McGill-Queen's University Press

MQUP

McGill-Queen's University Press

Type Higher Education
Website mqup.ca
Location Canada Canada
Summary McGill-Queen's University Press is a scholarly publisher that defends, refutes, and creates fresh interpretations of the world. With over 4,000 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, our goal is to produce peer-reviewed, rigorously edited, beautifully produced, intelligent, interesting books. A joint venture of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, MQUP is both a specialist in the Canadian perspective and a publisher of international themes, attracting attention from the New York Times to the Globe & Mail. A Canadian university press with a global reach, we aim to advance scholarship, promote public debate, and contribute to culture.

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Publications

MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 September 2022 English

What the medicines of early modern Russia can tell us about scientific knowledge, global trade networks, and the long reach of colonialism. The Wellcome Trust supported the research for this …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 June 2022 English

An innovative study of plague in medieval and early modern Europe reveals the changing perceptions surrounding epidemic disease over centuries and across national borders. For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 June 2022 English

How South Africa's and Zimbabwe’s deep issues - from party politics to land, labour, corruption, riotous looting, and more - could transform new dawns into nightmares. In late 2017 and …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 June 2022 English

Challenging hegemonic narratives of war by spotlighting the intimate memories of witnesses. Memory, while seemingly a thing of the past, has much to reveal in the present. With its focus …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 June 2022 English

A cultural and social history of oral health in Canada and the inequalities that persist. As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2022 English

Theatre, urban development, and the enduring struggle over the right to the city. Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2022 English

Whether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 May 2022 English

How relationships with wolves shaped a nation. A wolf’s howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 May 2022 English

How teaching practices, social justice, and professional identities have shaped medical education around the globe throughout the last millennium. In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 May 2022 English

The first comprehensive account of the making of Ukraine’s borders during the twentieth century. Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought …


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