McGill-Queen's University Press
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Scholarly publisher of books that engage in public debate, current events, politics, contemporary thought, and the arts.
This UP week we #TeamUP with @nyupress.bsky.social to discuss food in the city!
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November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This UP week we #TeamUP with @nyupress.bsky.social to discuss food in the city!
Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO
Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO
In honour of Remembrance Day, we’ve curated a reading list featuring some of our recent military history titles about the Great War.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In honour of Remembrance Day, we’ve curated a reading list featuring some of our recent military history titles about the Great War.
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A standing-room only crowd at last night's launch of McGill in History, edited by Brian Lewis, Don Nerbas, and Melissa Shaw. Thanks to everyone who attended, the editors and contributors who shared their work, and our partners in planning and preparing for this important event! #McGIll
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A standing-room only crowd at last night's launch of McGill in History, edited by Brian Lewis, Don Nerbas, and Melissa Shaw. Thanks to everyone who attended, the editors and contributors who shared their work, and our partners in planning and preparing for this important event! #McGIll
Happy Halloween!
Poetics of the Paranormal by Kevin Chabot is a haunted history of media that explores the shifting representation of ghosts across photography, film, television, and the internet.
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Poetics of the Paranormal by Kevin Chabot is a haunted history of media that explores the shifting representation of ghosts across photography, film, television, and the internet.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy Halloween!
Poetics of the Paranormal by Kevin Chabot is a haunted history of media that explores the shifting representation of ghosts across photography, film, television, and the internet.
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Poetics of the Paranormal by Kevin Chabot is a haunted history of media that explores the shifting representation of ghosts across photography, film, television, and the internet.
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The Peasants’ War examines how Russian peasants reacted to the mass mobilization of the First World War, and why they ultimately turned against the tsarist regime, culminating in the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Peasants’ War examines how Russian peasants reacted to the mass mobilization of the First World War, and why they ultimately turned against the tsarist regime, culminating in the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time contributes to current debates within and about liberal politics and shows how liberal patterns of thought have been characterized by temporal paradoxes throughout history.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time contributes to current debates within and about liberal politics and shows how liberal patterns of thought have been characterized by temporal paradoxes throughout history.
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Pasting Up Protest examines the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary artists in Mexico, analyzing street art produced over the past decade by ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Pasting Up Protest examines the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary artists in Mexico, analyzing street art produced over the past decade by ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe.
Out now! buff.ly/254r90k
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Behead and Cure explores the ethics of humanitarianism during the Vietnam War through the experiences of medical teams from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. It brings civilian women from the sidelines of the Vietnam War to the centre.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Behead and Cure explores the ethics of humanitarianism during the Vietnam War through the experiences of medical teams from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. It brings civilian women from the sidelines of the Vietnam War to the centre.
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McGill in History broadens the historical frame of critical university studies, challenging previous siloed narratives and showing how the university can serve as a model for understanding power in modern society.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
McGill in History broadens the historical frame of critical university studies, challenging previous siloed narratives and showing how the university can serve as a model for understanding power in modern society.
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Grounded in discussions of cultural capital, dramaturgy, and modernity, The Second Greatest Show on Earth is an in-depth exploration of the motives that guided the work of Henry Bergh (1813–1888), founder and president of the American SPCA.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Grounded in discussions of cultural capital, dramaturgy, and modernity, The Second Greatest Show on Earth is an in-depth exploration of the motives that guided the work of Henry Bergh (1813–1888), founder and president of the American SPCA.
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Scenes from a book launch. Congrats to Sirous Houshmand, author of The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days: Surviving War and Iran’s Evin Prison.
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Scenes from a book launch. Congrats to Sirous Houshmand, author of The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days: Surviving War and Iran’s Evin Prison.
Building on inquiries spanning three decades, The Shape of Thought shows that by understanding the many different things that people achieve with computers, we can improve and diversify AI to allow for richer, more beneficial human-computer interaction.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Building on inquiries spanning three decades, The Shape of Thought shows that by understanding the many different things that people achieve with computers, we can improve and diversify AI to allow for richer, more beneficial human-computer interaction.
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A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection, Canada and the Great Irish Famine examines how Ireland’s famine migration was confronted, experienced, and remembered in a receiving country.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection, Canada and the Great Irish Famine examines how Ireland’s famine migration was confronted, experienced, and remembered in a receiving country.
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Join Sirous Houshmand for the launch of his book, The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days: Surviving War and Iran's Evin Prison in Toronto on Sunday evening!
