Zachariah Pickard is assistant professor of language and literature at Bard High School Early College II in New York City.

Why are so many contemporary poets writing elegies?Given a century shaped by two world wars, vast popula-tion displacements, and shifting attitudes towards agingand death, is the elegy form adaptable to the changingneeds of writers and audiences? In a skeptical age, wherecan consolation be found?

In We Are What We Mourn Priscila Uppal examineswhy and how the work of mourning has drasticallychanged in the latter half of the twentieth century,focusing on the strong pattern in contemporary English-Canadian elegy that emphasizes connection rather thanseparation between the living and the dead. Uppal offersa penetrating reading of Canadian elegies that radicallychallenges English and American elegy traditions as wellas long-standing psychological models for successfulmourning. She sets up useful categories for elegy study –parental elegies, elegies for places, and elegies for culturallosses and displacements – and suggests where elegy and mourning studies might be headed post 9/11.

“Uppal brings the critical acumen of a writer of poetryand fiction herself to imaginative and insightful readingsof poets as disparate as Milton Acorn and Anne Carsonand as relatively similar as Patrick Lane and Al Purdy. WeAre What We Mourn brings provocative critical shape toan important body of work.” –Leslie Monkman, professoremeritus, English, Queen’s University

Priscila Uppal is associate professor, English, YorkUniversity, and the author of several books of poetry,fiction, and non-fiction, including Ontological Necessitiesand The Divine Economy of Salvation.

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Elizabeth Bishop’s Poeticsof DescriptionZachariah Pickard

A long-overdue account of how Bishop’scommitment to scrutiny and descriptionshapes her poetry.


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We Are What We MournThe Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy Priscila Uppal

The first book on the Canadian poeticelegy challenges all previous ideas aboutthe purpose of mourning.

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L I T E R A T U R E

The works of a seminal Canadian writer,available again

Hugh MacLennan, a nationalist who pioneered the use of Canadian scenar-

ios in fiction, gave writers from Robertson Davies to Margaret Laurence the

sense that Canada was a place worth writing about. His major fiction works

are now available in a format designed to appeal to both students and the

general public. Each volume includes an introduction, as well as images

and relevant addenda, that assist the reader and present the novel in

contemporary context.

General editor Michael Gnarowski, professor emeritus of Canadian literature

and founding director and editor of Carleton University Press, co-edited,

with Louis Dudek, The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled

A Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, was series editor of

Critical Views on Canadian Writers, and for many years was general editor

of The Carleton Library Series.

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Hugh MacLennan (1907–1990) taught at

McGill University from 1951 to 1981 and wrote novels and essays that

helped define Canadian literature. His novels include Barometer Rising

(1941), Two Solitudes (1945), Each Man’s Son (1951), The Watch That Ends the

Night (1959), Return of the Sphinx (1967), and Voices in Time (1980). He also

published several nonfiction works, including Cross Country (1949), Thirty

and Three (1955), Scotsman’s Return and Other Essays (1960), and The

Colour of Canada (1967).

Two SolitudesHugh MacLennanWith a new introduction by Michael Gnarowski

winner of the 1945 governorgeneral’s award.

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A landmark of nationalist fiction,Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudesis the story of two races within onenation, each with its own legend andideas of what a nation should be. Inhis vivid portrayals of human dramain prewar Quebec, MacLennan focus-es on two individuals whose loveincreases the prejudices that sur-round them until they discover that“love consists in this, that two soli-tudes protect, and touch and greeteach other.”

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

“Two Solitudes is the most impressivebook that came within my range this year.”–The University of Toronto Quarterly

Return of the SphinxHugh MacLennanWith a new introduction by Collett Tracey

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Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicatedman high in the government. DanielAinslie, his son, is a member of anexplosive movement impelled by thenaive rebelliousness of the New Left.Hugh MacLennan weaves a complexand story of two generations in conflict.

Originally published in 1967,Return of the Sphinx is something ofa sequel to the more optimistic TwoSolitudes and reflects MacLennan’sdisenchantment with the world in general and the apparentlyintractable French-English debate in Canada.

Each Man’s SonHugh MacLennanWith a new introduction by Richard Marchand

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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor work-ing with the miners of his nativeCape Breton Island, is forty-two anddeeply in love with his wife. Longingfor the son he can never have, hecomes to love the young AlanMacNeil, whose father deserted himand his mother several years before.Alan’s father’s return brings tragedyto those around him.

