Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or '...
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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- Auteur:Demerson, VelmaSommaire:
On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a "crime" that was compounded by her...
- Auteur:Harper, KennSommaire:
Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will...
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In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of...
- Auteur:Gosselin, AbigailSommaire:
Mental illness stigma is rooted in a perceived lack of agency, but stigma itself undermines agency. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a person with mental illness has,...
- Auteur:Hawes, Jennifer BerrySommaire:
"In Grace Will Lead Us Home, Jennifer Berry Hawes breathes poetry into tragedy to bring to life the epic grief that haunted a nation's moral imagination...If white supremacy is ever to meet a death knell, this ringing...
- Auteur:Besada, Hany GamilSommaire:
A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets. Despite natural resource advantages, many African...
- Auteur:Graham, KateSommaire:
Only twelve women have ever served as the premier of a Canadian province or territory, and only one has risen to the very top to serve as prime minister. In Govern Like a Girl,Kate Graham tells the stories of these thirteen women, from...
- Auteur:Macfarlane, JulieSommaire:
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud — the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma...
- Auteur:Miller, TobySommaire:
Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive 'how-to' guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established...
- Auteur:McQuire, ScottSommaire:
Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with...
- Auteur:Blutstein, HarrySommaire:
The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But...
- Auteur:Michaud, JacintheSommaire:
From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s, feminist activism in North America and Europe reached its peak, animated by a disparate array of issues and ideas. Frontiers of Feminism compares Québécois and Italian feminisms, revealing both the...
- Auteur:Baril, Alexandre, Zufferey, Adèle, Galantino, Gabriel J., Pullen Sansfaçon, Annie, Medico, Denise, Vinit, Florence, Brosseau, Stéphanie, Morin, Lou-Ann, Richards, Christina, Wallach, Isabelle, Espineira, Karine, Borgeaud, Philippe, Petrella, Sara, Brisson-Guérin, MaudeSommaire:
La question posée dans ce numéro concerne la façon dont le rapport à la mort, social, politique, subjectif s'exprime pour ses dissidents et dissidentes, notamment celleux qui ne se conforment pas à la binarité du système, soit les...
- Auteur:Christianson, Amy Cardinal, McGee, Tara K.Sommaire:
Nearly one third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges.This evacuation guide is based on...
- Auteur:Rak, JulieSommaire:
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the...
- Auteur:Cliche, Jean-FrançoisSommaire:
Est-il si compliqué de connaître la vérité? En cette ère de désinformation, de fake news, c'est le cas. Les réseaux sociaux peuvent propager des rumeurs et des faussetés à une vitesse inégalée sur des sujets aussi divers que l...
- Auteur:Samson, Ghislain, Lafleur, FranceSommaire:
Au primaire comme à l'université, l'enseignement n'est sans doute plus aussi linéaire qu'il l'a été traditionnellement. Les stratégies éducatives varient, notamment avec l'arrivée de la formation à distance...
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Enjeux criminologiques contemporains confronte certaines des questions pressantes relatives aux pratiques pénales et carcérales, à la criminologie « clinique », et au contrôle du crime et ses conséquences. Cet ouvrage présente des...
- Auteur:Lorinc, JohnSommaire:
Is the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart...