New Releases: June 2025

MQUP is excited to announce ten new books for the month of June! Discover our new additions to the McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion Series, McGill-Queen’s Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada, and McGill-Queen’s Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series, McGill-Queen’s Studies in Urban Governance series.

Contesting Zion

The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine

By Adrian Ciani

Consulting a range of sources, including formerly classified papers in the Vatican archive, Contesting Zion examines relationships among the Vatican, Zionism, and American Catholics from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 through the creation of Israel in 1948 and the years that followed.

Euphoria and Symposia

The Dialectic of Desire in Thinking, Drinking, and Well-Being

By Kieran Bonner

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is essential for the understanding and enjoyment of life itself.

Great Minds in Despair

The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989

By Frank Stahnisch

Examining the research impacts and personal fates of the émigré researchers who helped to build biomedical science in North America.

Knowledge, Power, and Migration

Contesting the North/South Divide

Edited by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Mireille Paquet and Ethel Tungohan

Knowledge, Power, and Migration asks how research practices can change the conversation on immigration, encouraging curiosity about how scholarship in this field can shape global, social, and epistemic justice.

Letters from the Afterlife

The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson

Translated by Krzysztof Majer and Sylvia Söderlind, Edited by Goldie Morgentaler

Letters from the Afterlife chronicles the experiences of writers Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, Holocaust survivors from Poland, as they adjusted to life in their adopted countries of Canada and Sweden.

Social Resilience and International Migration in the Canadian City

Edited by Valerie Preston, John Shields and Tara Bedard

Social Resilience and International Migration in the Canadian City provides crucial insights about the policies necessary for helping both migrants and cities thrive, offering ideas for effective implementation.

The Jesuit “Relations”

A Biography

By Micah True

The Jesuit “Relations” explores the intricate relationships between the published Relations and the many other texts written in New France, revealing a rich picture of a historical source that has shaped public understanding of colonial North America.

The Wild Word

Animals in the Gospels

By Jaeda Charlotte Calaway

The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural.

Tradition and Tension

The Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1945–1985

By Stuart Macdonald

Tradition and Tension is the history of a period that marked a dramatic change in the Presbyterian Church’s fortunes – from confident expansion in the immediate postwar period to a relatively sudden contraction in the early 1960s, followed by waning membership and influence into the 1980s.

Voltaire’s Workshop

The Sources of “Candide”

By Edward Langille

Voltaire’s Workshop argues that the French translation of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, by Pierre-Antoine de La Place, was the single most important source for Voltaire’s Candide.