Fall/Winter 2024 Catalogue

We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2024 catalogue!

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The Lives of Lake Ontario

An Environmental History

By Daniel Macfarlane

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. The Lives of Lake Ontario examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable resource.

Mainstreaming Porn

Sexual Integrity and the Law Online

By Elaine Craig

Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact of monopolistic, corporate porn platforms on the contours of sexual integrity in our communities.

Prisoners’ Bodies

Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985

By Oisín Wall

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

Needle Work

A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada

By Jamie Jelinski

Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.

The Adaptable Country

How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century

By Alasdair Roberts

The Adaptable Country outlines straightforward policy reforms to improve adaptability – the capacity to anticipate and manage danger. In a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. Canada’s challenge is to show how political systems built to respect diversity and human rights can also respond nimbly to existential threats.

It’s Nation Time

A Progressive Defence

By Jerry White

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service

By Donald J. Savoie

The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada’s development. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service provides a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting the public service, how the relationship between politicians and career officials has evolved in recent years, and what motivates public servants.

Great Right North

Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada

By Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana and Samuel Tanner

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by revealing the ideological underpinnings and fragmentation within these groups, it highlights the role of digital platforms in their proliferation.

The Hour of Absinthe

A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink

By Nina Studer

The Hour of Absinthe contextualizes and deconstructs some of the numerous myths surrounding absinthe, locating race, gender, class, and colonialism at the heart of France’s cultural narratives about the drink.