“What is distinctive about EachMan’s Son is its warmth and intimacy… Expertly planned and executed, itis the most human of his books.”–The Globe and Mail

“Each Man’s Son has many of thequalities that we have come toadmire in MacLennan’s work. It has a clear and, at times, eloquent prosestyle; it has many individual scenesthat are sharply and sympatheticallyprojected; and it gives constant evi-dence of a lively and flexible mind.”–The University of Toronto Quarterly

The Watch that Ends the NightHugh MacLennanWith a new introductionby David McKnight

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George and Catherine Stewart sharenot only the burden of Catherine’sheart disease, which could cause herdeath at any time, but the memoryof Jerome Martell, her first husbandand George’s closest friend. Martel,a brilliant doctor passionately con-cerned with social justice, is pre-sumed to have died in a Nazi prisoncamp. His sudden return to Montrealprecipitates the central crisis of thenovel. Hugh MacLennan takes thereader into the lives of his threecharacters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealistacross the world to Spain, France,Auschwitz, Russia, and China beforehis return home.

“The Watch That Ends the Night is anovel of affirmation ... The vanity ofhuman wishes, death itself, are partof the mystery to be loved ... I wouldnot trade MacLennan for a legion ofbeatniks or a whole flotilla-full ofangry young men.”–Queen’s Quarterly

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A Silent Revolution? explores how urban women managedwealth at a time when they were thought to have littleindependence – including economic – and shows thatwomen were in fact important players in the world ofcapital. Peter Baskerville situates women in their immedi-ate gendered and familial environments as well as withinbroader legal, financial, spatial, temporal, and historio-graphical contexts. He analyses women’s probates, wills,land ownership, holdings of real and chattel mortgages,investment in stocks and bonds, and self employment,revealing that women controlled wealth to an extentsimilar to that of most men and invested and managedwealth in increasingly similar, and in some cases moreaggressive, ways.

Traditional historiography has highlighted women’sfight to acquire cultural and political rights during thisperiod, but it is less well known that women acquired andexercised many economic rights as well. In doing so theyput pressure on men to reconceptualize the notion ofmiddle class and women’s proper place.

“Potentially one of the most important books in the lasttwo decades in Canadian social history.”–David Burley, history, University of Winnipeg

Peter Baskerville is professor of history, University ofVictoria, in-coming chair of Modern Western CanadianHistory, University of Alberta, and the author of severalbooks, including, with Eric Sager, Unwilling Idlers: TheUrban Unemployed and Their Families in Late VictorianCanada.

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries theAmericas, Australia, and New Zealand emerged asnations. Through conquest and violent appropriation,European immigrants settled these lands and soon devel-oped a sense of belonging, most potently expressed inidentity, memory, and the belief in utopias. Many of thesenew collectivities or founding nations succeeded in break-ing their colonial links to achieve political and culturalemancipation from their European mother country.

The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the NewWorld explores the question of how a culture – a collec-tive imaginary – is born. Gérard Bouchard compares thehistorical itineraries of New World collectivities, whichwere driven by a dream of freedom and sovereignty, andfinds major differences as well as striking commonalitiesin their formation and evolution. He also considers themyths and discursive strategies devised by the elites tounite and mobilize very diversified populations.

“A masterful work on the evolution of new collectivitiesand their preoccupations with identity, in which the origi-nality of the thinking and the elegance of the style arematched by extensive research and the topicality of thetheme. This plea for comparative history takes a new lookat Quebec society and the path it has taken in the world.”–Governor General’s Literary Awards Jury

Gérard Bouchard is professor, human sciences, Universitéde Québec à Chicoutimi. He holds a Canada ResearchChair and was appointed to the French Legion of Honourin 2002.

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n e w i n p a p e rA Silent Revolution?Gender and Wealth in EnglishCanada, 1860–1930 Peter Baskerville

The increasing involvement of women in business and finance in turn-of-the-century urban Canada.

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n e w i n pa p e rThe Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New WorldAn Essay in Comparative History Gérard BouchardTranslated by Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Brown

A comparative, post-colonial exploration of how the collectivities of the New Worldbecame nations.

Transatlantic Subjects dissents from fourdecades of scholarly writing on colonialCanada by taking the British imperial context– rather than the North American environ-ment – as a conceptual framework for inter-preting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s.

Anchored in “the new British history”advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage,and Kathleen Wilson, this collective workexplores ideas, institutions, and social practices that were adapted and changedthrough the process of migration from theBritish archipelago to the new settlementsocieties. Contributors discuss a broad rangeof institutional and social practices, includingeducation, religion, radical politics, and family life.

