mcgill queen's university press okt 2022 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec in 1660, people grew worried about the arrival of evil forces. Barbe Hallay, a teenaged servant, started to act as if possessed, and a miller accused of using dark arts to torment her was executed. Mairi Cowan explores this case of demonic infestation to understand the everyday experiences and deep anxieties of people in New France.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the field before any deadly battle is joined.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 'Middle East' has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. In Inventing the Middle East Guillemette Crouzet charts the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, not in the twentieth century but in the nineteenth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four artists who are today relatively or almost entirely unknown - Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh, and Gordon Webber - nevertheless played a part in the aesthetic upheavals that led to abstraction in 1940s Montreal. This book reinstates the oeuvres of these forgotten protagonists in the narrative of abstract art.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau's story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interprovincial trade.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are indicators of cultural values and when they shift. Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomeryaddresses Montgomery's challenges to prescribed assumptions about childhood, and positions her novels as essential texts in twenty-first century literary, childhood, and youth studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Northern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a recognizable destination brand.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on the writing of over one hundred diarists, this book takes us into the heart of informal neighbourhood labour exchanges known as 'bees' and the context of farm families' daily lives in Southern Ontario. It sheds light on the workways of rural people and on how neighbouring was a dynamic and progressive aspect of agricultural change, as well as a key element in fashioning rural culture.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.