Böcker utgivna av McGill-Queen's University Press

This collection employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and artwork to reconstruct plant work by figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in mid- and late-century Ontario and Australia.

This collection investigates how different countries approach the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in their armed forces, and offers immigrant military participation as a way to provide a pathway to citizenship, foster greater societal integration, and achieve a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive military.

Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating art but contends that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and prevents the viewer from feeling a genuine connection with works of art, and nature itself.

Sanctions are back with a vengeance, with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities. Shaping the thinking of generations of scholars, Canadian Margaret Doxey anticipated and analyzed these issues. Multilateral Sanctions Revisited applies her lessons to the many multilateral sanctions that define our geopolitically contested world.

Photographic innovators at home in nineteenth-century Quebec and abroad, Charles and John Smeaton have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography in Canada. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the Smeaton brothers' legacy of images in Canada and Europe.

Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present. Edward Struzik sheds light on what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as Indigenous people once did, so that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past and apply those lessons in the future.

Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America provides a unique comparative analysis of the migration legislations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico, thoroughly interrogating the national and regional mechanisms that facilitate both voluntary and forced migration, and affect migrant and refugee rights.

This book considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina. A comprehensive study of structures that rank among the most fascinating examples of intercultural exchange in the history of global empires.

Remedicalizing Cannabis discovers the historical ins and outs of cannabis as a botanical product with medical applications. Addressing questions about patient access, the effectiveness of international drug control systems, and the role of expert advice, it reveals how we have arrived at the current classification of cannabis as a medical product.

A critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime. This collection develops a discourse between the fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the nuclear humanities with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activism and arts.

Canadian Spy Story takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination. David A. Wilson tells the tale of the Fenians - Irishmen who wished to liberate their country from British rule - and the Canadian secret police who infiltrated their revolutionary cells.

Expo 67 and Its World brings together Quebecois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance.