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Carleton Library Series has published over 230 works relating to Canadian history, politics, society, economics, geography, and other related fields. Below is a listing of the works that have been published, according to publication date, with a link to the McGill-Queen’s University Press listing for more information.

 

 

Book Title and Author
The Great Right North
Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Samuel Tanner, and Aurélie Campana
Statesman of the Piano
Edited by Sean Mills, Eric Fillion and Désirée Rochat
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter
Laura Goodman Salverson, Introduction by Carl Watts
Small Stories of War
Edited by Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander and Andrew Burtch
Canadian Literary Fare
Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd
The Eye of the Master
Dalie Giroux
Trade and Commerce
Malcolm Lavoie
Regulatory Failure and Renewal: The Evolution of the National Monopoly contract
John R. Baldwin
Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada
Edited by Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple
Canada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788-1900
Michelle Holmgren
University Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada
Sara Z. MacDonald
Hall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia: Education and Modernity in Ontario
Josh Cole
Blacks in Canada: A History
Robin W. Winks
Mrs Dalgairns’s Kitchen: Rediscovering The Pratice of Cookery
Edited by Mary F. Williamson, With modernized recipes by Elizabeth Baird
Take a Number: How Citizens’ Encounters with Government Shape Political Engagement
Elisabeth Gidengil
Anxious Days and Tearful Nights: Canadian War Wives during the Grat War
Martha Hanna
Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings
Margaret Laurence
The Art of Sharing: The Richer versus the Poorer Provinces since Confederation/a>
Mary Janigan
Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement
Jody Mason
Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium
Edited by Mark P. Thomas, Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli, and Olena Lyubchenko
Stanley’s Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island
Jacalyn Duffin
Beardmore: The Viking Hoax that Rewrote History
Doughlas Hunter
Like Everyone Else but Different
Morton Weinfeld
Report on Social Security for Canada
Leonard Marsh
The Hand of God
Michael Gauvreau
Tug of War
Jocelyn Wills
Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic
Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas eds.
Tax, Order, and Good Government
E.A. Heaman
Filling the Ranks
Richard Holt
Wildlife, Land, and People
Donald G. Wetherell
An Undisciplined Economist
Robert G. Evans
Trade, Industrial Policy, and International Competition
Richard G. Harris
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919
G.W.L. Nicholson
Green-Lite
G. Bruce Doern et al.
W.A. MacKintosh: The Life of a Canadian Economist
Hugh Grant
Lives in Transition
Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood eds.
The Canadian Oral History Reader
Kristina R. Llewellyn et al. eds.
The Great War as I Saw it
Frederick George Scott
And We Go On
Will R. Bird
Asleep at the Switch
Bruce Smardon
In Duty Bound
J.K. Johnson
The Illustrated History of Canada
Craig Brown ed.
A Two-Edged Sword
Nicholas Tracy
How Schools Worked
R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar
Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada
Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L. Winer
Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840-1900
Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton
Surveyors of Empire
Stephen J. Hornsby
Industrial Organization in Canada
Zhiqi Chen & Marc Duhamel eds.
So Vast and Various
John Warkentin, ed.
The Ordinary People of Essex
John Clarke
The Canadian Economy in the Great Depression
A.E. Safarian
The Irish in Ontario, Second Edition
Donald Harman Akenson
Documents on the Confederation of British North America
G.P. Browne
Inventing Canada
Suzanne Zeller
The Quest of the Folk
Ian McKay
Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy
Malcolm G. Taylor
The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World
Gerard Bouchard
Staples and Beyond
Edited by Hugh Grant and David A. Wolfe
The Fighting Newfoundlander
G. W. L. Nicholson
Lord Durham’s Report, New Edition 
Introduction by Janet Ajzenstat and Gerald M. Craig
History of Canadian Business
R.T. Naylor
Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865
P.B. Waite
Lament for a Nation, 40th Anniversary Edition
George Grant
Canada and the Cost of World War II
Edited by Matthew J. Bellamy
The Canadian Quandary
Harry Johnson
Land of the Midnight Sun
Ken Coates
Watching Quebec
Ramsay Cook
The Politics of Development
H.V. Nelles
A Great Duty
L.B. Kuffert
The Dream of Nation, Second Edition
Susan Mann
Cree Narrative, Second Edition
Richard J. Preston
Silent Surrender, New Edition
Kari Levitt
The Children of Aataentsic
Bruce G. Trigger
Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada
John Clarke
A Disciplined Intelligence
A.B. McKillop
The Blacks in Canada, Second Edition
Robin W. Winks
A Wampum Denied: Procter’s War of 1812
Sandy Antal
Outrageous Seas
Rainer K. Baehre (Ed.)
A Life on the Line
W. Brian Stewart
Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations 1967-1974
Eldon Black
The National Album: Collective Biography and the Formation of the Canadian Middle Class
Robert Lanning
Bare Poles: Building design for high latitudes
Harold Strub
Canada’s Origins: Liberal, Tory or Republican?
Janet Ajzenstat & Peter J. Smith
Canadian Foreign Policy, 1977-1992: Selected Speeches and Documents
Arthur E. Blanchette ed.
The Sociology of Work in Canada
Audrey Wipper
A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law
Robert Martin & G. Stuart Adam
The Burning Bush and a Few Acres of Snow
Audrey Wipper ed.
O’Callaghan: The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel
Jack Verney
Niagara’s Changing Landscapes
Hugh J. Gayler ed.
A Gentleman in the Outports: Gobineau and Newfoundland
Michael Wilkshire ed. and Trans.
Canadian Economic History: Classic and Contemporary Approaches
M.H. Watkins and H.M. Grant
Social Justice and the Constitution
Joel Bakan and David Schneiderman, eds.
The Bank of Canada: Origins and Early History
George S. Watts
Fragile Truths: 25 Years of Sociology and Anthropology in Canada
William K. Carroll et al. eds.
God’s Peculiar Peoples
S.F. Wise
Democracy with Justice
Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay
Tax, Borrow and Spend
W. Irwin Gillespie
Demon Rum or Easy Money
Robert A. Campbell
Choosing Canada’s Capital
David B. Knight
Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec
N.E.S. Griffiths and G.A. Rawlyk
Canada Before Confederation
R. Cole Harris & John Warkentin
Chief Justice William Johnstone Ritchie
S.F. Wise
Industrial Transformation and Challenge in Australia and Canada
Roger Hayter and Peter D. Wilde, eds.
In his Name
Curtis Fahey
National Survival in Dependent Societies
Raymond Breton et al. eds.
By Loving our Own
Peter C. Emberley, ed.
Police Officer
Claude L. Vincent
Boys and Girls Apart
Stephen Richer
The Upper Ottawa Valley to 1855
Richard M. Reid, ed.
Ethnic Demography
Shiva S. Halli et al. eds.
Human Rights & Social Technology
Rainer Knopff
Federalism and the Charter
Peter H. Russell, Rainer Knopff, Ted Morton
The Intelligent Citizen’s Guide to the Postal Problem
Lawrence M. Read
The Cross of Gold
Georg Rich
Canadian Perspectives on Law & Society: Issues in Legal History
W. Wesley Pue and Barry Wright
A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law
Robert Martin & G. Stuart Adam
Documents of Canadian Broadcasting
Roger Bird, ed.
The Challenge of Class Analysis
Wallace Clement
Crisis, Challenge and Change
Janine Brodie and Jane Jenson
Public Budgeting in Canada
G. Bruce Doern, Allan M. Maslove, Michael J. Prince
Historical Essays on Upper Canada
J.K. Johnson and Bruce G. Wilson
Griffith Taylor: Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer
Marie Sanderson
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality and Opportunity
John Porter
Alexander Kennedy Isbister: A Respectable Critic of the Honourable Company
Barry Cooper
Native People, Native Lands
Bruce Alden Cox, ed.
The Bank of Upper Canada
Peter Baskerville
Leading Constitutional Decisions
Peter H. Russell
Shattered Images
John Cove
Sojourns in the New World
Tom Darby, ed.
The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
Victor Howard and Mac Reynolds
The Iron Wedge
Lionel Groulx
Distance and Duties
R.M. Conlon
The Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada
Colin Read and Ronald J. Stagge, eds.
