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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:25:29 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP The Year of the Dragon First Nations Get Broad Promises on Indian Act, Development Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North David Alexander: The Shape of Place Mike Babcock: Leave No Doubt...

Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:54:07 -0800

The following is excerpted from the article Heart of Sharpness: Travel writer's long-lost work given new life by Kingston author by Hollie Pratt-Campbell. Seventy-eight years later, a long-lost travel narrative detailing American author and journalist Emily Hahn's adventures in Congo...

First Nations Get Broad Promises on Indian Act, Development

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:05:12 -0800

The following is excerpted from the CBC News article First Nations Get Broad Promises on Indian Act, Development by Laura Payton. The chiefs and the federal government disagreed Tuesday over what should be done with the Indian Act, the law...

The Year of the Dragon

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:19:17 -0800

Happy Chinese New Year! To mark the occasion, we're featuring some of our Chinese themed titles. In the Eye of the China Storm: A Life Between East and West By Paul T.K. Lin Paul T.K. Lin was a Chinese Canadian...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:04:28 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Excerpt from A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury The Digital Apocalypse Historian brings Thomas D’Arcy McGee to life What else? A newfangled online bookstore Some of my worst friends are books Has...

A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:33:37 -0800

The following is an excerpt from A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky by Galya Diment. By the time Koteliansky arrived in England, there were around 250,000 Jews in the country, constituting 0.6 percent of...

Singing for an unsung Canadian political icon

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:12:52 -0800

The following is excerpted from the article Singing for an unsung Canadian political icon: Historian brings times of Thomas D’Arcy McGee to life by Sean Bettam: [David] Wilson’s fascination with McGee began in 1978 when he attended a Celtic Studies...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:21:39 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Uncertain future for serious reading? Behind Valkyrie wins CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award Looking after our veterans Canadian war artist Leonard Brooks, 100, made Mexico his home "This is a medical...

Canadian war artist Leonard Brooks, 100, made Mexico his home

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:21:09 -0800

The following is excerpted from The Globe and Mail article, Canadian war artist Leonard Brooks, 100, made Mexico his home by Philip Fine. For all the ways in which Leonard Brooks was celebrated – as landscape painter, war artist, dean...

Looking after our veterans

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:14:28 -0800

The following is excerpted from The Chronicle Herald's Looking After Our Veterans Began a Century Ago by Henry Roper. On to Civvy Street is a comprehensive treatment of an important and timely subject. Twice in the last century Canada had...

Behind Valkyrie wins CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:52:13 -0800

Behind Valkyrie, edited by Peter Hoffman, has been awarded the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award in the Social & Behavioral Sciences category. Behind Valkyrie collects documents, letters, and testimonies of Germans who fought Hitler from within, making many of them...

Uncertain future for serious reading?

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:15:05 -0800

The following is excerpted from the Globe and Mail article, Confronting the Cultural Crisis by André Alexis. Stan Persky is a subtle and tricky thinker. His work merits close attention, but at the same time, its tone is so relaxed...

Season's Greetings

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:56:40 -0800

To mark the holiday season, MQUP presents to you a poem by Mona Gould: Small Christmas Tree (For F. G.) Stand very straight, small Christmas tree! Put on your tallest dignity, Wear your tinsel bright and bravely, Carry your candles...

The Codex Canadensis, reviewed

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:30:15 -0800

Visual arts: Canadian history through 17th-century eyes from The Montreal Gazette What is something called the Codex Canadensis doing in a museum in Tulsa, Okla.? It doesn’t really matter, because this 17th-century illustrated natural history of eastern North America –...

Best Book in Canadian Military History

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:58:54 -0800

A Knight in Politics: A Biography of Sir Frederick Borden by Carman Miller has been awarded the 2010 C. P. Stacey Award for the Best Book in Canadian Military History. The jury states, "In chronicling the 69-year life of a...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:36:53 -0800

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP Stan Persky reads the mood of our millennium Newfoundland Modern Selected New Books on Higher Education Kerry Clare recommends Outside the Box What else? Take part in a word experiment...

