New Releases: January and February

We’re thrilled to kick off the new year with five exciting new releases this January and February! We have new additions to the McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society series, McGill-Queen’s Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada series, and the Queer Film Classics series.

Building Mennonite Belonging

Toward an Intercultural Church

By Hyung Jin Kim Sun

Building Mennonite Belonging charts a course for Canadian Mennonites, particularly those in Mennonite Church Canada, to address changing racial and ethnocultural identities in a diversifying society.

Echoes of Care

Deafness in Modern Britain

By Jaipreet Virdi

Echoes of Care chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people’s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.

Lived Moments

Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave

By Glen Norton

Lived Moments offers illustrative readings of canonical films by Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer to deepen our understanding of the history of cinematic modernism, standing as a model of how film philosophy and film analysis can enrich one another.

Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783

By Richard Tomczak

Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era.

Y Tu Mamá También

By Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

Y Tu Mamá También explores the film as a touchstone for queer and sex cinema that continues to teach us how to find queer resonances across national and international film styles and to imagine queer media as complex networks of influence and rediscovery, more than two decades after its original release.