Here’s a round-up of some highlights for the month of February at UTP.
Daniel Quinlan and Michael Harrison attended the International Studies Association meeting in New Orleans, LA from the 18th-21st of February.
B.W. Powe gave a talk based on his book Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy at York University on February 5th, 2015.
Claudia Malacrida launched her new book A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta’s Eugenic Years at the University of Lethbridge on February 12th, 2015.
New Releases in February
A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW by Linda M. Ambrose
The Tales that Bind: A Narrative Model for Living and Helping in Rural Communities by William Lowell Randall, Rosemary Clews, and Dolores Furlong
Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Julius Kirshner
Sharing the Burden?: NATO and its Second-Tier Powers by Benjamin Zyla
The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy by Stephanie Malia Hom
Leadership is Half the Story: A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration by Marc Hurwitz and Samantha Hurwitz
Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries edited by John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini
The “Greening” of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature by Ana Isla
Liberal Hearts and Coronets: The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens by Veronica Strong-Boag
Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature by Anne Quéma
Fashioning Spaces: Mode and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris by Heidi Brevik-Zender
Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Third Edition by M. James Penton
The Dignity of Every Human Being: New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War by Kirk Niergarth
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost by Girish Daswani
Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands by J. Laurence Hare
New in Paperback in February
The English Boccaccio: A History in Books by Guyda Armstrong
‘A Great Effusion of Blood’?: Interpreting Medieval Violence by Mark D. Meyerson; Oren Falk, and Daniel Thiery