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Canada’s Game Almost every Canadian can hum the original Hockey Night in
Hockey and Identity Canada theme – even those who don’t think of themselves as
hockey fans. For more than a century, Canadians have seen
Edited by Andrew C. Holman
something of themselves in the sport of hockey. Canada’s Game
explores the critical aspects of this relationship. Contributors
Hockey’s ability to tell stories about Canada
address a broad range of themes in hockey, past and present,
that reflect the country’s uniqueness – its
including spectacle and spectatorship, the multiple meanings of
strengths and weaknesses.
hockey in Canadian fiction, and the shaping influences of violence,
anti-Americanism, and regional rivalry. From the Gardens to the
Forum, from the 1936 Olympics to the 1972 Summit Series, from
the imagined depictions in Canadian fiction to the fan’s-eye
view, Canada’s Game looks at hockey’s ability to reflect Canadian
identity.
From the book: town New Brunswick, and because of this, he thought, she
The Giller Prize-winning author, David Adams Richards, must be a hockey fan. “Did you see the game last night?”
tells a humorous anecdote from his days as a writer-in- No, she replied, “we don’t have a television … don’t ap-
residence at the University of New Brunswick – Frederic- prove of it,” but continued on saying that her husband
ton. It was in 1984, on the day after Team Canada had had been eager to find out the result that morning on
defeated the hated Soviet national team 3 to 2 in over- the radio.
time and, a committed hockey fan, he was dying to chat “He’s heartbroken,” she said. “We were going for the
with someone, anyone, about the great victory the night Russians.” Richards’ face displayed his bewilderment at
before. The first person he encountered was a young her treasonous statement.
English professor, a good but perhaps pretentious scholar “Well we both hate Gretzky, you see.” Her accent now
who had once been overheard saying that she could not turned slightly British “… he’s just such a Canadian.” She
see how anyone could live without reading Henry James. smiled. He paused, uncomfortably, and then asked her:
Despite her erudition, like Richards she was from small- “You hate greatness … or just Canadian greatness?”
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B I B L IO G RA P HY • A RT H I STO RY
Bringing Art to Life In 1959, Alan Jarvis – the brilliant and charismatic director of the
A Biography of Alan Jarvis National Gallery of Canada – was forced to resign following a
disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by
Andrew Horrall
European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal,
or the public humiliation that followed, succumbing to alcoholism
“In 1959 the Conservative government fired
in a little over a decade.
the director of the National Gallery of
Only thirty-nine when he took over the National Gallery in 1955,
Canada, Alan Jarvis, for being too chic, too
Jarvis already had an extraordinary record of achievement and
mouthy, too gay, and too careless about social mobility at home and in England: he had trained with
committing himself to buy Old Masters Canada’s greatest artists, won a Rhodes scholarship, lunched at
when he didn’t have money in the budget the Algonquin Round Table in New York, managed an aircraft
to pay for them.” –Robert Fulford factory, written a bestseller, produced films, run a slum settlement,
and moved in a London social circle that included Noël Coward and
Vivien Leigh. As head of the National Gallery, Jarvis was a provo-
cative public educator, advocating his idea of “a museum without
walls” in countless public appearances. Instrumental in bringing
modern art to the National Gallery, he shook artists and the art-
minded public out of a period of national complacency. This first
detailed account of the controversy surrounding his time at the
gallery provides an important context for the ongoing and
contested role of publicly supported arts and art institutions in
this country.
Tracing Jarvis’ personal background and varied careers through
archives, published sources, and interviews with family, friends,
colleagues, and critics, Bringing Art to Life assesses his impact
and exposes the formal and informal mechanisms through which
Canadian culture operated in the mid-twentieth century.
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Studies in Art History
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The Writings of David David Thompson’s Travels is one of the finest early expressions
Thompson, Volume 1 of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of
a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation
The Travels, 1850 Version
on the land and Native peoples of western North America.
David Thompson The tale spans the years 1784 to 1807 and extends from the
Edited by William E. Moreau Great Lakes to the Rockies, from Athabasca to Missouri. A dis-
tinguished literary work, the Travels alternates between the
A vivid account of life in the fur trade and expository prose of the scientist and the vivid language of the
a cornerstone of Canadian literature. storyteller, animated throughout by a restless spirit of inquiry
and sense of wonder.
In the first volume of an ambitious three-volume project that
will finally bring all of Thompson’s writings together, editor William
Moreau presents the Travels narrative as it existed in 1850, when
the author was forced to abandon his work. Accompanying
Moreau’s transcription is an introductory essay and a textual
introduction, extensive critical annotations, historical and modern
maps, and a biographical appendix.
The definitive collection of Thompson’s works, The Writings
of David Thompson will bring one of North American’s most
important early travellers and surveyors and his world to a whole
new generation of readers.
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Co-published with the Champlain Society in association
with Rupert’s Land Record Society at the University
of Winnipeg
September 2009
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C A N A D I A N H I S T O R Y • M I L I TA R Y H I S T O R Y M I L I TA R Y S T U D I E S
In Triquet’s Cross John MacFarlane tells the story of Paul Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land
Triquet, a French-Canadian soldier who was awarded the warfare throughout the twentieth century, but precisely
Victoria Cross for bravery in the battle for Casa Berardi how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult
during the Second World War. to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall, for
One of only thirteen members of the Canadian Armed instance, famously claimed that most Allied soldiers
Forces to be awarded the highest military honour during would not fight at all, even when their lives were at stake.
the war, Triquet was later pressured to resign from the In Canadians Under Fire Robert Engen explores the
force due to the overwhelming public and political dynamics of what combat looked like to Canada’s
expectations that the award entailed. The role of hero infantrymen during the Second World War. Analyzing
did not suit Triquet and weighed heavily on him and his unexamined battle experience questionnaires from
family. MacFarlane shows how Triquet’s story was over 150 Canadian infantry officers, Engen argues for
changed by those who wished to make his hero status a reassessment of the tactical behaviour of Canadian
the cornerstone in a political debate between franco- soldiers in the Second World War. The evidence also
phones and anglophones, particularly with regard to his shows that Marshall’s theory of non-participation in
representing the Commonwealth despite his French- combat by Allied forces is demonstrably false: Canadian
Canadian heritage. soldiers took a continued and aggressive part in the
Military heroism has changed in the postwar period, fighting.
and heroes are no longer expected to be perfect models. Canadians Under Fire forces a reappraisal of previous
But in 1944 Paul Triquet – perhaps the most popular ideas about the behaviour of men in combat and offers
Canadian hero of the war – was asked to conform to new insight into how Canadians responded at the
political, social, and military agendas. His story reveals battlefront.
much about Canadian and Québécois society at the
time and the history of French-Canadians in the “Engen has discovered an untapped archival source in
Second World War. the Battlefield Experience questionnaires and mined
them thoroughly. Canadians Under Fire is an important
“An informative case study of the creation and function book that adds much to what we know about Canadians
of public heroism.” in battle.”
–Carman Miller, McGill University –J.L. Granatstein, author of Canada’s Army: Waging War
and Keeping the Peace
John MacFarlane is a historian with the Department of
National Defence and author of Ernest Lapointe and Robert Engen is a doctoral candidate in military history
Quebec’s Influence on Canadian Foreign Policy. at Queen’s University, Kingston, and has worked as a
researcher for the Canadian Forces Directorate of Land
Concepts and Designs.
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F O O D • C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
What’s to Eat? What do and did we eat? What do our food stories tell us about
Entrées in Canadian Food History who we are or were? What’s to Eat? serves up twelve preliminary
answers to initiate and nourish the discussion of food in Canada.