Transatlantic Subjects offers a new per-spective for the writing of Canada’s history.A self-conscious response to the plea for abroader British history that includes the over-seas settlement colonies, it makes a signifi-cant contribution to the new cultural historyof the British Empire.

For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca

Nancy Christie is professor, history, TrentUniversity and the author of several prize-winning books, including A Full-OrbedChristianity and Engendering the State.

The notion of improvement permeated socialand political discourse in colonial Canadiansociety. From agriculture to building roadsand mills to defining correct habits andbehaviour, Nova Scotians embraced theideals of innovation and progress and pro-moted modern programs of government.

Daniel Samson moves Nova Scotia andrural Canada from the colonial margins tothe heart of a modernizing society, showinghow the countryside functioned as a centreof change and innovation. He connects a fascinating spectrum of sites, actors, andstrategies and links settlement, farm-build-ing, rural market formation, and early indus-trialization to the heterogeneous strategiesof families and state actors, the rural poor,and rural elites.

The Spirit of Industry and Improvementpresents the first-ever overview of rural colo-nial Nova Scotia and provides compellinginsights into the formation of modern liberalpractices of government and self-govern-ment in British North America.

“A major contribution to rural history and tothe historiography of British North America.”–Rusty Bittermann, St. Thomas University

“A detailed, refreshing, coherent, and mean-ingful overview of change in nineteenth-century rural Nova Scotia.”–Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto

Daniel Samson is associate professor, history,Brock University.

McGill University’s Faculty of Music – nowthe Schulich School – has been a centre ofnew music in Canada for decades, helping toshape contemporary composition, electro-acoustic research, performance, and soundrecording. Compositional Crossroads focuseson McGill’s location in a culturally dynamiccity and shows how the interplay betweenplace, community, identity, and memory andindividuals, faculty, and students createdinstitutional pathways that have lead to an explosion of new music activity.

Visionary deans, composers, musicolo-gists, and students associated with theFaculty of Music between 1970–2004 offerinsights into the early contributions of IstvanInhalt, the birth of the Electronic MusicStudio and McGill Records, the importance of visiting composer-teachers, opportunitiesfor composer/performer collaborations, thedevelopment of performing spaces andensembles, and new ways of consideringsonic creativity. Several essays are devoted tomajor composers who taught at the school,including Bengt Hambreus, alcides lanza,Brian Cherney, Bruce Mather, John Rea, andDenys Bouliane.

For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca

Eleanor V. Stubley is associate professor,Schulich School of Music, and director ofgraduate studies, Schulich School of Music,McGill University. Stubley is also a conductorand associate of the John Adaskin Projectof the Canadian Music Centre.


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n e w i n p a p e rTransatlanticSubjectsIdeas, Institutions, andSocial Experience inPost-RevolutionaryBritish North America Edited by Nancy ChristieForeword by J.G.A. Pocock

A reinterpretation of theplace of colonial Canadawithin a reconstructedBritish Empire that focuseson culture and social relations.


n e w i n pa p e rThe Spirit ofIndustry andImprovementLiberal Governmentand Rural-IndustrialSociety, Nova Scotia,1790–1862 Daniel Samson

How elites, the poor, and the state made a modernworld in nineteenth-centuryrural Nova Scotia.


n e w i n pa p e rCompositionalCrossroadsMusic, McGill,Montreal Edited by Eleanor V. Stubley

The first full lengthstudy of how McGill’sFaculty of Music helpedto shape contemporaryCanadian music.

Gladys Osmond wrote her first letter to a Canadian soldier serving overseas in 1983. She went on to found theGranny Brigade, a group that has written to countlessCanadian soldiers, sailors, and airforce personnel servingin all parts of the world.

The moral support Osmond provides to Canadian mili-tary personnel has been honoured formally on severaloccasions: in 2006 she was awarded the Canadian ForcesMedallion for Distinguished Service, presented to her inNewfoundland by chief of the Defence Staff, General RickHillier. However, no formal honour, Osmond insists, cancompare to the notes of sincere personal gratitude fromthe individuals and families to whom she has written.Now well into her eighties, Osmond’s continued corre-spondence with her extended military family occupies her from dawn until long after dark.

Dear Gladys provides first-hand insight into the livesand duties of Canadians in conflicts past and present.

Gilbert Penney, a retired school teacher living inSpringdale, NL, has written several magazine articles andbooks. As a member of the Canadian Rangers, he appreci-ates Canada’s military and has great admiration forGladys Osmond’s unwavering dedication to CanadianForces personnel.

