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African history / 18 political science / 2, 10, 12, 16, 25, 29, 31, 33, 34
agriculture / 4 psychology / 9, 24
Arctic studies / 14 public administration, public policy, policy
art, art history / 4, 14 studies / 16, 34, 35, 36, 37
biography, memoir / 1, 3, 7, 13, 19, 35 Quebec history / 31
British history / 18, 39 reference / 7
Canadian history / 11, 13, 19, 30, 31, 32, 33 religious history, religious studies / 15, 18, 36
Canadian politics / 31 retirement issues / 36
classics / 40 self-help / 20, 24
conflict studies / 29 sexuality / 22
criminology / 9 sociology, social studies, social theory / 9, 11, 12,
cultural studies / 5, 9, 24, 29 17, 23
current affairs, current events / 2, 10 sport / 22
dictionary / 7 urban studies / 12
economics / 7, 10, 38 women’s studies / 8, 18, 40
education / 37
environmental studies / 34 Series
ethics / 36 Art of Living Series / 21, 22, 23, 24
fashion / 21 Continental European Philosophy / 25
fiction / 8 Footprints Series / 3, 13
food / 5 McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series / 17
foreign policy / 33 McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History / 39
gender studies / 9 McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of
geography / 12, 13, 17 Religion / 18
health care / 38 McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services
history / 14, 30, 39 Studies in the History of Medicine, Health,
history of medicine / 13, 38 and Society / 38
international relations, international Philosophy Now / 28
studies / 34, 38
Irish history / 39 Agencies
Jewish studies / 39 Acumen Publishing / 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27
literary criticism, literary studies / 8, 40 Centre for the Study of Democracy / 36
literature / 6 Les éditions du Septentrion / 13
military studies / 29 John Deutsch Institute / 36
Native studies / 13, 16, 17 School of Policy Studies / 35, 36, 37
oral history / 17
pets / 20 Selected backlist / 41, 42
philosophy / 11, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
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Author/Editor Index

Abbott, Michael G. / 36 Finnie, Ross / 37 MacKinnon, James G. / 36 Rowley, Susan / 17

Andrews, Geoff / 5
Axworthy, Thomas S. / 36
Baskerville, Peter / 30
Beach, Charles M. / 36
Bennett, John B. / 17
Biles, John / 36
Bittermann, Rusty / 30
Bothwell, Robert / 34
Burgess, John H. / 13
Burstein, Meyer / 36
Carel, Havi / 20
Clippingdale, Richard / 35
Comacchio, Cynthia R. / 38
Cook, Deborah / 26
Corriveau, Patrice / 9
Daudelin, Jean / 34
Davis, Wendy M. / 3
Dickinson, John A. / 31
Diprose, Rosalyn / 26
Dorais, Michel / 9
Dosman, Edgar J. / 7
Elbourne, Elizabeth / 18
Ferry, Darren / 32
Flanagan, Tom / 16
Foley, John / 27
Fong, William / 1
Frideres, James / 36
Fudge, Erica / 20
Gairdner, William D. / 11
Giussani, Luigi / 15
Golden, Janet / 38
Gray, Colleen / 18
Greeley, Andrew M. / 15
Grenfell, Michael / 27
Harvey, Edward / 19
Harvey, John / 21
Heinmiller, B. Timothy / 34
Heiss, Anita / 6
Hodge, Gerald / 12
Holloway, David / 29
Horn, Michiel / 11
Howard, Albert / 16
Jenkins, Brian / 39
Johns, Carolyn / 34
Kaplan, William / 2
Klinck, Anne M. / 40
MacMillan, Donald B. / 14
Marar, Ziyad / 21
Marshall, Joan / 17
Maslove, Allan M. / 35
Matthews, Richard S. / 25
McCallum, Margaret / 30
McGinn, Colin / 22
Millard, Gregory / 31
Mills, Catherine / 25
Minter, Peter / 6
Morgan, Seiriol / 22
Mueller, Richard E. / 37
Murray, Jeffrey S. / 13
Nasby, Judith / 4
Naylor, R.T. / 10
Neocleous, Mark / 29
Neusner, Jacob / 15
Pearson, Craig / 4
Potter, Evan H. / 33
Reynolds, Jack / 26
Robertson, Ian Ross / 19
Robin, Robin W. / 36
Rowlands, Mark / 24
Sancton, Andrew / 12
Smith, Andrew / 33
Somerville, Margaret / 28
Sproule-Jones, Mark / 34
Srebrnik, Henry Felix / 39
Stovel, Nora Foster / 8
Svendsen, Lars / 23
Svin’in, Pavel P. / 14
Sweetman, Arthur / 37
Swoboda, Marina / 14
Tagore, Proma / 40
Tallis, Raymond / 23
Usher, Alex / 37
van Putten, Maartje / 38
Vernon, Mark / 24
Wanderer, Jeremy / 28
Weisz, George / 38
Whisenhunt, William Benton / 14
Widdowson, Frances / 16
Wilson, Catharine Anne / 32
Winer, Lise / 7
Young, Brian / 31
Young, Phyllis Brett / 8

Title Index
J.W. McConnell / 1
Absolute Violation, The / 25 Jerusalem on the Amur / 39
Albert Camus / 27 Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island / 30
Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature / 6 Lansdowne Era, The / 19
Blood Ground / 18 Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901–1986 / 7
Book of Absolutes, The / 11 Limits of Boundaries, The / 12
Branding Canada / 33 Merleau-Ponty / 26
Bridging the Divide / 36 Patriots and Profiteers / 10
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation / 33 Pets / 20
Canada Among Nations, 2008 / 34 Philosophy of Agamben, The / 25
Canadian Water Politics / 34 Pierre Bourdieu / 27
Clothes / 21 Policing the Banks / 38
Common Ground / 15 Psyche / 8
Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693–1796, The / 18 Retirement Policy Issues in Canada / 36
Critique of Security / 29 Robert Brandom / 28
Cultivated Landscape, The / 4 Robert Stanfield’s Canada / 35
Cultures of the War on Terror / 29 Russian Paints America, A / 14
Dal and Rice / 3 Satanic Purses / 10
Deception / 21 Secession and Self / 31
Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago / 7 Secret Trial, A / 2
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry / 16 Sex / 22
Divining Margaret Laurence / 8 Shapes of Silence, The / 40
Doctor to the North / 13 Short History of Quebec, A / 31
Don’t Tell / 9 Silent Revolution?, A / 30
Ethical Canary, The / 28 Sir Andrew Macphail / 19
Fame / 24 Slow Food Story, The / 5
Fenian Problem, The / 39 Sport / 22
First Nations? Second Thoughts / 16 Tenants in Time / 32
Gangs and Girls / 9 Terra Nostra, 1550–1950 / 13
Geography of Aging, The / 12 Theodor Adorno / 26
Healing the World’s Children / 38 Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island / 17
How Ottawa Spends 2008–2009 / 35 Uniting in Measures of Common Good / 32
How Peary Reached the Pole / 14 Uqalurait / 17
Hunger / 23 Wellbeing / 24
Illness / 20 Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? / 37
Immigration and Integration in Canada in the Twenty-First Century / 36 Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece / 40
Is It Possible To Live This Way? Volume 1 / 15 Work / 23
Is It Possible To Live This Way? Volume 2 / 15 York University / 11
 BIOGRAPHY

J.W. McConnell
Financier, Philanthropist, Patriot
William Fong
“A man of large spirit, great generosity and
above all, abiding Canadianism.”
–Lester B. Pearson
J.W. McConnell (1877–1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario,
became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of
his generation – in Canada and internationally.
Early in his career McConnell established the Montreal office
of the Standard Chemical Company and began selling bonds and
shares in both North America and Europe, establishing relation-
ships that would lead to his enormous financial success. He was
involved in numerous businesses, from tramways to ladies’ fashion
to mining, and served on the boards of several corporations. For
nearly fifty years he was president of St Laurence Sugar and late
in life he became the owner and publisher of the Montreal Star.
McConnell was an indefatigable and formidable fundraiser for
the ymca, the war effort of 1914/18, hospitals, and McGill University,
where he served as governor for almost three decades. In 1937 he
established what would become The J.W. McConnell Family Founda-
tion, the first major foundation in Canada and still one of the best
endowed.
J.W. McConnell was a principled and brilliant visionary with
a strong work ethic and a deep commitment to the public good,
a Rockefellerian figure in both big business and high society who
quietly became one of the greatest philanthropists of his time.
His life story – told in uncompromising detail by William Fong –
is a study of raising, spending, and giving away money on the
grandest scale.

William Fong is the author of Sir William C. Macdonald:

A Biography.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Sir William C. Macdonald
A Biography
978-0-7735-3304-2 $34.95A cloth

S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
November 2008
978-0-7735-3270-0 $39.95T cloth
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 CURRENT EVENTS • POLITICAL SCIENCE
n e w i n pa p e r
A Secret Trial
Brian Mulroney and the Public Trust
William Kaplan
With a new foreword by Andrew Coyne
Foreword by Jack Granastein, afterword by
Norman Spector
“William Kaplan is the best-informed person
in the country on the Mulroney-Schreiber
business.” –CTV News
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
March 2008
978-0-7735-3460-5 $19.95T paper
6 x 9 272pp
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In his best-selling Presumed Guilty William Kaplan chronicled the
corruption charges surrounding the $1.8 billion purchase by Air
Canada of passenger airplanes from European giant Airbus Indus-
tries and concluded – based on the evidence available at the time –
that former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had been the victim of
unfounded allegation and reckless innuendo. Discovering that the
story was far more complicated, Kaplan sets the record straight in
A Secret Trial.
Within weeks of leaving office, Mulroney was paid at least
$225,000 in cash by Karlheinz Schreiber, an international arms
dealer wanted in Germany for bribery and tax evasion. When con-
fronted by Kaplan about the unexplained payment, Mulroney
vehemently denied any wrongdoing:“Anyone who says anything
about [the money] will be in for one fuck of a fight.” At the root of
Kaplan’s investigation is a secret trial and its stunning revelations –
information that nearly escaped public attention. Only now, years
later, is the former prime minister facing a public inquiry that
threatens to permanently derail his reputation.
A Secret Trial is a scathing indictment of court secrecy and the
crumbling ethics and standards of politicians, journalists, the rcmp,
and business. In a candid new foreword, Andrew Coyne brings the
story up to the minute, arguing that there is no statute of limita-
tions on the public interest in ethical government.
“Powerful.” –The National Post
“A Secret Trial is quite possibly the most important book on public
life in Canada that has been published this year.” –This Magazine
“I can’t imagine a more entertaining political book than A Secret
Trial. Where else are you going to get juice like this?” –Paul Wells,
Maclean’s
William Kaplan is a lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, and author. His
books include Presumed Guilty: Brian Mulroney, the Airbus Affair and
the Government of Canada, One More Border: The True Story of One
Family’s Escape from War-Torn Europe, and Bad Judgment: The Case
of Mr. Justice Leo A. Landreville.
 MEMOIR

Dal and Rice
Wendy M. Davis
An affectionate portrait of a childhood spent
in India during the last days of the British Raj.
In 1914 Godfrey Davis arrived in India, a junior officer in the Indian
Civil Service. By the time he reluctantly returned to England thirty
years later he was a high court judge with a knighthood. Sir God-
frey fell in love with India. He sympathized with the independence
movement and shared a great friendship and mutual admiration
with Mahatma Gandhi.
Wendy Davis inherited this affection for India and its people.
In Dal and Rice she chronicles the memories of her childhood and
offers a poignant and measured character study of her father. Her
story is part social history, part travelogue, but mostly a very per-
sonal account of a relationship with an exotic, chaotic, and often
mysterious country.
A near century of colonial rule left an indelible mark on India.
Avoiding political or ideological perspectives, Wendy Davis has
written a fascinating memoir that captures an unusual childhood
and a vanished way of life.

“When India gained her independence and Pa retired … his Indian

judges continued to write to him in England. The ending of one
letter from Judge Desaar was tear stained and hardly legible, so
saddened was he by the deterioration of the justice system. Pa’s
dreams for India were also shattered. He believed, like Gandhi, that
a country can never be divided on religious grounds and that parti-
tion was the greatest betrayal for which the British had ever been
responsible.” –from Chapter 53, Following in Pa’s Footsteps

“Davis is an uncontaminated primary witness to a time for which

living witnesses are growing scarce. She has a tough and curious
intelligence, and writes with charm and with humour.”
–S.K. Johannesen, professor emeritus of history, University
of Waterloo, and author of Sister Patsy

Wendy M. Davis lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with a houseful

of exotic birds, a passion inherited from her father.