Edited by Nathalie Cooke
How we as Canadians procure, produce, cook, consume, and
think about food creates our cuisine, and our nation of immigrant
An appetizing look at the ingredients
traditions has produced a distinctive and evolving repertoire that
of Canadian culinary taste.
is neither hodgepodge nor smorgasbord. Contributors, who come
from the diverse worlds of universities, museums, the media, and
gastronomy, look at Canada’s distinctive foodways from the shared
perspective of the current moment. Individual chapters explore
food items and choices, from those made by Canada’s First Nations
and early settlers to those made today. Other contributions
describe the ways in which foods enjoyed by early Canadians have
found their way back onto Canadian tables in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Authors emphasize the expressive potential
of food practices and food texts; cookbooks are more than books
to be read and used in the kitchen, they are also documents that
convey valuable social and historical information.
Through a close examination of our shared past and by taking
notice of something that often goes unnoticed, What’s to Eat?
explores how we can better understand our own food practices to
create both a sustainable and healthy future and a renewed sense
of the pleasures afforded by the daily meal in Canada.
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B I O G RA P HY • CA N A D I A N H I STO RY MU S I C • CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
Robert A.D. Ford had a distinguished diplomatic career During the second half of the twentieth century, musical
that included an unprecedented sixteen years as life in Canada flourished as never before, due in large
Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union during some measure to a generation of European émigrés who
of the most turbulent and important years of the Cold worked to establish a uniquely Canadian culture of
War (1964–80). Relying heavily on first-person testimony, classical music, teaching, playing, and composing “in
including several interviews with Ford himself, Charles the key of Canada.”
Ruud takes the reader behind the official announcements, Based on years of detailed and extensive interviews
revealing Ford’s thoughts and actions as he dealt with with some seventy people, and supplemented by a wide
what was then seen as the great arch-enemy of Western range of archival material, Growing with Canada reveals
democratic nations. how these men and women came to Canada and the
During his tenure as ambassador Ford was in frequent roles they played in developing musical culture here,
contact with Moscow’s rulers and aware of their strug- weaving the larger story of post-war Canadian music
gles, hopes, plans, and fears. Although they appeared performance, production, and education around their
powerful, Ford insisted that they sat uneasily on their testimony. Paul Helmer shows that émigrés were at the
Kremlin thrones. He showed their shortcomings and the centre of the developing musical milieu, particularly in
flaws of their system at moments of apparent triumph Toronto and Montreal. They were able to overcome the
and warned against miscalculating their strength. Shaped dominating British presence in post-secondary music
by centuries of Russian tsarism and by Communist education and vastly expanded the role music played in
ideology, Soviet leaders distrusted the world outside their universities. They also pioneered the performance and
borders and often failed to understand it, making production of opera in Canada. From British Columbia to
mistakes and then compounding them, always without Newfoundland, they served as educators, teachers, and
acknowledgment. administrators as well as outstanding performers,
The Constant Diplomat uncovers the experiences that conductors, composers, music historians, radio and
informed Ford’s capacity to understand the Russians and television producers, and benefactors.
provides a clear picture of the evolving Soviet domestic, Growing with Canada provides a personal and lively
political, social, and cultural scene from the late Stalin perspective on one of the most significant eras of musical
era through to the end of the Brezhnev regime. development in Canadian history. Canadian musicians
and audiences continue to benefit from the impressive
Charles A. Ruud is a professor of history at the University achievements of the individuals chronicled in this book.
of Western Ontario and the author of several books on
Russia, including Fontanka 16: The Tsars’ Secret Police. Paul Helmer, previously associate professor of musicology,
McGill University, is a pianist and author of The Mass of
St. James and Le premier et le secont livre de fauvel.
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H I STO RY
Grand Manan The island of Grand Manan is both part of North America and
A Large History of a Small Island apart from it. Situated at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, at the
border between Canada and the United States, the Grand Manan
Marc Shell
Archipelago has – from the American War of Independence to
NAFTA to ongoing discussions of a new Atlantic Regionalism –
North American politics and culture viewed
often been at the centre of Canadian-American land disputes.
from offshore islands whose ownership has
In a narrative that recalls Thoreau, Marc Shell starts from the
long been disputed.
cultural and natural history of the spectacularly beautiful island.
Like a classical geographer, he explores how geology and biology
blend with aesthetics and politics. Grand Manan has the highest
tides in the world and majestic basalt cliffs. Its unique ecology
has attracted visitors from John Audubon and the painters of the
Hudson River Group to the scientific directors of the Smithsonian
Museum. Shell demonstrates how, in this setting, the hospitable
islanders, with the unique linguistic dialects of their five villages,
have developed a vigilantly independent and self-sufficient
political culture that is at once democratic in the Canadian
tradition and republican in the American.
In what can be read as both an interdisciplinary history and an
encyclopedic travel guide, Shell paints the story of Grand Manan –
its cultural history, geology, political past, changing economy, the
immigration and emigration of its population – on the broad
canvas it deserves.
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E N V I R O N M E N TA L S T U D I E S • N AT U R E
The River Returns Millions of tourists and residents know the Bow River as it
An Environmental History of the Bow tumbles through Banff’s spectacular scenery or carves an elegant
arc through the city of Calgary. Fewer people know the Bow as
Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden,
a heavily engineered, hard-working river.
and H.V. Nelles Alberta’s iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to
spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial
A revealing biography of Canada’s iconic river, lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and
from its wild youth, through its hard-working ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild,
past, to its contemporary reconstruction. the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manu-
factured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly
stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the story
of the Bow River’s transformation full circle through an exploration
of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulation
that has led to new limits on what might be done with and to
the river.
Rivers have been studied from many perspectives, but too often
the relationship between nature and people, between rivers and
the cultures that have grown up beside them, have been sepa-
rated. The River Returns illuminates the ways in which humans,
both inadvertently and consciously, have interacted with nature
to make the Bow.
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PSYCHOLOGY • SOCIOLOGY
The Weariness of the Self Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most
Diagnosing the History of Depression diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has
depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell
in the Contemporary Age
us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain
Alain Ehrenberg Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive
Foreword by Allan Young symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that
Translated by David Homel identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic
distinction between normal and pathological sadness – the one
A history of depression that describes the illness constant in the history of depression is its changing definition.
across social history and within psychiatry. Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted
to the study of the individual in modern democratic society,
Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is
not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology
arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is
attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so
doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the
illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its
diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values.
The first book to offer both a global sociological view of con-
temporary depression and a detailed description of psychiatric
reasoning and its transformation – from the invention of electro-
shock therapy to mass consumption of Prozac – The Weariness of
the Self offers a compelling exploration of depression as social fact.
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BIOGRAPHY
I’m from Bouctouche, Me Donald Savoie grew up in a small Acadian village and went on to
Roots Matter become an accomplished writer and academic whose books have
profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public admini-
Donald J. Savoie
stration. I’m from Bouctouche, Me is not only his story but a story
about Canada, the Acadian people, and the evolution of French
“Courageous, intelligent, honest, entertaining –
Canada.
the autobiography of a hugely important,
In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated,
successful, international scholar who is a
isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the
quintessential Acadian. A marvelous read following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis
from a man of integrity.” J. Robichaud, pointed the way for Acadians like Savoie to make
–Naomi Griffiths, author of Contexts of important contributions to Canada’s development. Trudeau’s
Acadian History, 1686–1784 objective was Canadian unity and he turned to Acadie to show
Quebec that there was a viable French Canadian presence outside
their borders. Robichaud, New Brunswick’s first elected Acadian
premier, had witnessed Acadian poverty first hand and made it
his mission to bring New Brunswick into the modern era. Savoie
shows how their efforts led to fundamental change for both
Canada and New Brunswick and changed his life.
Savoie has always been a champion of his home province
and region – his memoir reveals why. He is one of “Robichaud’s
children,” the generation that finally emerged from the cloud of
Le Grand Dérangement to bring equal rights and opportunities
to Canada’s Acadian citizens.
