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  • Portable Prisons Portable Prisons
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    Portable Prisons

    The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces such as jails, prisons, and detention centres suggests that the carceral is becoming an increasingly prevalent presence in our lives, going beyond historical...
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  • Russian Military Intervention in Syria Russian Military Intervention in Syria
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    Russian Military Intervention in Syria

    Since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has tried to restore its lost status, prestige, and influence in the global political arena. At the same time, internal political challenges and international events - such as the Arab Spring and the...
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  • Fate of Canada Fate of Canada
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    Fate of Canada

    From 1963 until 1971, a group of distinguished Canadians wrestled with the language conflict that ran the risk of tearing the country apart. Among their ranks, F.R. Scott - a poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, human rights activist, and law...
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  • Urbanization of Forced Displacement Urbanization of Forced Displacement
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    Urbanization of Forced Displacement

    Displacement in the twenty-first century is urbanized. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the world's largest humanitarian organization and the main body charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates that over 60 per cent of...
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  • Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms
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    Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms

    Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises questions about whether human beings will maintain control of the use of force. The notion of meaningful...
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  • People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada
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    People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada

    Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state...
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  • Canadian Sociologists in the First Person Canadian Sociologists in the First Person
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    Canadian Sociologists in the First Person

    Social scientists' autobiographies can yield insight into personal commitments to research agendas and the very project of social science itself. But despite the long history of life writing, sociologists have tended to view the practice with skepticism...
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  • Keeping Canada Running Keeping Canada Running
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    Keeping Canada Running

    The federal government's promises to ""build back better"" and ""build back green"" highlight opportunities to reimagine Canadian infrastructure. In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first...
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  • Indentured Servitude Indentured Servitude
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    Indentured Servitude

    Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or "spirited away" or were sent...
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  • Uncomfortable Pew Uncomfortable Pew
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    Uncomfortable Pew

    In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada's largest...
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  • False Summit False Summit
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    False Summit

    The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of...
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  • Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s
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    Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s

    The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent environmental and feminist movements. It was also a decade of...
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  • Women, Peace, and Security Women, Peace, and Security
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    Women, Peace, and Security

    Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones. Women, Peace, and Security lays the...
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  • Canada as Statebuilder? Canada as Statebuilder?
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    Canada as Statebuilder?

    Canada's statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan are not well documented. After fourteen years of significant investments in humanitarian causes, there are still questions about the impact of these projects and whether they delivered as promised or fell...
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  • Telecom Tensions Telecom Tensions
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    Telecom Tensions

    Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko...
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  • Portrait of an English Migration Portrait of an English Migration
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    Portrait of an English Migration

    Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides...
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  • Inequality in Canada Inequality in Canada
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    Inequality in Canada

    In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining - but hardest to define - ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Sager shows how the idea of inequality arose in the...
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  • This Strange Loneliness This Strange Loneliness
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    This Strange Loneliness

    This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and...
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  • John Stuart Mill, Socialist John Stuart Mill, Socialist
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    John Stuart Mill, Socialist

    Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself ""under the general designation of Socialist."" Taking this self-description...
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  • Queer Atlantic Queer Atlantic
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    Queer Atlantic

    The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire...
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  • With Your Words in My Hands With Your Words in My Hands
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    With Your Words in My Hands

    Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With Antonietta's family moving to...
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  • Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa
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    Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa

    A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets. Despite natural resource advantages, many African countries have failed...
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  • Schooling the System Schooling the System
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    Schooling the System

    In post-World War II Canada, black women's positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers' college through their...
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  • Hysteria in Performance Hysteria in Performance
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    Hysteria in Performance

    The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the...
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  • Canadian Primal Canadian Primal
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    Canadian Primal

    Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets - Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn - are major voices in an...
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  • Cigarette Nation Cigarette Nation
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    Cigarette Nation

    In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and...
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  • Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories
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    Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories

    Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people's stories...
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  • Global Politics of Poverty in Canada Global Politics of Poverty in Canada
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    Global Politics of Poverty in Canada

    In the 1960s and 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War and an international decolonization movement, development advocates believed that poverty could be ended, at home and abroad. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores the relationship between...
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  • Little Theologians Little Theologians
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    Little Theologians

    Children don't just learn theology. They actively create it, playing with ideas and drawing together aspects of their own lives to form theological understanding. David Csinos offers a groundbreaking exploration of how cultural contexts intersect with...
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  • Entangling the Quebec Act Entangling the Quebec Act
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    Entangling the Quebec Act

    Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the...
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  • Right to an Age-Friendly City Right to an Age-Friendly City
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    Right to an Age-Friendly City

    A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, developed by the World Health Organization, aims to improve local environments for all population groups,...
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  • North American Gaels North American Gaels
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    North American Gaels

    A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by...
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  • Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare
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    Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare

    New technologies are transforming healthcare work and changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. As artificial intelligence systems, robotics, and data analytics become more sophisticated, some clinical tasks will become obsolete and...
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  • Foreign Practices Foreign Practices
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    Foreign Practices

    When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight...
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  • Who's Coming Out to Play Who's Coming Out to Play
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    Who's Coming Out to Play

    Queer community sports leagues, by their sheer numbers, are changing the energy and space of school gyms and community recreational spaces. Some leagues are well-established - having been in existence for over twenty-five years - whereas others are...
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  • Just the Usual Work Just the Usual Work
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    Just the Usual Work

    Born in 1907, Ida Martin spent most of her life in Saint John, New Brunswick. She married a longshoreman named Allan Robert Martin in 1932 and they had one daughter. In the years that followed, Ida had a busy and varied life, full of work, caring for her...
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  • Invisible Community Invisible Community
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    Invisible Community

    The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country. As this community grows, it encounters challenges in settlement, integration,...
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  • Cautiously Hopeful Cautiously Hopeful
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    Cautiously Hopeful

    If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism, a term coined by Lori Saint-Martin, that defines and embraces that disorder. As a carefully devised reading practice, metafeminism understands contemporary feminist...
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  • Canada's Other Red Scare Canada's Other Red Scare
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    Canada's Other Red Scare

    Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small...
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  • After the Revival After the Revival
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    After the Revival

    Early Pentecostal revivals swept through Canadian communities, big and small, in the early 1900s. Reports abounded of worshippers falling down at the altar, speaking in tongues, having dreams and visions, and experiencing divine healing. Tent meetings...
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  • Rivals in Arms Rivals in Arms
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    Rivals in Arms

    As the UK leaves the European Union and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Among such relationships, the UK-France partnership has become particularly critical in the past...
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  • Coping with Geopolitical Decline Coping with Geopolitical Decline
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    Coping with Geopolitical Decline

    How great powers react to their inevitable decline shapes their own destiny as well as the course of international politics. Leaders can decide to engage with others or isolate themselves; to build alliances or initiate war; to stoke up nationalism or...
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  • Recognition and Revelation Recognition and Revelation
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    Recognition and Revelation

    Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writing is largely unavailable and therefore little known...
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  • Echo in the Mountains Echo in the Mountains
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    Echo in the Mountains

    From the 1960s until his death in 2000, Al Purdy was one of the most prominent writers in Canada, famous for his frank language and his boisterous personality. He travelled the country and wrote about its people and places from Newfoundland to Vancouver...
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  • Blowing up the Skirt of History Blowing up the Skirt of History
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    Blowing up the Skirt of History

    From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women's theatre in Canada questioned the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of...
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  • Ambulance on Safari Ambulance on Safari
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    Ambulance on Safari

    During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required medical attention during...
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