S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
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February 2009
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 A G R I C U LT U R E • A R T H I S T O R Y
reannouncing
The Cultivated Landscape
An Exploration of Art and Agriculture
Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby
This unique history of agriculture as illustrated
in art since the Middle Ages illuminates the
complex issues facing agriculture today.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-
century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of
dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the
relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape
uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of
Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.
Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how
we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on land-
scape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art.
They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and eco-
nomics have played in agricultural development and the parallels
to changes in art form.
The Cultivated Landscape ends with a discussion of the complex
issues facing agriculture today, the need for greater connectivity
between agriculture and our environment, and options for the
future.
“The impact of art in this book to visually enhance the documented
history of agriculture is so vivid that I was able to imagine the
sense of place that landscapes that no longer exist must have por-
trayed to those who lived and worked within them. While there are
certainly many other books on the history of agriculture, no other
that I have ever read has interwoven the topic with visual art in
such an evocative manner. The Cultivated Landscape is utterly fasci-
nating and on occasion evokes powerful parallels with Simon
Schama’s brilliant Landscape and Memory or even Kenneth Clark’s
Civilization.” –Richard Bawden, Systemic Development Institute,
Sydney Australia
Craig Pearson is presidential advisor on international programs
and professor of agricultural policy, the University of Guelph. He
has been dean, Ontario Agricultural College, chief scientist with the
Bureau of Rural Sciences in the Australian government, and past
president of the Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary
Medicine. Judith Nasby is adjunct professor, fine art, University of
Guelph, and the author of Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality and
Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller. She is director and curator
of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph.
R E L ATE D I NTE R E ST
Rolph Scarlett
Painter, Designer, and Jeweller
Judith Nasby
978-0-7735-2804-8 $44.95T paper
 F O O D • C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
The Slow Food Story
Politics and Pleasure
Geoff Andrews
The first book detailing the rise of Slow
Food – one of the most significant political
movements of modern times.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
August 2008
978-0-7735-3478-0 $22.95T paper
978-0-7735-3477-3 $75.00S cloth
6 x 9 224pp
North American rights
5 Fall 2008
The Slow Food movement was set up in Italy as a response to
the dominance of fast food chains, supermarkets, and large-scale
agribusiness. Defending “the universal right to pleasure,” it pro-
motes food production and consumption based on “good, clean,
and fair” local products.
In twenty years Slow Food has grown into an international
organisation with more than 80,000 members in over 100 coun-
tries. With roots in the 1960s and 1970s counter-culture, Slow Food’s
distinctive politics link gastronomic pleasure and environmental
responsibility. The movement crosses the left-right divide to
embrace both the conservative desire to preserve traditional rural
communities and an alternative “virtuous” idea of globalisation.
In the first in-depth study of the fascinating politics of Slow
Food, Geoff Andrews shows that the alternative future it offers
can be extended to all aspects of modern life. The Slow Food
Story is an extensive critique of the fast-moving, work-obsessed
contemporary capitalist culture.
Geoff Andrews, the author of several books including Not a Normal
Country: Italy After Berlusconi and Endgames and New Times: The
Final Years of British Communism, writes for a range of newspapers
and journals – including The Financial Times and Open Democracy –
and is associate editor of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and
Culture . He is currently staff tutor in politics, the Open University.
 L I T E R AT U R E

Anthology of Australian In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia’s
Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool
Aboriginal Literature for over two hundred years. Anthology of Australian Aboriginal
Edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
Literature presents a rich panorama of Aboriginal culture, history,
Foreword by Mich Dodson
and life through the writings of some of the great Australian
Preface by Nicholas Jose
Aboriginal authors.
From Bennelong’s 1796 letter to contemporary writing, Anita
A rich collection of writing – poetry, prose, and
Heiss and Peter Minter have selected works that represent the
drama – from some of the greatest Australian
range and depth of Aboriginal writing in English. Journalism, peti-
Aboriginal authors.
tions, and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries are brought together with major works of poetry, prose,
and drama from the mid-twentieth century onward. These works
voice not only the ongoing suffering of dispossession but the
resilience of Australia’s Aboriginal people, their hope and joy.
Presenting some of the best, most distinctive writing produced
in Australia, this groundbreaking anthology will captivate anyone
interested in Aboriginal writing and culture.

Anita Heiss, a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South

Wales, is a writer, poet, activist, social commentator, and academic.
Her books include Dhuuluu-Yala: Publishing Aboriginal Literature,
Not Meeting Mr Right, and Who Am I?: The Diary of Mary Talence,
Sydney 1937. Peter Minter, an award-winning poet, editor, and scholar,
lectures in Indigenous studies and poetics at the Koori Centre,
University of Sydney. His poetry collections include Empty Texas
and Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin.

S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
July 2008
978-0-7735-3459-9 $29.95T paper
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 BIOGRAPHY • ECONOMICS
The Life and Times
of Raúl Prebisch,
1901–1986
Edgar J. Dosman
The first book-length biography of
the Argentinian economist who
transformed our thinking about
First and Third World Relations.
Raúl Prebisch was a leader in economic development
theory and international economic policy, an institution
builder, and an international diplomat. The Life and Times
of Raúl Prebisch, 1901–1986 provides the first book-length
account of his life and work, a story cast against the back-
drop of Latin America, the Cold War, the rise of the United
Nations, and the struggle for equity between First and
Third Worlds.
A wunderkind, Prebisch occupied key positions at the
Argentine Ministry of Finance in his twenties and was the
general manager of the Argentine Central Bank before
age forty. Exiled by Juan Perón after World War II, he be-
came arguably the most influential Latin American official
at the un, heading such international organizations as the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He was
the first to conceptualize the relationship between devel-
oped countries and Latin America in terms of “center-
periphery” – a foundational concept in structuralist
economics.
Many of Prebisch’s ideas were originally rejected as un-
orthodox but are now taken for granted. His life and work
remain an enduring symbol of leadership for Latin America
and the global community.
Edgar J. Dosman, senior research fellow, Centre for Inter-
national and Security Studies, York University, has written
extensively on Latin America and was the founding direc-
tor of focal (Canadian Foundation for the Americas).
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
November 2008
978-0-7735-3412-4 $49.95T cloth
6 x 9 592pp 26 b&w photos
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REFERENCE • DICTIONARY
Dictionary of the
English/Creole of
Trinidad & Tobago
On Historical Principles
Lise Winer
The first comprehensive, historical,
scholarly dictionary of the English
and English Creole languages of
Trinidad & Tobago.
The twin-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago has a complex
history that has resulted in a unique English language,
shaped by all members of its multi-ethnic community: the
original Amerindian inhabitants, the European colonizers,
the Africans – enslaved, free, and indentured – as well as
the peoples of India, Portugal, and China. Migration from
many Caribbean areas has created both similarities and
differences between the English/Creole of Trinidad &
Tobago and the varieties spoken elsewhere.
Using the historical principles of the Oxford English
Dictionary, Lise Winer presents the first scholarly dictionary
of this unique language. The dictionary comprises over
12,200 entries, including over 4,500 for flora and fauna
alone, with numerous cross-references. Entries include
definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymolo-
gies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations
of usage. Winer draws from a wide range of sources –
newspapers, literature, scientific reports, sound recordings
of songs and interviews, spoken language – to provide
a wealth and depth of language, clearly situated within
a historical, cultural, and social context.
An essential reference for all Trinbagonians, this dic-
tionary will also prove a fascinating volume to all who are
interested in their language – linguists, literary scholars
and students, translators, researchers, historians, scien-
tists, and travelers.
Lise Winer is associate professor in the Faculty of Educa-
tion, McGill University, the author of Badjohns, Bhaaji &
Banknote Blue: Essays on the Social History of Language
in Trinidad & Tobago, and editor of a series of early
Trinidadian novels.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
February 2009
978-0-7735-3406-3 $85.00S cloth
9 x 11 1108pp
 LITERARY STU DI ES • WOMEN’S STU DI ES
Divining Margaret
Laurence
A Study of Her Complete
Writings
Nora Foster Stovel
The most complete consideration of all
the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka
cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from
Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children’s
and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.
Whereas previous studies focus on certain aspects of
her work, Divining Margaret Laurence addresses all her im-
portant writings, including a final, unfinished manuscript
– “Dance on the Earth: A Memoir.” This comprehensive
study of her writings, including archival material, allows
Nora Stovel to trace the development of Laurence’s Cana-
dian identity, feminist sympathies, moral vision, and
creative artistry.
Twenty years after her death Margaret Laurence re-
mains one of Canada’s most esteemed and beloved writ-
ers. This new critical assessment of her work is not only a
testament to her literary achievement but also a valuable
contribution to Canadian, African, women’s, children’s,
travel, and fiction writing.
“This is the first book that ranges across all of Laurence’s
work – and does so intelligently and accessibly. Divining
Margaret Laurence is sorely needed.” –Neil Besner, associ-
ate vice-president, International, University of Winnipeg
Nora Foster Stovel, professor of English and film studies at
the University of Alberta, has published books and articles
on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, and
Margaret Laurence.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
978-0-7735-3437-7 $29.95T paper
978-0-7735-3376-9 $85.00S cloth
6 x 9 424pp
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FICTION
Psyche
Phyllis Brett Young
With a new introduction by
Nathalie Cooke and Suzanne Morton
Foreword by Valerie Argue
The tense and dramatic story of a young
girl’s search for identity.
A child who is the very centre of her parents’ life is torn
away in the darkness and left to grow up in the hostile
hills of the north country. Recognizing that the couple
who raised her have nothing more to offer, she leaves
with an artist who initiates her into adulthood.
Psyche is the gripping story of a wealthy urban mother’s
anguish and powerlessness when her child is kidnapped
and the abandoned child’s remarkable resilience as she
ultimately finds redemption through art, education, and
psychology.
This 1959 international bestseller by Canadian writer
Phyllis Brett Young focuses on issues of character and
environment in an unconventional coming of age story
that draws the reader into an exploration of the decidedly
modern themes of kidnapping, sexual assault, and the
sex trade industry.
Phyllis Brett Young (1914–1996) is the author of six works
of fiction. Her novels, including Psyche, The Torontonians,
Undine, and A Question of Judgement, have appeared in
numerous editions and languages in Canada, the United
States, and Europe. Nathalie Cooke is associate dean
of Arts, McGill University. Suzanne Morton is professor,
history, McGill University.
R E L ATE D I NTE R E ST
The Torontonians
Phyllis Brett Young
With a new introduction by Nathalie Cooke and Suzanne Morton
978-0-7735-3324-0 $24.95T paper
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
978-0-7735-3490-2 $24.95T paper
5.5 x 8.5 320pp
 SOCIOLOGY • CRIMINOLOGY GEN DER STU DI ES • PSYCHOLOGY

Gangs and Girls Don’t Tell

Understanding Juvenile The Sexual Abuse of Boys
Prostitution Second Edition
Michel Dorais with Patrice Corriveau Michel Dorais
Introductions by Cecilia Benoit With a new introduction by
and Jacques Moïse Jean-Paul Roger
Translated by Peter Feldstein Translated by Isabel Denholm Meyer

Understanding and preventing gang- “Wise words for everyone.”

organized juvenile prostitution. –The Globe and Mail

Gangs and Girls is the first major piece of qualitative re-
search specifically aimed at understanding and analyzing
the involvement of street gangs in female juvenile prosti-
tution. Organized around a number of direct central ques-
tions, Michel Dorais and Patrice Corriveau document how
street gangs control the lucrative trade in underage girls.
They discuss how young men are drawn to gang life,
how young girls become attracted and attached to the
gang members who eventually sell them into prostitu-
tion, and why it is so hard to infiltrate and dismantle the
distinct but interrelated worlds of the procurer, victim,
and client. Rooted firmly in first person testimony, this re-
search deepens our understanding of juvenile prostitution
by identifying and exploring the types of motivations and
circumstances that lead teenagers into prostitution rings.
The ultimate focus is on prevention: the authors pro-
vide essential tools for parents and those trying to help
adolescents in peril, support and intervention strategies
for practitioners, and the tools and information necessary
for policy makers to reflect on and design innovative
social policy.
Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse
during childhood or adolescence, yet this abuse remains a
taboo subject, even among victims. In Don’t Tell, Michel
Dorais gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive
analysis of their traumas and self-questioning, and offer-
ing strategies for coping.
Don’t Tell examines the effects of sexual abuse on the
emotional and sexual life of men, including their sense of
self and their personal relationships. Using first-hand ac-
counts, Dorais shows that certain reactions are specific to
male victims as they attempt to preserve their physical in-
tegrity and conceptions of masculinity. He provides inno-
vative strategies for both prevention and treatment that
will be of use to those who have suffered abuse as well as
to their families and all those who are trying to help them
– spouses, friends, social workers, and therapists.
Jean-Paul Roger, author of L’inévitable, reflects on the
importance of shared testimony in helping victims come
to terms with their abuse and on the ongoing struggle
this presents over the course of their lives.