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C L I M AT E C H A N G E • E N V I R O N M E N TA L S T U D I E S
reannouncing
Climate Change in the Public and media interest in the climate change issue has
21st Century increased exponentially in recent years. Climate change, or “global
warming,” is a complex problem with far-reaching social and
Stewart J. Cohen with Melissa W. Waddell
economic impacts. Climate Change in the 21st Century brings
together all the major aspects of global warming to give a state
Understanding the world’s biggest crisis – and of the art description of our collective understanding of this
why it’s not just an environmental problem. phenomenon and what can be done to counteract it on both the
local and global scale.
Stewart Cohen and Melissa Waddell explain and clarify the
different ways of approaching the study of climate change and the
fundamental ideas behind them. From a history of climate change
research to current attempts to mitigate its impact such as the
Kyoto Protocol and carbon trading, they explore key ideas from
many fields of study, outlining the environmental and human
dimensions of global warming. Climate Change in the 21st Century
goes beyond climate modeling to investigate interdisciplinary
attempts to measure and forecast the complex impacts of future
climate change on communities, how we assess their vulnerability,
and how we plan to adapt our society. The book explores the
impact of climate change on different ecosystems as well as what
the social and economic understanding of this phenomenon can
tell us; it also links discussions of climate change with the global
discourse of sustainable development.
Climate Change in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive,
understandable, but academically informed introduction to the
world’s biggest challenge for both students and concerned citizens.
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY H I STO RY O F M E D I C I N E
Françoise Noël explores the social context of Canada’s Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first
most famous family to show how family ritual and com- global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading
munal events structured everyday life between the wars. within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven
An extensive series of interviews with local residents countries around the world. In Canada intense news
and a reconstruction of local news and events as chroni- media coverage had a profound impact on how the
cled in The Nugget newspaper, among other sources, disease was perceived, with frontline health care workers,
allow Noël to bring to life the daily routines and celebra- despite their heroic efforts, stigmatized due to their
tions that were a part of family life in rural and urban contact with patients.
settings from Mattawa to North Bay. Family life was not Will SARS or another pandemic influenza reoccur and,
lived in isolation, and she also reveals the rich community if it does, have we learned how to manage pandemics
life that developed in shared social spaces like schools more effectively? In SARS Unmasked risk communication
and churches, and through community groups. What expert Michael Tyshenko offers answers to this and other
people did for fun may have been frivolous but it was questions. Cathy Paterson, who worked as a nurse
not trivial: accounts of shared leisure activities, popular clinician during the Toronto SARS crisis, adds an impor-
sports, and community festivals such as Old Home Week tant view from the frontlines. Their analysis reveals an
provide important insights into the structure and value of out-of-control situation with mixed risk communication
community life. messages, a lack of leadership, and an overwhelmed
While the question of relations between French-speak- health care system that was unable to both cope with
ing, English-speaking, and other Canadians and immi- the crisis in Toronto and provide adequate support for
grants has often been analysed in terms of conflicts, Noël their most valuable employees at the time – health care
shows the extent to which such communities lived side workers. SARS Unmasked adds important information
by side in relative harmony during the inter-war years, al- to what has already been said about the 2003 crisis,
though such harmony was often achieved by minimizing focusing on the human and societal effects of an
the extent of inter-community interaction. Family and infectious disease pandemic and providing tangible
Community Life in Northeastern Ontario provides a de- guidance for future pandemic threats.
tailed perspective on family and community life outside
the larger Canadian urban centres that have been the Michael G. Tyshenko is a McLaughlin Chair in Science
focus of much previous scholarly study. Health Policy at the Institute of Population Health,
University of Ottawa. Cathy Paterson is a registered nurse
Françoise Noël is professor of history, Nipissing University, clinician who in 2003 worked at North York General
and the author of several books, including Family Life and Hospital – the epicentre of the SARS crisis in Toronto.
Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada.
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McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S History of Medicine, Health, and Society
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H I STO RY • WO R L D WA R I I E U R E O P EA N H I STO RY • R E L I G I O U S H I STO RY
n e w i n pa p e r n e w i n pa p e r
The Battle for Hong Kong, A Social History
1941–1945 of the Cloister
Hostage to Fortune Daily Life in the Teaching
Oliver Lindsay Monasteries of the Old Regime
With the memories of John R. Harris Elizabeth Rapley
Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Bramall
An engaging account of the thousands
“No military historian has more detailed of women in hundreds of communities
knowledge of this short and disastrous across France who combined the tradi-
conflict … a valuable addition to our tional life of monastics with a new calling
understanding of the fall of Hong Kong.” to provide education to women.
–Guard Magazine
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October 2009 McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY CA N A D I A N H I STO RY • B L AC K STU D I E S
n e w i n pa p e r
Keepers of the Record Done with Slavery
The History of the Hudson’s The Black Fact in Montreal,
Bay Company Archives 1760–1840
Deidre Simmons Frank Mackey
winner Waldo Gifford Leland Award, Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look
The Society of American Archivists (2008) like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done
with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty
The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives is one of the world’s years between the British Conquest and the union of
most complete archival collections and a national Lower and Upper Canada.
treasure. Protected in the vaults of the Archives of Through close examination of archival and con-
Manitoba, its documents trace the history of the fur temporary sources, Mackey uncovers largely unknown
trade, North American exploration, the growth of a retail aspects of the black transition from slavery to freedom.
empire, and the evolution of Canada as a country. Keepers While he considers the changing legal status of slavery,
of the Record offers the first comprehensive look at the much of the book provides a detailed and nuanced
development of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives over reconstruction of the circumstances of black Montrealers
three centuries. and their lived experience. The resulting picture is
Deidre Simmons places the archives within the remarkably complex, showing the variety of occupations
historical context of the Company, England, and Canada, held by blacks, the relationships they had with those they
as well as British and Canadian archival traditions. Keepers served, their encounters with the judicial and political
of the Record is abundantly illustrated with archival systems, and the racial mingling that came with
photographs that evoke the texture and slightly musty intermarriage and apprenticeships. Done with Slavery
smell of soft leather and crisp vellum and the ghostly casts the categories of blackness and slavery in a new
presence of the people who created the pristine script, light, showing that broad histories of the phenomenon
writing by candlelight in unheated (or overheated, must begin to take into account the specifics of the lives
depending on the season) dwellings in the wilderness of of “marginal” black populations.
Hudson Bay or in the centre of London. Done with Slavery is an invitation to look at a colonial
society through the prism of documented black exper-
“… an engrossing account of the chronicling of a major ience, revealing that the roots of the present are neither
part of Canada’s history. Anyone interested in western or as wholesome as some would hope nor as bitter as
northern Canadian history or the history of business will others might suppose.
find it an informative and entertaining read.”
–The International History Review Frank Mackey is the author of Steamboat Connections:
Montreal to Upper Canada, 1816–1843, and Black Then:
Deidre Simmons, a research and archives consultant for Blacks and Montreal, 1780s–1880s.
twenty-five years, holds a Master’s degree in history
(archival studies) from the University of Manitoba. She is
the author of Servite in Caritate: The First One Hundred
Years of St. Margaret’s School 1908–2008.
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N AT I V E S T U D I E S N AT I V E S T U D I E S • A N T H R O P O L O G Y
Edited with Introductions by Jennifer S.H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray
Memories, Myths, and Inuit Shamanism and
Memories
Myths Dreams of an Ojibwe Christianity
and Dreams Leader Transitions and Transformations
of an
Ojibwe Leader William Berens, as told to in the Twentieth Century
William Berens, as told to A. Irving Hallowell
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SOCIAL THEORY • PHILOSOPHY R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S • C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
n e w i n pa p e r
The Book of Absolutes Sanctifying Misandry
A Critique of Relativism and Goddess Ideology and the
a Defence of Universals Fall of Man
William D. Gairdner Katherine K. Young
and Paul Nathanson
“Gairdner has taken the torch from
William F. Buckley's failing hands and lift- How some feminists have used religion
ed it high with his new work … an objec- to turn the “Fall of Man” into the fall
tive reader is left wondering how rela- of men.
tivism ever got a toehold in the popular
imagination in the first place.”
