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Prisons, Asylums, and the Public
Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters,...
Stranger Rape
Rapists, Masculinity and Penal Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Kevin Denys Bonnycastle’s Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them. Using new data derived from official offender files, offender program observations, and the men’s personal histories, Bonnycastle documents, compares, and contrasts their...
Ruling by Schooling Quebec
Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method...
Manufacturing Phobias
The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and – when it is manipulated – a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and...
by Beverly Leipert, Belinda Leach, Wilfreda Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play...
A Mennonite in Russia
The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community...
by James Butrica
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50–ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected...
Purchase for Profit
Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
by Aaron Thomas, Cesare Beccaria
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the...
Phenomenology and Logic
The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, Volume 18
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Collected here for the first time, this series of lectures delivered by Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 illustrates a pivotal time in Lonergan's intellectual history, marking both the transition from the faculty psychology still present in his work Insight to intentionality analysis and his initial...
Insight
A Study of Human Understanding, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1992
Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.
In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is...
Our Place in the Sun
Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence...
The Prosecutor
An Inquiry into the Exercise of Discretion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Every day decisions made by prosecutors, before trial takes place, critically affect the rights of citizens; yet these decisions remain a grey area in the administration of criminal justice. In fact, there are considerable and important differences between what the prosecutor does and what the legal...
People of Substance
An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves ‘People of the Center. ’ Carlos David Londoño Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating to selfhood, social organization, livelihood,...