Social work and education have many commonalities in areas of engagement with children, families, and communities. For the first... Læs mere
Newly released government documents and diaries kept by Germans during the interwar period have meant a considerable outpouring of material on German sentiment... Læs mere
“Dour Scot” is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early twentieth century to the present, from an insular Scottish... Læs mere
On December 6, 1989, a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle entered an engineering school in Montreal and murdered fourteen women... Læs mere
Investigates the identification, prevention, and treatment of childhood diseases from the 1800s onwards, in areas ranging from French-colonial Vietnam to nineteenth-century northern British Columbia, from New Zealand fresh air camps to American health fairs.
Universal in scope, this collection of essays connects individuals' love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities,... Læs mere
The first full-length study of prison life writing, this book shows how the autobiographical literature of incarcerated people is consistently based on a conversion narrative, the same narrative that underpins prison rehabilitation.
Identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral” - that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature.