New and Forthcoming History Titles in Spring 2009

As Affecting the Fate of my Absent Husband:
Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

Lady Jane Franklin / Edited by Erika Behrisch Elce

A collection of Jane, Lady Franklin's public letters offers a vital new perspective on one of the great tragedies of Victorian Britain.

McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series

Gold in the Americas
Edited by Hélène Dionne

The passionate world of gold in the Americas, from Christopher Columbus to present day

"Just the word “gold” brings to mind El Dorado, Aztec treasures, Spanish galleons and sourdoughs struggling up Yukon’s Chilkoot Pass, and these tales are all here." The Montreal Gazette

Canadian Pentecostalism:
Transition and Transformation
Edited by Michael Wilkinson

A comprehensive examination of the formation, transition, and transformation of Canadian Pentecostalism in relation to globalization.

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion

A Sadly Troubled History:
The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age
John C. Weaver

A comparative history of suicide, consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

  

 

When the French Tried to be British:
Party, Opposition, and the Quest for Civil Disagreement, 1814-1848
J.A.W. Gunn

France's great effort to transplant and adapt the political institutions and practices of its long-standing national enemy, Britain.

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas