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Title Index
Accidental Indies, The / 7 Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Countries / 32
Adolescent Health / 18 Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World, The / 40
Afghanistan Challenge, The / 29 Me / 11
Age of the Offered Hand / 27 Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis
Ambitions Tamed / 21 Management / 30
Annihilation / 13 Media, Memory, and the First World War / 35
Art of the Landscape, The / 9 Middle Age / 11
Art of the State, The, Volume 4 / 34 Montreal Olympics, The / 19
As affecting the fate of my absent husband / 8 Mosaic Orpheus / 7
Between Languages and Cultures / 35 Native Peoples and Water Rights / 16
C.B. Macpherson / 15 Patriotic Elaborations / 14
Canada: The State of the Federation 2006/07 / 28 Politics of Purpose / 26
Canadian Pentecostalism / 24 Practice of Her Profession, The / 9
Compositional Crossroads / 41 Quest of the Folk, The / 23
Data Data Everywhere / 31 Reconciliation(s) / 15
Dear Gladys / 42 Rediscovered Self, The / 5
Death / 10 Regulating Flexibility / 22
Each Man’s Son / 39 Return of the Sphinx / 39
Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Sadly Troubled History, A / 22
Reform and Opening Up / 30 Second Promised Land / 20
Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Social Change Seeing Ghosts / 3
During Thirty Years of Reform / 30 Senate Reform / 28
Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description / 37 Sex / 10
Essence of Indecision / 23 Silent Revolution?, A / 40
Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems / 33 Sods, Soil, and Spades / 43
Foreign Relations in Federal Countries / 32 Spirit of Industry and Improvement, The / 41
Gold in the Americas / 2 Stauffenberg / 8
Grenfell of Labrador / 43 Strategy and Command / 21
Harper’s Team / 25 Thomas Nagel / 14
Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy / 18 Transatlantic Subjects / 41
Identity Captured by Law / 16 Transformation of Ontario’s Postsecondary Education System, The / 31
Imagining Holiness / 17 Truth and Truth-Making / 13
Imagining Justice / 36 Two Solitudes / 39
In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow / 27 Under Conrad’s Eyes / 36
In the Aftermath of Catastrophe / 17 Understanding Ethics / 12
In the Eye of the Wind / 42 Understanding Postcolonialism / 12
Innovation, Science, Environment / 34 Waiting for the Wave / 25
International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity / 29 War with a Silver Lining, A / 24
Inventing Canada / 19 Watch that Ends the Night, The / 38
Irish History of Civilization, An: Volume 1 / 6 We Are What We Mourn / 37
Irish History of Civilization, An: Volume 2 / 6 When the French Tried to be British / 20
Kiviuq / 1 World and Darfur, The / 1
Leadership in Disaster / 4
CU RRENT EVENTS • GENOCI DE STU DI ES
The World and Darfur The crisis in Darfur has led to systemic and widespread murder,
International Response to Crimes rape, and abduction, as well as the forced displacement of millions
of civilians. It presents a defining moral challenge to the world.
Against Humanity in Western Sudan
The World and Darfur brings together genocide scholars from
Edited by Amanda F. Grzyb a range of disciplines – social history, art history, military history,
African studies, media studies, literature, political science, sociology
Scholars from across the humanities and – to provide a cohesive and nuanced understanding of the inter-
social sciences discuss how the international national response to the crisis in Western Sudan. Contributing
community has responded to the first authors, including Eric Reeves, Frank Chalk, Eric Markusen, and
genocide of the twenty-first century. Samuel Totten, look at the lessons learned from the United Nations
failure to intervene during the Rwandan genocide, the representa-
tion of Darfur in the mainstream media, atrocity investigations,
activist and NGO campaigns, art exhibitions and political rhetoric,
and the role of the international community in the discourse of
genocide prevention and intervention. A common theme is the
succession of political, bureaucratic, and informational barriers
that have prevented the international community from staging
effective action to quell the crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The situation in Darfur continues to deteriorate and it is clear
that the current UN peacekeeping mission is woefully inadequate
for civilian protection. An effective genocide prevention campaign
depends on international response and public will. The World and
Darfur is an important part of this dialogue, providing valuable
insights for scholars, human rights activists, and the concerned
general public.
R E L ATE D I NTE R E ST
Far in the Waste Sudan
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H I STO R Y, G E O G R A P H Y
Gold in the Americas Step into the passionate world of gold in the Americas, from the
Edited by Hélène Dionne moment Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors fell
under its spell and ventured forth to discover, colonize, and exploit
THe passionate world of gold in the Americas, the New World and its resources, right up to the present day and
recent explorations for gold deposits in northern Quebec.
from Christopher Columbus to present day.
Gold’s natural properties are every bit as surprising as the pow-
ers attributed to the mineral, which is why gold could engender
the brutal but extraordinarily productive encounter of the peoples
who built the Americas of today. The Indians, Africans, Europeans,
and Métis all contributed – through the alchemy of time and pas-
sion – to forging the face of the nations and the landscapes of the
vast territory of the Americas. From pre-Hispanic treasures to tech-
nological marvels of the twenty-first century, the ways in which
gold has been used are as limitless as the human imagination. Let
yourself succumb to gold fever and discover the Americas as you
have never before seen them.
R E L ATE D I NTE R E ST
Mapping a Continent
Historical Atlas of North America, 1492–1814
Raymonde Litalien, Jean-François Palomino, and Denis Vaugeois
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Seeing Ghosts On September 11 more people clicked “on documentary news pho-
9/11 and the Visual Imagination tographs than on pornography for the first (and only) time in the
history of the Internet,” reports writer David Levi Strauss. The
Karen Engle
archive of images associated with the tragic events of 9/11 merits
careful analysis. Artist Damien Hirst has suggested that the
An evocative look at images of 9/11 and how
attacks were designed to be viewed – “The thing about 9/11 is that
they contribute to our cultural memory.
it’s kind of an artwork in its own right. It was wicked, but it was
devised in this way for this kind of impact. It was devised visually.”
Starting from the tremendous fascination with images of 9/11,
Karen Engle asks what, in the context of a national trauma, makes
an image appropriate or scandalous, exploring how diverse visual
media have been mobilized in political projects of identification and
personal narratives of empathy. Focusing on themes of memory,
mourning, and history, Engle examines sculptural, photographic, and
new media responses to the 9/11 attacks in both contemporary and
historical contexts, considers the public’s reaction to these visual
productions, and suggests that earlier presentations of America at
war play a pivotal role in the representations of 9/11 in both official
and popular media.
Seeing Ghosts is a groundbreaking theoretical study of how we
remember, how we mourn, and how images of a particular event
influence our imagination of the future.
R E L ATE D I NTE R E ST
Cultures of the War on Terror
Empire, Ideology, and the Remaking of 9/11
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A N T H R O P O L O G Y • 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
Northern elders illuminate the heart Indigenous peoples’ struggle for justice
of Arctic life through stories of Kiviuq, and selfhood in an integrating world.
the eternal Inuit wanderer.
How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen
bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of
Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about
How can artists present ancient legend in live perform- culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions,
ance and film with sensitivity to the source? and group qualities.
After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material
Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen
questions, looking at them through the versions of one illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are
of their most respected legends – that of hero/shaman identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further
Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer’s Odysseus – told their rights and identities. He shows how – within the
by forty Inuit elders. The elders’ voices engage us directly, constraints of state and international legal systems,
inviting us to look at the unique qualities of arctic heroism activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expec-
and its application to present-day concerns. Rich details tations – indigenous leaders are working to overcome the
from each of the elders’ families help explain interper- injuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss
sonal challenges to survival in the north and offer both of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a critical
practical and spiritual lessons. Van Deusen also points out understanding of the ways in which people are seeking
intriguing cultural connections across the Bering Strait, cultural justice while rearticulating and, at times,
past and present. re-dignifying the collective self.
Kiviuq is a must-read for those interested in northern The Rediscovered Self shows how, through the processes
cultures, shamanism, oral storytelling, and cultural change. and aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to be
expressed through new media, formal procedures, and
“Missionaries forbade their converts any mention of the transnational collaborations.
pre-Christian hero ‘Kiviuq,’ so each Inuit elder had to
consider carefully before agreeing to speak out. If you “The Rediscovered Self cuts across a number of different
read between the lines, this ancient story provides a perspectives, both those of activists and academics, and
key to human survival on earth.” Niezen is well positioned to bring these often opposing
–John Houston, filmmaker positions together with a significant degree of empathy
for both – a poignant and welcome addition to the
Kira Van Deusen is a storyteller and musician who literature on Indigenous studies.”
has done extensive research on the oral traditions of –H. Glen Penny, University of Iowa
Siberian indigenous peoples and the Canadian Inuit.
Her previous books include Singing Story, Healing Drum Ronald Niezen is professor of anthropology, McGill
and The Flying Tiger. University, and Canada Research Chair in the Comparative
Study of Indigenous Rights and Identity.
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I R I S H H I STO RY • WO R L D H I STO RY
n e w i n pa p e r
An Irish History of Civilization St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he arrives
Don Akenson as a prisoner, Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin café. In
a daring, genre-breaking work, the world’s foremost scholar of the
The grace of fiction combined Irish diaspora fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic chroni-
with the power of history. cle of civilization through Irish eyes. From St Patrick to Woody
Guthrie, Constantine to John F. Kennedy, India to the Australian
outback, Don Akenson’s An Irish History of Civilization is about the
Irish at home and abroad, the great and the small, the noble and
the depraved, the wise and the foolish.
Akenson weaves ironic and playful historical miniatures of Irish
misery, folly, and glory. Like the archetypal stories in the Talmuds,
the artful fictions in An Irish History of Civilization are universal,
big truths that require a big canvas. Akenson follows his chosen
peoples on their odyssey around the globe in a story like no other,
the lines between history and fiction irretrievably lost in the
mists of Irish time.