–The Calgary Herald
Current dogma holds that all cultures and moral values In Sanctifying Misandry, Katherine Young and Paul
are conditional, nothing human is innate, and Einstein Nathanson challenge an influential version of modern
proved that the whole universe is “relative.” Challenging goddess religion, one that undermines sexual equality
this position, William Gairdner argues that relativism is and promotes hatred in the form of misandry – the sexist
not only logically and morally self-defeating but that counterpart of misogyny.
progress in scientific and intellectual disciplines has To set the stage, the authors discuss two massively
actually strengthened the case for absolutes, universals, popular books – Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Riane
and constants of nature and human nature. Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade – both of which rely on
Gairdner refutes the popular belief in cultural a feminist conspiracy theory of history. They then show
relativism by showing that there are hundreds of well- how some goddess feminists and their academic sup-
established cross-cultural “human universals.” He then porters have turned what Christians know as the Fall of
discusses the many universals found in physics – as Man into the fall of men. In the beginning, according
well as Einstein’s personal regret at how his work was to three “documentary” films, our ancestors lived in an
misinterpreted by the public’s eagerness to promote egalitarian paradise under the aegis of a benevolent great
relativism. Gairdner also gives a lively account of the goddess. But men either rebelled or invaded, replacing
many universals of human biology, including the the goddess with gods and establishing patriarchies that
controversial topic of universal gender differences or have oppressed women ever since. In the end, however,
“brain sex.” He then looks at universal concepts of both women will restore the goddess and therefore paradise
natural and international law, and ends by discussing as well. The book concludes with several case studies of
language theory. He shows how philosophers from modern goddess religion and its effects on mainstream
Nietzsche to Derrida have misused linguistic concepts religion.
to justify their relativism, even though a sustained and Young and Nathanson show that we can move beyond
successful effort by serious scientists and philosophers not only both gynocentrism and androcentrism but also
of language has revealed myriad universals of human both misandry and misogyny.
language, ranging from language acquisition, to word-
order, to “Universal Grammar.” Katherine K. Young is James McGill Professor of religious
studies at McGill University. Paul Nathanson is a
William D. Gairdner is a best-selling author, businessman, researcher in religious studies at McGill University. They
and independent scholar. His most recent books are are co-authors of Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of
Canada’s Founding Debates and The Trouble with Contempt for Men in Popular Culture and Legalizing
Democracy. Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination
Against Men and are currently working on the concluding
volume of the series – Transcending Misandry: From
Feminist Ideology to Intersexual Dialogue.
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L AW • CA N A D I A N H I STO RY N AT I V E S T U D I E S
The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall Aboriginal policy and claims negotiation in Canada is
case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and gen- seen to be a murky and perplexing world that has
erated intense controversy. In Power without Law Alex become an important public issue and has significant
Cameron enlivens the debate over judicial activism with policy implications for government spending. Aboriginal
an unprecedented examination of the details of the land policy in Canada began as an Aboriginal initiative. In
Marshall case, analyzing the evidence and procedure in No Place for Fairness, David McNab – a long time advisor
the trial court and tracing the legal arguments through on land and treaty rights for both government and First
the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Nations groups – looks at the Bear Island Indigenous
Cameron argues that there were critical defects in the rights case, initiated by the Teme-Augama Anishinabe,
process – the successful argument at the Supreme Court to explore why governments fail to deal effectively with
of Canada was never tested in the lower courts, the Aboriginal land claims.
Crown’s expert was precluded from testifying about a The book includes a survey of the historical back-
vital document, the Court’s analysis does not accord with ground of the Bear Island claim followed by a more
the historical evidence, and the treaty rights are incon- personal series of reflections about what happened as
sistent with the colonial law of Nova Scotia. the claim encountered decades of policy hurdles, court
Concluding that the Marshall decision was the result cases, public protests, and above all resistance by the
of incautious judicial activism, Power without Law chal- Temagami First Nation. McNab provides details of how
lenges us to reconsider the role of our courts in the ministers and their senior officials resisted real efforts
Charter era. to resolve problems as well as examples of field staff re-
sisting government attempts at resolution. He also shows
Alex M. Cameron studied law at Oxford and Dalhousie that government entities such as the Indian Commission
Universities and practices constitutional litigation in of Ontario and the Native Affairs Directorate were largely
Nova Scotia. used as “mailboxes” where successive federal and
provincial governments sent things they wanted to bury.
No Place for Fairness is the story of what happens
when Aboriginal peoples’ political rights are crammed
into the Euro-Canadian legal system.
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PHILOSOPHY PH I LOSOPHY • RELIGIOUS STU DI ES
Money Faith
Eric Lonergan Theo Hobson
What is this thing that seems powerful and omnipresent Faith is a word that points in different directions. It is
but is physically worthless – just a piece of paper or a often used as a synonym for the more formal expression
digit on a computer screen? How does it work? And how of “religion,” yet it also refers to an aspect of religion
far can we control the power that it has over our lives? associated with individualism, which can express itself
These are some of the questions explored in this timely as a stubborn irrationality and disdain for evidence, e.g.
book by philosopher and hedge-fund manager Eric “blind faith”or “leap of faith.” It also has a wider positive
Lonergan. secular meaning referring to a determined optimism or
Economics, says Lonergan, has ignored the abstract a visionary confidence. Faith thus encapsulates our
properties of money that were not part of its original ambivalence towards a religious worldview, suggesting
design but lie at the heart of money’s mysterious power both dubious irrationalism and profound, courageous
and are the key to understanding its control over us. idealism and providing an excellent place to begin to
While economists have based their work on the idea that reflect on the place of religion in our culture.
our relationship to money is rational, Lonergan argues Theo Hobson draws on the Jewish and Christian
that not all our reactions to it make sense. For instance, traditions to unpack the concept of faith, asking whether
for many money creates far more anxiety than circum- faith is dependent on religion, or whether it is also a
stances warrant. Lonergan provides a compelling analysis general secular phenomenon. Is there such a thing as
of the tension between money’s capacity to assist us in fully secular faith or is our faith always destined to refer
our lives, its propensity to create instability, and its ability back to some form of religious faith? Is faith an exis-
to distort our values. tential necessity? In answering these questions Hobson
provides a stimulating meditation on the notion of faith
Eric Lonergan is a macro hedge-fund manager at M&G in our lives.
Investments, London.
Theo Hobson is a Christian theologian and writes
regularly for The Times, the Tablet, and the Spectator.
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PHILOSOPHY ART OF LIVI NG SERI ES
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Peta Bowden and Jane Mummery schools, movements, and traditions in philosophy and the
history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment
“Giving clear and reliable introductions to are written for introductory undergraduate classes.
the ideas of many important feminists,
the authors provide an invaluable map of
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PHILOSOPHY PH I LOSOPHY
Ethics and Experience presents a wide-ranging and Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential and
thought-provoking introduction to the question, first controversial philosophers of the twentieth century. His
posed by Socrates, “How is life to be lived?” It treats ethics writings are also notoriously difficult and the pivotal
as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which concepts of his thought are for many the source of both
the abstract questions of metaethics and the real-world fascination and frustration. Yet any student of philosophy
issues of applied ethics are immediately and directly needs to become acquainted with his thought. Martin
connected. Heidegger: Key Concepts is designed to facilitate this. Each
Tim Chappell explores the connections and the chapter introduces and explains a key Heideggerian
tensions between happiness and virtue, reason and concept or a cluster of closely related concepts. Together,
commitment, motivation and justification, and objectivity the chapters cover the full range of Heidegger’s thought
and personal significance. And he re-examines familiar in its early, middle, and later phases. The book provides
theories in normative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue both a comprehensive introduction to Heidegger’s work
ethics, Kantianism, and intuitionism from a fresh and for the beginning student and an accessible reference for
revealing perspective. The book is an excellent primer more advanced readers interested in particular aspects
for students taking courses on moral philosophy. of Heidegger’s thought.
