What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Brigitte Granville applies an economist's vision to the monetary and... Læs mere
Arguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to... Læs mere
Through its account of influential socio-political processes – such as the resurgence of fascism and white supremacy, the crafting of new... Læs mere
Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself... Læs mere
Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on readers to appreciate how our past relationship with birds might help transform our current relationship with nature.
Williams examines the colonial and anti-colonial arguments of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and L.T. Hobhouse. He reveals some of the central ambiguities that characterise the ways that liberal thought has dealt with the reality of an illiberal world.
In 1911-1912, anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he... Læs mere
A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.
Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study of the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude... Læs mere
The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce’s landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western... Læs mere
The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of... Læs mere