Michel Dorais has spent many years working with victims

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 C U R R E N T A F FA I R S • P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
n e w i n pa p e r
Satanic Purses
Money, Myth, and Misinformation
in the War on Terror
R.T. Naylor
“Satanic Purses provides a fascinating per-
spective on the war on terror.” –Maclean’s
In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American
government’s understanding of and response to 9/11,
exposing the official story – and the resulting global War
on Islamic Terror – as based on myth and misinformation.
Satanic Purses examines how misguided notions about
the structure and financing of terrorist groups have
diverted attention from more useful measures, and per-
petuated the “War on Terror.”
Naylor argues that bin La-den’s role in various terrorist
activities has been grossly exaggerated and that the idea
of al-Qa-’idah as a well-financed, centrally directed move-
ment is a fable akin to misconceptions about the Mafia.
Satanic Purses makes clear that the myths surrounding the
war on terror, especially the alleged existence of hordes of
Islamic terror dollars, have led Western countries, particu-
larly the US, to policies that create death and disorder
abroad and the loss of due process and privacy at home.
Naylor shows that the secret agendas behind, and the
private interests that profit from, an illusory War on Terror
may be far more dangerous than the events that led to it.
With eloquence and precision, Naylor explains how and
why a story so contrary to easily verifiable reality was
concocted and accepted.
“This book is terrific!” –The Globe and Mail
Historian, criminologist, and political economist, R.T. Naylor is professor of economics at McGill University where his
main fields of research are black markets, smuggling, and international financial crime. He is the author of many books,
including Hot Money and the Politics of Debt and Wages of Crime.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
August 2008
978-0-7735-3454-4 $24.95T paper
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6 x 9 432pp
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ECONOMICS • POLITICAL SCIENCE
Patriots and Profiteers
Economic Warfare, Embargo
Busting, and State-Sponsored
Crime, Second edition
R.T. Naylor
Introduction by Peter Andreas, with
a new afterword by the author
“Patriots and Profiteers makes for com-
pelling reading in the age of global
trade. It's well researched and dizzyingly
relentless in its detail.” –Paul Weinberg
Almost everyone assumes that by enforcing trade sanc-
tions and arms embargoes, modern democracies make
tin-pot dictators and rogue states mend their ways – that
the application of economic pressure is easily the most
effective way to curb aggression and encourage respect
for human rights.
R.T. Naylor demonstrates that economic warfare fails
almost everywhere it is attempted, and that even when it
succeeds, it has consequences that are not only unintend-
ed but also frequently the precise opposite of their adver-
tised result. For instance, embargoes drove Cuba into the
awkward embrace of the Soviet Union. Everywhere that
economic pressures have been used to either replace or
augment military actions, the result has been confusion
leading to criminality. From east to west, from before WWI
to the recent confrontations with Pakistan, Bosnia, and
Iraq, the legacy of economic warfare has been money
laundering, gun-running, drug smuggling, and evasion
of the rule of law.
Naylor’s approach is at once epic and anecdotal. His
survey is populated by a bizarre underworld of warriors
and smugglers, gangsters and spies, whose singular
careers would be comic if they weren’t absolutely real.
“Combines scholarship with immediacy and gripping
good stories.” –Vancouver Sun
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
978-0-7735-3474-2 $27.95A paper
6 x 9 528pp
 CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
York University
The Way Must Be Tried
Michiel Horn
A lively and well-illustrated
account of the growth of a major
Canadian university.
In 1955 a group of Toronto professionals began discussions
on expanding adult education in their city. The outcome
was York University, which opened in 1960 with 76 stu-
dents. Today, with over 50,000 students in eleven faculties
on two campuses, York is the third largest university in
Canada. Faculty and staff have grown from under 20 to
nearly 8,000.
In York University: The Way Must Be Tried, Michiel Horn
weaves archival research and interviews into a compelling
narrative, documenting the development of an institution
committed to helping professors and studies reach across
disciplinary boundaries. He covers the challenges York has
faced through the years – from the 1963 faculty “revolt,” to
the troubled search for a successor to founding president
Murray Ross, to the budgetary problems that led to the
resignation of President David Slater, as well as its many
innovations and triumphs – including bilingualism at
Glendon College, Osgoode Hall Law School’s Parkdale legal
clinic, and Canada’s first concurrent Bachelor of Education
program. The philosophies that guide the faculties of ad-
ministrative studies, fine arts, and environmental studies,
and the ground-breaking research done in science and en-
gineering are explored in detail.
Archival and current photographs complement Horn’s
narrative throughout. Prose and pictures chart the cre-
ation of an important Canadian institution whose com-
mitment to solving real-world problems has led to
important innovations in education and beyond.
Michiel Horn is professor emeritus of history, York Univer-
sity, and the author and editor of numerous books, most
recently Academic Freedom in Canada: A History.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
January 2009
978-0-7735-3416-2 $49.95T cloth
9 x 11 256pp colour throughout
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SOCIAL THEORY • PHILOSOPHY
The Book of Absolutes
A Critique of Relativism and
a Defence of Universals
William D. Gairdner
“Strikingly original and important.”
–Tom Flanagan, University of Calgary
Current dogma holds that all cultures and moral values
are conditional, nothing human is innate, and Einstein
proved that the whole universe is “relative.” Challenging
this position, William Gairdner argues that relativism
is not only logically and morally self-defeating but that
progress in scientific and intellectual disciplines has
actually strengthened the case for absolutes, universals,
and constants of nature and human nature.
Gairdner refutes the popular belief in cultural rela-
tivism by showing that there are hundreds of well-
established cross-cultural “human universals.” He then
discusses the many universals found in physics – as well
as Einstein’s personal regret at how his work was misin-
terpreted by the public’s eagerness to promote relativism.
Gairdner also gives a lively account of the many universals
of human biology, including the controversial topic of uni-
versal gender differences or “brain sex.” He then looks at
universal concepts of both natural and international law,
and ends by discussing language theory.
From ethics to Einstein, culture to biology, law to
language, The Book of Absolutes makes complex topics ac-
cessible to a broad audience and demonstrates that there
are plenty of certainties, even in our postmodern world.
William Gairdner is a best-selling author, a businessman,
and independent scholar. His most recent books are Cana-
da’s Founding Debates and The Trouble with Democracy.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
978-0-7735-3413-1 $39.95T cloth
6 x 9 408pp
 SOCIAL STU DI ES • GEOGRAPHY
The Geography of Aging
Preparing Communities for the
Surge in Seniors
Gerald Hodge
A penetrating look at the coming
increase in Canada’s seniors, its effect
on communities, and how to plan
for it.
Canada’s baby boom generation is about to turn sixty-
five. In barely a decade, the number of senior citizens in
every city, town, and village will double – and most com-
munities are largely unprepared to deal with the conse-
quences for housing, transportation, and community
services.
Gerald Hodge uses the latest statistics to map the cur-
rent and future spatial distribution of Canada’s seniors
and their diversity. Drawing on tested aging-environmen-
tal research and years of planning experience, he delin-
eates the everyday geography of seniors and proposes a
comprehensive framework for all communities – large and
small, urban, suburban, and rural – that will allow them to
respond to the needs of a rapidly aging population while
recognizing the importance of maintaining the independ-
ence of their seniors.
The Geography of Aging provides an essential perspec-
tive for gerontologists, community planners, service
providers, and caregivers, as well as provincial and local
policy-makers, to enable them to better respond to the
needs of senior citizens now and in the future.
“Hodge makes a convincing case for recognizing the diver-
sity of community contexts within which seniors reside
and provides a helpful roadmap for community officials
to allow them to take seriously the work of enhancing
seniors’ independence.” –Neil Hanlon, University of
Northern British Columbia
Gerald Hodge, one of Canada’s foremost community and
regional planners, is the author of Planning Canadian
Communities, now in its fifth edition.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
978-0-7735-3430-8 $29.95A, paper
978-0-7735-3429-2 $85.00S cloth
6 x 9 336pp 35 tables, 24 diagrams
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U RBAN STU DI ES • POLITICAL SC I ENCE
The Limits of Boundaries
Why City-regions Cannot
be Self-governing
Andrew Sancton
Why the growth and flux of city-regions
impedes their prospects for increased
political autonomy.
With city-regions becoming increasingly important as
sources of innovation and wealth in our society, does it
follow that their institutions of government will become
increasingly autonomous, allowing them to become
self-governing?
Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge
of global changes with an outline and comparison of the
viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that
city regions in western liberal democracies will not and
cannot be self-governing. Self-government requires a ter-
ritory delineated by official boundaries, but the multiple
boundaries of city-regions, unlike the clear and undisput-
ed boundaries of provinces and states, continue to move
outward due to the constant growth and expansion of
urban populations and services.
The Limits of Boundaries clearly shows that difficulties
in reaching agreements on boundaries fatally limit the
capacity of city-regions to be self-governing.
“An original, substantive, and significant contribution ...
the politics and public finance of local governments are
under-researched and this timely book will find a diverse
and large audience.” –Gilbert Stelter, University of Guelph
Andrew Sancton is professor of political science and direc-
tor of the Local Government Program at the University of
Western Ontario.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
978-0-7735-3465-0 $19.95T paper
978-0-7735-3464-3 $70.00S cloth
6 x 9 120pp 5 maps
 G E O G RA P HY • CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
available again
Terra Nostra,
1550–1950
The Stories Behind
Canada’s Maps
Jeffrey S. Murray
Foreword by Ian E. Wilson
A celebration of four centuries
of cartographic history.
Maps have been invaluable throughout Canada’s history.
They promised fame and fortune to early merchant-
adventurers and guided army commanders. They legit-
imized a politician’s dominion and allowed businessmen
to stake new claims. And they helped ordinary citizens
build communities.
Terra Nostra celebrates the mapping of Canada, in part
by telling the stories of the exceptional individuals who
helped to create the maps. Drawn from the rich carto-
graphic holdings of Library and Archives Canada, it spans
four centuries – from the portolan charts of the early
explorers to recent aerial images of east coast ice floes.
Canada’s maps provide evidence of our nation’s technical
accomplishments and offer insight into the development
of our geographical knowledge.
Terra Nostra provides a beautifully illustrated and time-
ly celebration of the country’s cartographic history.
Jeffrey S. Murray, senior archivist at Library and Archives
Canada in Ottawa, has helped acquire signficant records
on Canada’s cartographic heritage for over twenty years.
His lifelong interest in Canadian history has resulted in
numerous specialized guides, public exhibitions, and mag-
azine articles.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Les éditions du Septentrion
June 2008
978-2-89448-453-1 $70.00T cloth
9 x 12 192pp full colour illustrations throughout
1 3 Fall 2008
N AT I V E S T U D I E S • M E M O I R
Doctor to the North
Thirty Years Treating Heart
Disease among the Inuit
John H. Burgess
The experiences of a university heart
specialist and consultant to the Inuit
of the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for
his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at
McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his
remarkable career, from the early influence of his physi-
cian father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and
abroad, to eventual roles as a professor of medicine and
director of Cardiology at Montreal General Hospital.
For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked
as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-
hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among
the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent.
Through the stories of some of his Inuit patients, Burgess
presents a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses
how they can be prevented.
Doctor to the North provides a unique insight into the
making of a heart specialist, researcher, and teacher. It
also serves as a history of health care and heart disease in
the Canadian Inuit and a cardiology treatise for present
and future health care workers.
“First-hand clinical experience by one of Canada’s leading,
superbly trained physicians, and the only Canadian who
had the opportunity to "sub specialize" in Arctic cardiology
– a fine biography.” –C. Stuart Houston, author of Steps on
the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way
John Burgess is an emeritus cardiologist at the McGill
Health Centre, professor of medicine, McGill University,
past-president of The Royal College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Canada, and author of numerous research and
review articles in medical journals.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Footprints Series
October 2008
978-0-7735-3431-5 $34.95T cloth
6 x 9 200pp 12 pages of colour illustrations, 50 b&w illustrations
 A RT H I STO RY • H I STO RY
A Russian Paints America
The Travels of Pavel P. Svin’in,
1811–1813
Pavel P. Svin’in
Introductory material and editing
by Marina Swoboda and
William Benton Whisenhunt
Translated by Marina Swoboda
An intriguing travel narrative by
a Russian diplomat in America.
Pavel Petrovich Svin’in (1787/88–1839) was a painter, diplo-
mat, and journalist who spent two years as part of the
first Russian diplomatic mission to the United States.
Soon after returning to Russia, Svin’in published a travel
narrative of his experiences.
A Russian Paints America presents the first complete
English translation of Svin’in’s fascinating memoir. Thirty-
one original watercolours complement his provocative
views on topics such as slavery, religion, politics, and the
fine arts. Introductory essays by Marina Swoboda and
William Whisenhunt examine Russian-American relations,
consider Svin’in’s life and particular role in Russian history,
and set his work in the context of the genre of picturesque
travel – Svin’in clearly did not set out to produce a scholar-
ly account of the United States but a work of literature, at
a time when Russian literary language was in its earliest
stages of development.
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of official
Russian-American relations, A Russian Paints America is
a distinctive work of interdisciplinary and transnational
scholarship that provides a compelling picture of the
political and cultural environment in Russia and America
in the early nineteenth century.
Marina Swoboda, co-editor of Old Testament Apocrypha in
the Slavonic Tradition, is the author of numerous articles
in the field of early Russian literature and cultural history.
William Benton Whisenhunt, professor of history, College
of DuPage, is the author of In Search of Legality: Mikhail M.
Speranskii and the Codification of Russian Law.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
978-0-7735-3414-8 $49.95T cloth
6 x 9 224pp colour illustrations
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ARCTIC STU DI ES
How Peary Reached
the Pole
The Personal Story of His
Assistant Donald B. MacMillan
Donald B. MacMillan
Introduction by Genevieve M. LeMoine,
Susan A. Kaplan, and Anne Witty
A fascinating account of life on Robert E.
Peary’s 1908–09 North Pole Expedition.
In 1934 Donald B. MacMillan, an accomplished explorer,
wrote about his early career as a member of Robert E.
Peary’s 1908–09 North Pole Expedition. Now available for
the first time since its original publication, this expanded
edition of How Peary Reached the Pole features a biogra-
phy of MacMillan and thirty-six images from his hand-
tinted lantern slides.
MacMillan used the journal he kept during the expedi-
tion to provide an intimate view of day-to-day activities
and relationships with other members of the party, detail-
ing how he learned to drive dog teams, camp in sub-zero
temperatures, and travel safely across the ice-covered
Polar Sea. MacMillan’s experiences and deep admiration
for Peary’s methods, leadership, and many accomplish-
ments make for fascinating reading.
How Peary Reached the Pole allows us to see Arctic
landscapes and Inughuit culture as MacMillan experi-
enced them, providing a perspective from which to con-
sider the northern environmental and cultural issues that
continue to concern individuals and nations today, one
hundred years after Peary’s historic expedition.
Susan A. Kaplan, associate professor of anthropology and
director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic
Studies Center, Bowdoin College, has written extensively
on Alaskan Inuit ethnographic collections and Labrador
Inuit prehistory. Genevieve M. LeMoine is curator of the
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Cen-
ter, Bowdoin College, and author of numerous articles on
Canadian and Greenlandic Inuit prehistory. Anne E. Witty
is assistant curator of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College, and author of
articles on maritime history.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
978-0-7735-3450-6 $39.95T paper
6 x 9 408pp 32 colour and 50 b&w photos, 1 map
 RELIGIOUS STU DI ES RELIGIOUS STU DI ES

