Announcing the MQUP Fall/Winter 2022-23 Catalogue!

We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2022-23 catalogue, in both hard-copy and digital form. You can download the PDF and browse the new titles on our website.

Some highlights from the new catalogue include:

Singular Creatures
Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

By Mark Kingwell

Welcome to posthuman life: could non-human consciousness be an evolutionary step forward?

Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups
Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade

By Ryan Manucha

The story of interprovincial trade in Canada.

COVID-19
A History

By Jacalyn Duffin

The scientific, social, and political impact of COVID-19, in the context of past epidemics.

Attitudes of Play

By Gabor Csepregi

An original study of the various forms of play attitude adopted by humans and the ways that play and playfulness enrich human life.

The Possession of Barbe Hallay
Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada

By Mairi Cowan 

A microhistory of bewitchment that sheds light on the social and religious history of New France.

From Big Bang to Big Data
A History of the Media

By Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell and Pelle Snickars

A long history of media – from antique graffiti to Spotify playlists.

Orlando

By Russell Sheaffer

An innovative study of how Virginia Woolf’s lesbian feminist novel was adapted into Sally Potter’s markedly queer film.

Red Mitten Nationalism
Sport, Commercialism, and Settler Colonialism in Canada

By Estée Fresco

On the marketing of amateur sports and how it shapes common understandings of Canadian history and identity.

Under the Weather
Reimagining Mobility in the Climate Crisis

By Stephanie Sodero

Why an ecological approach to human mobility will make communities more resilient.