Ascription and Achievement
Monica Boyd et al.
The Canadian City
Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibese
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law
Bradford W. Morse, ed.
Cultural Diversity and Canadian Education
John R. Mallea and Jonathan C. Young
The Sociology of Work
Audrey Wipper
The Enterprises of Robert Hamilton
Bruce G. Wilson
Fear’s Folly (Les Demi-civilses)
Jean-Charles Harvey
Recreational Land Use
Geoffrey Wall and John S. Marsh
Shaping the Urban Landscape
Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise
The Redistribution of Income in Canada
W. Irwin Gillespie
Contexts of Canada’s Past
A.B. McKillop
The Last of the Free Enterprisers
J.D. House
Economic and Social History of Quebec, 1760-1850
Fernand Ouellet
The Usable Urban Past
Alan F.J. Artibise and Gilbert A. Stelter, eds.
Canadian Foreign Policy 1966-1976Arthur E. Blanchette, ed.
Canadian Confederation: A Decision-Making Analysis
W.L. White et al.
Each for All
Ian MacPherson
The Boundaries of the Canadian Confederation
Norman L. Nicholson
The Farmers in Politics
William Irvine
The Canadian Economy and Disarmament
Gideon Rosenbluth
The Distemper of our Times
Peter C. Newman
William Lyon MacKenzie: A Reinterpretation
William Dawson LeSueur
Does Money Matter?
M.R. Porter, J. Porter, & B.R. Blishen
The Canadian City: Essays in Urban History
Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise
The Doukhobors
George Wookcock and Ivan Avakumovic
Keynesian Economics
Mabel Timlin
The Canadian Quandary
Harry G. Johnson
A Critical Spirit: The Thought of William Dawson LeSueur
A.B. McKillop
Choosing Canada’s Capital
David B. Knight
Canadian Foreign Policy 1955-1965
Arthur E. Blanchette
The Frontier and Canadian Letters
Wilfred Eggleston
The Agricultural Economy of Manitoba Hutterite Colonies
John Ryan
The Law and the Press in Canada
Wilfred H. Kesterton
Eighteenth Century Newfoundland
C. Grant Head
Canada: A Middle-Aged Power
John W. Holmes
The Frog Lake “Massacre”
Stuart Hughes
Historical Essays on British Columbia
J. Friesen and H.K. Ralston, eds.
Political Corruption in Canada
Kenneth M. Gibbons and Donald C. Rowat, eds.
Capital Punishment in Canada
David Chandler
Canadian-American Industry
Herbert Marshall, Frank Southard, Jr., Kenneth W. Taylor
Minority Men in a Majority Setting
Christopher Beattie
Perspectives on Landscape and Settlement in Nineteenth Century Ontario
J. David Wood, ed.
Man’s Impact on the Western Canadian Landscape
J.G. Nelson
The Canadian Corporate Elite
Wallace Clement
Living and Learning in the Free School
Mark W. Novak
Canadian Indians and the Law
Derek G. Smith, ed.
Canada’s Balance of International Indebtedness, 1900-1913
Jacob Viner
Socialization and Values in Canadian Society, Vol. II
Robert M. Pike and Elia Zureik, eds.
The Canadian Bill of Rights
Walter Surma Tarnopolsky
Historical Essays on Upper Canada
J.K. Johnson
Canadian-American Summit Diplomacy, 1923-1973
Roger Frank Swanson
Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil
Yves F. Zoltvany
Consociational Democracy: Political Accommodation in Segmented Societies
Kenneth McRae, ed.
Beyond the Atantic Roar: A Study of Nova Scotia Scots
D. Campbell and R.A. MacLean
Capital Formation in Canada, 1896-1930
Kenneth Buckley
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive Among the Nootka, 1803-1805
Derik G. Smith, ed.
