Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Joakim Berndtsson, Irina Goldenberg, and Stéfanie von Hlatky

Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse ...

The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada

Edited by Daniel Ahadi, Sherry S. Yu, and Ahmed Al-Rawi

Ethnic minority groups in Canada have set up their own communication infrastructure that has evolved over time from the analog to the digital age, and continues to remain relevant across generations. ...

Fashioning Acadians

By Hilary Doda

Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada

What people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are ...

Truth Commissions and State Building

Edited by Bonny Ibhawoh, Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno, and Sylvia Bawa

More than just an opportunity to uncover fact after conflict, truth commissions can also offer restorative power to nations across the globe. Truth Commissions and State Building presents the first comparative ...

State of Disappearance

Edited by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza

Series: Outspoken

Disappearance is marked by a devastating absence. It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time, offering no viable recovery and no meaningful justice. It provides alibis to perpetrators ...

Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods

By James R. Gibson

Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters ...

Reimagining Illness

By Heather Meek

Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized ...

Cette science nécessaire

By Martin Robert

Series: Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec

Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant près de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur ...

Population Control

Edited by Jen Rinaldi & Kate Rossiter

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population. ...

Variable Conditions

Edited by Adam Lauder

Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History

Variable Conditions recovers and explores early Canadian encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century, charting a network of developments linking meteorology, ...