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Excerpt: “Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control” »
As a lead-up to Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read, we’re offering an excerpt of Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control by Mathew Fellion and Katherine Inglis.
In twenty-five chapters focusing on a wide range of texts, including the Bible, slave narratives, modernist classics, … Read More >
Essay: Living in the Shadow of a Black Snake »
In A Canadian Climate of Mind: Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond, author Timothy B. Leduc looks at climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a state of the human spirit. Weaving together voices from numerous backgrounds and time periods with … Read More >
Fall New Editions »
Newly released from the Fall 2017 catalogue, two new editions explore Canadian history through a lens of Indigenous studies and Northern studies. In the second edition of Voices from Hudson Bay, Muskego Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived an worked at the Hudson’s Bay Company post at York … Read More >
Excerpt: Tax, Order, and Good Government »
In a year of many anniversaries, 2017 also marks 100 years since the passage of the first Federal progressive income tax act that was signed into law on September 20, 1917. To meet the financial pressures of World War I, the government of Robert Borden conceived of a direct tax on income which brought a … Read More >
The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney »
Number 82 on The Guardian’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books list is The Diary of Fanny Burney (1778). Robert McCrum, associate editor of the Observer, argues that “Fanny Burney’s acutely observed memoirs open a window on the literary and courtly circles of late 18th-century England.” To accompany The Guardian’s choice, we revisit five … Read More >
Guest Blog: Sheila Johnson Kindred introduces “Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister” »
As we approach the release of Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen, author Sheila Johnson Kindred offers insight on the process behind documenting the life of Jane’s sister-in-law, Fanny Palmer Austen.
Just over two hundred years ago a young naval wife spent an anxious … Read More >
War Perspectives »
Titles from our Fall 2017 catalogue have started arriving. This catalogue is no different from its predecessors, with areas of study ranging from Architecture to Indigenous Studies to World History. However the following four are a collection of newly released titles uniquely connected by their subject matter: war. With differing perspectives, each confronts … Read More >
Books for BC Day »
On Monday, August 7, our westerly neighbours will celebrate BC Day. To help them celebrate we’re highlighting three upcoming titles from our Fall catalogue that explore specific social and political histories within British Columbia.
Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws
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By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace
Foreword by Bonnie … Read More >
200 years after Jane Austen’s death, “Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister” examines the life of Fanny Palmer Austen »
Today, July 18th, 2017, marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, the famed English novelist whose works include Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Largely unnoticed as an author during her relatively short lifetime, Jane Austen and her six completed books are now recognized worldwide as some … Read More >