Is It Possible To Common Ground

Live This Way? A Priest and a Rabbi Read
An Unusual Approach Scripture Together
to Christian Existence Andrew M. Greeley and Jacob Neusner
Foreword by Martin E. Marty
Volume 1: Faith
Volume 2: Hope What happens when two prolific
Luigi Giussani religious scholars sit down and,
Edited by John Zucchi together, read sacred texts of their
Translated by Gino Derard, D’Agata, different religions?
Barbara Gagliotti, and Chris Vath

Unusual yet reasonable approaches

to living life as a Christian.
Is It Possible to Live this Way? is a translation of Luigi
Giussani’s Si Può Vivere Così?. Volume 1 addresses the
virtue of faith while Volume 2 addresses the virtue of
hope. A compilation of Giussani’s conversations with
young people who have chosen the path of the consecrat-
ed life in the Church – that is, have chosen to live their
lives in the world according to the “evangelical counsels”
of poverty, chastity, and obedience – it proposes an un-
usual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian.
As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people
to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their
experience. The conversations reported here are fascinat-
ing and insightful, providing support for a way of life that
today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured.
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) was the founder
of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation
in Italy. His works are available in fifteen languages and
include the trilogy The Religious Sense, At the Origin of the
Christian Claim, and Why the Church?.
Judaism and Christianity meet in scripture, which they
share and about which they contend. In Common Ground
Father Andrew Greeley and Rabbi Jacob Neusner present
their characteristically candid – and often provocative –
interpretations of the history, context, and meaning
of scripture. Written in alternating chapters, Common
Ground reveals how a rabbi understands Christ, Mary,
and St Paul, and how a priest views creation, Abraham
and Sarah, and the prophets. Neusner calls upon the
ancient Rabbinic approach to scripture – the conversa-
tional dialogue of “Midrash” – while Greeley creatively
renews the narrative tradition of Christianity.
Together they show that differences in responses to
scripture enrich the possibilities of biblical renewal.
Andrew M. Greeley is a priest, distinguished sociologist,
journalist, and best-selling author. He is also professor
of sociology at the University of Arizona and a research
associate with the National Opinion Research Center
(norc), University of Chicago. Jacob Neusner, distin-
guished research professor of religious studies at the
University of South Florida and professor of religion, Bard
College, is the author of numerous books, including A
Rabbi Talks With Jesus and The Theology of the Oral Torah.

R E L ATE D I NTE R E ST
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Volume 1: Faith A Rabbi Talks with Jesus
Revised Edition
July 2008 Jacob Neusner
978-0-7735-3404-9 $19.95T paper Foreword by Donald Harman Akenson
978-0-7735-3403-2 $60.00S cloth 978-0-7735-2046-2 $19.95T paper

5.5 x 8 176pp
Volume 2: Hope
October 2008 S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
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 N AT I V E S T U D I E S • P U B L I C P O L I C Y
First Nations?
Second Thoughts
Second Edition
Tom Flanagan
“… an important and courageous
work.” –National Post
w i n n e r of the 2000–2001 Donner Prize
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal
issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees
aboriginal peoples as “nations” entitled to specific rights.
Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include
the inherent right to self-government, collective property
rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights
without legal limits, and free housing, education, and
medical care. Underpinning these privileges is what Tom
Flanagan describes as “aboriginal orthodoxy” – the belief
that prior residence in North America is an entitlement
to special treatment.
Flanagan shows that this orthodoxy enriches a small
elite of activists, politicians, administrators, and well-
connected entrepreneurs, while bringing further misery
to the very people it is supposed to help. Controversial
and thought-provoking, First Nations? Second Thoughts
dissects the prevailing ideology that determines public
policy towards Canada’s aboriginal peoples.
In this updated edition, Flanagan analyzes the develop-
ments of the last ten years, showing how a conflict of
visions has led to a stalemate in aboriginal policy-making.
He concludes that aboriginal success will be achieved not
as the result of public policy changes in government but
through the actions of the people themselves.
Tom Flanagan is professor of political science at the
University of Calgary and a member of the Royal Society
of Canada.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
978-0-7735-3444-5 $29.95A paper
978-0-7735-3443-8 $80.00S cloth
6 x 9 280pp
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N AT I V E S T U D I E S • P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural
Preservation
Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard
“An excellent job of pointing out logical inconsistencies in the
Aboriginal political movement – a matter of great practical as well
as academic importance.” –Tom Flanagan, author of First Nations?
Second Thoughts
Despite the billions of dollars devoted to aboriginal causes,
Native people in Canada continue to suffer all the symp-
toms of a marginalized existence – high rates of sub-
stance abuse, violence, poverty. Disrobing the Aboriginal
Industry argues that the policies proposed to address
these problems – land claims and self government – are
in fact contributing to their entrenchment.
By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems,
Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the indus-
try that has grown up around land claim settlements,
showing that aboriginal policy development over the
past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal
lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aborig-
inal policies, examine issues that have received little criti-
cal attention – child care, health care, education, traditional
knowledge – and propose the comprehensive government
provision of health, education, and housing rather than
deficient delivery through Native self-government.
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry presents a convincing
argument that the “Aboriginal Industry” has failed to
address the fundamental economic and cultural basis of
native problems, leading instead to policies that offer a
financial benefit to the leadership while entrenching the
misery of most aboriginal people.
Frances Widdowson is a visiting assistant professor of
political science, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial
University of Newfoundland. Albert Howard is an
instructor and Director of Programs, Kennedy College
of Technology, Toronto.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
November 2008
978-0-7735-3421-6 $29.95T paper
978-0-7735-3420-9 $85.00S cloth
6 x 9 456pp 4 figures
 GEOGRAPHY • SOCIOLOGY
Tides of Change on
Grand Manan Island
Culture and Belonging
in a Fishing Community
Joan Marshall
“Fascinating … the author knows Grand
Manan well and has spent years gather-
ing data that is rich and revealing.”
–Gerald L. Pocius, Memorial University,
Newfoundland
Grand Manan Island, a 200-year old fishing village in the
Bay of Fundy, has been overwhelmed by globalization,
technology, and changing government policies. Changes
on the island call into question the myth of the rural idyll
and point to an urgent need for reconsideration of urban-
rural divides.
In less than a decade, the island community has faced
the degradation of the wild fishery and rapid growth of
aquaculture, an increasing presence of multinational cor-
porations, new federal initiatives with respect to aborigi-
nal policies, and widespread social dysfunction. Joan
Marshall uses over twelve years of intensive ethnographic
research to chart the nature and pace of social and cultur-
al change on Grand Manan, showing how it relates to
globalization and environmental degradation, as well as
to a confluence of outside sources.
The personal stories of the Grand Manan people bring
to life their local struggles and show how their communi-
ty, like other rural and fishing communities across Canada,
is being inexorably changed by forces outside their control.
“The breadth and depth of this study make it a special
contribution … the author successfully addresses the
challenges of change in an island community … a truly
groundbreaking piece of work.” –Maureen G. Reed,
University of Saskatchewan
Joan Marshall is faculty lecturer in the McGill University
School of Environment, and the author of A Solitary Pillar:
Montreal’s Anglican Church and the Quiet Revolution.
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N AT I V E S T U D I E S • O R A L H I S TO R Y
n e w i n pa p e r
Uqalurait
An Oral History of Nunavut
Compiled and edited by
John Bennett and Susan Rowley
Foreword by Peter Irniq and
David Serkoak
An authoritative and comprehensive
compilation of the ancient knowledge
of Inuit elders.
Uqalurait, pointed snowdrifts formed by Arctic blizzards,
“would tell us which direction to go in,” says elder Mari-
ano Aupilarjuk. This oral history, guided by the traditional
knowledge of Inuit elders from across Nunavut, also fol-
lows the uqalurait.
Thousands of quotes from over three hundred Inuit
elders about their culture and customs cover all aspects of
traditional life, from raising children to hunting, the land,
and architecture, to belief systems, cosmology, and the
Inuit’s remarkable ability to make do with what they had.
Given the recent creation of Nunavut and current atten-
tion to the Arctic due to climate change, Uqalurait is a
timely source of insight from a people whose values of
sharing and respect for the environment have helped
them to live for centuries at the northern limit of the
inhabitable world.
“Recuperates and preserves the dwindling knowledge
of how the Inuit lived prior to moving into permanent
settlements … profound and remarkably humorous.”
–The Walrus
John Bennett is a researcher, writer, and editor specializing
in the North and a former editor of the Inuit cultural
magazine Inuktitut. Susan Rowley is associate professor
of anthropology and sociology and curator of public
archaeology, Museum of Anthropology, at the University
of British Columbia.
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 A F R I CA N H I STO RY • B R I TI S H H I STO RY
n e w i n pa p e r
Blood Ground
Colonialism, Missions, and
the Contest for Christianity in
the Cape Colony and Britain,
1799–1853
Elizabeth Elbourne
“Masterful, well-researched, and incredi-
bly detailed … a truly thought-provoking
read, accessible across a number of
disciplines.” –H-SAfrica
w i n n e r Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
wi n n e r Joel Gregory Prize, The Canadian Association of African
Studies
In Blood Ground, Elizabeth Elbourne looks at the complex
relationship between the Khoekhoe, the British empire,
and the London Missionary Society in the Cape Colony in
southern Africa at a time of intense conflict during which
disparate groups competed to mobilize Christianity for
their own political ends. Focusing on the period between
the arrival of the first LMS missionaries and the conclu-
sion of the 1850-53 frontier war, Elbourne traces the tran-
sition from religion to race as the basis for policing the
boundaries of the “white” community. Emphasizing Chris-
tianity’s status as a religion of world empire, she explores
how Christianity provided opportunities for locals but also
contributed to their subjugation through ideological
justification of imperial expansion.
“Subtle, very well-grounded in the sources, even-handed,
well-argued, unpretentious, pleasantly written and, in
short, an intellectual treat. Read it.” –Studies in Religion
“[the author’s] diligent research immensely enriches our
understanding of missionary politics.” –American Historical
Review
Elizabeth Elbourne is associate professor, history, McGill
University.
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H I STO RY O F R E L I G I O N • WOM E N ’ S STU D I E S
n e w i n pa p e r
The Congrégation de
Notre-Dame, Superiors,
and the Paradox of
Power, 1693–1796
Colleen Gray
An imaginative exploration of power
and the public and private lives of
Congrégation superiors.
Nuns have often been portrayed as nascent feminists
wielding an exceptional amount of power. In this forma-
tive study of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame – a reli-
gious community of uncloistered women established in
Montreal in 1657 – Colleen Gray presents a more nuanced
view of the foundations and exercise of power within
the convent.
Gray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and
spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congrégation
superiors – Marie Barbier, Marie-Josèphe Maugue-Garreau,
and Marie Raizenne. By exploring the implications of the
hierarchies of power within the convent and providing
a thorough analysis of the convent’s relationship with
the social, religious, and governmental structures that
surrounded it – taking into account both medieval and
Catholic Reformation Europe and seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Canada – Gray reveals the paradoxes
inherent in the position of a female superior within the
male-dominated sphere of both the church and the larger
secular community.
The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the
Paradox of Power, 1693–1796 not only reconstructs a
vanished world but also provides great insight into the
organization of institutional structures and the complex
aspects of power within them.
Colleen Gray is adjunct professor, Canadian history,
Queen’s University.
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August 2008
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 BIOGRAPHY
Sir Andrew Macphail
The Life and Legacy of a
Canadian Man of Letters
Ian Ross Robertson
“Robertson's comprehensive approach
establishes Macphail as a major
intellectual force within Canada.”
–M. Brook Taylor, Mount St Vincent
University
Sir Andrew Macphail (1864–1938), a professor of the his-
tory of medicine at McGill University, was best-known as
an essayist of international renown and founding editor
of The University Magazine and the Canadian Medical
Association Journal.
Macphail’s writing – characterized by clarity of expres-
sion and support for unpopular positions – allowed him
to develop and document many of the important political,
social, and intellectual themes of his time. He argued for
the reorganization of the British Empire to reflect the
growing importance of Canada and against such modern
trends and movements as utilitarian education, feminism,
industrialization, and urbanization. A strong advocate for
the rejuvenation of rural life, he carried out agricultural
experiments on his native Prince Edward Island. When it
became apparent that it was impossible to return to rural
ideals, Macphail celebrated the world of his rural past in
his most memorable work – the posthumously published
The Master’s Wife.
In this first book-length study Ian Ross Robertson
celebrates Macphail’s legacy as a cultural leader in English-
speaking Montreal who became an iconic figure in articu-
lating a unique identity for Prince Edward Island as an
embodiment of a traditional way of life.
Ian Ross Robertson is professor emeritus of history,
University of Toronto at Scarborough, and the award-
winning author of The Tenant League of Prince Edward
Island, 1864–1867: Leasehold Tenure in the New World.
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
The Lansdowne Era
Victoria College, 1946–1963
Edited by Edward Harvey
Exploring a dynamic period of
change and development at the
University of Victoria.
Demographic, economic, and social change between 1946
and 1963 affected all of Canadian society and profoundly
shaped what was then Victoria College.
Providing background and context, and bringing to-
gether a multiplicity of voices, Edward Harvey documents
how one Canadian college responded to the important
developments of the time – post-war prosperity, rapid ur-
banization, massive expansion in post-secondary educa-
tion, the “baby boom,” the emergence of a “youth culture.”
Individual chapters by distinguished alumni reflect on the
legacy of Dean Emeritus Peter Lawson Smith, discuss the
buildings and architecture of the era, highlight initiatives
to build the institution’s art collection, and look at teach-
ing from the perspective of a young faculty member.
The last years on the Lansdowne campus mark the end
of the college era and the beginning of a new university
phase of development. The Lansdowne Era celebrates a
rich and colourful period in the University of Victoria’s
distinguished history.
Edward B. Harvey teaches demographic change at the
University of Toronto and is president of a Toronto-based
consulting firm. He is the author of numerous books
and articles.
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 PHILOSOPHY • SELF-HELP PHILOSOPHY • PETS

ART OF LIVING SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT Series Editor: Mark Vernon

Philosophy is the great untapped resource of our generation – from Plato to Bertrand Russell, philosophers have
provided insights about the matters that concern us all, but today their ideas are often ignored in favour of those
provided by self-help works. The Art of Living Series aims to bring philosophical insights to a wider audience. Taking
its lead from the concerns of the ancient Greek philosophers, the series asks the question “How should we live?”
Authors draw on their personal reflections as well as their philosophical training to write books that enrich,
stimulate, and challenge readers’ ideas about how to live their lives.

