Valuing Care Work is an international comparative study that examines economic organizations as well as intimate settings to show how personal service work is shaped by broader welfare state developments.
Invoking theories of popular culture, film, literature, drama, and tourism, contributors probe the emotional attachment and loyalty of many generations of readers to L.M. Montgomery's books.
Like cinema-verite, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome gives us an intimate glimpse of a people and their world.
This book reveals the central role played by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the development of modern-day aesthetics.
This book illuminates interactions between Italian environmental history and science fiction, offering fresh insights into how literary imagination has addressed ecological changes in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Bits of Time investigates our understanding of time in the digital world, situating the role of timekeeping in a long history of temporal concepts.
This book explores how Canada, after Igor Gouzenko’s 1945 defection and the exposure of Canadian spies, used the Kellock-Taschereau Commission to confront espionage and protect national security.
With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory.
This collection fills a serious gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive policy history of Medicare in Canada.
Essays examine the problems inherent in attempting to record oral cultures for a visual society. What happens when the oral stories, beliefs, or histories of North American Native peoples are transferred to paper or other media?
Michaeal Bliss's highly acclaimed biography explores the life of a scientist who during his lifetime was the most famous of all Canadians, but who in his private life stands revealed as a passionate, troubled man, in many ways the victim of his own fame.
This concise and lucid legal textbook surveys the international aspects of criminal law, from war crimes and genocide to terrorism and cybercrime, and the courts and legal tools that seek to suppress international and transnational crime.