Outside the Box

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:03:29 -0800

The following is excerpted from Kerry Clare's list of Favourite New Books of 2011 Outside the Box by Maria Meindl This is the book I can’t stop talking about, and I’m pleased that I’ve managed to win it at least...

Stan Persky reads the mood of our millennium

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:26:09 -0800

The following is excerpted from the Telegraph-Journal article, 21st Century Man: In a time like this, when reading is at an all-time low and criticism seems to be a dying art, Stan Persky's Reading the 21st Century was a comforting...

Newfoundland Modern

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:17:46 -0800

Excerpted from the Scope's article Newfoundland Modern When you think of Newfoundland architecture, what comes to mind? Chances are you are thinking of colored rowhouses and saltboxes. Well, this new book by Robert Mellin questions the popular notions of architecture...

Peopling the North American City: Book Launch

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:09:07 -0800

Join Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton at their book launch at Concordia University on December 15th. Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:48:58 -0800

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP David Wilson on Thomas D'Arcy McGee The Globe & Mail features The Book of the Wind in their 2011 gift guide Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des...

Life After Forty, Après quarante ans

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:40:37 -0800

McGill-Queen's University Press is pleased to announce the release of Life After Forty, Après quarante ans edited by Jack Jedwab and Rodrigue Landry. Life After Forty, Après quarante ans includes English and French essays from several of the country's leading...

How Ottawa Spends: The NWT housing crisis

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:56:00 -0800

Nick Falvo, a doctoral candidate at Ottawa's Carleton University, has undertaken a study of homelessness and affordable housing in the NWT in partnership with the Centre for Northern Families. "If the federal government does not announce new funding for housing...

Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:14:15 -0800

Winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (2011), Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838) by Michel Ducharme, has been awarded the Prix Lionel-Groulx Fondation-Yves-Saint-Germain by the Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française. "In this...

Spring 2012 Catalogue

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:50:24 -0800

McGill-Queen's University Press has released its Spring 2012 catalogue. Click here to view the virtual catalogue to browse MQUP's upcoming releases. Notable Upcoming Releases

David Wilson on Thomas D'Arcy McGee

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:23:07 -0800

David Wilson was recently in Montreal for a public lecture about his new book Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2. A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics,...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:04:01 -0800

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune makes The Globe & Mail's list of this year's best non-fiction Sir David Cannadine recommends Commissions High by Roy MacLaren Maria Meindl, author of...

Mr. 1 Per Cent meets his match

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:52:52 -0800

The following is excerpted from the Toronto Star article Mr. 1 Per Cent meets his match by Rick Salutin. [Tom Naylor's] new book, the one that chimes with the times, is called Crass Struggle. It’s based on “a quantum leap...

Peter van Wyck at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:36:46 -0800

Join us for a launch of two innovative works of cultural history, both of which challenge conventional narratives about mid-twentieth century Canadian and American life. THE HIGHWAY OF THE ATOM weaves together crucial missing pieces about the beginning of the...

Rediscovering Reverence

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:11:38 -0800

The following is an excerpt from Rediscovering Reverence: The Meaning of Faith in a Secular World by Ralph Heintzman. Rediscovering Reverence offers a new look at the place of religion in the modern age. In the Eastern traditions, as you...

Outside the Box

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:09:35 -0800

Watch Maria Meindl speak at the Fanshawe College's Letters and Arts Society lecture series below. Maria Meindl is the author of Outside the Box: The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew. To learn...

The Globe 100: Non-fiction

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:08:53 -0800

Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune was selected by The Globe and Mail editors as one of the best reviewed non-fiction titles of the year. "This revisionist work makes the case that the celebrated doctor led a life of failure,...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:19:54 -0800

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP Revealed Kingston: author explores city's religious character and roots Maclean's reviews The Codex Canadensis Irish in Their Blood Watch David Wilson author of the Thomas D'Arcy McGee biographies on CTV...

Irish in Their Blood

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:48:01 -0800

Excerpted from The Hour's article Irish in Their Blood featuring Thomas D'Arcy McGee. Just as we do not know the name of those who actually killed Kennedy – Oswald was as he said he was, the patsy – we still...