Illness Pets
Havi Carel Erica Fudge

What is illness? Is it a physiological malfunction or a social
label? Is it simply the absence of health? How do our
physical, social, and emotional worlds change when we
become ill? Havi Carel addresses these questions by inter-
weaving a personal account of her own serious illness
with a more abstract, philosophical account of illness in
general. She argues that illness should be seen not simply
as a localized biological dysfunction but as a transforma-
tion of our social, psychological, and physical worlds and
our temporal existence. By focusing on illness as a lived
experience, she reveals illness as a life-changing event
rather than a limited physiological problem, showing that
the body is not a lifeless container for the self but the core
of human subjectivity and embodied existence.
“Havi Carel’s theoretical notions on the meaning of life
and death were turned upside down when she was diag-
nosed with a terminal illness – and told she had just 10
years to live.” –The Independent
Why do we live with pets? What are these beings who are
kin but not kind? Erica Fudge looks at the answers offered
by modern thinkers. Moving from an analysis of the philo-
sophical importance of the Lassie myth to philosophers’
surprisingly similar musings about their cats, she chal-
lenges many of our easy assumptions about who, what
and why pets are. Meditating on our obsession with do-
mestic animals reveals many of the paradoxes, contradic-
tions, and ambiguities of life and shows that pets are a
vital resource for contemporary philosophy. True border-
creatures – the anthropologist Edmund Leach called them
man-animals – pets both exemplify and challenge the
construction of self and other that is so important in
modern thought. Without pets we might not be the
humans we think we are.
Erica Fudge is reader in literary and cultural studies
at Middlesex University.

Havi Carel is senior lecturer in philosophy at the

University of the West of England, Bristol.

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 P H I LO S O P H Y • FA S H I O N
Clothes
John Harvey
Choosing our clothes is a sensitive matter and far from
superficial. John Harvey considers the overlapping values
that clothes have for us. They both cover and advertise the
bodies within them, helping to define us as the men and
women we are. They enroll us in groups, from our own
circle to our generation worldwide, and pick us out as indi-
viduals. Clothes, like their wearers, may compete in claim-
ing power or the spotlight. They show how we think we
matter – and they can matter themselves in ways that
may be both intimate and crucial. Contemporary opinion
is still divided on whether clothes are the most frivolous
of consumer disposables or can take their place as art.
Though we wear and see them every day, the value that
they have for us is multiple and fugitive. Harvey attempts
to sort out the many-coloured wardrobe that distinguish-
es humans from other creatures.
John Harvey is reader in literature and visual culture at
the University of Cambridge.
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PHILOSOPHY
Deception
Ziyad Marar
Deception begins at home – the most convincing liars
convince themselves first. Sellers and buyers, parents and
children, friends and lovers conceal from each other that
they don’t believe or want the same things. Ziyad Marar
throws a revealing light on the many ways deception is
woven into the texture of human life: our biological
wiring leaves us easy prey to persuasive illusions, while
our contradictory desires (for sex and honesty, money
and kindness, cake and weight loss) force us to create self-
serving stories. We manage flattering impressions with
effortless skill, while pretending our sins and self-indul-
gences are beyond our control. Drawing on insights from
philosophy, psychology, and literature, Marar explores the
implications of Kant’s humbling thought that “out of the
crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever
made.”
Ziyad Marar is the author of The Happiness Paradox and
deputy managing director and publishing director at Sage
Publications.
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 PH I LOSOPHY • SPORT
Sport
Colin McGinn
This book is about the human love of sport. Sport is a lived
experience of the integration of mind and body: anyone
who has hit a winning serve, a perfect drive, a home run
knows that mind and body are completely interwoven at
that moment. If a happy life is one that fully expresses our
natural faculties, then sports must play an essential role in
that life. Philosopher and athlete Colin McGinn describes
the athletic experience from the inside, capturing what is
uniquely valuable about sport as an activity. Mind-body
unity, practical knowledge, peak experiences, success and
failure, the ethics of competition, fitness and death – all
these are woven into the story of an athletic life. McGinn
is able to put our passion for sport into conceptual per-
spective, showing that sport is a complex and revealing
human activity.
Colin McGinn is professor of philosophy at the University
of Miami.
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P H I LO S O P HY • S EXUA L I T Y
Sex
Seiriol Morgan
A source of intense life-affirming pleasure when it is pres-
ent and going well or frustration and misery when it is
absent or unsatisfying, sex is one of the central mecha-
nisms through which individuals can bring happiness or
hurt to the lives of others, as well as their own. It also has
a peculiar power to tempt us to act against our own best
interests and judgments. Seiriol Morgan explores the phi-
losophy of sex, offering an accessible analysis of the place
of sex in human life and a discussion of the kinds of sexu-
al lives that might be compatible with living well. She be-
gins with a discussion of the nature of sexual desire, using
examples from anecdote and literature to bring out its
complexities and focusing particularly on the ways in
which bodily and psychological elements interact to con-
struct the many and various sexual desires and quirks we
experience. Special attention is paid to the darker aspects
of eroticism and the dangers these can pose. Later chap-
ters discuss such issues as fidelity, promiscuity, and seduc-
tion, as well as more broadly social concerns such as
pornography and the importance of the family.
Seiriol Morgan is senior lecturer in philosophy at the
University of Bristol.
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 PHILOSOPHY • SOCIOLOGY
Work
Lars Svendsen
Work is one of the most universal features of human life.
Often associated with tedium and boredom, it conflicts
with the things we would otherwise love to do. Thinking
of work primarily as a burden – an activity we would
rather be without – goes back at least as far as ancient
Greece, whose philosophers generally regarded work as a
terrible curse. Yet research shows that it prolongs life and
is generally good for people’s physical and mental health.
Our attitudes toward work have changed significantly
in the last decades and increased recognition of it as a
crucial source of meaning and social identity has led to
increased demands for opportunities to find meaning and
self-realization in the workplace. Lars Svendsen argues
that we need to complete this reorientation of our feel-
ings about work and collapse the differences between
leisure and work. We must think of work not only as
productive but as recreative – in other words, much more
like leisure.
Lars Svendsen is associate professor of philosophy at the
University of Bergen, Norway. His previous books include
A Philosophy of Boredom and Fashion: A Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY
Hunger
Raymond Tallis
Understanding hunger is the key to understanding our-
selves. While our hungers seem the most obvious things
about us, they are also deeply mysterious, arising out of,
and casting light on, the unique character of human con-
sciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed
into a multitude of demands that are remote from organ-
ic necessity. Even first-level biological hunger is experi-
enced differently in humans, and little in human feeding
behaviour has any parallel in the animal kingdom. Ray-
mond Tallis takes us through the different levels of our
hunger, showing that our primary appetites give rise to
a myriad of pleasures and tastes that are elaborated in
second-level hedonistic hungers, creating new values.
The evolution of appetite into desire opens the way to
social hungers such as the hunger for acknowledgement.
Awareness of death awakens a further level of hunger
for something that lies beyond the pell-mell of successive
experiences leading towards extinction. The art of living
is the art of managing our hungers.
Raymond Tallis was professor of geriatric medicine at
the University of Manchester until he left to become a
full-time writer in 2006.
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 P H I L O S O P H Y • C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
Fame
Mark Rowlands
One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent
years has been the increasing fame of fame. Mark Rowlands
argues that our obsession with fame has transformed it:
no longer associated with excellence or achievement in
a field of endeavour, it is now unconnected to any dis-
cernible distinction, allowing a person to be famous sim-
ply for being famous. To understand this new form of
fame, simultaneously fascinating and worthless, Row-
lands shows that we have to understand a dispute that
began in ancient Greece between Plato and Protagoras
and was continued in a remarkable philosophical experi-
ment in eighteenth-century France. Somewhat like
contestants on a reality TV show, we find ourselves, unwit-
tingly, playing out the consequences of this experiment.
Mark Rowlands is professor of philosophy at the Universi-
ty of Miami. His books include The Philosopher at the End
of the Universe and Everything I Know I Learned From TV.
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PHILOSOPHY • SELF-HELP
Wellbeing
Mark Vernon
The politics of wellbeing and the new science of happiness
have become increasingly popular since Martin Seligman
coined the phrase “positive psychology” and connected it
to the idea of the good life. So why, ten years later, does
much of the discussion – “work less,”“earn enough,”“keep
fit,”“find meaning,”“enjoy freedoms” – sound uninspired?
Mark Vernon argues that it is because the central question
– just what is wellbeing? – is not properly addressed. He
shows, surprisingly, that wellbeing is not found in a focus
on pleasure, or even the pursuit of happiness itself. Rather,
it is a question of meaning and responding to the great
challenge of our day: the search for transcendence. At root,
the life that is going well is based on love: it is love that
draws us out of ourselves toward friends, hopes, and,
ultimately, the contemplation of mystery.
Mark Vernon is a freelance writer and journalist. He is an
honorary research fellow of Birkbeck College, London.
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 POLITICAL SCIENCE • PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY

The Absolute Violation The Philosophy

Why Torture Must of Agamben
Be Prohibited Catherine Mills
Richard S. Matthews
A critical introduction to the work o f
An unprecedented, empirically rich Giorgio Agamben – a leading figure in
philosophical challenge to the use of Italian philosophy and radical political
torture in state-sponsored interrogation. theory.

State torture has found an increasing number of defend-
ers in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences
often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus
misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well
as accepting the illusory benefits it promises.
Richard Matthews challenges the increasing accept-
ability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiat-
ing any possible justifications. He confronts its various
supporters – ticking time bomb and tragic choice theo-
rists, utilitarians, legal scholars – and draws from philoso-
phy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives,
history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence
officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that
no moral justification for torture can be supported.
The Absolute Violation is essential reading for philoso-
phers, lawyers, judges, human rights activists, military,
police and intelligence officers, medical professionals, and
anyone who is interested in forcefully countering the
recent trend towards moral justification of torture.
Richard Matthews is assistant professor of philosophy,
Mount Allison University.
Giorgio Agamben has gained widespread popularity in
recent years for his rethinking of radical politics and his
approach to meta-physics and language. However, the ex-
traordinary breadth of historical, legal, and philosophical
sources that contribute to the complexity and depth of
Agamben’s thinking can also make his work intimidating.
Catherine Mill’s critical introduction covers the full
range of Agamben’s work, presenting his key concerns –
metaphysics, language and potentiality, aesthetics and
poetics, sovereignty, law and biopolitics, ethics and testi-
mony – as well as his powerful vision of post-historical
humanity.
“Mills has written an important, original book that will
transform the received understanding of Agamben’s work
in the humanities and social sciences. Her unapologetical-
ly philosophical interpretation is required reading for
those who wish to assess the true impact and significance
of Agamben’s interventions in politics, aesthetics, and
culture.” –Paul Fletcher, Lancaster University
Catherine Mills is lecturer in philosophy, University of New
South Wales, Sydney.