Yokohama, a quiet fishing village when CommodoreMatthew Perry arrived with his gunboat diplomacy in the mid-1800s, was quickly transformed into a bustlingport for international trade. The change brought affluentforeigners to the city but also mobilized Japanese nation-alist hostilities. It was in this setting that Ron and MartinBaenninger’s Canadian mother and Swiss father metin 1933.

Relying on Ron’s early memories, their mother’s diary,and the acute memory of their father, who lived to beover one hundred, the Baenningers recount the initialyears of their parents’ marriage and provide glimpses intorelations between Japan and the West from the turn ofthe century to the onset of the Second World War. In theirearliest years together the young couple enjoyed a richsocial life, travelling freely between Canada, Switzerland,and Japan, although aware of the political turmoil slowing unfolding around them. The outbreak of the warbetween Japan and the United States and allied powersbrought their privileged lifestyle to an end. In August1942 they escaped internment with their young sonaboard the Kamakura Maru – one of the many exchangeships assigned to bring foreign nationals home and thelast evacuation vessel from Japan – and negotiated theirway through war-torn areas to reach Canada four months later.

In the Eye of the Wind will interest anyone seeking tolearn more about a tumultuous time in an extraordinaryplace.

Ron Baenninger is a retired professor of psychology atTemple University in Philadelphia. He lives in St Joseph,Minnesota. Martin Baenninger is a retired internationalbusiness executive. He lives in Montreal.

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Dear GladysLetters from Over There Gladys OsmondEdited by Gilbert PenneyForeword by General R.J. Hillier

“As long as I have my eyes, the use of my hands, and as long as my brain stillworks, I’ll be writing to soldiers.”–Gladys Osmond



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In the Eye of the WindA Travel Memoir of Prewar Japan Ron Baenninger and Martin Baenninger

The early married life of foreign nationals in Japan in the years leadingup to the Second World War.

French Acadians began settling in the Grand Pré area of Nova Scotia, a region plagued by salt-soaked tidalmeadows, in the seventeenth century. By the middle ofthe eighteenth century, a complex system of sod barriershad enabled them to convert 3,000 acres of what hadbeen tidal marshes into rich crop land. Four hundredyears after the Acadian arrival in the Bay of Fundy region,the physical presence of their legacy is still intact.

Sherman Bleakney examines the unusual physical andbiological features of this region of the Bay of Fundy,home to the only successful pioneer society in NorthAmerica to farm below sea level. Using original photo-graphs, diagrams, and graphs, Bleakney shows how andwhy the Acadians were successful. Sods, Soil, and Spadesexamines the unique and elegant engineering principlesand practices used by the Acadians and looks at how theirculture influenced their success in mastering this marsh-land region.

“A marvellous work of history plus common sense, of whatis recorded, plus what can be reasonably conjectured.”–Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society

“A valuable reference tool, Sods, Soil, and Spades is … apleasure to read.” –The Daily Gleaner

J. Sherman Bleakney is a retired professor of biology,Acadia University, living in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Prior to teaching, he was curator of amphibians, reptiles, andfish at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. He has published numerous articles and several books.

When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfound-land in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisher-man, he had no clear sense of who his patients were orhow they lived – a few weeks on the Labrador coastchanged that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of theplace and the difficulties faced by those who lived there,Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs.

At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal NationalMission to Deep Sea Fisherman, Grenfell became part ofphilanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic.Raising funds in Canada and the United States, he foundeda network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, andhome industries that exists in a modified form to this day.In 1908, the story of his survival after a night maroonedon a drifting patch of ice transformed him into a popularhero. He eventually became one of the most successfullecturers of his time.

Ronald Rompkey tells the story of Grenfell’s education,his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues ofhygiene and public health. Above all, Rompkey shows thatGrenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary tobecome a cultural politician who intervened in a colonialculture. Grenfell of Labrador provides a vivid picture of theman himself and the social movements through which he worked.

“Well-written, informative, and a joy to read.”–Social History of Medicine

Ronald Rompkey is University Research Professor,Department of English, Memorial University ofNewfoundland. He is the author or editor of eleven books,including three others on Labrador.

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Sods, Soil, and SpadesThe Acadians at Grand Pré and Their Dykeland Legacy J. Sherman Bleakney

A detailed account of how early Acadiansettlers turned the Grand Pré tidal marshes into fertile farming lands.

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Grenfell of LabradorA Biography Ronald RompkeyWith a new preface by the author

“A tale well-told … one welcomes therevival of a hero who was a legend within living memory.”–The Northern Mariner



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