“Unusual and perhaps unique in its combination of Contributors include Charles Bambach, Daniel Dahlstrom,
virtues. It brings together discussion of all the major Bret W. Davis, Jonathan Dronsfield, Günter Figal, Catriona
topics in contemporary moral philosophy in a clear and Hanley, Theodore Kisiel, John Lysaker, Andrew Mitchell,
helpfully critical way. At the same time, it advances Richard Polt, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Charles Scott, Thomas
important theses about the scope of moral concern, the Sheehan, Timothy Stapleton, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Ben
nature of personal responsibility, and the role of moral Vedder, and Peter Warnek.
theory in the good life.”
–Chris Tollefsen, University of South Carolina Bret W. Davis is assistant professor of philosophy, Loyola
College in Maryland.
Tim Chappell is professor of philosophy at The Open
University.
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Merleau-Ponty
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PHILOSOPHY PH I LOSOPHY • ETH ICS
Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral
Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative position. It urges us to embrace the whole world in our
and critical assessment of each of these canonical moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality
thinkers’ views of the notion of mind. She examines each and equity across boundaries of nationality, race, religion
philosopher’s position on five key topics: the metaphysical or gender in a way that would have been unheard of even
character of minds and mental states; the nature and fifty years ago. It suggests a range of virtues the cosmo-
scope of introspection and self-knowledge; the nature of politan individual should display: tolerance, justice, pity,
consciousness; the problem of mental causation, and the righteous indignation at injustice, generosity toward the
nature of representation and intentionality. The expo- poor and starving, care for the global environment, and
sition and examination of their positions is informed by the willingness to take responsibility for change on a
present-day debates in the philosophy of mind and the global scale. This book explains and espouses the values
philosophy of psychology so that readers get a clear sense of cosmopolitanism, adjudicates between various forms
of the importance of these philosophers’ ideas, many of cosmopolitanism, and defends it against its critics.
of which continue to define our current notions of the Cosmopolitanism highlights the ethical issues inherent
mental. in such problems and identifies the moral obligations
Time and again, philosophers return to the great early that individuals, multinational corporations, and
modern rationalist and empiricist philosophers for governments might have in relation to them. While
instruction and inspiration. Their views on the philosophy espousing a cosmopolitan form of global ethics, a liberal
of mind are no exception and, as Thomas shows, they form of politics, sustainable and just forms of business
have much to offer contemporary debates. practice, and an internationalist approach to global
conflict and governance, it seeks to present as many sides
“An excellent book. Its single greatest strength is the ease of the ethical debates as can be supported by reasonable
with which Thomas weaves in contemporary scholarly argument. Discussing the work of Kwame Anthony
discussions (among either historians of philosophy or Appiah, Seyla Benhabib, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas
philosophers of mind) with her text: she does this very Pogge, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, Henry Shue, Peter Singer
successfully, without getting lost in scholarly details.” and others, this book provides a clear and accessible
–Charlie Huenemann, Utah State University survey of cosmopolitanism and analyses the reality of
the rights and responsibilities that it espouses.
Janice Thomas is a fellow of Heythrop College, University
of London, where she was formerly head of the Stan van Hooft is associate professor of philosophy at
Department of Philosophy. Deakin University. He is the author of Understanding
Virtue Ethics.
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The new edition of this widely used and respected Through a study of argument, science, art, and human
textbook includes three new chapters on conditional intelligence, Louis Groarke explores and builds on a line
logic. Other chapters have been revised and updated, of Aristotelian thought that traces the origins of logic
making the second edition a fully comprehensive intro- and knowledge to a mental creativity that is able to leap
duction to modal logics and their application. Unlike to insightful and truthful conclusions on the basis of
most modal logic textbooks, which are both forbidding restricted evidence.
mathematically and short on philosophical discussion, In An Aristotelian Account of Induction Groarke
Modal Logics and Philosophy focuses on showing how discusses the intellectual process through which we
useful modal logic can be as a tool for formal access the “first principles” of human thought – the most
philosophical analysis. basic concepts, the laws of logic, the universal claims of
In Part 1, the reader is introduced to some standard science and metaphysics, and the deepest moral truths.
systems of modal logic and provided with a series of Following Aristotle and others, Groarke situates the first
exercises that encourage proficiency in manipulating stirrings of human understanding in a creative capacity
these logics. Girle emphasizes possible world semantics for discernment that precedes knowledge, even logic.
for modal logics and its formal method, Jeffrey-style Relying on a new historical study of philosophical
truth-trees, in which standard truth-trees are extended theories of inductive reasoning from Aristotle to the
in a simple and transparent way to take possible worlds twenty-first century, Groarke explains how Aristotle offers
into account. Part 2 explores the applications of modal a viable solution to the so-called problem of induction,
logic to philosophical issues such as truth, time, pro- while offering new contributions to contemporary
cesses, knowledge and belief, and obligation and accounts of reasoning and argument and challenging
permission. the conventional wisdom about induction.
In recovering and developing philosophical ideas that
“Rod Girle is the best logic teacher that I know. All those have been largely overlooked or misrepresented by more
who want a non-technical introduction to modal logic recent sources, An Aristotelian Account of Induction makes
and its applications, not just Girle’s own students, will a major contribution to the historical study of philosophy
now be able to benefit from his outstanding pedagogic and to critical debate.
skills.”
–Graham Priest, University of Queensland Louis Groarke is associate professor of philosophy, St.
Francis Xavier University, and the author of The Good
Rod Girle is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University Rebel: Understanding Morality and Freedom and the
of Auckland. co-editor of Literary Form, Philosophical Content: Historical
Studies of Philosophical Genres.
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PH I LOSOPHY • RELIGIOUS STU DI ES RELIGIOUS STU DI ES
While it is often thought that a serious theism is largely This volume of Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation
incompatible with a radical ontological pluralism, Mark of Luigi Giussani’s Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue
McLeod-Harrison defends the claim that ontological of charity. A compilation of Giussani’s conversations with
relativism not only requires theism but is consistent with young people who have chosen the path of the con-
traditional Christianity. secrated life in the Church – that is, have chosen to live
Building primarily on the work of Nelson Goodman their lives in the world according to the “evangelical
and Michael Lynch, McLeod-Harrison spells out what is counsels” of poverty, chastity, and obedience – it proposes
right and what is missing from contemporary pluralism. an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a
Proposing a new defence, he explains the need for God Christian.
and shows how and why radical relativistic pluralism is As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people
consistent with traditional Christianity. He also explores to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their
how pluralism can be defended against the notorious experience. The conversations reported here are fasci-
“consistency challenge” and analyses the relationships nating and insightful, providing support for a way of life
among noetic irrealism, pluralism, necessity, God’s nature, that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured.
theories of truth, and idealism.
Philosophers working in the field of realistic/ Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) was the founder
antirealistic metaphysics, theologians struggling with of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation
how to put traditional Christian claims together with in Italy. His works are available in fifteen languages and
our postmodern situation, and those interested in a new include the trilogy The Religious Sense, At the Origin of
framework for the integration of faith and theorizing the Christian Claim, and Why the Church?.
will find Make/Believing the World(s) of great interest.