Statistical Account of Upper Canada
Abridged by S.R. Mealing
The Crisis of Quebec, 1914-1918
Elizabeth Armstrong
Freedom and Order: Collected Essays
Eugene Forsey
The Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada
H.F. McGee
Cuthbert Grant of Grantown
Margaret MacLeod and W.L. Morton
Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years
Peter C. Newman
“Dominion Lands” Policy
Chester Martin, Edited by Lewis H. Thomas
Natural Resources: The Economics of Conservation
Anthony Scott
The Ombudsman Plan
Donald C. Rowat
Recollections of the On To Ottawa Trek
Victor Hoar, ed.
Cultural Ecology
Bruce Cox
The Tremblay Report
David Kwavnick
Laurier and a Liberal Quebec
H. Blair Neatby
The Last Forty Years: The Union of 1841 to Confederation
J.C. Dent
Languages in Conflict
Richard J. Joy
Perspectives on the North American Indians
Mark Nagler
Community in Crisis
Richard Jones
Culture and Nationality
A.G. Bailey
Urban Development in South-Central Ontario
Jacob Spelt
The Development of Canada’s Staples, 1867-1939
Kevin H. Burley
Canada’s Changing North
William C. Wonders
The Canadian Economy in the Great Depression
A.E. Safarain
Historical Essays on the Praire Provinces
Donald Swainson
Monck Letters and Journals 1863-1868
W.L. Morris
Canadian Foreign Policy 1945-1954
R.A. MacKay
Lament for a Nation
George Grant
The Better Part of Valour
John W. Holmes
The Canadian Municipal System
Donald C. Rowat
Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs Vol. 2
Henry Borden, ed.
Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs Vol. 1
Henry Borden, ed.
The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia
John Barlet Brebner
John Strachan: Documents and OpinionsJ.L.H. Henderson
Sir Francis Bond Head: a NarrativeS.F. Wise, ed.
The Colonial Reformers and Canada: 1830-1849Peter Burroughs
Eskimo of the Canadian Arctic
Victor F. Valentine and Frank G. Vallee, eds.
Documents on the Confederation of British North America
G.P. Browne
Growth and the Canadian Economy
T.N. Brewis
The Old Province of Quebec
A.L. Burt
A History of Journalism in Canada
W.H. Kesterton
Historical Essays on the Atlantic Provinces
G.A. Rawlyk
Western Ontario and the American Frontier
Fred Landon
Church and State in Canada 1627-1867
John S. Moir
Canadian Social Structure
John Porter
Approaches to Canadian Economic History
W.T. Easterbrook and M.H. Watkins
North Atlantic Triangle
John Barlet Brebner
The Race Question in Canada
Andre Siegfried
A History of Canadian External Relations, Vol. II
G.P. deT Glazebrook
A History of Canadian External Relations, Vol. I
G.P. deT Glazebrook
Life and Times of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
Oscar Douglas Skelton
Indians of the North Pacific Coast
Tom McFeat
Frontenac: The Courtier Governor
W.J. Eccles
Leading Constitutional Decisions
Peter H. Russell
Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Vol. II
Oscar Douglas Skelton
Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Vol. I
Oscar Douglas Skelton
Joseph Howe: Voice of Nova Scotia
J. Murray Beck
The Canadian Commercial Revolution 1845-1851
Gilbert N. Tucker
French-Canadian Society
Marcel Roux and Yves Martin
Money and Banking in Canada
E.P. Neufeld
The Courts and the Canadian Constitution
W.R. Lederman
The Western Interior of Canada
John Warkentin
The French-Canadian Outlook
Mason Wade
The Economic Background of Dominion-Provincial Relations
W.A. MacKintosh
A History of Transportation in Canada, Vol. II
G.P. deT. Glazebrook
A History of Transportation in Canada, Vol. I
G.P. deT. Glazebrook
Political Unrest in Upper Canada 1815-1836
Aileen Dunham
The Reciprocity Treaty of 1854
Donald C. Masters
Lord Durham’s Mission to Canada
Chester New
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
S.R. Mealing, ed.
The Unreformed Senate of Canada
R.A. MacKay
The Rowell/Sirois Report/Book I
Donald V. Smiley, ed.
Champlain: The Life of Fortitude
Morris Bishop
Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics
J.W. Dafoe
The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada/ 1865
P.B. Waite, ed.
Lord Durham’s Report
Gerald M. Craig, ed.