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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.

In the summer of 1912, four young scientists sledded across 640km of untracked snow and ice, crossing central Greenland from west to east for the first time. This minor classic of exploration literature by the expedition's leader, Alfred de Quervain, is a sympathetic portrayal of life in remote coastal settlements in the early twentieth century.

The eastern edge of Europe has always been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr V. Kravchenko asks what the words "Ukraine" and "Russia" really mean.

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage's significance, and the dawning realization that they might never return.

Through a synoptic historical sweep of Canada, Spain, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, The Symbolic State shows us that institutions may be more important for what they mean than for what they do. This book is timely in an era when the power of symbols - Brexit, the Donald Trump presidency, the Black Lives Matter movement - is shaping global politics.

Cultivating Community explores women's critical involvement in agricultural fairs' growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women's roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study of the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude between 1853 and 1948, detailing the administration and evolution of the system, its creation, the building of the prison estate, and the experiences of prisoners and staff within it.

Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide's wreckage. After John Emil Vincent's best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom.

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons' lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-class holidaymakers.

The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce's landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theology, and modernity.

In Earth Words, John Reibetanz breaks bread with three earlier writers through the glosa, a poetic form that unfolds as a dialogue. The collection inscribes a series of concentric circles, moving outwards from the eleventh-century world of Wang An-shih through the nineteenth century of Henry Thoreau and into the twentieth century with Emily Carr.

Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.

This critical biography of A. Mary F. Robinson traces her unorthodox journey through the literary circles of London and Paris as a writer of poetry and prose, a leading member of the Anglo-French community, and a significant contributor to the cultural and literary shift from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism.

Based on a close analysis of nearly 2,000 fan letters written to Malcolm Muggeridge after his conversion to Christianity, this book reconstructs the lived religion of ordinary people from a transnational perspective in the 1970s. These letters provide a glimpse into the experiences and concerns of Western Christians after the religious crisis of the 1960s.

Shaping the Futures of Work explores the impact of technological innovations on employment for millennials and professionals globally. In a flux society, what counts as a technological skill is always changing. Through a sociological study of Singaporean millennials, Raghunath suggests thriving through flux requires collaboration and proactive governance.