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POETRY L I T E R AT U R E
n e w i n pa p e r
Mosaic Orpheus The Accidental Indies
Peter Dale Scott Robert Finley
Winner
Governor General’s Award –
Literary Award in the category of French
Translation (2004)
Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, The Accidental Indies is a lyrical tale that follows
Peter Dale Scott’s political poems – from the tear gas of Christopher Columbus on a fantastic voyage through
Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai for- western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley
est monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus’
– are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a
marks his meditation poems, including a sequence on the vivid and compelling world. It is a wondrous journey that
death of his first wife. begins with Columbus’ earliest explorations when he first
In opposition to contemporary poems of studied “tests the heft and roundness of this earth against his
meaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compul- infant head” by stepping from the edge of his rocking cra-
sion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejections dle to come up short on the boards of the nursery floor.
of the external world and turn to the refuges of poets Finley charts a course through the sea voyage, its records
before him, the enduring commonplaces that are more and commentaries, into the territory of Columbus’ imagi-
than clichés. nary “Indies” and the representation of this New World
on his return to Spain.
Praise for Coming to Jakarta
“The most important political poem to appear in the “I was utterly enchanted by The Accidental Indies. With
English language in a very long time.” –Robert Hass, humour, inventiveness and an exquisite gift for words,
former US poet laureate and 2008 Pulitzer Prize recipient Robert Finley has rescued Columbus’ adventures from
the excesses of hagiography and the disparagements
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and profes- of outrage, and restored them, once again, to the realm
sor of English, University of California, Berkeley, is an of myth from whence they sprung.”
award-winning poet, writer, and researcher. Author of –Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading and
six poetry collections, his previous books include the The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
three volumes of his trilogy Seculum – Coming to Jakarta,
Listening to the Candle, and Minding the Darkness. “The Accidental Indies is a gem – it is boldly imagined and
splendidly written.” –John Casey, author of the National
Book Award winner, Spartina
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A RT H I STO RY A RT H I STO RY • B I O G RA P HY
Aesthetics deals with art, a human construction, but what Florence Carlyle (1864–1923), born in Galt, Ontario,
one experiences when placed before nature is also an emerged as one of the most successful Canadian artists
aesthetic feeling – the countryside is a place of reflection of her time. Trained in Paris, she lived and worked in New
like no other. In The Art of the Landscape, Raffaele Milani York City and in Canada, cultivating a career as a popular
interprets natural landscapes as an aesthetic category. portrait and genre painter. Known for her masterful use
Drawing from philosophical traditions, literature, and of colour, Carlyle’s paintings are nuanced and perceptive
art, he calls the reader’s attention to a special conscious- portrayals of feminine spaces, the female figure, and
ness, originally established during the pre-Romantic age, women’s domestic work.
that has become a distinctive feature of contemporary In The Practice of Her Profession, Susan Butlin draws
spirituality. Focusing on the definition of landscapes in on unpublished letters and family memoirs to recount
relation to the concepts of nature, environment, territory, Carlyle’s personal and professional life. She explores
and man-made settings such as gardens and cities, Milani Carlyle’s artistic influences, her relationships with artist
examines the origins of the predilection for natural colleagues and encounters with the cultural worlds of
scenery in the works of landscape painters and in travel Paris, New York, and early twentieth-century Canada, and
literature. He addresses the distinctness of the aesthetic provides a detailed examination of Carlyle’s paintings.
experience of landscapes, analyses the role of aesthetic Butlin’s vivid description of the artistic life of women of
categories, and explores landscape art as a medium of this era, from access to art training to the important role
contemplation. of women’s art societies, introduces readers to Carlyle’s
What emerges is an original morphology of natural many accomplished contemporaries – Helen McNicoll,
beauty derived from the scrutiny of landscape elements Mary Reid, Laura Muntz, Sarah Holden, Sydney Tully,
most frequently associated with aesthetic emotion – the Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, and others.
colour of water and the sky, earth and stones, fire and Florence Carlyle’s life – that of an independent risk-
volcanic eruptions, ruins and the mountains – an analysis taker who actively constructed her own professional artis-
especially relevant given the increasing fragility of our tic practice and lived in a self-determined way that was
natural environment. often at odds with social convention – reveals much
about the possibilities and limitations for a woman artist
Raffaele Milani is professor of aesthetics, University of in the nouveau siècle. The Practice of Her Profession is
Bologna, and the author of numerous books, including important reading for all those interested in Canadian
The Aesthetic Categories and The Adventure of Landscape. art and cultural history, and the history of women artists
in Canada.
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P H I LO S O P HY • S EXUA L I T Y PHILOSOPHY
reannouncing
Sex Death
Seiriol Morgan Todd May
A source of intense life-affirming pleasure when it is pres- The awareness that we will die, and that our death can
ent and going well or frustration and misery when it is come at any time, pervades the entirety of our existence.
absent or unsatisfying, sex is one of the central mecha- While there are many ways to think about death, most of
nisms through which individuals can bring happiness or them are attempts to escape its actuality. Todd May seeks
hurt to the lives of others, as well as their own. It also has instead to confront death and its power by considering
a peculiar power to tempt us to act against our own best the possibility that our mortal deaths are our final end. If
interests and judgments. Seiriol Morgan explores the phi- this is the case, what might it mean for our living? What
losophy of sex, offering an accessible analysis of the place lessons can we draw from our mortality?
of sex in human life and a discussion of the kinds of sexual In answering these questions, May brings together
lives that might be compatible with living well. She two divergent perspectives on death. The first holds that
begins with a discussion of the nature of sexual desire, death is not an evil, or at least that immortality would
using examples from anecdote and literature to bring out be far worse than dying. The second holds that death is
its complexities and focusing particularly on the ways in indeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact.
which bodily and psychological elements interact to con- May shows that in order to live with death, we need to
struct the many and various sexual desires and quirks we hold these two perspectives at once. Their convergence
experience. Special attention is paid to the darker aspects gives our lives a beauty and a tragedy that are inextrica-
of eroticism and the dangers these can pose. Later chap- bly entwined.
ters discuss such issues as fidelity, promiscuity, and seduc- Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers and
tion, as well as more broadly social concerns such as writers – both ancient and modern – as well as personal
pornography and the importance of the family. reflection and experience, May puts forward a view of
how we might think about and, more importantly, live
Seiriol Morgan is senior lecturer in philosophy at the our lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In
University of Bristol. the end, he argues, the contingency of our lives must be
grasped and folded into the time remaining to each of us.
For a full list of series titles please see pages 45 and 46. In so doing, we can live each moment as though it were
at once a link to an uncertain future and also the only
thing we have.
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PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY
Middle Age Me
Christopher Hamilton Mel Thompson
Middle age, for many, marks a time of radical reappraisal “Who am I?” Faced with a world where religion, psychology,
of one’s life and way of living. The sense of time running and philosophy have all tried, in their different ways, to
out and a feeling of loneliness engendered by the fear provide an answer and give meaning and coherence to
that one’s life has been compromised and wasteful individual existence, how we should construct a mean-
become ever clearer in mid-life and can lead to a period ingful “me” – and make sense of our lives – is the question
of dramatic self doubt. at the heart of Mel Thompson’s illuminating book.
Philosopher Christopher Hamilton (who is in his early Thompson begins by exploring the workings of the
40s) provides a philosophical exploration of the moods, brain but shows that considering the nature of the self
emotions, and experiences of middle age in the contem- requires going beyond argument about such things as
porary world, drawing on personal experiences as well how mind relates to matter or whether neuroscience can
as a wide range of sources – from the philosophical writ- fully explain consciousness. Such an approach fails to do
ings of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Heidegger justice to the self that we experience and the selves that
to the literature of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Conrad, and we encounter around us. We need to engage with more
the films of Woody Allen – to offer us a philosophy of personal, existential questions, such as, how do I make
middle age. sense of my life? Am I responsible for the person I have
Some of the many fascinating themes explored become?
include the strong sense of nostalgia experienced in mid- Thompson investigates whether we are genuinely
life for loss for one’s youth and of regret that life has knowable entities by looking at the gap between what
become boring, the recognition that one can never fully we are and what others perceive us to be. He explores the
escape feelings of guilt, and – central to the experience of central dilemma of how it is possible to maintain a fixed
middle age – the question of what is the point of going idea of what one is – of a “me” – that can be used to
on at all. In the light of the “melancholy wisdom” of mid- shape and direct one’s life when, in a world of constant
life Hamilton suggests that pleasure becomes much more change, that fixed idea may vanish at any moment.
important than at previous stages of life and he shows Drawing on literature, philosophy, religion, and science,
that the enjoyment of pleasure can be something noble. as well as personal reflection and anecdote, Thompson
Insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking, has written an engaging and thought-provoking work
Middle Age is fascinating reading and for anyone heading that reclaims the notion of “me” from the neuroscientists
for a “mid-life crisis,” it is much cheaper than buying a and situates it at the heart of finding a place in the world.
sports car.
Mel Thompson has a PhD in theology and is a full-time
Christopher Hamilton is lecturer in philosophy of religion writer. His books include Introduction to Philosophy and
at King’s College, University of London. Ethics and Philosophers Behaving Badly.
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PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY
Understanding Ethics presents a wide-ranging and Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways
thought-provoking introduction to the question, first of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about
posed by Socrates, “How is life to be lived?” It treats ethics self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate
as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which postcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminal
the abstract questions of metaethics and the real-world work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in
issues of applied ethics are immediately and directly philosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. Understanding
connected. Postcolonialism examines the philosophy of postcolonial-
The book explores the connections and the tensions ism to reveal the often conflicting systems of thought
between happiness and virtue, reason and commitment, which underpin it. In so doing, the book presents a
motivation and justification, and objectivity and personal reappraisal of the major postcolonial thinkers of the
significance. It also re-examines familiar theories in nor- twentieth century.
mative ethics such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Ranging beyond the narrow selection of theorists
Kantianism, and intuitionism from a fresh and revealing to which the field is often restricted, the book explores
perspective. Understanding Ethics is an excellent primer the work of Fanon and Sartre, Gandhi, Nandy, and the
for students taking courses on moral philosophy Subaltern Studies Group, Foucault and Said, Derrida and
Bhabha, Khatibi and Glissant, and Spivak, Mbembe and
Tim Chappell is professor of philosophy at The Open Mudimbe. A clear and accessible introduction to the sub-
University. ject, Understanding Postcolonialism reveals how, almost
half a century after decolonisation, the complex relation
between politics and ethics continues to shape post-
colonial thought.
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PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY
Annihilation explores the sense and significance of death Truth depends in some sense on reality, but it is difficult
in general and human death in particular. The first part of to spell out this intuition in a plausible and precise way.
the book examines questions about the nature of death. According to the theory of truth-making the intuition
For example, is the death of the brain a necessary and implies that either every truth or every truth of a certain
sufficient condition of death? How does the death of a class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity
human being relate to the death of a person? The second whose existence accounts for truth. This book provides
part of the book questions whether death should be seen several ways of assessing the correctness of this contro-
as bad, focusing on the Epicurean view that the fear of versial claim. It presents a detailed introduction to the
death is irrational because it cannot be experienced, theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker rela-
noting that, for instance, while we worry about future tions, the ontological category of truth-making entities,
non-existence, we don’t concern ourselves with past and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays include
non-existence. The final chapter considers whether the most important articles on truth-making in the last
immortality is desirable and whether cryonics, brain three decades as well as new work by leading researchers
transplants, and data storage might allow us to cheat in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.
death. Christopher Belshaw’s examination focuses on
questions of value rather than on morality and his gener- Contributors include Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, Greg
al approach throughout is sceptical. The book will be of Restall, David Lewis, David Armstrong, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra,
interest to philosophers concerned with the nature and Josh Parsons, Herbert Hochberg, Marian David, and Paul Horwich.
importance of death and provides a much-needed foun-
dation for discussions of abortion, euthanasia, life “The theory of truth-making has become in a few years
support, and suicide. one of the most exciting and difficult topics within theo-
retical philosophy. This collection is very welcome and will
“A very good book. It addresses many of the most inter- be of great help to newcomers and to afficionados alike.”
esting and important philosophical issues concerning –Pascal Engel, University of Geneva
death, is well-informed by the relevant literature, and
offers Belshaw’s distinctive and suggestive views on a E. J. Lowe is professor of philosophy at the University
range of issues. Belshaw offers a nice combination of of Durham. A. Rami is lecturer in philosophy at the
philosophical rigour and a crisp, accessible writing style University of Göttingen.
that should give the book a broad appeal.”
–John Fischer, University of California, Riverside, and
editor of The Metaphysics of Death
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Thomas Nagel’s contribution to philosophy over the past How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg sug-
forty years has been enormously influential. In the first gests a “new patriotism,” one that reconciles conflict
sustained examination of Nagel’s ideas, Alan Thomas pro- through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation
vides readers with a detailed exploration of the central over negotiation and the common good over victory.
dichotomy around which Nagel organizes his philosophy: This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as
the concern over how to reconcile “subjective” and “objec- well as right.
tive” views of the world. Blattberg’s is a genuinely original philosophical voice.
Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel’s The essays collected here discuss how to reconceive the
basic metaphysical contrast between subjective and political spectrum, where “deliberative democrats” go
objective ways of thinking about the world. He shows wrong, why human rights language is tragically counter-
how a proper understanding of radically perspectival productive, how nationalism is not really secular, how
views of the world allows one to defend some of Nagel’s many nations should share a single state, a new approach
most important claims about the mind, tracing his influ- to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might have
ential work in the philosophy of mind from his early something to teach about the “war on terror.” We also
paper on physicalism to his recent defence of a form of learn about the right way to deny a role to principles in
dual aspect theory. Thomas then turns to ethics, where ethics, how to distinguish between the good and the
Nagel’s influence is pre-eminent, following the develop- beautiful, the way humour works, the rabbinic nature of
ment of his views from his contrast between subjective modernism, the difference between good, bad, great, and
and objective reasons in his early work to his later hybrid evil, why Plato’s dialogues are not really dialogues, and
ethical theory. The volume concludes with an examina- why most philosophers are actually artists.
tion of Nagel’s political philosophy, particularly his
recent controversial work on global justice. “A work of high quality, sophisticated and wide-ranging.”
–Richard Vernon, University of Western Ontario
Alan Thomas is senior lecturer in philosophy at the
University of Kent. Charles Blattberg is associate professor, Department
of Political Science, Université de Montréal. Educated
at Toronto, McGill, the Sorbonne, and Oxford, he is the
author of From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting
Practice First and Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics
for Canada.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE LAW • CON FLICT STU DI ES
Crawford Brough Macpherson, an extremely influential The transformation of conflict and postconflict societies
writer and teacher and Canada’s pre-eminent political through transitional justice is now recognized as vital to
theorist, won an international reputation for his contro- the process of peacebuilding, with mechanisms such as
versial interpretation of liberalism. In the first book to trials, truth commissions, and apologies seen as essential
examine the entire range of Macpherson’s writings, for effecting societal change. It is widely argued that
William Leiss seeks to place that interpretation of liberal- “reconciliation” is a key element of this process, yet both
ism within the overall framework of Macpherson’s intel- scholars and practitioners are unclear as to what the
lectual development. concept is or how the process works.
Focusing on two key themes – property and the state – Reconciliation(s) considers the definition of the concept
Leiss tracks Macpherson’s analysis of the contradictions of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dia-
of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, begin- logue that arises from the attempts to situate reconcilia-
ning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski tion within a theoretical and analytical framework.
at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core Contributing authors champion competing definitions,
of Macpherson’s political philosophy – the distinction but all agree that it plays an important role in building
between extractive and developmental powers – against relationships of trust and cohesion. The essays in this
the background of social change in the democracies book also consider the nature and utility of reconciliation
of the West in the period since the end of the Second in a number of contexts, evaluating both its function
World War. and efficacy.
A new preface by the author reviews books and arti-
cles on Macpherson published in the period since this Contributors include Caitlin Donnelly (Queen’s Belfast), Stephanus
book first appeared in 1988. Du Toit (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation), Samar El-Masri
(Prince Sultan University, Riyadh), Nicholas Frayling (Dean, Chichester
William Leiss, a fellow and past-president of the Royal Cathedral), Mark Freeman (International Center for Transitional
Society of Canada, is author or senior co-author of ten Justice), Trudy Govier (Lethbridge), Brandon Hamber (Ulster), Joanne
books including In the Chamber of Risks and, with Douglas Hughes (Queen’s Belfast), Anita Isaacs (Haverford), Gráinne Kelly
Powell, Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk, now in its second (INCORE, University of Ulster), Rosemary Nagy (Nipissing), Veerle
edition. Opgenhaffen (International Center for Transitional Justice), Valerie
Perry (OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina), Joanna R. Quinn
(Western), and Laurence Thomas (Syracuse).
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N AT I V E S T U D I E S • E N V I R O N M E N TA L S T U D I E S N AT I V E S T U D I E S • L AW
Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and In Canada, indigenous peoples and official-language
hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the minorities benefit from certain rights that are not avail-
turn of the last century challenged the way Native peo- able to the rest of the population, but exactly who can
ples had traditionally managed the watershed environ- claim membership in these groups remains a controver-
ment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial and federal sial issue. Protecting a group’s culture and resources is
power as well as private industries, Native peoples saw often seen to be at odds with the freedom of individuals
opportunities to protect their self-governing rights and to claim membership in that group.
explore reserve-based economy. In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond
Through a combination of field work and archival explains how minority rights make identity legally rele-
research, Kenichi Matsui offers an original and pioneering vant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have
overview of the evolution of water law and agricultural been fought concerning Indian status and admission to
policies in the Canadian west. By incorporating the histo- minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law
ry of water law philosophies, water development tech- in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and
nologies, agricultural policies, and cross-cultural theories, political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group’s
Matsui constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how membership rules are an accurate reflection of their eth-
both Native peoples and non-native stakeholders strug- nicity and are based on sound justifications of minority
gled for better rights and livelihood through litigation, rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate
political campaigns, and direct actions. equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence
The dramatic stories of early cultural, legal, and between the legal criteria that determine membership
political conflict in interior British Columbia and Alberta and the group’s own cultural or relational conceptions
featured in Native Peoples and Water Rights enrich our of their ethnic identity.
understanding of current Native rights disputes through- Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in its
out North America. comparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minori-
ties, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource
Kenichi Matsui is assistant professor, sustainable environ- for legal and political scholars and students, as well as
mental studies, University of Tsukuba. anyone interested in the controversies surrounding the
legal recognition of identity.
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J EW I S H STU D I E S • H I STO RY O F R E L I G I O N J EWISH STU DI ES • FOLKLORE
In In the Aftermath of Catastrophe Jacob Neusner contin- Hasidic tales are often read as charming, timeless expres-
ues his project of making clear the importance of the sions of Jewish spirituality. The best-known versions of
first six centuries of the Common Era in the history of these stories, however, have been rewritten for audiences
Judaism. It is during this period, which began with the outside traditional Judaism and few works have explored
destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 and Hasidic tales as they were created by Hasidic Jews.
concluded with formation of the Talmud of Babylonia and In Imagining Holiness Justin Lewis offers a radical reap-
the advent of Islam after 600, the system of Judaism that praisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into ques-
would attain normative status took shape and the Judaic tion received notions of authenticity. He focuses his study
canon of law and theology came to definition. The nor- on the neglected Hasidic literature of the early twentieth
mative or Rabbinic Judaism, carried forward by today’s century – primarily the work of Israel Berger and
Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative Judaisms, also Abraham Hayim Michelson – and the literary and histori-
emerged at this time. cal dynamics of its emergence, posing questions about
Neusner argues that the Judaism that emerged in late its place in Hasidic society, the attitude of the Hasidim
antiquity experimented with solutions to a critical and towards this literature, and orality in Hasidic tradition as
enduring issue of culture that continues to engage manifested in these Hasidic books. Berger and Michelson
humanity – the crisis provoked by calamity. Exemplified wrote in the decade before the First World War, a time of
in our time by the German war against the Jews from loss and decline for Hasidism. Their books resisted moder-
1933–1945, in antiquity calamity took the form of the nity and positioned Hasidism as authentic Judaism but
destruction in 70 C.E. of the Temple of Jerusalem and the also reflected modern literary trends, expressed tensions
cessation of its sacrifices, putting an end to the cultic cal- within Hasidism itself, and depicted struggles between
endar by which people had measured the passage of time the soul and body.
in the heavens and maintained their relationship with
God on earth. Resolution of this crisis required a radical “Groundbreaking … Imagining Holiness is the most
solution, the reversion to prophecy, which had as a conse- important work on the topic yet produced in the
quence restoration of world order. Judaism as we know English language.”
it responded then and continues to respond now to the –Nathaniel Deutsch, University of California, Santa Cruz
paramount problem of that day and ours – the end of
the old order and the advent of the new. Justin Jaron Lewis is a storyteller, teacher of Jewish lore,
and assistant professor of religion, University of
Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the Manitoba.
History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow,
Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College.
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H E A LT H S T U D I E S • P U B L I C P O L I C Y H E A LT H P O L I C Y
Medicare in Canada is not only this country’s most treas- Current policy initiatives that address the health of youth,
ured social program, it has become a defining national a group where more than one set of developmental stan-
characteristic. Even with recent concerns over flaws in the dards may apply, are often based on conflicting evidence.
system leading to questions about the possible benefits At the same time, the UN Convention on the Rights of the
of a two-tiered approach, the consensus is that single- Child has provided an over-arching ethical framework
payer, publicly funded health care has worked for forty with the goal of ensuring that all children and youth have
years to provide Canadians with accessible, high quality equal human rights, regardless of their personal or family
services at a much lower cost than in the mainly for-profit circumstances. How do these approaches coincide and
system to the south. are they working?
In Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy, Malcolm In Adolescent Health, the contemporary Canadian set-
Taylor describes the emergence of Medicare, providing an ting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence and
interesting window into current health care debates. He ethics in policy making. Individual chapters describe the
discusses the seemingly endless series of federal-provin- social determinants of youth health (chronic conditions,
cial exchanges and negotiations involving issues of juris- ethnicity, family income, school and peer relationships)
diction, cost allocations, revenue transfers, and taxing and youth health behaviours and outcomes (substance
authorities as well as efforts to accommodate opposition use, violence, sexual and physical activity). Within this
from various special interests that would eventually broad landscape of youth health issues, the authors apply
evolve into a system that provided access to adequate the human rights principles of the Convention to their
health care for all Canadians on the basis of need, irre- research to illustrate the often competing frameworks
spective of financial circumstances. A new introduction of evidence and ethics.
by Allan Maslove discusses the book’s relevance to
contemporary debates and drives home that conflicts For a complete list of contributors please visit
between federal and provincial governments are not new www.mqup.ca
and that, in spite of opposition from various organized
interests, strong popular support for Medicare insured William Boyce is professor of community health and
that the initial project was not derailed. epidemiology and education and director of the
Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen’s University.
Malcolm G. Taylor (1915–1994), professor of public policy, Jennifer Roche, a writer and freelance consultant in
York University, served as consultant to seven provincial Kingston, has been associated with producing a number
governments, medical and hospital associations, the of reports with the Group over the past 15 years.
Royal Commission on Health Services, and the Health Diane Davies, a population health researcher, is manager
Services Review. of the Centre for Obesity Research and Education,
Queen’s University.
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Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH Howell Suzanne Zeller teaches history, history of science, and
Technologie, has planned large projects worldwide, environmental history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
including several Olympic Games, and lectured in
the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC,
Université de Montréal.
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SOCIOLOGY • CURRENT EVENTS F R E N C H H I STO RY • PO L I TI CA L S C I E N C E
Explosive economic growth in resource-rich Alberta has The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 was
led to a stunning increase in its population. In contrast to accompanied by the grant of the Charte – a written con-
Ontario and British Columbia, which have grown primari- stitution modeled on what its authors imagined to be the
ly through international migration, Alberta has become a contemporary British practice of parliamentary monarchy.
magnet for internal migrants, contributing to population A unique experiment, in effect it meant attempting to
redistribution within Canada, with significant national, implement institutions and practices that had little basis
social, and economic consequences. in French history and culture and that, in Britain, had
Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study, evolved slowly and largely without conscious planning.
Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration to In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn stud-
Alberta. His innovative approach begins with the individ- ies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set
ual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience from of common understandings that lent a comparative sta-
origin to destination. Through interviews with hundreds bility to British government. The institutions of a loyal
of migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex and opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be
dynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but also implicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptance
prompted by a process that begins in the region of origin foundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy to
that makes migration possible and helps determine political opponents. A sophisticated minority – including
whether migrants stay or return home. such major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de
By combining a social psychological approach with Staël, and Guizot – recognized the need for something
structural factors such as Alberta’s transition from a approaching the British political culture, but the wounds
regional hinterland province to its emerging role the opened by the Revolution could not readily be healed.
global system, discussions of gender, the internet, and A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagree-
folk culture, Second Promised Land provides a multi- ment that was the spirit of the British model had to
dimensional and deeply human account of a contem- await the Fifth Republic.
porary Canadian phenomenon. To a surprising degree, the French have remained
unaware of the struggle in the Restoration and after to
“An interesting and well-written book and an important make political pluralism respectable. When the French
contribution to migration literature.” Tried to Be British makes a significant contribution to the
–Frank Trovato, University of Alberta political and intellectual history of Restoration France
and, to a lesser degree, the July Monarchy and offers
Harry H. Hiller is professor of sociology, the University much food for thought for those attempting similar
of Calgary, and the author of Canadian Society: A Macro ventures today.
Analysis and Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives.
J.A.W. Gunn is Sir Edward Peacock Professor Emeritus
of Political Studies, Queen’s University, and the author
of Beyond Liberty and Property.
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M I L I TA R Y H I S T O R Y E U RO P EA N H I STO RY • U R BA N H I STO RY
Histories of the First World War are often written from a When Lyon’s population experienced significant growth
British perspective, ignoring the coalition element of the in the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morand
conflict and the French point of view more generally. made a radical proposal: France’s second city would ex-
In Strategy and Command, Roy Prete offers a major new pand across the river Rhône, making him rich in the pro-
interpretation, supported by in-depth research in French cess. Intense work and bitter rivalries resulted, although
archival sources. they bore fruit only long after Morand had died on the
In the first of three projected volumes, Prete crafts a guillotine in 1794.
behind-the-scenes look at Anglo-French command rela- In Ambitions Tamed, Pierre Reynard profiles Morand’s
tions during World War I, from the start of the conflict career to provide a case-study of the possibilities of urban
until 1915, when trench warfare drastically altered the reform and refashioning within the courtly society of the
situation. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prete Old Regime. Morand’s story offers fascinating insights
argues that the British government’s primary interest into social and professional advancement in a society
lay in the defence of the empire; the small expeditionary defined by privilege, the workings of a complex urban
force sent to France was progressively enlarged because political culture, relationships between a provincial city
the French, especially Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre, and the capital, the role of factions in determining the
dragged their British ally into a progressively greater success or failure of enterprises and reforms, and the
involvement. New information gleaned from French technical and financial aspects of late eighteenth-century
public and private archives – including private diaries – urban projects.
enlarge our understanding of key players in the allied Ambitions Tamed illuminates the literature and
relationship. methodologies of urban development, economic and
Prete shows that suspicion and distrust on the part entrepreneurial history, intellectual history, and environ-
of both sides of the alliance continued to inform relations mental history in order to explain more fully the relation-
well after the circumstances creating them had changed. ships among enlightened principles, established power
Strategy and Command clearly establishes the fundamen- structures, and new initiatives at the dawn of urban
tal strategic differences between the allies at the start expansion.
of the war, setting the stage for the next two volumes.
“Reynard shows brilliantly how things did – and did not –
Roy A. Prete is professor of history, Royal Military College get done, and why, and what obstacles stood between
of Canada. Morand and his dreams. A touching portrayal of Morand,
and a masterful look at the complexities of eighteenth-
century entrepreneurship.”
–John Merriman, Yale University
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POLITICAL ECONOMY • PU B LIC POLICY H I STO RY • S O C I O LO GY
In a contemporary labour market that includes growing More people die by suicide each year than by homicide,
levels of precarious employment, the regulation of mini- wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and sur-
mum employment standards is intricately connected to vivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psy-
conditions of economic security. With a focus on the role chologists, and social workers try to deal with it through
of neoliberal labour market policies in promoting “flexi- their professional routines; sociologists and psychiatrists
ble” employment standards legislation – particularly in attempt to provide theoretical explanations of it.
the areas of minimum wages and working time – Mark In a study of nearly 7000 suicides from 1900 to 1950,
Thomas argues that shifts toward “flexible” legislation John Weaver documents the challenges that ordinary
have played a central role in producing patterns of labour people experienced during turbulent times and, using
market inequality. witnesses’ testimony, death bed statements, and suicide
Using an analytic framework that situates employ- notes, reconstructs individuals’ thoughts as they decide
ment standards within the context of the broader social whether to endure their suffering. Bridging social and
relations that shape processes of labour market regula- medical history, Weaver presents an intellectual and
tion, Thomas constructs a case study of employment political history of suicide studies, a revealing construc-
standards legislation in Ontario from 1884 to 2004. tion and deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion of
Drawing from political economy scholarship, and using a gender, life stages, and socio-economic circumstances
qualitative research methodology, he analyses class, race, in relation to suicide patterns, reflections on reasoning
and gender dimensions of legislative developments, processes and intent, and society’s reactions to suicide,
highlighting the ways in which shifts towards “flexible” including medical intervention.
employment standards have exacerbated longstanding A Sadly Troubled History marshals thousands of suicide
racialized and gendered inequities. inquests, replete with observations on the anxieties of
Regulating Flexibility argues that in order to counter unemployment, the heartbreak of romantic disappoint-
current trends towards increased insecurity, employment ment, the pain of domestic turmoil, and the torments
standards should not be treated as a secondary form of of mental illness, to demonstrate that history – although,
labour protection but as a cornerstone in a progressive like biochemistry, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry,
project of labour market re-regulation. reliant on remarkable yet imperfect information – can
contribute to a better understanding of the suicidal act
Mark P. Thomas is assistant professor of sociology, and its motives.
York University.
John C. Weaver is University Professor at McMaster
University, and the author of The Great Land Rush
and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–1900.
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY • PO L I TI CA L S C I E N C E CA N A D I A N H I STO RY • S O C I A L H I STO RY
The nuclear issue was a minor political matter when John The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, sim-
Diefenbaker became prime minister in 1957. By 1963, it ple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest
served as a catalyst for his defeat, with many attributing of the Folk he shows how the province’s tourism industry
his demise to the indecision with which he handled it. and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the
Patricia McMahon tells a more nuanced story in Essence cultural identity of the region and its people to project
of Indecision. traditional folk values.
Tracing Diefenbaker’s deliberations over nuclear policy, McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a
McMahon shows that Diefenbaker was politically folk ideology into the art and literature of the region and
cautious, not indecisive – he wanted to acquire nuclear the use of the idea of the “Simple Life” in tourism promo-
weapons and understood from public opinion polls tion. He examines how Nova Scotia’s cultural history was
that most Canadians supported this position. However, rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society,
Diefenbaker worried that the growing anti-nuclear move- class and ethnic differences, and women’s emancipation.
ment might sway public opinion sufficiently to under- In doing so he sheds new light on the roles of Helen
mine his political support. He also feared that Liberal Creighton, the Maritime region’s most famous folklorist,
leader Lester Pearson could use the issue for political and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, in
advantage. As long as Pearson opposed Canada’s mem- creating this false identity.
bership in the nuclear club, he could portray Diefenbaker’s
government as an irresponsible proponent of nuclear “Magnificent analysis bristling with insight. The Quest
proliferation. Despite these reservations, Diefenbaker of the Folk is among the best cultural history that has
was involved in nuclear negotiations with the Americans been produced in this country.”
throughout his tenure as prime minister, and an agree- –Keith Walden, history, Trent University
ment was within reach on a number of occasions. When,
in January 1963, Pearson reversed his position, Diefen- “Seldom do we see intellectual analyses engage as
baker felt trapped – in making a clear public statement in precisely and comprehensively with lived experience
favour of nuclear weapons it would appear as though he as does The Quest of the Folk.”
was merely following his opponent’s lead. When Canada –Dorothy Turner, HNet Reviews
acquired nuclear weapons in 1963, it was under the
leadership of Pearson, not Diefenbaker. Ian McKay is professor of history, Queen’s University,
Essence of Indecision is key to understanding and the author of For a Working-Class Culture in Canada:
Diefenbaker’s formulation of nuclear policy, and the A Selection of Colin McKay’s Writing on Sociology and
environment, both international and domestic, in Political Economy, 1897–1939.
which that policy was created.
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY • H I STO RY O F R E L I G I O N CA N A D I A N H I STO RY • H I STO RY O F R E L I G I O N
On 11 October 1899, Britain was officially at war in South One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-
Africa against the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free century Christianity is the emergence and development
State. While the war was thousands of kilometres away, of Pentecostalism. The fastest-growing form of Christiani-
and Canada’s contribution of over 7,000 troops to the ty, with over five hundred million followers worldwide,
imperial cause was relatively small, the war is considered this widely diverse movement has influenced many sec-
to be one of the critical events in the nation-building tors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America,
process of the young dominion. and Asia, and also affecting Canada.
Gordon Heath’s A War with a Silver Lining is a ground- Bringing together a previously scattered and some-
breaking analysis of why the Canadian Protestant church- what hidden literature, Canadian Pentecostalism provides
es enthusiastically supported the war effort. Extensive the first comprehensive overview of the subject. The
archival research allows Heath to show how the churches’ collection is broad in focus, examining classical Pentecost-
concern for international justice, the development of the alism, charismatic movements in the Roman Catholic and
nascent nation Canada, the unifying and strengthening mainline Protestant traditions, and neo-Pentecostalism.
of the empire, and the spreading of missions led to pas- Contributing authors examine historical debates about
sionate and widespread support for the war effort. the origins of the movement, the response of Pente-
Providing a valuable link between Victorian and twen- costalism to institutionalization and globalization, and
tieth-century Protestantism, war, and the British Empire, the roles of women, aboriginals, and immigrants within
A War with a Silver Lining is a revealing account of the the Canadian movement.
significant role that churches played in nineteenth- A multi-disciplinary study – with contributions from
century Canadian public life. scholars in history, sociology, cultural studies, theology,
and religious studies – Canadian Pentecostalism provides
“A War with a Silver Lining makes a distinct contribution an important window into the Pentecostal/Charismatic
to our understanding of the church’s role in shaping movement and fills a gap in our general understanding
Canadian discourse on the South African War and its of religion in Canada.
national significance. There is a growing literature on
religion, missions, imperialism and war, all subjects that For a complete list of contributors please visit
inform and will be informed by this study.” –Carman www.mqup.ca
Miller, McGill University, author of Painting the Map Red:
Canada and the South African War, 1899–1902 Michael Wilkinson is associate professor of sociology,
and director of the Religion in Canada Institute, Trinity
Gordon L. Heath, assistant professor of Christian history Western University.
at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, is author of
Doing Church History: A User-friendly Introduction to
Researching the History of Christianity.
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CURRENT EVENTS • POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE
In five years, Stephen Harper went from private citizen In 1993, the neophyte Reform Party stunned the nation,
to prime minister of Canada. Tom Flanagan was his chief winning 52 seats in the House of Commons, narrowly
campaign organizer for most of that period. In Harper’s missing Official Opposition status. Having collected just
Team, Flanagan tells the story of Harper’s rise to power – 2% of the popular vote in the 1988 federal election, it
how a small group of colleagues, with little experience in garnered an astonishing 19% five years later.
national politics, transformed themselves into the disci- In Waiting for the Wave, Tom Flanagan studies the
plined, professional campaign team that brought down rapid rise of the Reform Party and presents some fascinat-
Paul Martin and the Liberals. ing insights into the party and its leaders. He corrects two
Harper’s team fought four campaigns in five years: popular misconceptions about Preston Manning: that his
two leadership races and two national elections. Through political philosophy is directly derived from his religious
trial and error – and determination – they learned to com- convictions, and that he is an extreme right-wing conser-
bine the Reform Party’s strength in grassroots politics vative. Flanagan examines Manning’s strategy of pop-
with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising ulism (listening to “the common sense of the common
and media relations, while simultaneously adopting the people”) and illustrates how he used this strategy to
latest advances in information and communications “catch waves” of popular discontent to boost support for
technology. his party. Having held various positions within the party,
Harper’s Team is a rare insider’s view of how political Flanagan is able to portray its inner workings, revealing
campaigns are planned, organized, managed, and paid some of the personal ideologies of party members and
for. Combining forty years of experience as an academic showing how these conflicted with Manning’s strategy
political scientist with five years of organizational work of populism.
for Stephen Harper, Flanagan offers a unique perspective Flanagan updates the story of Reform through the cre-
on how to win power in Canada. This updated edition ation of the Canadian Alliance and the merger with the
includes a new chapter on the 2008 federal election. Progressive Conservatives to form the Conservative Party
of Canada. Led by Stephen Harper, who was chief policy
“Hits the sweet spot for political junkies of all stripes … officer for the Reform Party in its early years, the Con-
a crisply written behind the scenes lesson in winning servative Party won the 2006 federal election, thus
power.” –Policy Options fulfilling Preston Manning’s dream of creating a new
governing party with greater Western influence.
Tom Flanagan is professor of political science at the University of Calgary, former director of research for the Reform
Party, and former campaign manager for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Queen’s University Centre for the Study of Democracy’s Library of Political Leadership occasional series highlights
the written and spoken words of Canada’s prime ministers, premiers, and opposition leaders, as well as those of sig-
nificant foreign leaders in their addresses involving Canada.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies – Centre for the Study of Democracy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE
On an August morning in 1938, Franklin Roosevelt, the 2008 is the 20th anniversary of the great free trade
thirty-second president of the United States, received an debate that culminated in the majority victory of Prime
honourary degree at a special outdoor convocation on the Minster Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conserva-
Queen’s campus. He pledged that day, in a speech that tives, who championed FTA, as well as the 20th anniver-
has gone down in Canadian history, that his nation would sary of the election of George H.W. Bush. Bush’s initial
defend Canada if the Dominion was ever attacked. This period as the 41st president saw significant events in
speech was examined in world capitals as the outbreak of Canada and the United States that led to the realization
war became imminent. His address is widely considered of NAFTA. Age of the Offered Hand features speeches by
one of the most significant speeches ever given by a both leaders, correspondence between them, and tran-
United States president on Canadian soil. scripts of joint press conferences between 1989 and
In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow highlights Roosevelt’s 1993, when the two men held office.
speech and examines his visit to Kingston. The volume This book also includes introductions by former US
delves deeper into the topic by providing all the subse- Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher and former
quent addresses to Canada’s Parliament made by US Canadian ambassador to the United States Derek H.
presidents after Roosevelt. Many individuals associated Burney and features photographs from the Bush
with Queen’s University feel abundant pride in their Presidential Library and the private collection of the
connection to President Roosevelt through his visit to Right Honourable Brian Mulroney.
the campus 70 years ago, and the visit 10 years later by
the late president’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. By assessing James McGrath has worked for George H.W. Bush
Roosevelt’s speech in its greater context, this book is since 1991, at the White House, as his postpresidential
a testament to those feelings. spokesman, and currently as his speechwriter.
Arthur Milnes, a journalist and fellow of the Queen’s
Arthur Milnes, a journalist and fellow of the Queen’s University Centre for the Study of Democracy, served
University Centre for the Study of Democracy, served as research assistant to the Right Honourable Brian
as research assistant to the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney on the latter’s Memoirs.
Mulroney on the latter’s Memoirs.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE
In 2006 Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Canada: The State of the Federation 2006/07 deals with
government introduced two bills to reform the Senate: transitions that have been initiated by a variety of factors
one to establish limited terms for senators, replacing the and have profound implications. Scholars analyze the
existing system of appointment until age 75 and the implications of these transitional forces, bringing histori-
other to establish consultative elections for the Senate cal, analytical, fiscal, and political perspectives to bear on
with the prime minister nominating the winners of the issues arising from equalization and fiscal imbalance.
election. Both bills have been heard in the House of They examine the ramifications of recent major
Commons and the Senate but neither bill has been enact- changes to equalization and show how these changes
ed into law. The government’s initiatives are proving con- will have far-reaching and, in some cases, troubling impli-
troversial for two reasons. One is the contents of the bills. cations. Further transitions arise in the area of federal-
The other is procedural and concerns the federal govern- provincial relations as a result of Prime Minister Harper’s
ment’s strategy of treating Senate reform as a matter for commitment to “open federalism.” In this context, con-
Parliament alone to determine – a matter of federal legis- tributors re-examine the role and use of federal spending
lation rather than an amendment of the constitution. power and explore whether the Canadian federation
Contributors examine all angles of the debate on might be better served by a totally new approach to
Senate reform. They address the constitutionality of the federalism. Finally, the implications of transitions affect-
proposals and bring to light features of the bills that have ing the role and place of cities in the Canadian federation
not yet been analyzed, assessing their significance for the are considered. Particular attention is given to the signifi-
conduct of a reformed chamber. They consider whether cance of the on-going information revolution, which
the objectives of the reformers are likely to be met by privileges cities – most importantly “global city regions” –
these proposals or whether the result will have unintend- as the new, dynamic drivers of growth, innovation,
ed consequences. They demonstrate how complicated and trade.
Senate reform is, full of unexpected twists and turns, and
show that successful reform requires a deep understand- For a complete list of contributors please visit
ing of the country’s parliamentary system and culture www.mqup.ca
and a delicate approach to institutional change.
John R. Allan is associate director, Institute of Intergovern-
For a complete list of contributors please visit mental Relations, Queen’s University. Thomas J. Courchene
www.mqup.ca is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and
Financial Policy, Queen’s University. Christian Leuprecht
Jennifer Smith is professor of political science, is assistant professor of political science, Royal Military
Dalhousie University. College of Canada.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
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Queen’s Policy Studies – Institute of Intergovernmental Relations January 2009
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POLITICAL SCI ENCE • RELIGIOUS STU DI ES P O L I C Y S T U D I E S • M I L I TA R Y S T U D I E S
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies in partnership with Metropolis Project
Migration and Diversity S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
February 2009 Queen’s Policy Studies – Queen’s Centre for International Relations
978-1-55339-266-8 $39.95A, £27.99 paper January 2009
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P O L I C Y S T U D I E S • E D U C AT I O N P O L I C Y S T U D I E S • H E A LT H C A R E
The large scale publicly funded system of postsecondary Hospitals, doctors’ offices, and pharmacies are sitting on
education in Ontario developed in the 1960s has been some very valuable information – your medical informa-
largely successful in fulfilling important societal needs tion. As health-care providers enter the digital world and
in the areas of education, human resource development, computerize their patients’ records in an effort to improve
and research. Existing approaches, however, are unlikely the efficiency and quality of care, they are also building a
to be sufficient to address the challenges of the coming valuable health research tool. The files in their databases
decade. may contain the answers to many medical questions we
The Transformation of Ontario’s Postsecondary Education currently face, but they also contain private information
System examines the developments that are re-shaping that could potentially be misused. Data Data Everywhere
the province’s postsecondary system, including higher highlights the challenges that lie ahead and proposes
enrolments, further development of a knowledge-based a uniquely Canadian framework for striking a balance
economy, increased demands for research focused on between the benefits of allowing researchers to access
competitiveness and productivity, and Ontario’s transition medical information and the privacy concerns of individu-
to a multicultural, internationally connected, urban, and als. In addition to contributing towards a sustainable
aged society. Universities and colleges are also adjusting model for secondary use of data in health research, the
to internal changes in the composition of the student book also contributes significantly to research in this field
body and staff, faculty work profiles, and funding arrange- and serves as an essential comparative reference for
ments. The authors consider possible changes in the similar jurisdictions.
system’s structure, policy, and governance that may be
helpful in dealing with the anticipated changes in socie- For a complete list of contributors please visit
tal needs, and expectations related to postsecondary www.mqup.ca
education.
Colleen M. Flood is scientific director, Canadian Institutes
Ian D. Clark is professor in the School of Public Policy and of Health Research, Institute of Health Services Policy
Governance, University of Toronto. Greg Moran is a mem- Research.
ber of both the clinical and developmental groups within
the Department of Psychology, University of Western
Ontario. Michael Skolnik is professor emeritus in the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto. David Trick is president of David Trick and
Associates, consultants in higher education strategy
and management.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE
“Thanks to the Forum of Federations’ Examining the various functions of local governments.
Global Dialogue, the international dimen-
sion of federalism finally is being ade-
quately included into public discourse.”
–Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Minister-President
of the German Community, Belgium
This fifth book in the Global Dialogue series explores for- While local government is found in all federal countries,
eign policy in federal countries, which often varies among its place and role in the governance of these countries
such countries and differs considerably from that of uni- varies considerably. In some countries, local government
tary countries. Foreign policy has traditionally been the is considered an essential part of the federal nature of the
responsibility of central governments. In countries with state and recognized in the constitution as such, whereas
a unitary system of government this state of affairs is rel- in others it is simply a creature of the subnational
atively unproblematic since most powers accrue to, and states/provinces. When referring to local government it
most public policy is conducted at, the national level. In is more correct to refer to local governments (plural), as
federal countries, however, constitutional powers and these institutions come in all shapes and sizes, perform-
responsibility for the conduct of public policy are shared ing widely divergent functions. They range from metro-
between the federal government and constituent units – politan municipalities of mega-cities to counties, small
states, provinces, cantons, and so on – with each order town councils, and villages. Their focus is either multi-
of government responsible for a set of functions. purpose in the case of municipalities or single purpose
Foreign Relations in Federal Countries addresses ques- in the case of special districts and school districts. What
tions such as: What constitutional powers do the federal unites these institutions of state is that there is no level
governments and constituent states have to conduct for- of government below them. That is also their strength
eign affairs? To what degree are relations between orders and the source of their democratic claim – they are the
of government regularized by formal agreement or infor- government closest to the people. Political science ex-
mal practice? What roles do constituent governments perts from across the globe examine local governments
have in negotiation and implementation of international by drawing on case studies of Australia, Austria, Brazil,
treaties? The volume offers a comparative perspective on Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland,
the conduct of foreign relations in twelve federal coun- Spain, South Africa, and United States.
tries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Germany, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, For a complete list of contributors please visit
and the United States. www.mqup.ca
For a complete list of contributors please visit John Kincaid is Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor
www.mqup.ca of Government and Public Service and director of the
Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local
Hans Michelmann is professor of political studies, Government, Lafayette College. Nico Steytler is the
University of Saskatchewan. director of the Community Law Centre, University
of the Western Cape.
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Published for the Forum of Federations and the International Published for the Forum of Federations and the International
Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS) Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS)
Global Dialogue on Federalism Series Global Dialogue on Federalism Series
February 2009 July 2009
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
As part of its increased focus on comparative work on sectoral issues in federal systems, this new series from the
Forum of Federations complements and parallels the Global Dialogue series. More policy oriented than its sister series,
each of the volumes has been planned around a template of questions that will provide information and analysis rel-
evant to the needs of practitioners of federalism. Each volume will be a comparative work edited by leading experts
in the field and built around an author’s conference that will allow for exchange of ideas and provide direction with
regard to the final publication. The first two volumes in the series will deal with the financing and governance of
capital cities in federal countries and with oil and gas in federations. Future volumes will address policing and public
security, environmental assessment and regulation, natural resources, language policy, internal markets, poverty and
regional development, and climate change.
Finance and Governance of Capital Using capital cities in Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Ethiopia, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa,
Cities in Federal Systems Switzerland, and the United States as case studies, con-
Edited by Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay tributors examine federal policies towards capital cities,
with a particular emphasis on how capital cities are funded
Examining federal policies towards capital cities. and governed, and the extent to which the federal gov-
ernment compensates them for their unique role.
