McGill-Queen's University Press Research Articles

Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel “The Original of Laura.” Ed. Yuri Leving. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xii, 307 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. $100.00, hard bound. $29.95, paper.

Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel “The Original of Laura.” Ed. Yuri Leving. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xii, 307 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. 29.95, paper. - Volume 74 Issue 4

Perceptions of a Monarchy Without a King: Reactions to Oliver Cromwell's Power. By Benjamin Woodford. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. x + 243 pp. $100.00 cloth.

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Perceptions of a Monarchy Without a King: Reactions to Oliver Cromwell's Power . By Benjamin Woodford . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2013. x + 243 pp. $100.00 cloth.Book Reviews and NotesThis book is driven by the sense that while the Cromwellian 'kingship crisis'--the debates surrounding the offer of the crown to Oliver Cromwell in 1657, and the ramifications of his refusal to accept a new title--has received scholarly attention, much less work has been done on the print culture surrounding the affair. As such, Woodford seeks to shine a light on a body of contemporary literature, from both supporters and opponents of the lord protector, which might permit a more coherent understanding of contemporary reactions to Cromwellian power, both inside and outside government, and a more thorough appreciation that this represented a very real public issue. That the book is only partially successful reflects the fact that the initial premise is only partly justifiable.Where Woodford's book is at its best is in dealing with the crisis, most particularly when dealing with the problems posed by the surviving evidence relating to the debates involving Cromwell and the kinglings in the spring of 1657. On this issue extremely interesting evidence is presented about the difficulties involved in reconstructing the views of both sides, and a convincing case is made that previous scholarship has been hampered by the way in which Cromwell's modern editors have treated the accounts of his speeches, in ways which involve paying insufficient attention to subtle but important differences between various surviving versions. Woodford also contributes to our understanding by addressing the possibility that the most accessible contemporary account of the kingship debates--a pamphlet from 1660 called Monarchy Asserted --was produced by people who had a vested interest in portraying Cromwell and the Cromwellian regime, and thus themselves, as conservatives and traditional monarchists, and in distancing all concerned from the taint of religious fanaticism (30). On these issues, Woodford demonstrates the benefits of a careful comparison and contextualization of the various sources, and it is thus something of a pity that this aspect of the book--the most impressive and original--was not more substantial. It is hard to avoid the conclusion, indeed, that Woodford has only really begun a process of rethinking the surviving evidence about the kingship debates, which needs fuller treatment.That this feels like a missed opportunity reflects in part the fact that Woodford arguably fails to do real justice to the evidence about the crisis. In looking beyond the evidence about the debates that took place behind closed doors, therefore, Woodford is less than entirely sure-footed in his treatment of texts like the official government newspaper, Mercurius Politicus . Thus, while he is right to note that the government did not promote kingship actively in the public domain, despite having the mechanisms with which to do so, it is less than entirely convincing to suggest that the regime and its publicists were waiting for Cromwell to accept the crown, and fearful of publicizing Cromwell's reactions because of their sectarian tone (54). …

Growing to One World: The Life of J. King Gordon, by Eileen R. Janzen

"Growing to One World: The Life of J. King Gordon, by Eileen R. Janzen." Canadian Journal of History, 49(3), pp. 531–532

Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, edited by Graeme Morton and David A. Wilson

Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, edited by Graeme Morton and David A. Wilson. Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. ix, 389 pp. $34.95 US (paper). Among many enduring myths that figure in both Aboriginal history and studies of Irish and Scottish peoples is a notion that Irish and Scots who ventured abroad enjoyed more positive relations with Indigenous peoples they encountered than did adventurers from other lands. Or, as co-editor David A. Wilson of University of Toronto poses what he terms the general question at heart of this volume: to what extent did Irishness or Scottishness affect attitudes toward Indigenous peoples? (p. 17). It turns out, as both Wilson and author of lead article on European migration and Indigenous populations, Donald Hannon Akenson of Queen's University, put it--not much. Akenson contends that all agents of European expansion were horrible colonizers, apparently without exception. And editor Wilson agrees, even going so far as to cavil that one of his authors' evidence hardly amount to 'striking Gaelic statements of solidarity' with Indigenous people as author contended (p. 13). Nonetheless, does contain a wealth of fascinating information about Indigenous people and Scots and Irish, even if it does not provide a satisfying explanation of any pattern in relations that occurred along frontiers of contact. Irish and Scottish Encounters brings together research results from fourteen scholars in history, literature, folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and Celtic, Irish, and New Zealand Studies. Their approaches are similarly eclectic, resulting in a that includes a number of case studies of individuals and broadly comparative analyses in literature, music, and fiddling. The bulk of studies look at Indigenous-European interactions in North America, principally Canada, but there are also treatments that focus on New Zealand, Australia, Orkney, and Hebrides. A striking absence, both in in general and in Akenson's overview essay, is any attention to interactions with Indigenous peoples in Asia and Africa, where, presumably, Scots and Irish also ventured. Only one author claims that ethnicity had much influence on relations with Indigenous peoples, with rest concluding it had none or studiously avoiding the general question at heart of this volume (p. 17). The collection also reveals a broad range of interactions between Celtic newcomers and Indigenous peoples. Some contributions, such as otherwise excellent study of nineteenth-century Toronto Bishop Michael Power, do not have much to do with Irish. Historian Mark McGowan's chapter reveals a Canadian-born Catholic prelate energetically contending with an unsympathetic colonial Indian Department dominated by Anglicans and being forced to rely on French Jesuits for frontline missionary work in western reaches of his diocese. …

Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-Garde and Postdramatic Theatre by Mladen Ovadija (review)

Mladen Ovadija. Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-Garde and Postdramatic Theatre. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 252. $95.00. Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-Garde and Postdramatic Theatre is published amid an interdisciplinary ferment in the human sciences that takes sound as its analytical point of departure or arrival (as Jonathan Sterne, one of the leading figures of Sound Studies, has called the recent surge of interest in sound, noise, auditory culture, and associated histories). Longstanding sound scholars such as this reviewer, once accustomed to interjecting as disciplinary mavericks from the fringes of our arts, social science, and humanities discourse, must now be more cautious about claims that modernity is characterized by a visual bias--an ocularcentrism as Jay has termed it, or a hypertrophy of the eye and eye-thinking as Berendt more figuratively put it. It has been suggested that a new postmodern aural paradigm is discernible in the tropes of resonance, rhizomatic networks, fields, ecosystems, and noise that litter contemporary intellectual discourse, particularly in the cultural fetishization of immersive experience. There is talk of a new age of aurality--a term whose sudden, prolific adoption precedes any clearly established definition, but which seems to indicate a field of interaction between the acoustic world, its inhabitants, and their cultural activities. This may be premature. Theater, whose remit it has been to think the modern condition by staging it, is in its institutions of practice and scholarship only now starting to conceive of sound as anything other than a technical practice (of acoustics, voice, effect production, or amplification) or a specialist meta-discourse. The consideration of sound in more ontological terms takes it into modally alien territory. While dramas conceptual subservience to the word may have been broken, theater studies has tended to approach sensual materiality though phenomenological tropes of spectatorship and kinesthetic object-theater, or biomechanically or viscerally physical performance, rather than audience, aural bodies, and their space. If theater once enquired about visuality and physicality, it now seems to ask about immersion and resonance, about what atmosphere and noise mean when they are no longer in the background, and about the energized materiality between theater's objects. So attention turns to the Sound Studies ferment for a conceptual framework with which to make sense of theaters under-theorized aurality. Ovadija's interest here is primarily in how sonic meaning might be achieved independently of the semiology of words or other indexically read sign-systems--how, as he quotes Steve McAfferty, sound need not be a this standing for that but immediately be a that ... free of the implications of the metaphysics of linguistic absence (56). The book identifies this enquiry in the works and manifestos of twentieth century avant-garde art and Lehmann's concept (broadly interpreted) of theater. The book mainly focuses on Dada, Futurism, Expressionism, and the Bauhaus as they appear through the rear view (8) of this postdramatic theater. This conceit initially struck me as a crafty way of making a genealogical connection between theater's current interest in sound and some iconic sonic art that (so I had thought) had little to do with theater history, other than in that theaters were occasionally used for its poetry performances or noise concerts. The book makes big claims about the seminality of these movements: that Marinetti, Russolo, and their cohorts liberated the material performativity of sound and noise from its subservience to semantic systems and musical morphology; and that because of this breakthrough, today's theater aurality became possible. In my view this is unnecessarily overstated. It would have been enough simply to use his rear-view mirror conceit to present his new take on the avant-garde experiments with sonic performativity, and allow it to resonate in his accounts of recent developments in theater sound. …