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 PHILOSOPHY
Theodor Adorno
Key Concepts
Edited by Deborah Cook
An introduction to the writings
of Theodor Adorno.
The issues Theodor Adorno explored in his work are as
pressing today as in the past and his arguments continue
to affect disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology,
psychology, cultural studies, musicology, and literary theo-
ry. Even as Adorno contests many of the premises of the
philosophical tradition, he reinvigorates that tradition
with his concerted attempt to stem catastrophic tenden-
cies in the West. Expert contributors make Adorno accessi-
ble to a new generation of readers without simplifying his
thought, providing readers with the key concepts needed
to decipher Adorno’s often daunting books and essays and
showing the way through the labyrinth of his work.
Contribuors include Deborah Cook, Ståle Finke, Fabian Freyenhagen,
Espen Hammer, Pauline Johnson, Brian O’Connor, Alison Stone,
Marianne Tettlebaum, Ross Wilson, and Robert W. Witkin.
Deborah Cook is professor of philosophy at the University
of Windsor.
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PHILOSOPHY
Merleau-Ponty
Key Concepts
Edited by Rosalyn Diprose
and Jack Reynolds
“This is a truly impressive volume. All of
the essays are clear and rigorous and the
themed sections very helpful for readers.”
–Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis
Initially overshadowed by Sartre and Heidegger, Merleau-
Ponty’s work is arguably now more widely influential than
that of either of his two contemporaries. Merleau-Ponty:
Key Concepts presents an accessible guide to his core
ideas, his influences, and his importance for a wide range
of disciplines. The first section shows how Merleau-
Ponty’s thinking was influenced by the major debates of
his time, particularly existentialism, phenomenology, the
history of philosophy, and the philosophy of history and
society. The second section outlines his major contribu-
tions and conceptual innovations. The final section focus-
es on how his work has been taken up in fields outside
philosophy, notably sociology, cognitive science, health
studies, and feminism.
Contributors include Harry Adams, Thomas Busch, Taylor Carman,
Suzanne Cataldi, David Cerbone, Scott Churchill, Diana Coole, Nick
Crossley, Fred Evans, Shaun Gallagher, Sonia Kruks, David Morris, Ann
Murphy, Philipa Rothfield, Michael Sanders, Hugh Silverman, Beata
Stawarska, Ted Toadvine, and Gail Weiss.
Rosalyn Diprose is associate professor in philosophy at
the University of New South Wales. Jack Reynolds is
lecturer in philosophy at La Trobe University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
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August 2008
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 PHILOSOPHY
Pierre Bourdieu
Key Concepts
Edited by Michael Grenfell
An introduction to the writings
of Pierre Bourdieu.
The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)
is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the
twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu
studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art,
politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. He
developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he
referred to as his “thinking tools,” and used them to un-
cover the workings of contemporary society. Pierre Bour-
dieu: Key Concepts looks at some of his most important
concepts, examining them in detail. Each chapter deals
with an individual concept and is written for both the
student with little or no previous knowledge of Bourdieu
and the more experienced reader.
Contributors include Nicolas Crossley, Cecile Deer, Steve Fuller,
Michael Grenfell, Cheryl Hardy, Karl Maton, Robert Moore,
Derek Robbins, Dan Schubert, and Patricia Thomson.
“The book manages that extraordinary feat of offering
both accessible introductions to Bourdieu’s concepts that
are ‘good to think with’ whilst also offering a depth of
analysis that will engage scholars already familiar with
Bourdieu’s work. Whether a chapter says something new
about familiar concepts like habitus, field, or capital, or it
introduces less discussed concepts like conatus, the writ-
ing stretches the reader’s understanding of what socio-
logical theory can be.” –Arthur Frank, University of Calgary
Michael Grenfell is professor of education and director
of research at the University of Southampton.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
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August 2008
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PHILOSOPHY
Albert Camus
From the Absurd to Revolt
John Foley
“A masterful job of research and analy-
sis, beautifully incorporating the full
range of Camus’ writings.” –David
Sprintzen, Long Island University, and
author of Camus: A Critical Examination
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses
philosophy, literature, politics, and history, John Foley
examines the full breadth of Camus’ ideas to provide a
rigorous guide to his political and philosophical thought,
making a significant contribution to current debates in
Camus research. Foley argues that Camus’ thought can
best be understood through analysis of the concepts of
“the absurd” and “revolt” and the relationship between
them. The book includes a detailed discussion of Camus’
writings for the newspaper Combat, a systematic analysis
of the discussion of the moral legitimacy of political
violence and terrorism, a reassessment of the prevailing
postcolonial critique of Camus’ humanism, and a sus-
tained analysis of Camus’ most commonly neglected
work, L’Homme révolté (The Rebel). Written with sufficient
detail and clarity to satisfy both academic and student
audiences, Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt is an
important discussion and defence of Camus’ philosophical
thought.
“Among the vast array of existing Camus scholarship
I have never read a more thorough presentation or judi-
cious defense of Camus’ work than this.” –David Carroll,
University of California, Irvine and author of Albert Camus
the Algerian
John Foley is a postdoctoral fellow at the National
University of Ireland, Galway.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
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 PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY

Robert Brandom The Ethical Canary

Jeremy Wanderer
Science, Society, and the
A complete introduction to the work
Human Spirit
Margaret Somerville
of Robert Brandom.

“The Ethical Canary … throws welcome

light on a debate that we can’t avoid.”
–MacLean’s

Jeremy Wanderer offers students a clear introduction to
the philosophy of Robert Brandom, in particular his monu-
mental work Making It Explicit, one of the most significant
and daunting philosophical works of recent years. The
book provides a clear sense of Brandom’s project, moti-
vates a close reading of the core text, and offers a context
for an initial assessment and critique of Brandom’s think-
ing. It highlights some of the philosophical problems that
Brandom seeks to solve and explores the wider implica-
tions of his account. The first book to place Brandom’s
work squarely within contemporary Anglo-American phi-
losophy and the broader history of philosophy, it will be a
valuable resource for advanced students and philosophers
tackling this challenging body of work.
Jeremy Wanderer is lecturer in philosophy at the University
of Cape Town.
ALSO IN THE SERIES
Bernard Williams
Mark P. Jenkins
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John McDowell
Tim Thornton
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Shortlisted for the 2000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for
political writing and the Science in Society Book Award
Every day we hear news about medical or scientific break-
throughs and the complex ethical issues they raise. Feats
that were never before possible, including cloning, geneti-
cally modifying food, mapping human chromosomes, and
using animal organs for human transplants, have opened
up a Pandora’s box of ethical questions. Technology is
advancing at such rate that the issue is not so much what
we can do but rather whether we will do it. Margaret
Somerville, a leading international authority on medicine,
ethics, and the law, demonstrates that society must set
ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances. In this
controversial, and timely book Somerville sheds light on
the urgent ethical and legal questions that vie for our
attention. Along the way, she calls upon us to recognize
the mysteries that lie at the heart of our lives and the
metaphysical reality that gives meaning to life.
The Ethical Canary is a major contribution to the
debate about the hottest issues in ethics today, from one
of the world’s leading authorities.
Margaret Somerville, who was recently chosen as the
first winner of the Avicenna prize for Ethics in Science by
unesco, is the founding director of the McGill Centre for
Medicine, Ethics and Law, and holds professorships in
both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine at
McGill University.

