Recently released Book
Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 by Catherine Carstairs. University of Toronto Press, 241 pages, $15. Blurb from the back cover: “With Jailed for Possession, Catherine Carstairs provides a unique perspective on the development of policies on drug use in Canada–an essential historical view of how our current attitudes […]
Recently Released Books
* Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971, by Dimitry Anastakis. University of Toronto Press, 285 pages, $29.95. Blurb from the back cover: “At a time when Canada’s most important industry faces unprecedented challenges stemming from unregulated global trade, the arrival of Dimitry Anastakis’s Auto Pact could not be more timely. A […]
Recently Released Books
* American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change In The United States, by Michael Adams, Viking Canada, 230 pages, $35. Blurb from the back cover: “American Backlash is about that trajectory. It documents a surprising and radical change in the mental posture of the American people since the 1970s. Conventional wisdom depicts a political […]
Recently released…The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper, Confessions of an Innocent Man and more
Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada, edited by Colleen M. Flood, Kent Roach and Lorne Sossin. University of Toronto Press, 611 pages, $35. From the preface: “In its best light, the Supreme Court’s majority decision of June 9, 2005, in Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General), should […]
Will the Liberal Party reign over us forever?
It was Stephen Clarkson and his late wife Christina McCall, who gave us the memorable political phrase, “He haunts us still” in their prize-winning biography of Pierre Trudeau. It is still part of our political lexicon. Mr. Clarkson was in Ottawa last week, promoting his latest book, The Big Red Machine, a not-so-academic examination of […]
Recently Released Books
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, by James T. Patterson, Oxford University Press, 448 pages, $48. Blurb from the back cover: “Jim Patterson has done it again! Restless Giant is a worthy successor to his prize-winning Grand Expectations. Patterson writes with flair, an admirable sense of balance, and complete command […]
Recently Released Books
War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers. Douglas and McIntyre Publishing Group, 214 pages, $35. Blurb from the back cover: “How should we respond to ‘the tension between a world that still wants a fair and sustainable international legal system and a superpower that hardly seems to care?’ That is the […]
Recently-released books
Against the Grain: An Irreverent View of Alberta by Catherine Ford, McClelland and Stewart, $34.99, 256 Pages. Blurb from the inside cover: “On the surface, [Alberta] appears to be monolithic in its politics, radically conservative in its opinions, and macho in its demeanour. But Catherine Ford shows that this is a lopsided outsider’s view of […]
New Release
The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria’s Oil by J. Timothy Hunt. McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 389 pages, $36.99. Blurb from the back cover: “The Politics of Bones is a story that needed to be told. It takes us into the dark and violent heart of the infamous struggle for […]
Recently released political books
Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System, by Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan, University of Toronto Press, $27.50, 233 Pages. Book blurb: “While the designated ‘rights’ of capital to travel freely across borders have increased, the citizenship rights of many people, particularly the most vulnerable, have tended to decline. Using […]