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Published for the Forum of Federations and the International
Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS)
Thematic Issues in Federalism
July 2009
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PUBLIC POLICY • ENVIRONMENT POLICY STU DI ES
This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environment The North is an increasingly important focal point of pub-
includes reflections from a number of Canada’s leading lic policy. The impact of climate change on the environ-
sustainable development thinkers, two decades after the ment and community life underlines the urgent need for
1987 publication of the seminal United Nations report measures to slow this trend and facilitate adaptation to
Our Common Future. Published by the World Commission uncertain conditions. International events have under-
on Environment and Development, the report popularized lined the importance of safeguarding Canada’s sovereign-
the concept of sustainable development which continues ty in its Arctic regions, and the federal government has
to influence economic, environmental, and social policy announced a series of measures to further this objective.
decisions and structures in individual countries and The result of a wide-ranging IRPP research program,
international organizations. this multidisciplinary volume explores the following
Contributors analyse a number of dimensions of the themes: Canada in the circumpolar world; First Nations,
Canadian experience in implementing sustainable devel- Inuit and public governance; economic development, sus-
opment and critically assess how the country has done taining people; and developing a northern policy for the
over this twenty year period. They discuss both the future. Public policy specialists review the implications of
breakthroughs and disappointments of the Canadian the unprecedented changes in governance that have
experience, and look toward the future to discuss what taken place in the three territories and in Aboriginal com-
additional steps need to be undertaken domestically if munities in northern Quebec and Labrador over the past
Canada is to once again achieve a position of leadership three decades and analyze challenges that must be faced
in the world and get on a truly sustainable trajectory. in order to strengthen economic development and quality
of life for northern residents. Contributions from Inuit
For a complete list of contributors please visit and First Nations leaders, former territorial premiers,
www.mqup.ca and Aboriginal youth activists add further depth and
perspective.
Glen Toner is professor of public policy and director of the
Carleton Research Unit in Innovation, Science and For a complete list of contributors please visit
Environment, Carleton University. James Meadowcroft is www.mqup.ca
professor of political science and public policy, Carleton
University. Frances Abele is professor, School of Public Policy and
Administration, Carleton University. Thomas J. Courchene
is Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and
Financial Policy, Queen’s University. F. Leslie Seidle is
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senior research associate, Institute for Research on Public
Published for the Carleton School of Public Policy and
Policy. Frances St-Hilaire is vice president of research,
Administration and the Carleton Research Unit on Innovation,
Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Science and Environment (CRUISE)
Innovation, Science, Environment Series
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LITERARY STU DI ES L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S • C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory
literature, yet she spent much of the first thirty years of when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were tra-
her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as ditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original
a member of Manitoba’s francophone minority, bilingual- history of memory, David Williams shows how classic
ism was a necessary strategy for survival and success. Great War literature, including work by Remarque, Owen,
How did this bilingual and bicultural background help Sassoon, and Harrison, was symptomatic of a cultural
shape her work as a writer in French? The implications of crisis brought on by the advent of cinema. He argues that
her linguistic and cultural identity are explored in chap- images from Geoffrey Malins’ hugely popular war film
ters looking at education, language, translation, and the The Battle of the Somme (1916) collapsed social, temporal,
representation of Canada’s other minorities, from the and spatial boundaries, giving film a new cultural legiti-
immigrants in Western Canada to the Inuit of Ungava. macy, while the appearance of writings based on cine-
What emerges is a new reading of Roy’s work. matic forms of remembering marked a crucial transition
Drawing on archival material, postcolonial theory, from a verbal to a visual culture. By contrast, today’s digi-
and translation studies, Between Languages and Cultures tal media are laying the ground for a return to Homeric
explores the traces and effects of Roy’s intimate know- memory, whether in History Television, the digital
ledge of English language and culture, challenging and Memory Project, or the interactive war museum.
augmenting the established view that her work is Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital
distinctly French-Canadian or Québécois. theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists,
Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative
“A fresh approach to the work of a major Canadian writer. study that shows how the dominant mode of communi-
Fascinating from beginning to end.” cation in a popular culture – from oral traditions to
–Mary Jean Green, Dartmouth College, author of Women digital media – shapes the structure of memory within
and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text that culture.
Rosemary Chapman is reader in French and Canadian “Media, Memory, and the First World War is fascinating
studies, University of Nottingham, and author of Siting in its inter-disciplinarity – the author has a good grasp
the Quebec Novel: The Representation of Space in on a wide range of sources and raises excellent analytical
Francophone Writing in Quebec. points throughout the book.”
–Jonathan Vance, University of Western Ontario
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Joseph Conrad’s novels are recognized as great works of Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have
fiction, but they should also be counted as great works emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations
of criticism. A voracious reader throughout his life, Conrad in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism.
wrote novels that question and transform the ideas he While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate
encountered in non-fiction, novels, and scientific and existing power relations, they can also encourage remem-
philosophic works. brance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately
Under Conrad’s Eyes looks at Conrad’s revaluations of bring about social transformation.
some of his important nineteenth-century predecessors – Drawing on critical and theoretical material by
Carlyle, Darwin, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon,
Nietzsche. Detailed readings of works from Heart of Mahatma Ghandi, and Julia Kristeva, Julie McGonegal
Darkness to Victory explore Conrad’s language and style, supplements indigenous models and approaches with
focusing on questions regarding the will to know and the those produced within Euro American discourse. In the
avoidance of knowledge, the potential harmfulness of process, she develops an understanding of forgiveness
sympathy, and the competing instincts for self-preserva- and reconciliation based on the interventive power of
tion and self-destruction. Comparative analyses show literature. Through insightful readings of four novels,
how Conrad transforms aspects of Bleak House into The McGonegal demonstrates the ways in which literature
Secret Agent and Middlemarch into Nostromo. Especially can create the conditions that make processes of post-
compelling are explorations of Conrad’s ambivalence colonial reconciliation possible.
towards Carlyle’s faith in work and hero-worship as The first book to approach the political demands for
rejuvenators of English culture and his views on reconciliation from the perspective of postcolonial literary
Nietzsche’s assault on Christianity. criticism and theory, Imagining Justice demonstrates that
This important new study of a novelist of profound reading can have potentially radical social and political
contemporary relevance demonstrates how Conrad exem- effects. While the primary focus is on literary texts, the
plifies the artist as critic while challenging both the cate- issues at stake are germane to historians, political scien-
gories we impose on texts and the boundaries we erect tists, theologians, and sociologists.
between literary periods.
Julie McGonegal is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow
“DiSanto has a great enthusiasm for Conrad and for ideas. at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
This is a compelling and original work that makes a sig-
nificant contribution to Conrad studies and to intellectual
and literary history of the nineteenth century.”
–Pericles Lewis, Yale University
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Many readers are struck by Elizabeth Bishop’s use of clear, Why are so many contemporary poets writing elegies?
striking descriptions of the physical world, and no scholar Given a century shaped by two world wars, vast popula-
has ever asked how Bishop’s commitment to description tion displacements, and shifting attitudes towards aging
shapes her writing and thinking. and death, is the elegy form adaptable to the changing
Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description argues that needs of writers and audiences? In a skeptical age, where
attention to the material realm informs everything can consolation be found?
Bishop does. Seen through this lens, many familiar topics In We Are What We Mourn Priscila Uppal examines
look remarkably different. Bishop’s relationship to travel, why and how the work of mourning has drastically
epiphany, surrealism, and imagery are all transformed, changed in the latter half of the twentieth century,
and a timely new Bishop emerges – one quite different focusing on the strong pattern in contemporary English-
from the postmodern poet that has dominated recent Canadian elegy that emphasizes connection rather than
scholarship. separation between the living and the dead. Uppal offers
Zachariah Pickard eschews academic jargon and con- a penetrating reading of Canadian elegies that radically
centrates on the poems themselves as well as a number challenges English and American elegy traditions as well
of key prose passages that have long been overlooked. His as long-standing psychological models for successful
study combines scholarly rigor with clarity and common mourning. She sets up useful categories for elegy study –
sense to present a moving new account of Bishop’s work parental elegies, elegies for places, and elegies for cultural
that will appeal to educated readers within and without losses and displacements – and suggests where elegy
the academy. and mourning studies might be headed post 9/11.
“One of the strongest, clearest, most carefully argued, and “Uppal brings the critical acumen of a writer of poetry
most convincing books about any modern poet in quite and fiction herself to imaginative and insightful readings
a while. Anyone interested in Bishop should see Pickard’s of poets as disparate as Milton Acorn and Anne Carson
book; anyone interested in what interested her – in how and as relatively similar as Patrick Lane and Al Purdy. We
the natural sciences enter literary writing, for example – Are What We Mourn brings provocative critical shape to
will find plenty to learn here.” an important body of work.” –Leslie Monkman, professor
–Stephen Burt, Harvard University emeritus, English, Queen’s University
Zachariah Pickard is assistant professor of language Priscila Uppal is associate professor, English, York
and literature at Bard High School Early College II in University, and the author of several books of poetry,
New York City. fiction, and non-fiction, including Ontological Necessities
and The Divine Economy of Salvation.
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Two Solitudes
General editor Michael Gnarowski, professor emeritus of Canadian literature
Hugh MacLennan
and founding director and editor of Carleton University Press, co-edited, With a new introduction
with Louis Dudek, The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled by Michael Gnarowski
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Return of the Sphinx Each Man’s Son The Watch that Ends
Hugh MacLennan Hugh MacLennan the Night
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Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor work-
man high in the government. Daniel ing with the miners of his native George and Catherine Stewart share
Ainslie, his son, is a member of an Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and not only the burden of Catherine’s
explosive movement impelled by the deeply in love with his wife. Longing heart disease, which could cause her
naive rebelliousness of the New Left. for the son he can never have, he death at any time, but the memory
Hugh MacLennan weaves a complex comes to love the young Alan of Jerome Martell, her first husband
and story of two generations in MacNeil, whose father deserted him and George’s closest friend. Martel,
conflict. and his mother several years before. a brilliant doctor passionately con-
Originally published in 1967, Alan’s father’s return brings tragedy cerned with social justice, is pre-
Return of the Sphinx is something of to those around him. sumed to have died in a Nazi prison
a sequel to the more optimistic Two camp. His sudden return to Montreal
Solitudes and reflects MacLennan’s “What is distinctive about Each precipitates the central crisis of the
disenchantment with the world Man’s Son is its warmth and intimacy novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the
in general and the apparently … Expertly planned and executed, it reader into the lives of his three
intractable French-English debate is the most human of his books.” characters and back into the world
in Canada. –The Globe and Mail of Montreal in the thirties, when
politics could send an idealist
“Each Man’s Son has many of the across the world to Spain, France,
qualities that we have come to Auschwitz, Russia, and China before
admire in MacLennan’s work. It has his return home.
a clear and, at times, eloquent prose
style; it has many individual scenes “The Watch That Ends the Night is a
that are sharply and sympathetically novel of affirmation ... The vanity of
projected; and it gives constant evi- human wishes, death itself, are part
dence of a lively and flexible mind.” of the mystery to be loved ... I would
–The University of Toronto Quarterly not trade MacLennan for a legion of
beatniks or a whole flotilla-full of
angry young men.”
–Queen’s Quarterly
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A Silent Revolution? The Making of the
Gender and Wealth in English Nations and Cultures
Canada, 1860–1930 of the New World
Peter Baskerville An Essay in Comparative History
Gérard Bouchard
The increasing involvement of women
in business and finance in
Translated by Michelle Weinroth
turn-of-the-century urban Canada. and Paul Leduc Brown
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Transatlantic The Spirit of Compositional
Subjects Industry and Crossroads
Ideas, Institutions, and Improvement Music, McGill,
Social Experience in Liberal Government Montreal
Post-Revolutionary and Rural-Industrial Edited by
British North America Society, Nova Scotia, Eleanor V. Stubley
Edited by Nancy Christie 1790–1862
The first full length
Foreword by J.G.A. Pocock Daniel Samson study of how McGill’s
Faculty of Music helped
A reinterpretation of the How elites, the poor, and to shape contemporary
place of colonial Canada the state made a modern Canadian music.
within a reconstructed world in nineteenth-century
British Empire that focuses rural Nova Scotia.
on culture and social
relations. The notion of improvement permeated social McGill University’s Faculty of Music – now
Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four and political discourse in colonial Canadian the Schulich School – has been a centre of
decades of scholarly writing on colonial society. From agriculture to building roads new music in Canada for decades, helping to
Canada by taking the British imperial context and mills to defining correct habits and shape contemporary composition, electro-
– rather than the North American environ- behaviour, Nova Scotians embraced the acoustic research, performance, and sound
ment – as a conceptual framework for inter- ideals of innovation and progress and pro- recording. Compositional Crossroads focuses
preting patterns of social and cultural life moted modern programs of government. on McGill’s location in a culturally dynamic
in the colonies prior to the 1850s. Daniel Samson moves Nova Scotia and city and shows how the interplay between
Anchored in “the new British history” rural Canada from the colonial margins to place, community, identity, and memory and
advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, the heart of a modernizing society, showing individuals, faculty, and students created
and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work how the countryside functioned as a centre institutional pathways that have lead to
explores ideas, institutions, and social of change and innovation. He connects a an explosion of new music activity.
practices that were adapted and changed fascinating spectrum of sites, actors, and Visionary deans, composers, musicolo-
through the process of migration from the strategies and links settlement, farm-build- gists, and students associated with the
British archipelago to the new settlement ing, rural market formation, and early indus- Faculty of Music between 1970–2004 offer
societies. Contributors discuss a broad range trialization to the heterogeneous strategies insights into the early contributions of Istvan
of institutional and social practices, including of families and state actors, the rural poor, Inhalt, the birth of the Electronic Music
education, religion, radical politics, and and rural elites. Studio and McGill Records, the importance
family life. The Spirit of Industry and Improvement of visiting composer-teachers, opportunities
Transatlantic Subjects offers a new per- presents the first-ever overview of rural colo- for composer/performer collaborations, the
spective for the writing of Canada’s history. nial Nova Scotia and provides compelling development of performing spaces and
A self-conscious response to the plea for a insights into the formation of modern liberal ensembles, and new ways of considering
broader British history that includes the over- practices of government and self-govern- sonic creativity. Several essays are devoted to
seas settlement colonies, it makes a signifi- ment in British North America. major composers who taught at the school,
cant contribution to the new cultural history including Bengt Hambreus, alcides lanza,
of the British Empire. “A major contribution to rural history and to Brian Cherney, Bruce Mather, John Rea, and
the historiography of British North America.” Denys Bouliane.
For a complete list of contributors please –Rusty Bittermann, St. Thomas University
visit www.mqup.ca For a complete list of contributors please
“A detailed, refreshing, coherent, and mean- visit www.mqup.ca
Nancy Christie is professor, history, Trent ingful overview of change in nineteenth-
University and the author of several prize- century rural Nova Scotia.” Eleanor V. Stubley is associate professor,
winning books, including A Full-Orbed –Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto Schulich School of Music, and director of
Christianity and Engendering the State. graduate studies, Schulich School of Music,
Daniel Samson is associate professor, history, McGill University. Stubley is also a conductor
Brock University. and associate of the John Adaskin Project
of the Canadian Music Centre.
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“As long as I have my eyes, the use of The early married life of foreign
my hands, and as long as my brain still nationals in Japan in the years leading
works, I’ll be writing to soldiers.” up to the Second World War.
–Gladys Osmond
Gladys Osmond wrote her first letter to a Canadian Yokohama, a quiet fishing village when Commodore
soldier serving overseas in 1983. She went on to found the Matthew Perry arrived with his gunboat diplomacy in
Granny Brigade, a group that has written to countless the mid-1800s, was quickly transformed into a bustling
Canadian soldiers, sailors, and airforce personnel serving port for international trade. The change brought affluent
in all parts of the world. foreigners to the city but also mobilized Japanese nation-
The moral support Osmond provides to Canadian mili- alist hostilities. It was in this setting that Ron and Martin
tary personnel has been honoured formally on several Baenninger’s Canadian mother and Swiss father met
occasions: in 2006 she was awarded the Canadian Forces in 1933.
Medallion for Distinguished Service, presented to her in Relying on Ron’s early memories, their mother’s diary,
Newfoundland by chief of the Defence Staff, General Rick and the acute memory of their father, who lived to be
Hillier. However, no formal honour, Osmond insists, can over one hundred, the Baenningers recount the initial
compare to the notes of sincere personal gratitude from years of their parents’ marriage and provide glimpses into
the individuals and families to whom she has written. relations between Japan and the West from the turn of
Now well into her eighties, Osmond’s continued corre- the century to the onset of the Second World War. In their
spondence with her extended military family occupies earliest years together the young couple enjoyed a rich
her from dawn until long after dark. social life, travelling freely between Canada, Switzerland,
Dear Gladys provides first-hand insight into the lives and Japan, although aware of the political turmoil
and duties of Canadians in conflicts past and present. slowing unfolding around them. The outbreak of the war
between Japan and the United States and allied powers
Gilbert Penney, a retired school teacher living in brought their privileged lifestyle to an end. In August
Springdale, NL, has written several magazine articles and 1942 they escaped internment with their young son
books. As a member of the Canadian Rangers, he appreci- aboard the Kamakura Maru – one of the many exchange
ates Canada’s military and has great admiration for ships assigned to bring foreign nationals home and the
Gladys Osmond’s unwavering dedication to Canadian last evacuation vessel from Japan – and negotiated their
Forces personnel. way through war-torn areas to reach Canada four
months later.
In the Eye of the Wind will interest anyone seeking to
learn more about a tumultuous time in an extraordinary
place.
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Sods, Soil, and Spades Grenfell of Labrador
The Acadians at Grand Pré A Biography
and Their Dykeland Legacy Ronald Rompkey
J. Sherman Bleakney With a new preface by the author
A detailed account of how early Acadian “A tale well-told … one welcomes the
settlers turned the Grand Pré tidal revival of a hero who was a legend
marshes into fertile farming lands. within living memory.”
–The Northern Mariner
French Acadians began settling in the Grand Pré area When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfound-
of Nova Scotia, a region plagued by salt-soaked tidal land in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisher-
meadows, in the seventeenth century. By the middle of man, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or
the eighteenth century, a complex system of sod barriers how they lived – a few weeks on the Labrador coast
had enabled them to convert 3,000 acres of what had changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the
been tidal marshes into rich crop land. Four hundred place and the difficulties faced by those who lived there,
years after the Acadian arrival in the Bay of Fundy region, Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs.
the physical presence of their legacy is still intact. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National
Sherman Bleakney examines the unusual physical and Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman, Grenfell became part of
biological features of this region of the Bay of Fundy, philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic.
home to the only successful pioneer society in North Raising funds in Canada and the United States, he founded
America to farm below sea level. Using original photo- a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and
graphs, diagrams, and graphs, Bleakney shows how and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day.
why the Acadians were successful. Sods, Soil, and Spades In 1908, the story of his survival after a night marooned
examines the unique and elegant engineering principles on a drifting patch of ice transformed him into a popular
and practices used by the Acadians and looks at how their hero. He eventually became one of the most successful
culture influenced their success in mastering this marsh- lecturers of his time.
land region. Ronald Rompkey tells the story of Grenfell’s education,
his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues of
“A marvellous work of history plus common sense, of what hygiene and public health. Above all, Rompkey shows that
is recorded, plus what can be reasonably conjectured.” Grenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary to
–Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society become a cultural politician who intervened in a colonial
culture. Grenfell of Labrador provides a vivid picture of the
“A valuable reference tool, Sods, Soil, and Spades is … a man himself and the social movements through which
pleasure to read.” –The Daily Gleaner he worked.
J. Sherman Bleakney is a retired professor of biology, “Well-written, informative, and a joy to read.”
Acadia University, living in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Prior –Social History of Medicine
to teaching, he was curator of amphibians, reptiles, and
fish at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. He Ronald Rompkey is University Research Professor,
has published numerous articles and several books. Department of English, Memorial University of
Newfoundland. He is the author or editor of eleven books,
including three others on Labrador.
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