The Catholicisms of Coutances: Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350–1789, by J. Michael Hayden

The Catholicisms of Coutances: Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350-1789, by J. Michael Hayden. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi, 368 pp. $100.00 Cdn (cloth). Scholars of Early Modern Europe certainly will appreciate this ambitious and convincing contribution to the study of the history of religion. The book complements the author's extensive work on the Catholic reform in France that he co-authored with Malcolm Greenshields, 600 Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789 (Montreal and Kingston, 2005). From there, Hayden has changed the lens to focus on one diocese, Coutances, from 1350 to 1789. This book takes the reader to the varieties of (or Catholicisms) that evolved in the diocese over several centuries, peering deeply into the multiple layers of belief, behaviour, and practice. Hayden stresses the importance of to Early Modern people, as purely a central defining element in a person's identity. Religious belief and practice were shaped by historical events across this period: the Hundred Years' War, the Protestant the Wars of Religion, the two Catholic Reformations, and to a lesser extent the Enlightenment. Of these, what shaped Catholicisms the most is what is called the Second Catholic Reformation, a movement that was launched by the Council of Trent and then gained momentum and a distinct national character in France in the seventeenth century. Rather than positing a dichotomy between elite religion and popular religion, Hayden delineates a symbiotic relationship between official Catholicism and the variety of Catholicisms that contained aspects of that official religious expression but were coloured by various traditions and myths. By the outbreak of the French Revolution, the ecclesiastical efforts to reform lay Catholic beliefs and practices had succeeded in forming a not-uncritical but stalwart loyalty to the Catholic one that allowed for variants. Hayden investigates a large area of ecclesiastical territory and he is sensitive to the regional variations in the diocese. Religious belief and practice were less intense in some areas, a factor he attributes to the penetration of the Protestant faith (although he notes the difficulty in determining which was cause and which was effect: weak Catholic devotion or Protestant infiltration). The book can be divided into several parts. The first part contains two foundational chapters, one outlining the diocese's basic features: its physical and linguistic geography, its history as well as the precarious condition of the common people. The other chapter sketches the official Catholic belief structure and the devotional expectations that upheld it, all of which lay atop a pre-existing layer of unofficial belief that revolved around nature and the various approaches to propitiate it. The next part comprises four chapters on the Catholicisms of the clergy: i) the bishops: all adherents of the main tenets of official but in practice evolving generally from a group of worldly, non-resident men in the later Middle Ages, to a series of Tridentine-inspired reforming bishops, and then a group of competent but complacent bishops in the eighteenth century; ii) the cathedral chapter and the archdeacons, the former concentrating on maintaining their privileges and the latter rooting their in a devotion to reform; iii) the religious orders: their credibility and survival into the later eighteenth century depended on the extent to which they could attach their to reform and to engagement with the laity, either through preaching or teaching; iv) the secular priests: they became increasingly separated from the laity but still aligned more neatly with reform by the eighteenth century, in spite of their lower socio-economic condition and lifestyle relative to their superiors. …

Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War, edited by L. Ruth Klein (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012), xxiii + 302 pp., illus., hardcover $29.95, electronic version available

In Toronto in June 2009 the Government of Canada and the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada co-hosted a conference entitled, “The St. Louis Era: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” which was also part of Canada's successful bid for membership in the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, now the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Though the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis served as the focal point for the conference, participants were encouraged to “look more widely at this era of prejudice and restrictive immigration policies” (p. xiii). The conference resulted in two things in addition to IHRA membership: establishment of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (NTF); and publication of the volume under review. The purpose of Klein's compilation is to gain “a better sense of how much Canadians knew, and when, about the mounting persecution of the Jews.” To achieve this, Klein asserts, it is necessary to enter the “atmosphere” of Canada in this period (p. xix). In this pursuit, seven scholars from various disciplines, including history, media studies, and Jewish studies, examine various aspects of Canadian society from 1933 to 1945, concluding that most non-Jewish Canadians were apathetic in the face of Nazi persecution of Jews. It is unfortunate that the analysis focuses almost exclusively on the cities of Toronto and Montreal, and that French Canada is virtually ignored, yet no single volume can cover all aspects of a subject. In this case it seems that geographic and ethnic breadth was sacrificed in favor of multi-disciplinary inclusion.

Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country

Journal Article Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country Get access Ian K. Steele. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi, 688 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 884–886, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau517 Published: 01 December 2014

Border Crossings: US Culture and Education in Saskatchewan, 1905-1937, by Kerry Alcorn

Border Crossings: US Culture and Education in Saskatchewan, 1905-1937, by Kerry Alcorn. Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queens University Press, 2013. viii, 218 pp. (paper). Kerry Alcorn's Border Crossings: US Culture and Education in Saskatchewan, 1905-1937 has a simple, yet important, point to make: education and much of the broader cultural formation in western Canada, especially the political culture, owed much to the influence of the United States. Indeed, using Saskatchewan as the case study, Alcorn's work stands in stark opposition to the writings of several prominent scholars of Canadian educational history (and one could say in opposition to an older understanding of Canadian history itself). Collectively these scholars of education have tended to assume that the broad outlines of the history of education policy and cultural development that prevailed in Ontario --rooted in British practice and in the values of the dominant Anglo-Celtic elite which were often overtly anti-American--can be applied, with minor regional variations, to western Canada. In contrast, Alcorn argues that it was the US, especially the Midwestern and Plains regions, which provided the real model for the educational system that was put in place in the newly created province of Saskatchewan between 1905 and the depression years. Moreover, Alcorn argues that the greatest part of the intellectual inheritance of Saskatchewan's emerging educational system was rooted in the profoundly American philosophy of Pragmatism, while the overtly political manifestations of the province's culture owed much to American Populism and Progressivism. In many ways Border Crossings is a proud and self-conscious throwback to the continentalist approach undertaken by scholars such as Paul Sharp and Seymour Martin Lipset in their earliest works (The Agrarian Revolt and Agrarian Socialism respectively), but it is also leavened by an appreciation of Borderlands studies approaches and by theoretical formulations that are far more post-modernist in orientation than either Sharp or Lipset--or heaven forbid, Walter Prescott Webb--would ever have embraced. Still, it is the work of an older generation upon which the author builds: W.L. Morton, A.S. Morton, Sharp, Webb, and Lipset come to mind in this regard, and even Fredrick Jackson Turner gets the occasional favourable mention. Meanwhile, it is a somewhat younger, but still well established, generation of educational historians--notably George Tomkins and Alison Prentice--whose work of the 1970s and 1980s Alcorn most directly challenges. Perhaps because of this appreciation or critique of such classics, historians reading Border Crossings may well find Alcorn's appreciation of Canadian and American historiography somewhat antiquated; indeed, there are moments when it almost seems as if Donald Creighton and Harold Adam Innis were still alive and well and the Laurentian thesis still the dominant paradigm in Canadian history--and thus the intellectual dragon that Alcorn must slay. …

Distant cities, travelling tales and segmented young lives: making and remaking youth exclusion across time and place

A substantial body of research suggests that incipient moral anxiety is growing in relation to excluded youth, and is manifestly cross-national in nature. While these anxieties are often assumed to be most evident in recent times, historians of childhood and youth persistently remind us of the long history of anxiety recorded in the public record about disadvantaged urban youth [e.g. Gleason. 2013. Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900–1940. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press]. However, the degree and nature of local differentiation in the forms of moral anxiety being generated have yet to be systematically researched in relation to youth exclusion in diverse city spaces. There is also limited research on how senior members living in the same city spaces, many of whom were excluded as young people, remember and re-represent – through individual and collective memory – what it was like to be young in the past [Cubbit. 2007. History and Memory. Manchester: Manchester University Press]. Drawing on cross national studies and diverse sources, including oral history accounts, media representations, and interviews with young people, this article explores the perspectives of low-income young people living at the fringe of two different urban centres and who identified as having experienced varying degrees of educational and/or social exclusion. We argue that such multi-layered analyses challenge the binaries often invoked about inclusion, exclusion and marginalised youth, particularly concerning questions about history, memory, and the bordering and classification practices of individuals [see Balibar. 2009a. We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Rumford. 2011. Citizens and Borderwork in Contemporary Europe. London: Routledge]. More specifically, the article analyses representations of exclusion, in the present and past, in reference to what Balibar, We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, has termed ‘borderwork'. Overall, we argue that narratives of risk, forms of border anxiety [Newman. 2006. “Borders and Bordering: Towards an Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” European Journal of Social Theory 9 (2): 171–186] and the consequent moralising claims made about economically disadvantaged youth are crucial in understanding how youth exclusion is represented and remembered, and made and remade across time and place.