S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Philosophy Now
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 C O N F L I C T S T U D I E S • M I L I TA R Y S T U D I E S
Critique of Security
Mark Neocleous
“This is an adventurous and radical
book. It is seeking to create new
trends in security studies.” –Barry
Buzan, London School of Economics
The contemporary political imagination and social land-
scape have been almost overwhelmed by worries about
security. These concerns have led to the emergence of a
minor industry generating ideas about how to define
security, how to defend and improve it, how to civilise
and democratise it. In Critique of Security Mark Neocleous
takes an entirely different approach.
Challenging the common assumption that security is
an unquestionable good, Neocleous explores the ways in
which security has been used in the service of a vision of
social order in which state power and liberal subjectivity
become an integral part of human experience. Treating
security as a political technology for liberal order-building
and engaging with a wide range of thinkers and subject
areas – security studies and international political econo-
my; history, law, and political theory; international rela-
tions and historical sociology – Neocleous explores the
ways in which individuals, classes, and the state have been
shaped and ordered according to a logic of security. In so
doing, he uncovers the violence that underlies the politics
of security, the ideological links between security and
emergency powers, and the fetish for security that is
dominating modern politics.
Mark Neocleous is professor of the Critique of Political
Economy at Brunel University, and a member of the edito-
rial collective of Radical Philosophy. His previous books
include The Monstrous and the Dead, Imagining the State,
The Fabrication of the Social Order, Fascism, and Adminis-
tering Civil Society.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
July 2008
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C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S • P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
Cultures of the War
on Terror
Empire, Ideology, and the
Remaking of 9/11
David Holloway
Making sense of crisis through culture –
an interdisciplinary historical analysis
of 9/11 and the “war on terror.”
In an interdisciplinary study of representations of 9/11
and the “war on terror” during the Bush era, David
Holloway shows that culture often functioned as a
vital resource for citizens attempting to make sense of
momentous historical events that seemed well beyond
their influence or control.
Holloway discusses representations of 9/11 and the
war on terror in Hollywood film, novels, mass media, visu-
al art and photography, political discourse, and revisionist
historical accounts of the American “empire” created
between the 11 September attacks and the Congressional
midterm elections in 2006. He suggests that the culture
of the period not only prompted international crises in
security, governance, and law but also points to a “crisis”
unfolding in the institutions and processes of US republi-
can democracy.
Cultures of the War on Terror offers a cultural and ideo-
logical history of the period, showing how culture was
used to debate, legitimize, qualify, contest, or repress dis-
cussion about the broader meanings of 9/11 and the war
on terror.
“An excellent cultural history of our epoch, full of original
insight and interpretation.” –Douglas Kellner, author of
Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
David Holloway, senior lecturer in American studies,
University of Derby, is author of The Late Modernism
of Cormac McCarthy, and co-editor of American Visual
Cultures.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
July 2008
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 CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
A Silent Revolution?
Gender and Wealth in English
Canada, 1860–1930
Peter Baskerville
The increasing involvement of women
in business and finance in turn-of-the-
century urban Canada.
A Silent Revolution? explores how urban women managed
wealth at a time when they were thought to have little
independence – including economic – and shows that
women were in fact important players in the world of
capital.
Peter Baskerville situates women in their immediate
gendered and familial environments as well as within
broader legal, financial, spatial, temporal, and historio-
graphical contexts. He analyses women’s probates, wills,
land ownership, holdings of real and chattel mortgages,
investment in stocks and bonds, and self employment,
revealing that women controlled wealth to an extent
similar to that of most men and invested and managed
wealth in increasingly similar, and in some cases more
aggressive, ways.
Traditional historiography has highlighted women’s
fight to acquire cultural and political rights during this
period, but it is less well known that women acquired and
exercised many economic rights as well. In doing so they
put pressure on men to reconceptualize the notion of
middle class and women’s proper place.
“Potentially, one of the most important books in the last
two decades in Canadian social history.” –David Burley,
history, University of Winnipeg
One of Canada’s leading business social scientists, Peter
Baskerville is professor of history, University of Victoria,
in-coming chair of Modern Western Canadian History,
University of Alberta, and the author of several books.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
August 2008
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978-0-7735-3411-7 $85.00S cloth
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H I STO RY • CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
Lady Landlords of
Prince Edward Island
Imperial Dreams and the
Defence of Property
Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum
A lively look at estate management and
resistance to land reform in nineteenth-
century Prince Edward Island through the
life stories of four elite British women
landowners.
The 1767 decision to divide Prince Edward Island among
elite British grantees shaped Island history for more than
a century. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island examines
this history through the lives of four women who, due to
the vagaries of family formation and inheritance, became
Island landlords.
As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four
women faced challenges from those who wanted land re-
distributed in freehold lots to actual settlers. Their individ-
ual management strategies were determined in part by
class standing and marital status, as well as individual ec-
centricities and prejudices. Drawing on family and official
papers, Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum provide
engaging portraits of these women – orphaned heiress,
prudent wife and property manager, countess estranged
from her husband, independent spinster – as they negoti-
ated relations of power and privilege in a domain domi-
nated by men.
Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island is a compelling
narrative that provides a unique perspective on landed
society in England in the age of industrialization and re-
form, making an important contribution to trans-Atlantic,
British social, legal, and women’s histories.
Rusty Bittermann is a professor of history, St Thomas
University, and author of Rural Protest on Prince Edward
Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement.
Margaret McCallum teaches in the Faculty of Law at the
University of New Brunswick.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
August 2008
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 CA N A D I A N H I STO RY • Q U E B E C H I STO RY
A Short History
of Quebec
Fourth Edition
John A. Dickinson and Brian Young
“The best book currently available in
English on the history of Quebec.”
–The Ottawa Citizen
Written by two of Quebec’s most respected historians,
A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehen-
sive overview of the province from the pre-contact native
period to the present-day.
John Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing per-
spective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social
and economic development of the region as well as the
identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth
edition covers Quebec’s recent political history and in-
cludes an updated bibliography and chronology and new
illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec
now takes into account such issues as the 1995 referendum,
recent ideological shifts and societal changes, considers
Quebec’s place in North America in the light of nafta,
and offers reflections on the Gérard Bouchard-Charles
Taylor Commission on Accommodation and Cultural
Differences in 2008.
Engagingly written, this expanded and updated fourth
edition is an ideal place to learn about the dynamic history
of Quebec.
John A. Dickinson teaches Quebec history at the Université
de Montréal. Brian Young teaches Quebec history at
McGill University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
978-0-7735-3440-7 $27.95A paper
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CANADIAN POLITICS • POLITICAL SCIENCE
Secession and Self
Quebec in Canadian Thought
Gregory Millard
“A deliciously creative synthesis of cur-
rent schools of liberal thought … the
argument, engaging, informative, and
accessible, may be the apogee of several
decades of thought on this matter.”
–Katherine Fierlbeck, Dalhousie
University
The possibility of Quebec’s departure has long haunted
Canadian politics, and English-speaking Canadians have
resisted such a break. But why, and how, does Quebec’s
membership in the existing constitutional order matter
to Canadians outside Quebec?
Secession and Self goes beyond debates over the eco-
nomic and institutional effects of Quebec separation to
look at the normative dimensions of resistance to seces-
sion. Drawing from Charles Taylor, James Tully, and many
others, Gregory Millard explores the central role Quebec
plays in ideas of what makes Canada worthwhile. He
argues that a break with Quebec would impair Canada’s
ability to realize ideals such as liberalism, fraternity, and
developmental accounts of citizenship and would under-
cut attempts to locate Canadian identity in narratives of
history and place. In lieu of a single argument against the
departure of Quebec, Millard considers the variety and
richness of the affirmations involved in Quebec-in-Canada
as a particular kind of multinational state.
Taking into account the many efforts to grapple with
one of the deepest challenges in Canadian history,
Secession and Self provides an insightful account of the
variegated ties between Canada, Quebec, and visions
of the good.
“This is an important subject and Millard's execution and
enterprise are solid.” –Stephen Brooks, University
of Windsor
Gregory Millard teaches Canadian politics and political
thought at Kwantlen University College, Surrey, British
Columbia.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
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 CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
Tenants in Time
Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper
Canada, 1799–1871
Catharine Anne Wilson
Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered
but tenancy was of vital importance.
The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settlement
history – Tenants in Time tells a different story. Tenancy,
though relegated to the periphery by the liberal idealiza-
tion of ownership, was a common and vital part of the
economy and society. Against a background of interna-
tional land agitation and using an inter-disciplinary ap-
proach, Catharine Wilson looks at life as a tenant farmer,
providing new insights into family strategies, land mar-
kets, and the growth of liberalism.
Using evidence from across Upper Canada she shows
how tenancy transformed the landscape and tied old and
new settlers together in a continuum of mutual depend-
ence that was essential to settlement, capital creation,
and social mobility. Her analysis of customary rights re-
veals a landlord-tenant relationship – and a concept of
ownership – more complex and flexible than previously
understood. Landlords, from ordinary farmers to absentee
aristocrats, are also part of the story and the much-
criticized clergy reserves take a positive role. An intimate
exploration of Cramahe Township follows tenants over
the generations as they supported their families and
combined liberal ideas with household-centered ways.
From aggregate statistics to individual human dramas,
Tenants in Time unravels the life of the tenant farmer in
a wonderfully documented, engaging, and compelling
argument.
Catharine Anne Wilson is professor of history, University
of Guelph, and the author of the award-winning works
A New Lease on Life and Reciprocal Work Bees and the
Meaning of Neighbourhood.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
January 2009
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
Uniting in Measures of Common Good
The Construction of Liberal Identities in
Central Canada
Darren Ferry
Examining the critical role of nineteenth-century voluntary
associations in disseminating liberal values throughout
central Canadian society.
In a compelling and comprehensive treatment of the
nineteenth-century voluntary association movement,
Darren Ferry situates these organizations within the much
larger framework of the construction of collective liberal
identities. He shows that by attempting to transcend the
political, religious, class, and ethnic divisions of their con-
stituencies, voluntary societies acted as cultural mediators
in the reproduction, transmission, and contestation of
liberal values throughout central Canadian society.
Ferry examines a wide selection of voluntary societies –
mechanics’ institutes, mutual benefit organizations, agri-
cultural associations, temperance societies, and literary
and scientific associations. He reinterprets the history
of these organizations in terms of their own internal
tensions over liberal doctrines and the effect of social,
cultural, and economic change and compares the effects
of liberalism on rural and urban associations and on
societies in both English and French Canada.
Anchored with an array of archival documentation –
minute books, lectures, associational periodicals, personal
papers, pamphlets, and tracts – Uniting in Measures of
Common Good illuminates the experience of ordinary
Canadians within the voluntary association movement
as well as the relations of the movement with the larger
liberal society.
Darren Ferry teaches history at McMaster University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
December 2008
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 POLITICAL SCIENCE • FOREIGN POLICY
Branding Canada
Projecting Canada’s Soft Power
through Public Diplomacy
Evan H. Potter
Looking at Canada’s public diplomacy
abroad through culture, international
education, and international broadcasting.
The communications revolution and increased democrati-
zation and globalization have made every country more
aware of its image and reputation – its “national brand.”
Whether a country needs to build international coalitions
against terrorism, encourage cooperation to protect the
environment, or attract investment and skilled labour, in-
fluencing foreign public opinion is now as crucial to na-
tional success as negotiating with foreign governments.
Evan Potter analyses how the federal government has
used the instruments of public diplomacy – cultural pro-
grams, international education, international broadcast-
ing, trade, and investment promotion – to exercise
Canada’s soft power internationally. He argues that pro-
tecting and nurturing a distinct national identity are es-
sential to Canada’s sovereignty and prosperity, and
suggests ways to achieve this through the strategic exer-
cise of public diplomacy, at home and abroad.
In offering the first comprehensive overview of the ori-
gins, development, and implementation of the country’s
public diplomacy, Branding Canada offers policy advice on
Canada’s approach and advances the thinking on public
diplomacy in general.
Evan H. Potter is assistant professor in the Department of
Communication, University of Ottawa. He is the founding
editor of the Canadian Foreign Policy journal and a former
Fulbright Visiting Chair in Public Diplomacy at the Annen-
berg School for Communication, University of Southern
California. He is the author of Cyberdiplomacy: Foreign
Policy in the 21st Century.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
November 2008
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CA N A D I A N H I STO RY
British Businessmen and
Canadian Confederation
Constitution Making in an Era
of Anglo-Globalization
Andrew Smith
The role played by British financiers
in Canadian Confederation.
Without pressure from a small but influential group of
London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred
in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification
of the British North American colonies because they be-
lieved it would rescue their under-performing investments
and keep British North America within the British Empire.
Andrew Smith discusses the role of British investors in
Canadian Confederation, covering the period from the
construction of the Grand Trunk Railroad in the 1850s to
Canada’s purchase of Rupert’s Land in 1869–70. He de-
scribes how some investors lobbied the British govern-
ment for the policies that made Confederation possible,
working closely with the Fathers of Confederation, many
of whom were participants in the same trans-Atlantic
crony-capitalist system. British factory owners with classi-
cal liberal beliefs, however, disliked Confederation because
they believed it would delay the political independence
of the North American colonies, something they saw as
beneficial.
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
reminds Canadians that most contemporaries of Confed-
eration saw it as a way to preserve the colonists’ bonds
with Britain rather than to expand their political autono-
my. It should interest a wide audience – from students
of Canadian political history to historians interested in
Victorian globalization.
Andrew Smith is assistant professor of Canadian history,
Laurentian University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
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 P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E • E N V I R O N M E N TA L S T U D I E S
Canadian Water Politics
Conflicts and Institutions
Edited by Mark Sproule-Jones,
Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller
“An excellent study - with sound scholar-
ship and impressively-clear writing – and
a key contribution to evolving policy
debates.” –Robert Boardman, Dalhousie
University
Water, an increasingly valuable multiple-use resource, is
the source of continuing conflict in Canada and abroad. Its
use and control presents significant challenges to govern-
ments, stakeholders, and citizens. Canadian Water Politics
explores the nature of water use conflicts and the need
for institutional designs and reforms to meet the gover-
nance challenges now and in the future. The editors pres-
ent an overview of the properties of water, the nature of
water uses, and the institutions that underpin water poli-
tics. Contributors highlight specific water policy concerns
and conflicts in various parts of Canada and cover a wide
range of issues.
Canada – with its Great Lakes, three oceans, and border
with the US – provides an ideal reference point for study-
ing water use rivalries, conflicts, and governance globally.
Canadian Water Politics is an essential source for citizens,
officials, academics and students, and contributes to our
understanding of natural resource management and envi-
ronmental policy.
Mark Sproule-Jones is professor in the Department of
Political Science and the Victor K. Copps Chair of Urban
Studies, McMaster University. Carolyn Johns is associate
professor in the Department of Politics and Public Admin-
istration, Ryerson University. B. Timothy Heinmiller is as-
sistant professor in the Department of Political Science
at Brock University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
November 2008
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978-0-7735-3468-1 $85.00S cloth
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P U B L I C P O L I C Y • I N T E R N AT I O N A L R E L AT I O N S
Canada Among Nations, 2008
100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy
Edited by Robert Bothwell and Jean Daudelin
A look back at a century of Canada’s engagement with the world.
This year’s edition of Canada Among Nations offers a
critical overview of a number of landmarks in the last
hundred years of Canadian foreign policy. The editors take
a critical look at the now almost mainstream “declinist”
thesis and at the continued relevance of Canada’s rela-
tionships with its principal allies – the United Kingdom,
France, and the United States. Contributors discuss a
broad range of themes, including the weight of a chang-
ing identity in the evolution of the country’s foreign policy,
the fate of Canadian diplomacy as a profession, the often
complicated relationship between foreign and trade poli-
cies, the impact of immigration and refugee procedures
on foreign policy, and the evolving understanding of
development and defence as components of Canada’s
foreign policy.
Contributors include Robert Bothwell (University of Toronto), Duane
Bratt (Mount Royal College), Daryl Copeland (DFAIT), Jean Daudelin
(Carleton University), Greg Donaghy (DFAIT), Fred Edwards (Toronto
Star), Julie Gilmour (University of Toronto), David Haglund (Queen’s
University), Justin Massie (Queen’s University), John Meehan (Univer-
sity of Toronto), Kathleen Rasmussen (US State Dept.), Roger Sarty
(Wilfrid Laurier University), William Schabas (William National Uni-
versity of Ireland), Ian Smillie (Partnership Africa Canada), and Cara
Spittal (University of Toronto).
Robert Bothwell is professor of history and director of
the International Relations Program at the University
of Toronto. Jean Daudelin is assistant professor at The
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton
University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
December 2008
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978-0-7735-3434-6 $80.00S cloth
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 P U B L I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N
How Ottawa Spends
2008–2009
A More Orderly Federalism?
Edited by Allan M. Maslove