The Natural History of the New World

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:22:38 -0800

Excerpted from the Maclean's review of The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas: The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales edited and with an introduction by François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal...

Join us at the QWF awards

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:49:22 -0800

The winners of the Quebec Writers' Federation 2011 literary award finalists will be announced tonight, November 22nd, at The Lion D'Or in Montreal. Every year, the federation honours excellence in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, first book, translation and...

Revealed Kingston: author explores city's religious character and roots

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:05:12 -0800

Excerpted from EMC Kingston's article Revealed Kingston: author explores city's religious character and roots. There's no doubt that a number of centuries-old stone churches play a large role in defining the architectural landscape of Kingston. But how does religious faith...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:20:11 -0800

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP Newfoundland Modern book launch Telling It to the Judge book launch Donald Winkler awarded the 2011 Governor General Award for the translation of Partita for Glenn Gould Win a copy...

Thomas D'Arcy McGee Contest

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:12:09 -0800

"The skillful blend of McGee's own words and Wilson's analysis will surely make even the most disinterested student of history feel at least a tiny bit prouder to be Canadian." Quill & Quire In honour of the launch of the...

Donald Winkler Awarded the 2011 GG for Translation

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:02:18 -0800

McGill-Queen's congratulates Donald Winkler, recipient of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Translation for Partita for Glenn Gould! From the Jury - Partita for Glenn Gould, Donald Winkler’s translation of Georges Leroux’s brilliant essay, shines with the musicality of language...

Telling It to the Judge

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:25:37 -0800

On November 17th, Arthur Ray will be launching his book, Telling It to the Judge: Taking Native History to Court at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, a division of the Archives of Manitoba. On November 19th, Ray will also be...

Newfoundland Modern Book Launch

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:41:07 -0800

On November 21st, the McGill School of Architecture will be hosting the book launch of Robert Mellin's Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972. The architecture of Newfoundland typically evokes images of spare but colourful houses and outbuildings by...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:13:09 -0800

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP Thomas D'Arcy McGee's David Wilson on The Sunday Edition Introducing Mona Gould What's the score on these veterans' loans? Maria Meindl, author of Outside the Box, is MQUP's guest blogger...

On to Civvy Street

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:11:00 -0800

In honour of Remembrance Day, MQUP presents an excerpt from Peter Neary's On to Civvy Street: Canada's Rehabilitation Program for Veterans of the Second World War. Now aged thirty, he volunteered for the 19th Alberta Dragoons and was soon on...

Prayer at Queen and Yonge

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:18:08 -0800

In honour of "Remembrance Week," Maria Meindl, author of Outside the Box, is today's guest blogger. Prayer at Queen and Yonge What was he thinking, The young soldier with the empty sleeve And one foot off, Watching the long, noisy...

Thomas D'Arcy McGee on The Sunday Edition

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:58:16 -0800

If you missed David Wilson on The Sunday Edition this weekend, you can listen to the author interview online. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, poet, patriot, martyred hero and Father of Confederation. He came from Ireland an embittered revolutionary, chose Canada as...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:07:35 -0700

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP Witch Hunts Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain now available in French Thomas D'Arcy McGee's David Wilson on The Sunday Edition 1927 Thomas D'Arcy McGee stamp Mordecai Richler pictured on the...

David Wilson on The Sunday Edition

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:11:30 -0700

David Wilson, author of the Thomas D'Arcy McGee biographies, will be featured on CBC's The Sunday Edition November 6th. The newly published Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868 is a compelling and comprehensive biography of Thomas D'Arcy...

Mordecai Richler

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:54:40 -0700

Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain by Reinhold Kramer is now available en français through Les éditions du Septentrion. Master of prose and polemics, Mordecai Richler was, for nearly five decades, one of Canada's most compelling writers. Though Richler insisted that...

Witch Hunts

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:14:04 -0700

In honour of the Halloween season, MQUP presents an excerpt of Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay by Robert Rapley: All the wild witches, those most noble ladies, For all their broomsticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are...