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Quill & Quire recently reviewed our newly released book Making out in the Mainstream, GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle.
The following is an excerpt from the review:
There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study … Read More >
Just in time for the Oscars, a special blog post today from our Publicity Assistant, Amy Hemond. Amy has put together a reading list of MQUP titles that complement and share common ground with some of the 2016 Best Picture nominated films. Grab your popcorn…and your reading glasses!
The 88th Academy Awards are just around the corner, set for broadcast on February … Read More >
In honour of Black History month, here is an excerpt from Winfried Siemerling’s book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered. In this excerpt we get a glimpse at how black Canadian musicians influenced Montreal culture and history in the mid-twentieth century.
The following excerpt is taken from chapter 5 – Other Black Canadas
THE BLACKENING OF QUEBEC:
JAZZ, DIASPORA, AND THE … Read More >
Sean Mill’s latest book, A Place in the Sun, which was officially launched just last week here in Montreal, was also recently reviewed by the Montreal Gazette. The following is an excerpt from Ian McGillis’ piece “A Place in the Sun traces the Haitian face of Quebec”.
Understanding history is more than just … Read More >
This week saw the passing of an important and well respected Quebec community leader, Dr. Victor Goldbloom. A pediatrician, provincial politician, author and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, Victor Goldbloom led a rich and varied life. He was amazingly still very active in public life at the age of 92, and just last week gave a talk in … Read More >
We are very pleased to announce that one of our books, Landscape Architecture in Canada, has won the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation of Landscape Studies!
The prize is awarded to the author of a book published within the past three years on a subject pertaining to landscape studies. This is the 2nd prize Landscape Architecture in … Read More >
Please join Sean Mills this Thursday, February 18th for his talk on “The Poetics of Exile: Haitians and the Remaking of Quebec”. The talk will be hosted by the Montreal History Group, and will be followed by the Montreal book launch for Sean Mill’s latest book A Place in the Sun. The event will take place at Morrice Hall, TNC … Read More >
BEYOND BRUTAL PASSIONS: PROSTITUTION IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONTREAL by Mary Anne Poutanen, was recently reviewed on Christopher Moore’s History News. The following is an excerpt from history Professor Elsbeth Heaman’s piece Book Notes: Heaman on Poutanen on Montreal Prostitution
That tension between ideal and real women is fully on display in Mary Anne … Read More >
We are delighted to have Patricia Marino, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo and author of the Fall 2015 book, Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World, participate in a Q&A with MQUP Editor Mark Abley.
Together they discuss the questions explored in her recent work.
Q&A
Mark Abley: Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World tackles a few major topics in … Read More >