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Our Fall 2016 catalogue is here! Lots of exciting books and authors this Fall, as well as a brand new series: Rethinking Canada In The World.
To view the Fall 2016 titles, have a browse through the PDF flipbook, or view them on our site as part of our online book catalogue.
Some highlights from the new catalogue include:
We are delighted to announce that three MQUP titles have been awarded a 2016 Canada Prize!
“These books are representative of the tremendous scholarship produced in our country,” said Stephen Toope, President of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Two of this year’s winners examine Québec’s history—one looking at how two prominent … Read More >
Seeking our Eden: The Dreams and Migrations of Sarah Jameson Craig by Joanne Findon, was recently reviewed by Linda Kealey on Acadiensis. The Acadiensis blog is an essential source for reading and research on the history of Atlantic Canada.
The following is an excerpt from the review:
Seeking Our Eden provides an engrossing account of a 19th-century … Read More >
ANTHEMS AND MINSTREL SHOWS, Brian C. Thompson’s biography of Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was reviewed in The Montreal Gazette this past weekend. The following is an excerpt from Ian McGillis’ piece, O really? The little-known origins of O Canada.
One summer, without having planned it, I spent late June … Read More >
Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada.
In ANTHEMS AND MINSTREL SHOWS, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the … Read More >
Please join McGill-Queen’s University Press and Victor C. Goldbloom in celebrating the launch of his memoir:
Monday, June 1st
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Montreal City Hall
275 rue Notre-Dame E.
A life devoted to social reconciliation and public understanding.
A pediatrician, provincial politician, and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, Victor Goldbloom (b. 1923) has led a rich and … Read More >
Among Europe’s major contemporary poets, Estonia’s Jaan Kaplinski offers a rare vision of human advancement and fulfillment: the less we intervene the more we flourish.
But how then can we remain involved in what evolves of its own accord? How can we move away from a life forged by human design towards a quietly attentive … Read More >
Christopher Risso-Gill’s Routines and Orgies is the biography of value investor Peter Cundill – marathon runner, world-traveler, philosopher, cultural enthusiast, and playboy.
Supported by four decades of Cundill’s meticulously kept daily journals, which are intimate, frank, self-admonishing, and confessional, the biography all aspects of what Cundill referred to as his “wonderful life” – commercial, artistic, romantic, … Read More >
New this month: Bethune in Spain by Jesús Majada and Roderick Stewart
In Bethune in Spain, Roderick Stewart and Jesús Majada recount Norman Bethune’s achievements in Spain and the events that led to his decision to assist the Loyalist forces in the Civil War.
The narrative contains Bethune’s letters and reports, some of them reproduced … Read More >
The following excerpt from Paul-Émile Borduas, by François-Marc Gagnon, translated by Peter Feldstein, is on the controversial Refus global manifesto of 1948.
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The pamphlet known as Refus global was the culmination of a long period of planning. It appeared on 9 August 1948 on the shelves of the only bookseller (whose name, ironically, was Henri Tranquille) brave enough … Read More >