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According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish For most of the nineteenth century, the Irish formed the
nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon – largest non-French ethnic group in central Canada and
overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the their presence was particularly significant in Ontario. This
United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange study presents a general discussion of the Irish in Ontario
Order. The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise during the nineteenth century and a close analysis of the
– and in doing so make a major and original contribution process of settlement and adaptation by the Irish in Leeds
to our understanding of the Irish experience in Canada and Lansdowne township.
and the place of Irish-Canadian nationalism within an Donald Akenson argues that, despite the popular
international context. Focusing on the period 1820 to conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled
1920, they examine political, religious, and cultural in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers.
expressions of Irish-Canadian nationalism as it responded Akenson’s research proves that the Irish migrants to
to Irish events and Canadian politics. They also look at Ontario not only chose to live chiefly in the hinterlands
tensions within the movement between those who but that they did so with marked success. Akenson
argued that Ireland should share the same freedom also suggests that by using Ontario as an “historical
that Canada enjoyed within the British Empire and laboratory” it is possible to make valid assessments of
revolutionary republicans who wanted to liberate both the real differences between Irish Protestants and Irish
Ireland and Canada from the yoke of British imperialism. Catholics, characteristics which he contends are much
more precisely measurable in the neutral environment of
Contributors include Donald Harman Akenson (Queen’s central Canada than in the turbulent Irish homeland.
University, Kingston), Sean Farrell (Northern Illinois
University), Mark G. McGowan (St Michael’s College, Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of
University of Toronto), Frederick J. McEvoy (Independent Canadian and Colonial History, Queen’s University, the
Scholar), Michael Peterman (Trent University), Garth world’s leading scholar on the Irish diaspora, and the
Stevenson (Brock University), Peter M. Toner (University of author of several major works on the history of Judaism
New Brunswick), Rosalyn Trigger (University of Aberdeen), and Christianity.
and David A. Wilson (University of Toronto).
David A. Wilson, a professor in the Celtic Studies Program ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
and the Department of History at the University of An Irish History of Civilization
Toronto, is the author of several books, most recently Volume 1
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n e w i n pa p e r
Tenants in Time Letters from Rupert’s Land, 1826–1840
Family Strategies, Land, and James Hargrave of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Liberalism in Upper Canada, James Hargrave
1799–1871 Edited by Helen Ross
Catharine Anne Wilson
A vivid depiction of the lives of a Scottish fur trader and his far-flung
Life as a tenant farmer in a society where family on both sides of the Atlantic.
ownership was revered but tenancy was
of vital importance.
The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settle- James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland
ment history – Tenants in Time tells a different story. in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering
Tenancy, though relegated to the periphery by the liberal clerk, and went on to survive the company’s 1821 merger
idealization of ownership, was a common and vital with the rival Hudson’s Bay Company and subsequent
part of the economy and society. Against a background downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur
of international land agitation and using an inter- trade at York Factory on the desolate shores of Hudson
disciplinary approach, Catharine Wilson looks at life Bay in the service of Governor George Simpson.
as a tenant farmer, providing new insights into family A prodigious letter writer, Hargrave saved drafts of his
strategies, land markets, and the growth of liberalism. business and personal correspondence in letterbooks. He
Using evidence from across Upper Canada she shows wrote to family and friends settled in Beauharnois County
how tenancy transformed the landscape and tied old on the south shore of the St Lawrence and in the Tweed
and new settlers together in a continuum of mutual valley in Scotland, as well as to his future wife, Letitia
dependence that was essential to settlement, capital Mactavish, and members of her fur-trading family in
creation, and social mobility. Her analysis of customary Argyllshire on Scotland’s west coast. His letters document
rights reveals a landlord-tenant relationship – and a the experiences of a “lowland” Scottish family in North
concept of ownership – more complex and flexible than America, as well as happenings at the administrative
previously understood. Landlords, from ordinary farmers centre of the Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade. He
to absentee aristocrats, are also part of the story and the expresses his views on religion, history, politics, and
much-criticized clergy reserves take a positive role. An literature, describes his romantic attachments, and makes
intimate exploration of Cramahe Township follows clear his attitudes towards the company’s Native partners
tenants over the generations as they supported their in the fur trade.
families and combined liberal ideas with household- Rich source material for readers interested in
centered ways. migration literature, social history, religious studies,
women’s studies, and the history of the fur trade, the
“An important contribution to Canadian historiography, letters collected here make a significant addition to two
drawing attention to an under-examined, indeed almost earlier volumes – The Letters of Letitia Hargrave, and The
unknown aspect of Canadian settlement history.” Hargrave Correspondence 1821–1843.
–Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto
Helen Ross is a former scientist and epidemiologist at the
Catharine Anne Wilson is professor of history, University Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
of Guelph, and the author of the award-winning works
A New Lease on Life and Reciprocal Work Bees and the
Meaning of Neighbourhood.
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Louis XV’s Navy, 1748–1762 Tuberculosis Then and Now
A Study of Organization and Administration Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
James Pritchard Edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys
With a new introduction by the author
The changing medical, social, and cultural understandings of
the deadly disease of tuberculosis and how it shaped the history
of medicine.
Louis XV’s Navy presents a sharply detailed picture of an One-third of the world’s population is currently infected
institution caught between its Colbertian legacy and with the TB bacillus and up to ten percent of these
contemporary challenges arising from overseas individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. Today the
development and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard disease is most prevalent in Africa and South Asia, but
analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization a century and a half ago it was the largest single cause
and administration in the years between the end of the of death in Europe and North America.
War of Austrian Succession and the conclusion of the In Tuberculosis Then and Now leading scholars and
Seven Years War. During this time the French navy was new researchers in the field reflect on the changing
reorganized, rebuilt, and fought a major war in which it medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease
was annihilated and its officer corps militarily humiliated. and engage in a wider debate about the role of narrative
Yet this period also established the conditions that made in the social history of medicine and how it informs
it possible for the navy to become the major arm of current debates and issues surrounding the treatment of
French foreign policy for the only time in French history. tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Through a case
Pritchard’s chief concern is to explain why Bourbon study of the history of tuberculosis and its treatment, this
France, the richest and most powerful state in Europe in collection examines medicine and health care from the
the middle of the eighteenth century, failed to exercise its perspectives of class, race, and gender, providing a
power at sea. Through a close examination of naval challenging and refreshing addition to the field of
organization – the secretaries of state for the navy, central bacteria-centred accounts of the history of medicine.
bureaus, officers of the sword and pen, seamen, arsenals,
workers, problems of shipbuilding, ordnance production For a full list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca
and material acquisition, and finances – he shows the
navy as both an institution embedded in society and an Flurin Condrau, professor of history of medicine at the
instrument of government. The tensions arising from the University of Manchester, is an expert in the comparative
contradiction between an institution composed of history of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and urban
individuals who sought to advance their own and group sanitary movements and is currently working on the
interests and an instrument that existed to fulfill history of patients as well as on antibiotics and hospital
government ends were aggravated by an administation infections. Michael Worboys, professor of history of
of men rather than norms. science, technology, and medicine at the University of
Manchester, is known for his work on the history of
James Pritchard, professor emeritus, Department of colonial science, tropical medicine, communicable
History at Queen’s University, is the author of Anatomy diseases, and bacteriology and is currently researching
of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North animals and medicine.
America.
