McGill-Queen's University Press

Bonne Saint-Jean!

On vous propose quatre livres qui apportent une perspective unique sur l'histoire du Québec:

Réinventer Montréal: Ambitions et revers de trois urbanistes des Trente Glorieuses
Frédéric Mercure-Jolette
https://buff.ly/MLhX4Yo

À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l’Est
Julie Vaillancourt
https://buff.ly/m8BUfcU

L’heure des pétitions est passée: Les luttes des sans-travail au Québec, 1919-1939
Benoit Marsan
https://buff.ly/S4wV0ke

Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France: Histoire des spiritualités individuelles et collectives en espace colonial
Joy Palacios and Anne Régent-Susini
https://buff.ly/l8k766e

It's World Yoga Day!

Promoted as a way of healing people from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga offers an “anti-world” to which practitioners can escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and contradictions of the real world. Yogalands by Paul Bramadat encourages practitioners and critics to be curious about the many meanings and impacts of yoga.

https://buff.ly/vi1tFNk

On this first day of Summer, celebrate pollinators by picking up Paths of Pollen by Stephen Humphrey!

This book chronicles pollen’s do-or-die mission to spread plant genes under increasing ecological and anthropogenic strain.

https://buff.ly/RzeaD2C

“The far right exists in Canada. It definitely has international links, but we need to take ownership of this problem.” Important CTV coverage of For Blood and Soil by Amarnath Amarasingam and Stephanie Carvin.

Canada must confront homegrown far-right extremism, authors argue in new book A new book examining far-right extremism in Canada argues the movement has evolved dramatically in the past decade, shifting from small, organized groups to a broader network fuelled by social media, conspiracy theories and political grievances.

This World Refugee Day, we recommend reading the new guest blog post by Ulrike Krause, Gato Ndabaramiye Joshua, and Hannah Schmidt, which discusses the phenomenon of informal self-organizations in Uganda.

Their book, Refugee-Led Organizations in Uganda, highlights the vital roles of self-organizing in humanitarian response and the everyday lives of refugees.

https://buff.ly/Rp5QK8s

Join Amanda de Lisio for the book launch of Play Naked: P**a Economies Against Olympic Dispossession in Vacouver tonight!

Event details: https://buff.ly/4leIDty

Learn more about the book: https://buff.ly/MFeCNnf

Some images from the recent launch of Cody Groat's Always a Part of the Land: The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories. Many thanks to the Ontario Heritage Trust for hosting, and to Colin Angell for the gorgeous event photography. Purchase your copy of the book here: https://buff.ly/SJwgcvq

"À l’heure où les jeunes boivent moins que jamais, il est intéressant de se pencher sur une époque où les Canadiens étaient de gros consommateurs d’alcool." Plus d'informations :

Comment le rhum a joué un rôle essentiel dans le bon fonctionnement du capitalisme du Canada du XVIIIᵉ siècle Le rhum a joué un rôle central dans l’économie canadienne, influençant les relations de travail dans les secteurs de la pêche et du commerce des fourrures.

An extremely valuable interview, based on Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees. MCC host Ken Ogasawara sits down with Mike Molloy, retired Foreign Service officer and one of the architects of the world's first private refugee sponsorship program, to hear how a small clause buried in a 1976 immigration act became a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the Indo-China wars. Listen here:

Undercurrents - Ep 40 - "We never lose with refugees" Canada's most important open door