Analyzing the Harper government’s
agenda in the context of changing
federal-provincial relations.
The twenty-ninth edition of How Ottawa Spends focuses
on the policies of the Harper government and the course
of federal-provincial relations. Leading scholars of Canadi-
an public policy explore several key policy areas, including
fiscal balance in the federation, tax policy, regulatory
capacity, the federal funding of territorial and northern
Aboriginal governments, child care policy, higher educa-
tion policy, telecommunications policy, and the rapid
appearance and disappearance of the federal social econ-
omy initiative – i.e., “how Ottawa doesn’t spend.”
Contributors include Frances Abele (Carleton & IRPP), Cheryl N. Collier
(Carleton), Geoffrey Hale (University of Lethbridge), Walter Hettich
(emeritus, California State), Edward T. Jackson (Carleton), Rianne
Mahon (Carleton), Allan M. Maslove (Carleton), Clara Morgan
(Carleton), Michael J. Prince (University of Victoria), Richard Schultz
(McGill), Robert Slater (Carleton), Barry Stemshorn (University of
Ottawa), and Stanley L. Winer (Carleton).
Allan M. Maslove is a professor in the School of Public Poli-
cy and Administration, Carleton University, and the former
dean of Carleton’s Faculty of Public Affairs.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
August 2008
978-0-7735-3433-9 $29.95A paper
6 x 9 248pp
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BIOGRAPHY
Robert Stanfield’s Canada
Perspectives of the Best Prime
Minister We Never Had
Richard Clippingdale
The political legacy of an extraordinary
Canadian.
A successful Conservative with a track record as a winner,
Robert L. Stanfield (1914–2003) brought Diefenbaker’s frag-
mented Tories to high ratings in the polls and came within
two seats of defeating Trudeau in the 1972 federal election.
In Robert Stanfield’s Canada, Richard Clippingdale re-
flects on the kind of Progressive Conservative Stanfield
was, not only during his years of active national political
leadership but also through two decades of extraordinarily
active retirement. Drawing from Stanfield’s speeches and
notes, and with the benefit of interviews with several of
his closest friends and associates, Clippingdale explores
the measured, realistic, and honourable priorities Stanfield
championed – foreign, social, economic, and constitutional.
Robert Stanfield’s Canada captures both the character
and legacy of a political moderate with a conscience, a Red
Tory whose ideas remain at the core of a uniquely Canadian
conservative tradition.
Richard Clippingdale, former director of Canadian Studies,
Carleton University, and biographer of Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
served as chief of staff to Rt Hon. Joe Clark and as director
of the Government of Canada’s Advanced Management
Program.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies – School of Policy Studies
May 2008
978-1-55339-218-7 $39.95A cloth
6 x 9 160pp
 POLICY STU DI ES
Immigration and
Integration in Canada in
the Twenty-first Century
Edited by John Biles, Meyer Burstein,
and James Frideres
Looking at successful integration
in Canada.
The “two-way street” of successful integration requires
commitment from both government institutions and
individuals. Immigration and Integration in Canada in the
Twenty-first Century looks at the social, cultural, economic,
and political integration of newcomers and minorities and
establishes measures for assessing the success of integra-
tion practices. Authors review the current literature on the
topic, using it to develop practical indicators that can be
used to measure each group’s relative success in integra-
tion. They address the context of various forms of integra-
tion, providing detailed information on Canada’s
integration efforts.
Contributors include Christopher G. Anderson (McGill), Chedly
Belkhodja (Moncton), Jerome H. Black (McGill), Hélène Destrempes
(Moncton), John Foote (Department of Canadian Heritage), M.
Sharon Jeannotte (University of Ottawa), Jack Jedwab (Association
for Canadian Studies), Minelle Mahtani (Toronto), Patricia Rimok
(gouvernement du Québec), Ralph Rouzier (gouvernement du
Québec), Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie), Arthur Sweetman (Queen’s),
and Casey Warman (Queen’s).
John Biles is director of the Metropolis Project, Citizenship
and Immigration Canada. Meyer Burstein is an interna-
tional consultant working primarily in the field of migra-
tion, integration, and social policy. James Frideres is a
professor in sociology and currently holds the chair of
ethnic studies at the University of Calgary.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies – School of Policy Studies
June 2008
978-1-55339-216-3 $39.95A paper
978-1-55339-217-0 $85.00S cloth
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PU BLIC POLICY • RELIGIOUS STU DI ES
Bridging the Divide
Religious Dialogue and
Universal Ethics
Edited by Thomas S. Axworthy
Responding to the contemporary situation of escalating
violence, often driven by religious and ideological differ-
ences, the InterAction Council of former world leaders
engages scholars and religious leaders of all world faiths
in one of the most important debates of our time.
Bridging the Divide poses fundamental questions: Can
religion help build bridges between civilizations in con-
flict? Is a global ethic possible? Believing that religious
misunderstanding has led to world conflict, the Council,
led by Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of the federal
republic of Germany, has developed a research agenda to
ask the following questions: Can the virtue of tolerance
be taught? Do world religions share a core ethic? What
can be done to thwart those who exploit and abuse faith
for their own ends?
Contributors include Hans Küng, Tu Weiming, Koshin Ohtani, Rabbi
Jonathan Magonet, Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami, Mettanando
Bhikkhu, Abodolkarim Soroush, Kamal Aboulmagd, Osamu Yoshida,
Stephan Schlensog, Archbishop Damianos Hegumen, Helmut
Schmidt, Oscar Arias, Seiken Sugiura, and Malcolm Fraser.
Thomas S. Axworthy is chair of the Centre for the Study
of Democracy, Queen’s University, and an associate
member of the InterAction Council.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies – Centre for the Study of Democracy
May 2008
978-1-55339-219-4 $39.95A paper
978-1-55339-220-0 $85.00S cloth
6 x 9 200pp
 POLICY STU DI ES • RETI REMENT ISSU ES
Retirement Policy Issues
in Canada
Edited by Michael G. Abbott,
Charles M. Beach, Robin W. Boadway,
and James G. MacKinnon
Examining the future of retirement
in Canada, given recent economic
expansion and an impending tidal
wave of baby-boomer retirees.
After fifteen years of economic expansion, Canada is now
experiencing shortages of skilled workers in a number of
areas – a mere hint of what’s to come, given the eight-
million plus baby boomers who will be retiring from the
Canadian labour force over the next fifteen years or so. In
Retirement Policy Issues in Canada, contributors look at
Canada’s changing retirement landscape in broad terms.
Chapters cover such topics as the direction of pension
regulation in Canada, Canadian retirement patterns,
retirement income replacement rates, challenges and
policy options for an aging workforce, key design features
of defined benefit and defined contribution pension
plans, recent legal and regulatory changes in pension
plan design in Canada, options for older workers follow-
ing job loss, management of longevity risks, sustainability
of the Canada Pension Plan, and the retirement prospects
of immigrants.
Contributors include Stephen Bonnar, John Burbidge, Robert Clark,
Katherine Cuff, Richard Disney, David Dodge, Peter Drake, Rick
Egelton, Maxime Fougère, Barbara Glover, Raphael Gomez, Morley
Gunderson, Sterling Gunn, Cliff Halliwell, Malcolm Hamilton, Derek
Hum, Laurence Kotlikoff, Dave McLellan, Kevin Milligan, John Myles,
Christine Neill, Garnett Picot, Graham Pugh, William Robson, Bill
Scarth, Tammy Schirle, Wayne Simpson, Marcel Théroux, Michael
Veall, Casey Warman, and Chris Worswick.
Michael G. Abbott, Charles M. Beach, Robin W. Boadway,
and James G. MacKinnon are all professors of economics,
Queen’s University. Charles M. Beach is director of the
John Deutsch Institute, Queen’s University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies – John Deutsch Institute
July 2008
978-1-55339-161-6 $49.95A paper
978-1-55339-162-3 $90.00S cloth
6 x 9 550pp
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E D U C AT I O N
Who Goes? Who Stays?
What Matters?
Accessing and Persisting
in Post-Secondary Education
in Canada
Edited by Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller,
Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher
Examining choice, opportunity, and
barriers related to post-secondary
attendance and persistence.
Evaluating access to post-secondary education in Canada
continues to be controversial and the importance of fac-
tors such as student financial aid, family background, and
personal aspirations remain insufficiently understood.
Persistence towards graduation is even less understood.
Beginning with three broad overview chapters and and
continuing with in-depth analyses, Who Goes? Who Stays?
What Matters? addresses choice, opportunity, and barriers
– including financial – related to post-secondary atten-
dance and persistence.
Contributors include Lesley Andres and Maria Adamuti-Trache
(University of British Columbia), Patrick Bussière (Human Resources
and Social Development Canada), Lorne Carmichael (Queen’s),
Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy, Zhi (Jane) Li, and Thanasis Stengos
(University of Guelph), Kathleen Day (University of Ottawa), Ross
Finnie (University of Ottawa), Marc Frenette (Statistics Canada),
Jorgen Hansen (Concordia), David Johnson (Wilfrid Laurier), Felice
Martinello (Brock), Anne Motte (Canadian Millennium Scholarship
Foundation), Richard E. Mueller (University of Lethbridge), Arthur
Sweetman (Queen’s), Hanqing Theresa Qiu (MESA Project), Alex
Usher (Educational Policy Institute), and Yan Zhang (Statistics
Canada).
Ross Finnie is associate professor in the Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
Richard E. Mueller is associate professor in the
Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge.
Arthur Sweetman is director of the School of Policy
Studies, Queen’s University. Alex Usher is vice-president
and director (Canada) of the Educational Policy Institute.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
Queen’s Policy Studies – School of Policy Studies
July 2008
978-1-55339-221-7 $39.95A paper
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 H I S T O R Y O F M E D I C I N E • H E A LT H C A R E
Healing the World’s
Children
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Child Health in the
Twentieth Century
Edited by Cynthia R. Comacchio,
Janet Golden, and George Weisz
“Essays that seek to include the voices
of children are particularly admirable.
Healing the World’s Children is an origi-
nal and worthwhile contribution.”
–Geoffrey Reaume, author of Lyndhurst
Drawing from many disciplines – history, anthropology,
demography, art history, disability studies, and sociology –
and across a broad geography, Healing the World’s Chil-
dren sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural
dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives
of our most vulnerable citizens. Essays range from histori-
cal overviews and historiographical surveys of children’s
health in various regions of the world, to disability and
affliction narratives – from polio in North American to
aids orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa – to interpre-
tations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us
much about medicine, family, and society at specific times
in history.
Contributors include Anne-Emanuelle Birn (University of Toronto),
Laurie Block (Straight Ahead Pictures & Disability Museum), Myra
Bluebond-Langner and Megan Norquest Schwallie (Rutgers), Jeffrey P.
Brosco (University of Miami School of Medicine), Didier Fassin (Univer-
sity of Paris North & École des hautes études en sciences sociales),
Mona Gleason (UBC), Vincent Lavoie (UQAM), Loren Lerner (Concor-
dia), Richard Meckel (Brown), Catherine Rollet (Université de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Neil Sutherland (emeritus, UBC).
Cynthia R. Comacchio is professor of history, Wilfrid Lauri-
er University. Janet Golden is professor of history, Rutgers
University. George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of
the History of Medicine, McGill University.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the
History of Medicine, Health, and Society
September 2008
978-0-7735-3400-1 $32.95A paper
978-0-7735-3399-8 $85.00S cloth
6 x 9 376pp
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I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S • E C O N O M I C S
Policing the Banks
Accountability Mechanisms
for the Financial Sector
Maartje van Putten
Foreword by James McNeill
“Remarkable and pioneering – given the
mounting public attention to the global
problems of development finance, [this
book] will attract a very broad audience.”
–Peter H. Sand, University of Munich
From 1999 to 2004 Maartje van Putten served as a mem-
ber of the World Bank’s Inspection Panel. Using personal
experience and extensive interviews with principal deci-
sion-makers and stakeholders in the Panel’s work, she
chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank
and other major financial entities.
Describing how formerly secretive financial institu-
tions have been slow to accept responsibility for the con-
sequences of their investments – especially the problems
that can result from projects in developing countries – she
shows that financing institutions can cause significant
social and environmental damage and argues that new
accountability mechanisms are necessary to reduce or
prevent such damage. Because such institutions operate
on a global scale, only semi-judicial accounting mecha-
nisms can provide the necessary accountability. It is time
for the private financial sector to follow multilateral fi-
nancial institutions in creating independent mechanisms,
mediation procedures, and access to decision makers for
people harmed or potentially harmed by projects financed
by their institutions.
Policing the Banks is a passionate plea for global ac-
countability for all powerful financial players – including
the transnational private banks that are now entering the
scramble for profits from development projects in
the third world.
Maartje van Putten was a member of the European Parlia-
ment (1989–99) and the World Bank Inspection Panel
(1999–2004). Currently, she is a part of the Independent
Review Mechanism of the African Development Bank.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
November 2008
978-0-7735-3402-5 $32.95A paper
978-0-7735-3401-8 $90.00S cloth
6 x 9 528pp
 B R I TI S H H I STO RY • I R I S H H I STO RY
The Fenian Problem
Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State, 1858–1874
Brian Jenkins
“Jenkins navigates the world of British high politics with confidence …
this is an original piece of work written to a high scholarly standard.”
–Peter Hart, Canada Research Chair in Irish Studies, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Irish revolutionary nationalism, initially dedicated to
insurgency, quickly descended into less conventional vio-
lence. How successive British governments responded to
this challenge and the extent of their respect for essential
freedoms are the subject of The Fenian Problem.
Dramatic and tragic rescues of arrested Fenian leaders,
the formation of a Fenian squad to engage in assassina-
tions of suspected informers and policemen, the bombing
of a London prison that brought death and destruction to
a neighbouring street, public executions of several Fenians,
the quality of British justice, and the struggle to develop
counter-terrorism policies and an effective system of intel-
ligence form the core of The Fenian Problem. Brian Jenkins
adds new information to the established narrative of the
movement, arguing that it resorted to terrorism in its
pursuit of Irish independence.
Jenkins discusses both the parallels between the gov-
ernment’s treatment of Fenian prisoners in the 1860s and
their handling of the IRA in the 1970s and the similarities
between the challenges posed by Fenians and those pre-
sented by Islamic insurgents, showing that nineteenth-
century British and Irish history illuminate contemporary
discussions of state security and liberal government
responses to terrorism.
Brian Jenkins is emeritus professor of history, Bishop’s
University, and the author of numerous books, including
Era of Emancipation and Irish Nationalism and the British
State.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
September 2008
978-0-7735-3426-1 $85.00S cloth
6 x 9 456pp
3 9 Fall 2008
J EW I S H STU D I E S • H I STO RY
Jerusalem on the Amur
Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist
Movement, 1924–1951
Henry Felix Srebrnik
The involvement of Canadian Jewish Communists in the development
of an autonomous Jewish region in the Soviet Union.
In 1928 the Soviet Union proposed the establishment of
an autonomous socialist Jewish republic in the far eastern
reaches of Russian territory. In Birobidzhan the eternal
search for a Jewish homeland would be realized and Jews
would possess their own institutions, which would func-
tion in Yiddish. A “new” Jew would be created, emancipat-
ed, and rejuvenated. Although the project was eventually
revealed to be a fraud, thousands of left-wing Jews in
Canada and the United States passionately supported it
and campaigned on its behalf – some even emigrated to
Birobidzhan.
The Canadian Jewish Communist movement, an influ-
ential ideological voice within the Canadian left, played a
major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities
such as Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg between the
1920s and the 1950s. Jerusalem on the Amur looks at the
interlocking group of left-wing Jewish organizations that
shared the political views of the Canadian Communist
Party and were vocal proponents of policies perceived as
beneficial to the Jewish working class. Focusing on the
Association for Jewish Colonization in Russia and the
Canadian Ambijan Committee, Henry Srebrnik uses
Yiddish-language books, newspapers, pamphlets, and
other materials to trace the ideological and material
support provided by the Canadian Jewish Communist
movement to Birobidzhan.
Henry Srebrnik is professor of political studies, University
of Prince Edward Island and the author of London Jews
and British Communism, 1935–1945.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History
September 2008
978-0-7735-3428-5 $75.00S cloth
6 x 9 360pp 25 b&w photographs, 3 maps
 CLASSICS • WOMEN’S STU DI ES
Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece
Anne M. Klinck
“Most books on women in Greece concentrate on one feature: women
poets, women's lives, women in tragedy. Klinck brings all these threads
together.” –M. Eleanor Irwin, classics, University of Toronto
By considering women’s voices in performance, Anne
Klinck provides a new perspective on women’s “writing.”
She shows that our understanding of femininity in an-
cient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry
composed by women poets like Sappho to explore girls’
and women’s choral songs from the archaic period, songs
for female choruses and characters in tragedy, and lyrical
representations of women’s rituals and cults.
Through a balanced discussion of poetry as perform-
ance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition
and scope of “woman’s song” as a mode, partheneia
(maidens’ songs) and the girls’ chorus, lyric in the drama,
echoes and imitations of archaic woman’s song in Hel-
lenistic poetry, and inferences about the differences be-
tween male and female authors, Klinck demonstrates
that woman’s song is ultimately best understood as the
product of a male-dominated culture but that feminine
stereotypes, while refined by skilful male poets, are inter-
rogated and shifted by female poets.
The chapters contain three sections: an introduction
to the author(s), poems or passages in the original Greek,
line-for-line translations in free verse, and notes elucidat-
ing the text, its provenance, allusions, and textual difficul-
ties. Beginning with Alcman, going on to Sappho, Corinna,
Pindar, other lyric poets, lyric in the drama, and then the
Hellenistic poets Nossis, Theocritus, and Bion, Woman’s
Songs in Ancient Greece traces the evolution of female-
voice lyric from 600 to 100 bce.
Anne L. Klinck has recently retired from the University of
New Brunswick, where she taught medieval literature and
English language.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
December 2008
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LITERARY C RITICISM • WOMEN’S STU DI ES
The Shapes of Silence
Writing by Women of Colour
and the Politics of Testimony
Proma Tagore
“Informative, with solid scholarship and
methodology … of obvious interest to
scholars in a variety of disciplines but
also to general readers who might find
themselves outside the mainstream due
to ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, gen-
der, or class.” –Maureen Shea, Tulane
University
The Shapes of Silence examines fiction, memoir, and auto-
biographical writing by marginalized women whose
stories give voice to the gendered dimensions of colonial
violence. Drawing from the insights of subaltern studies
and postcolonial feminisms, Proma Tagore brings together
the work of a diverse group of writers – Toni Morrison,
Shani Mootoo, Louise Erdrich, M.K. Indira, Rashsundari
Debi, and Mahasweta Devi. She focuses on the visceral,
affective nature of their narratives and explores the way
that personal and historical trauma, initially silenced, may
be recorded across generations, as well as across complex
national, racial, gender, and sexual lines.
In emphasizing situations that cannot be summed up
by clearly nameable, bounded moments of trauma, The
Shapes of Silence identifies important shifts in how testi-
monial literature is theorized, arguing for an understand-
ing of writing and storytelling by women of colour as
crucial counter-narratives to what official colonial histori-
cizing has left out.
Proma Tagore is a poet, activist, educator, and editor of In
Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisa-
tion. She lives in Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish territories.
S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
October 2008
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