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History of Medicine, Health, and Society
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E D U C AT I O N • C U R R E N T A F FA I R S SOCIOLOGY
In a powerful defence of the values that define education, “What do you do?” is often the first question posed when
Howard Woodhouse uses concrete and vivid examples to strangers meet, as occupation reveals a great deal about
show how universities in Canada have been engulfed by both social identity and social standing or “occupational
the market model of education and how administrators prestige.” Sociologists have studied occupational prestige
have done little to resist this trend. for decades, including a landmark national survey in 1965
Selling Out demonstrates that the logics of value of by Peter Pineo and John Porter. John Goyder updates
the market and of universities are not only different but Pineo and Porter’s work, providing a detailed comparison
opposed to one another. By introducing the reader to a of their results with a similar national scale survey
variety of cases, some well known and others not, Wood- conducted in 2005. The results challenge the accepted
house explains how academic freedom and university view that prestige ratings are constant over time and
autonomy are being subordinated to corporate demands across societies.
and how faculty have attempted to resist this subju- Goyder shows that there have been some surprising
gation. He argues that the mechanistic discourse of changes in these ratings: instead of the expected pre-
corporate culture has replaced the language of education mium on jobs in the knowledge sector, more traditional
– subject-based disciplines and the professors who teach occupations – such as the skilled trades, even if they
them have become “resource units,” students have become require little education or pay a low wage – have gained
“educational consumers,” and curricula have become the most prestige. There has been a significant decrease
“program packages.” Graduates are now “products” and in consensus about occupational prestige ratings and the
“competing in the global economy” has replaced the tendency for respondents to upgrade the prestige of their
search for truth. own occupation is much more pronounced in the recent
Challenging the current orthodoxy that the market data. Goyder argues that these changes are a sign of the
model is the only way forward, Woodhouse argues that shifting nature of values in a meritocratic society in which
governments have a responsibility to fund universities, increasing income inequality is a growing reality.
recognizing that they are the only places in society where Results from prestige surveys help in the construction
the critical search for knowledge takes precedence. of socio-economic scales for occupations and inform
career counselling for young people and negotiations by
Howard Woodhouse is professor of educational labour unions and associations. The Prestige Squeeze goes
foundations and co-director of the University of beyond this to question the very nature of how we
Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit. measure social equality and mobility.
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Rare insights into Canada and Canadian foreign policy by leading Early Harper budgets and the promises not kept in a beleaguered
foreign and Canadian policy thinkers and doers. economy spiralling towards recession.
Marking the 25th anniversary of the series, Canada This How Ottawa Spends is the thirtieth volume in the
Among Nations, 2009 focuses on how leading foreign and series. It is arguable that never in these years have
Canadian thinkers and doers assess Canada’s prospects in Canadians faced such serious economic upheaval and
a world in which the US will become more pre-eminent political dysfunction as the current climate. The dramatic
and predominant. The rise of China, India, Russia, and and seemingly sudden changes in the economy occurred
Brazil as well as the increased significance of Europe and simultaneously with a political drama – one that was
the further development of Africa are all transforming largely disassociated from the real and pressing economic
the context in which Canadians live. Given the change in challenge.
the tone, style, and substance of American foreign policy, Early Harper budgets delivered lower taxes for all
and the need to deal with unprecedented international Canadians partly through highly targeted but politically
financial problems and global economic retreat, the topic noticeable small tax breaks on textbooks for students,
of this volume is especially timely. tools for apprentices in skilled trades, and public transit
Canada will need to formulate sound policies on key costs. The needs of the beleaguered average Canadian
issues such as energy and environmental sustainability, and the “swing voter in the swing constituencies” of an
nuclear nonproliferation, human rights, and trade and already strategized “next” election were a key part of
investment in key areas such as Afghanistan and the Conservative agenda-setting. In the 2007 budget alone
Middle East. Astute bilateral diplomacy and constructive there were twenty-nine separate tax reductions and
engagement in multilateral forums such as the United federal spending was projected to increase by $10 billion,
Nations and the G20 will be crucial to Canada’s success. including a 5.7 percent increase in program spending. A
Contributors to this volume critique Canada’s perfor- small surplus of $3.3 billion was planned, almost all of
mance on the world stage, offering advice on initiatives which would go to debt reduction. As Harper savoured his
Canada can take in its own and in the common interest. 14 October 2008 re-election with a strengthened minority
government, although without his desired majority, he
For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca and his minister of Finance already knew that his
surpluses were likely gone in the face of the crashing
Fen Hampson is Chancellor’s Professor and director of The financial sector and a looming recession. Future deficits
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton were firmly back on the agenda.
University. Paul Heinbecker, former Canadian ambassador
and permanent representative to the United Nations, is a For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca
Distinguished Fellow, International Relations, at the
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Allan M. Maslove is a professor of public policy and
and director of the Centre for Global Relations at Wilfrid administration at Carleton University and the former
Laurier University. dean of Carleton’s Faculty of Public Affairs and
Management.
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S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
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What can be done on a systemic level Determining the overall value for money
to support student learning. of public-private partnerships.
Drawing on contributions by renowned educational During the 1990s the world saw an unprecedented use
researchers, this book “takes stock” of teaching and of public-private partnerships for the delivery of public
learning research in higher education. Core findings services, many of which succeeded in improving the
include: efficiency of the delivery of public services. At the same
• There is a relationship between how faculty teach and time, the capital market shocks since the late 1990s and
how students learn – when faculty teach in traditional over optimistic ex ante projections have caused many of
teacher-centered ways, students tend to adopt surface these arrangements to either fail or require renegotiation.
learning strategies. For others, the returns that the private sector partners
• There is also a relationship between how students learn have received are far above what would normally be
and the learning outcomes they achieve – surface considered the cost of capital for comparable public
learning strategies tend to result in a variety of learning sector investments.
deficits. This experience has spurred policy makers to demand
• The majority of faculty continue to teach in traditional that a comparison be made between the public and
teacher-centered ways, resulting in system-wide learning private provision of services to determine the overall
deficits. value for money of public-private partnership ventures.
• There is much faculty can do in support of student A central question that must be answered before such a
learning – from improving organization and communi- comparison can be made is the appropriate cost of capital
cation in the traditional lecture to the adoption of non- or discount rate to use in both of these situations. The
traditional pedagogies and assessment techniques. essays in this book address these issues directly and
Taking Stock offers concrete suggestions for changes provide the latest views on this topic.
on a systemic level in support of student learning and
calls on all those working in higher education to work For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca
together to bring about these changes.
David F. Burgess is emeritus professor of economics,
For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca University of Western Ontario. Glenn P. Jenkins is
professor of economics at Queen’s University, Eastern
Julia Christensen Hughes is past-president of the Society Mediterranean University, Cyprus, and Institute Fellow
for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Emeritus, Harvard University.
professor and chair of the Department of Business at
the University of Guelph. Joy Mighty is president of the
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
and professor and director, Centre for Teaching and
Learning at Queen’s University.
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While ordinary speakers – and some linguists – assume In today’s colleges and universities, whether students
we have a mental dictionary stocked with words ready succeed depends in large part on access to effective
for use, Walter Hirtle shows that this view leads to services that can support and guide them in pursuit of
contradictions. Focusing on the English noun with its their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of
modifiers and determiners, he proposes a radically student services has been largely based on professional
different approach, arguing that a word’s meaning is literature from US sources. In Archieving Student Success
formed from formative elements each time we use it. Donna Hardy Cox and Carney Strange offer the first
Distinguishing the components that make up the comprehensive description of professional student
meaning of a noun enables us to understand what services in Canadian colleges and universities from the
permits us to say “Ground temperature plus one degrees,” perspective of the practitioner-scholars who create and
or to invent “small is beautiful.” A careful look at the lead them.
meaning and role of -’s and of words like a/the, any/some, Hardy Cox and Strange begin with an overview of
this/that, often found in noun phrases, reveals how they student services dealing with the matriculation of post-
refer to the speaker’s message. Examining pronouns secondary students – through enrolment management,
pin-points the fundamental role of the representation financial assistance, and orientation to the institution
of a grammatical person in all noun phrases. and accommodation – and then discuss housing and
Based on Guillaume’s theory of the word, Lessons residence life, student leadership programs, systems of
on the Noun Phrase in English proposes a word-based judicial and academic integrity, and student support and
analysis of the mental operations involved in producing adjustment through counselling, health and wellness
a noun phrase, starting with representing the speaker’s initiatives, career and employment advice, and a variety
message, then relating the words, and finishing with of services that can respond to a variety of needs.
reference back to the message. In outlining the theory, How these services are integrated professionally on
Hirtle reveals the marvellous feat we accomplish each campus, including their organization and leadership
time we speak. as well as their design within differing institutional
contexts, and delivery methods, is the focus of the closing
Walter Hirtle is professeur associé at l’Université Laval, chapters, followed by a distillation of principles that
Quebec City, and the author of several books, including underlie effective student services.