Book Review: Reclaiming Indigenous planning

Review(s) of: Reclaiming indigenous planning, by Walker, Ryan, Jojola, Ted, & Natcher, David (Eds.), (2013), Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 500 pp. ISBN: 9780773541948.

Between raid and rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916. By William Jenkins. Pp 511. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013. £64 hardback.

Between raid and rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916. By William Jenkins. Pp 511. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013. £64 hardback.

Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916. By William Jenkins (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 2013) 511 pp. $100.00 CAD

Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916. By William Jenkins (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 2013) 511 pp. $100.00 CAD

Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, by Ian K. Steele

All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, Ian K. Steele. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi, 688 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Ian K. Steele is not a newcomer to the history of imperial politics, military and frontiers within the Atlantic world context. Indeed, his previous works (and there are many) weave together all these topics grounded in the experiences of colonial North America. This has set the groundwork for his latest contribution. At the heart of this 688-page volume is a goal to reconstruct the world of the Allegheny country through the case studies of captives taken between the years 1745-1765 (before and during the Seven Years and what Steele calls the of 1763-1765). According to the author, by learning as much as possible about all the captives of all the contending groups, and analyzing their capture, adaptation, and fate, it is hoped that our understanding of the events, the captives and the consequences will be greatly improved (p. 3). In order to cover a wide range of topics, the book is divided into four parts. Part One: Captured in Peacetime looks at the different ways Algonquians, Iroquoians, and Europeans took and treated captives before the Seven Years War. Steele argues that the captive taking resulted in provoking the subsequent military conflicts of the eighteenth century. Part Two Captured in War looks at the captivity experience during the Seven Years and the Anglo-Indian War. He alters the perception that captives resisted and attempted to escape. Further, he contends that these wars were not total warfare, as has been described other historians. This is explained looking at raids, sieges, and battles -all of which, he argues, describe a different experience or context for captive taking. Part Three: Captivity, Conversion, and Escape looks at the physical journey to the captor's community, the process of captive selection, and specific emphasis on adoption practices among Native peoples. Equally interesting to Steele are stories of those who escaped and the initiatives to find and re-claim captives. Finally, Part Four: Setting all the Captives Free weeds out the ambiguous nature of the freed captives. It looks at ways European captives became free through gift exchange, ransom, and forcible recaptures. By looking at the objections of returning captives and their metis character, Steele questions the attractiveness of European society. Taken as a whole, Steele's latest work provides an exhaustive and comprehensive database of all those captured in Allegheny Country from 1745-1765. Through a massive survey of colonial newspapers, archival holdings, printed narratives, letters, local folklore and genealogies, Steele has managed to compile an extraordinary amount of information on approximately 6,130 people captured or killed, including: Indians, British, French, and Canadians who were traders, warriors, soldiers, farmers, wives, and children. This information is then made ready to the reader as an appendix, spanning no short of 113 pages! Each entry is organized alphabetically and includes the name (surname if provided), a physical description, and the source from which this data was collected. …

Swirski, Peter. From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, 235 pp., 43 b&w illus., $26.96 cloth.

Swirski, Peter. From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013, 235 pp., 43 b&w illus., $26.96 cloth.

Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley. Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880–1980. Edited by, Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham. Foreword by, Alison Prentice. xi + 200 pp., bibl., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. $29.95 (paper).

Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley. <i>Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880–1980</i>. Edited by, Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham. Foreword by, Alison Prentice. xi + 200 pp., bibl., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. $29.95 (paper).

Shared responsibility: The United Nations in the age of globalization, by Carsten Staur

Carsten Staur Shared responsibility: The United in age of globalization Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. 336 pp., $100.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780773542945Does United (UN) have strength and drive necessary to make decisions and implement solutions to problems that do not respect national boundaries (260)? This is question Carsten Staur, Denmark's permanent representative to United in Geneva, tries to answer in Shared Responsibility. The diplomat paints comprehensive picture of our world and threats weighing on it-for example, global warming, terrorism, and armed conflicts. He asks whether UN is still relevant to these existential challenges in twenty-first century. His answer is subtle.Through well-documented, informed, and supported argumentation, Staur explains why UN system remains best platform for dealing with four global mega-trends: (1) fundamental in global power structure, with some emerging economies developing into new key players; (2) an increasingly pronounced struggle between different global value systems; (3) new non-state actors wanting greater say in decision-making processes; and (4) climate mitigation strategies leading to dramatic changes in global economy. Concerning last point, he offers some hope for future, reminding reader of success of 1987 Montreal Protocol on use of ozone-depleting products. Through international goal-setting and framework approach, Staur argues, the depletion of ozone layer has now been stopped, and... ozone layer will most probably be fully restored by about 2050 (237). The Montreal Protocol thus constitutes a model solution to global environmental issue that has increasingly been seen as applicable in other fields, including climate change (237).In chapter about sustainable development, as in eleven others, Staur takes time to provide history of each of four challenges. He explains structure and evolution of UN system going as far back as League of Nations. In chapter dedicated to peacekeeping, he returns to UN's first operation in Palestine (the UN Truce Supervision Organization, established in 1948). One appreciates this historical depth as well as fluidity and simplicity of Staur's writing, which make it possible for non-specialists to learn great deal about United Nations. The author does an excellent job, for instance, of explaining why it is so difficult to reform Security Council and why condemning genocide and war crimes is not as simple as we might expect.Valuable as it is to non-specialists, Shared Responsibility is less useful to experts. There is nothing really new in this study for those who know and study UN system. For this reason, it is regrettable that Staur does not elaborate on the informal of play in United Nations (39). As an insider with many years' experience working within UN system, diplomat is ideally situated to reflect on nature, prevalence, and resonance of these unwritten rules (51), which remain inaccessible to outside researchers. Indeed, Staur frequently refers to these without making them explicit. Where do they come from? Who applies them? What happens if member state or UN official does not follow them? Have they changed over time?If these questions remain underdeveloped, so too does question of recruitment and staffing within UN system. …

Education as Dialogue: Its Prerequisites and its Enemies by Tasos Kazepides. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. Hb. $$95.00, Pb. $29.95

Journal of Philosophy of EducationVolume 48, Issue 4 p. 675-679 Book Review Education as Dialogue: Its Prerequisites and its Enemies by Kazepides, Tasos. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. Hb. $$95.00, Pb. $29.95 Douglas Yacek, Corresponding Author Douglas Yacek Correspondence: Douglas Yacek, Department of Educational Studies, Ohio State University, 122 Ramseyer Hall, 29 W. Woodruff Ave. Columbus OH 43210, USA. Email: yacek.d@gmail.comSearch for more papers by this author Douglas Yacek, Corresponding Author Douglas Yacek Correspondence: Douglas Yacek, Department of Educational Studies, Ohio State University, 122 Ramseyer Hall, 29 W. Woodruff Ave. Columbus OH 43210, USA. Email: yacek.d@gmail.comSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 August 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12102Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume48, Issue4November 2014Pages 675-679 RelatedInformation

The Catholicisms of Coutances: Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350–1789. By J. Michael Hayden. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi + 368 pp. $100.00 cloth.

The Catholicisms of Coutances: Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350–1789. By J. Michael Hayden. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi + 368 pp. $100.00 cloth. - Volume 83 Issue 3

Graeme Morton and David A. Wilson, eds. Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Montreal: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. 409. $34.95 (paper).

Graeme Morton and David A. Wilson, eds. Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Montreal: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. 409. $34.95 (paper). - Volume 53 Issue 3