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In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany.

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960.

Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study.

Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions.

"It would be possible to argue," writes William Nicholls, "that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between moder

The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union.

Dead Woman Pickney chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history, told with stridency and humour.

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas.

Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries.

Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centu

Translation and Translating in German Studies is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Raleigh Whitinger, a well-loved scholar of German literature, an inspiring teacher, and an exceptional

This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eati

The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting s

This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America.

Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56.