Lessons on the English Verb: No Expression without
Representation and Language in the Mind: An Introduction Donna Hardy Cox is an associate professor of social work
to Guillaume’s Theory. at Memorial University. C. Carney Strange is professor of
higher education and student affairs at Bowling Green
State University.
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Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius In Marian and the Major Christl Verduyn brings together
Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the story of Major William Kingdom Rains and the
the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Did William compelling fictionalized version of his life, “Elizabeth and
Blake’s allegorical depiction of American colonialism as an the Golden City,” created by novelist Marian Engel.
act of sexual and ecological violence make him an early Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars,
ecofeminist? When nineteenth-century Ojibwa author immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna
George Copway invoked Wordsworthian Romanticism and Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his
quoted various European Romantic poets in his auto- wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The three settled on
biographical accounts of traditional Indigenous hunting St Joseph Island in northern Ontario, where their unusual
practices and religious beliefs, was he embracing – or domestic arrangement caught the attention and imagi-
rejecting – the still-influential Romantic ideal of the nation of, among others, the nineteenth-century British
“ecologically noble savage”? travel-writer Anna Jameson, the Swiss born naturalist and
By addressing these and other intriguing questions, explorer Louis Agassiz, the American poet William Cullen
Kevin Hutchings highlights significant intersections Bryant, and the Canadian novelist Marian Engel.
between Green Romanticism and colonial politics, Engel was a key figure on the Canadian writing scene
demonstrating how contemporary understandings of during its formative years in the 1960s and 1970s – the
animality, climate, and habitat informed literary and setting for her final work-in-progress, “Elizabeth and the
cross-cultural debates about race, slavery, colonialism, Golden City.” Verduyn looks at the novel, the story on
and nature in the British Atlantic world. Revealing an which it was based, and the parallels Engel found to her
innovative dialogue between British, African, and Native own life, exploring the fascinating relationship between
American writers of the Romantic period, this book will history and literature. “Elizabeth and the Golden City”
be of interest to anyone wishing to consider the inter- provides a glimpse of the creative process while it
connected histories of transatlantic colonial relations deepens appreciation of Marian Engel’s artistry.
and environmental thought.
Christl Verduyn is professor of Canadian studies and
“This is an ambitious work that successfully attempts Canadian literature, Mount Allison University, and author
nothing less than the synthesis of several strands of of numerous articles and books, including Lifelines:
literary and cultural analysis that have helped define Marian Engel’s Writing, winner of the Gabrielle Roy
Romantic studies in the last generation of scholarship Book Prize.
(c.1990-present).” –Mark Lussier, Arizona State University
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Main Philosophical Writings and the I Sing the Body Politic
Novel Allwill History as Prophecy in
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Contemporary American
Translated and edited by George di Giovanni Literature
With a new preface by George di Giovanni Edited by Peter Swirski
This scholarly edition is the first extensive English The end of George W. Bush’s imperial presidency means
translation of Jacobi’s major literary and philosophical that the wreckage of the republic’s political ideals is
classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by
German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact five senior scholars, major works of American literature
on philosophical thought in the later part of the and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of
eighteenth century, notably the way Kant was received arguments about American injustice at home and across
and the early development of post-Kantian idealism. the empire.
Jacobi’s polemical tract Concerning the Doctrine of The Iraq War is the most obvious catalyst for the
Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn propelled volume, but over the course of discussions of Joseph
him to notoriety in 1785. This work, as well as David Hume Heller, Philip Roth, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, and war
on Faith, or Idealism and Realism, Jacobi to Fichte, and memoirs written by soldiers who served in the Gulf,
the novel Allwill, is included in George di Giovanni’s contributors reflect on contemporary American history,
translation. In a comprehensive introductory essay society, and politics. Offering a detailed and devastating
di Giovanni situates Jacobi in the historical and philo- critique of the political order dominated by the military-
sophical context of his time, and shows how Jacobi’s life industrial-congressional complex and the conservative
and work reflect the tensions inherent in the late wing of the Republican Party, I Sing the Body Politic
Enlightenment. comments on an array of social inequalities and
compromised political ideals, as well as artistic resistance
“The contribution this work makes defies exaggeration. and large-scale movements for sociopolitical change.
It may rank in importance, say, with the first English
translation of Pascal or Vico. I have every reason to believe Contributors include David Rampton (University of
it will find its place on library shelves everywhere as the Ottawa), Nicholas Ruddick (University of Regina), Gordon
accepted standard translation of Jacobi in English.” Slethaug (University of Southern Denmark), Peter Swirski
–F.L. Jackson, Department of Philosophy, Memorial (Hong Kong University), and Michael Zeitlin (University
University of British Columbia).
George di Giovanni is professor of philosophy, Peter Swirski is director of American Studies at Hong
McGill University. Kong University and author of numerous books, including
A Stanislaw Lem Reader, From Lowbrow to Nobrow, The
Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem, and All Roads Lead to
the American City.
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RELIGIOUS STU DI ES
Religious issues played a prominent role From the early 1900s to the end of the In Le concept de liberté au Canada à
in Victorian England and had a profound Second World War, Italian statistics was l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques
influence on the culture of that period. In characterized by original, consistent, and (1776–1838) Michel Ducharme shows that
Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell widely recognized scientific contributions, Canadian intellectual and political history
Perkin shows that even the apparently a clearly hegemonic position vis-à-vis between the American Revolution and the
secular world of the realist novel is Italian social science at that time, and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of
shaped by the theological debates of totalitarian political environment in which 1837–38 can be better understood by
its time. it developed during this period. considering it in relation to the broad
Beginning with a wide-ranging intro- In A Total Science, Jean-Guy Prévost framework of revolution in the Atlantic
duction that explains why a theological charts how Italian statistics emerged as world between 1776 and 1838.
reading of Victorian fiction is both re- a full-fledged discipline, giving rise to a Inspired by intellectual histories of the
warding and timely, Perkin also addresses network of university chairs, journals, and Atlantic world, Ducharme goes beyond
religion’s return to prominence in the other institutions. He focuses on episodes the scholarly focus on Atlantic repub-
twenty-first century, confounding earlier such as the creation of the famous Gini licanism to present the rebellions of
predictions of its imminent demise. coefficient and the statisticians’ parti- 1837–38 as a confrontation between two
Chapters on William Thackeray, Charlotte cipation in Italy’s war effort and also very different concepts of liberty. He uses
Brontë, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, analyses the intellectual project to which these concepts as lenses through which
George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are most statisticians were committed, that to read colonial ideological conflict.
followed by a concluding discussion of of creating a quantitative social science. Ducharme traces political discourse in
Mary Ward and Walter Pater that relates In doing so he reveals the political and both colonies, showing how the differing
Pater’s Marius the Epicurean to post- ideological use of the work of statisticians fates and influence of republican and
modern theology and shows how it during the Fascist era. constitutional notions of liberty affected
remains a religious classic for our own Drawing on the growing body of work state development. He also pursues a
time. devoted to the history and sociology of number of important revisionist historical
Informed by extensive knowledge statistics, A Total Science offers an in- claims, including the idea that nationalist
of the religion and culture of the period, depth study of the evolution of Italian politics were not at issue in the period
Theology and the Victorian Novel sig- statistics as a discipline, bringing together and that “responsible government” was
nificantly alters the way that the Victorian aspects that are often looked at never a Patriote party platform or interest.
novel should be read. separately, such as theoretical and
epistemological foundations, practical Michel Ducharme is assistant professor
J. Russell Perkin is professor of English, applications, formation of a scientific in the Department of History at the
Saint Mary’s University, and the author community and its institutions, inner University of British Columbia.
of A Reception-History of George Eliot’s politics, and relations with the state.
Fiction.
Jean-Guy Prévost is professor of political
science, Université du Québec à Montréal,
and a member of the Centre interuniver-
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