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October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Join Sirous Houshmand for the launch of his book, The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days: Surviving War and Iran's Evin Prison in Toronto on Sunday evening!
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New in Paperback!
A spy’s struggle for belonging – foiled by workplace misogyny and Islamophobia – and her ultimate success as a whistleblower, pushing the envelope on culture change.
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A spy’s struggle for belonging – foiled by workplace misogyny and Islamophobia – and her ultimate success as a whistleblower, pushing the envelope on culture change.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New in Paperback!
A spy’s struggle for belonging – foiled by workplace misogyny and Islamophobia – and her ultimate success as a whistleblower, pushing the envelope on culture change.
Out now! buff.ly/bLMPpaV
A spy’s struggle for belonging – foiled by workplace misogyny and Islamophobia – and her ultimate success as a whistleblower, pushing the envelope on culture change.
Out now! buff.ly/bLMPpaV
The result of a six-year collaboration between sociology professor Dany Lacombe and Mac, an ex-convict, Talking Reform highlights ongoing struggles of reintegration and the importance of compassion and inclusion in offering hope for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The result of a six-year collaboration between sociology professor Dany Lacombe and Mac, an ex-convict, Talking Reform highlights ongoing struggles of reintegration and the importance of compassion and inclusion in offering hope for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons.
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By examining intersections of the sacred and the secular in the autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, his television series, and his cultural afterlife, Prime-Time Bishop argues that aspects of modern sanctity cannot be understood without also considering aspects of celebrity.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
By examining intersections of the sacred and the secular in the autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, his television series, and his cultural afterlife, Prime-Time Bishop argues that aspects of modern sanctity cannot be understood without also considering aspects of celebrity.
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Wilful Neglect explores the devastating consequences of the Department of Indian Affairs’ responses to tuberculosis among First Nations in Canada from 1867 to 1945, demonstrating a direct link between historic health policies and modern disparities.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wilful Neglect explores the devastating consequences of the Department of Indian Affairs’ responses to tuberculosis among First Nations in Canada from 1867 to 1945, demonstrating a direct link between historic health policies and modern disparities.
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The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days is Sirous Houshmand’s eyewitness testimony of Tehran’s Evin Prison and the 1988 mass executions of many of his prison friends. His story provides a deeper understanding of the current state of US–Iran relations.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days is Sirous Houshmand’s eyewitness testimony of Tehran’s Evin Prison and the 1988 mass executions of many of his prison friends. His story provides a deeper understanding of the current state of US–Iran relations.
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Thanks to our good friends at Brome Lake Books in Knowlton, Quebec for featuring Blatant Injustice on their best books display table. Editor Ian Darragh pictured here with a copy of his book. Read more here: buff.ly/vQK5nYD
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thanks to our good friends at Brome Lake Books in Knowlton, Quebec for featuring Blatant Injustice on their best books display table. Editor Ian Darragh pictured here with a copy of his book. Read more here: buff.ly/vQK5nYD
Some photos from our time at Frankfurter Buchmesse! Representing MQUP and Canadian publishing at the world's largest book fair. Thanks to Livres Canada Books for making it all happen. buff.ly/b9gFv9z
October 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Some photos from our time at Frankfurter Buchmesse! Representing MQUP and Canadian publishing at the world's largest book fair. Thanks to Livres Canada Books for making it all happen. buff.ly/b9gFv9z
Some photos from last night's Yellowknife book launch for The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success! Learn more about the book here: buff.ly/FmlyBzn
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Some photos from last night's Yellowknife book launch for The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success! Learn more about the book here: buff.ly/FmlyBzn
More CBC coverage of The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling. Listen to their interview with Hilary Bird on The Trailbreaker. buff.ly/N9QGIVR
October 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
More CBC coverage of The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling. Listen to their interview with Hilary Bird on The Trailbreaker. buff.ly/N9QGIVR
Sharing some additional CBC coverage of last week's 200th anniversary of the Great Miramichi Fire of 1825. Thanks to author Alan MacEachern for contributing to the history of this natural disaster. buff.ly/fkR5uDS
October 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sharing some additional CBC coverage of last week's 200th anniversary of the Great Miramichi Fire of 1825. Thanks to author Alan MacEachern for contributing to the history of this natural disaster. buff.ly/fkR5uDS
A recent CBC interview with author Alan MacEachern about The Miramichi Fire: A History. buff.ly/yU251bF
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A recent CBC interview with author Alan MacEachern about The Miramichi Fire: A History. buff.ly/yU251bF