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The Dillon Era
James Clarke Hook
Picturing the Game
Laboratory of Modernity
Fortune Favours a Bieler
The Beautiful Unwanted
Fashioning Acadians
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New Releases: October 2023
This October, we were pleased to release fifteen new titles, including the newest additions to our History of Religion Series, Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Series, and Studies in Early Canada Series.
Check out the complete list of October releases below!
Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition
A Manifesto
Our social democracies and welfare states are facing challenges that threaten their very survival. Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition argues that a true social democracy requires a clear definition and a refocusing of the roles of the public and private sectors in the provision of public and social goods and services – a reimagining that keeps citizens’ best interest in focus.
Towards a Godless Dominion
Unbelief in Interwar Canada
A century ago, Canada was considered to be a Christian nation and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some vigorously resisted the dominance of Christianity. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition religious unbelievers faced from Canada in the 1920s and ’30s.
What Television Remembers
Artifacts and Footprints of TV in Toronto
What Television Remembers explores the relationship between the medium of TV and the city of Toronto. In a close reading of CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting changing ideas about Canadian identity, community, and citizenship.
Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire
Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras
Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire is the first detailed study of the art and correspondence of Elizabeth Gwillim and her sister Mary Symonds in South India. The book explores what their work reveals about natural history, the natural environment, colonialism, and women’s lives at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The Dillon Era
Douglas Dillon in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations
Douglas Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism and placed the national interest above party interest. With exclusive access to the family’s archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in American history, unfolding a deeply influential but somewhat overlooked political career.
act normal
These poems are inquisitive, desiring to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy. act normal invites readers to re-orient from the normative task of assuming the safety of consensual interpretation, while risking, cherishing, and performing non-indifference.
James Clarke Hook
Painter of the Sea
In James Clarke Hook Juliet McMaster tracks the life and career of the brilliant yet underappreciated Victorian painter, from his rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work as a historical painter, to the discovery of his métier as an inspired painter of contemporary rural and coastal scenes.
Picturing the Game
An Illustrated Story of Hockey
Picturing the Game showcases the gifted, forward-thinking graphic journalists throughout hockey’s history whose bold aesthetic and deft draughtsmanship could always make the butt of their satire look perfectly asinine. Their work embodied a truly acerbic spirit that was nothing short of groundbreaking, and the game is better for it.
Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank
Since Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, Israeli settler organizations have used narratives of indigeneity to claim divine rights to the land. Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what indigeneity means to Israeli settlers, and how settler-indigeneity interacts with transnational settler-colonial histories.
Paths of Pollen
As human actions erase habitats and raise the planet’s temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of pollinators faces decline or even extinction. Paths of Pollen chronicles pollen’s vital mission to spread plant genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking towards an ecologically uncertain future.
Nation Branding and International Politics
Today, nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries. In academia, however, the idea is often dismissed as unserious. Bringing nation branding to the scholarly discourse, Browning critically unpacks the trend, providing theoretical lenses through which to view the role of nation brands in international politics.
Laboratory of Modernity
Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914
Laboratory of Modernity is a history of Ukraine during the long nineteenth century, providing a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. In this first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Serhiy Bilenky traces the historical origins of some of the pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.
Fortune Favours a Bieler
Adventures in Life, Love, and Business
Fortune Favours a Bieler is the colourful story of Philippe Bieler’s life and his long journey through the eventful twentieth century and beyond. It begins with his escape from war-torn Europe in 1941. Hand in hand with a number of prominent trailblazers, he went on to carve out a career in industry, banking, farming, and even politics.
The Beautiful Unwanted
Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics
Chris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current attitudes toward intellectual disability.
Fashioning Acadians
Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750
Fashioning Acadians analyzes the clothing of early Acadians through the innovative reconstruction of dress and accessories found in a new analysis of archaeological excavations. The book discusses what the clothing reveals about Acadian lives, their material cultures, and the influence of intersecting fashion systems in colonial spaces.
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