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An independent critical publisher founded in Halifax in 1991 by Errol Sharpe, publishing books of Marxist and social-justice scholarship, labour studies and the series Critical Development Studies.

Years
1991–present
Location
Halifax, Canada
Affiliation
Independent left
Languages
English
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Sources
Wikipedia — Fernwood Publishing

Backlist

2701990200020102020Founded 19911992: 4 titles1993: 8 titles1994: 10 titles1995: 11 titles1996: 9 titles1997: 16 titles1998: 10 titles1999: 9 titles2000: 13 titles2001: 13 titles2002: 25 titles2003: 11 titles2004: 25 titles2005: 22 titles2006: 23 titles2007: 18 titles2008: 14 titles2009: 14 titles2010: 20 titles2011: 22 titles2012: 14 titles2013: 27 titles2014: 27 titles2015: 25 titles2016: 22 titles2017: 19 titles2018: 22 titles2019: 14 titles2020: 18 titles2021: 8 titles2022: 19 titles2023: 12 titles2024: 13 titles2025: 14 titles2026: 7 titles
Titles of Fernwood Publishing by year: 558 dated titles, 1992–2026, most in 2013 (27); 3 undated. Lines mark founded 1991.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1990s77
2000s178
2010s212
2020s91
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1992Beyond the Limits of the Law✓ — Corporate Crime and Law and OrderJohn L. McMullanEnglish
1992Deconstructing a Nation — Immigration, Multiculturalism and Racism in '90s CanadaVic SatzewichEnglish
1992Issumatuq✓ — Learning from the Traditional Wisdom of the Canadian InuitN. Kathleen Mary MinorEnglish
1992State Theories: From Liberalism to the Challenge of FeminismKenneth Murray KnuttilaEnglish
1993Dismantling a Nation✓ — Canada and the New World OrderStephen McBrideEnglish
1993Divorce and Disengagement✓ — Patternsof Fatherhood Within and Beyond MarriageEdward KrukEnglish
1993Ecofeminism✓Maria MiesEnglish
1993Feminism and the Politics of Difference✓Sneja GunewEnglish
1993Global Ecology✓ — A New Arena of Political ConflictWolfgang SachsEnglish
1993Recasting Steel Labour✓ — The Stelco StoryJune Shirley CormanEnglish
1993Star Wars in Canadian Sociology✓ — Exploring the Social Construction of KnowledgeDavid A. NockEnglish
1993Stifling Debate✓ — Canadian Newspapers and Nuclear PowerMichael Clow & Susan MachumEnglish
1994Becoming an Ally✓ — Breaking the Cycle of OppressionAnne BishopEnglish
1994Enduring Dreams✓ — An Exploration of Arctic LandscapeJohn MossEnglish
1994Maid in the Market✓ — Women's Paid, Domestic LabourWenona GilesEnglish
1994Names, Numbers, and Northern Policy✓ — Inuit, Project Surname, and the Politics of IdentityValerie AliaEnglish
1994Power and Resistance✓ — Critical Thinking About Canadian Social IssuesLeslie SamuelsonEnglish
1994The Canadian and Slovene Economies✓ — Systems Theory and Political Economy ApproachesPaul Arthur PhillipsEnglish
1994The Power of Woman-Positive Literacy Work — Program-Based Action ResearchBetty-Ann LloydEnglish
1994The Westray Tragedy✓ — A Miner's StoryShaun ComishEnglish
1994Women in Literacy Speak✓ — The Power of Woman-Positive Literacy WorkBetty-Ann Lloyd, Frances Ennis & Tannis AtkinsonEnglish
1994Women, Medicine and Health✓B. Singh BolariaEnglish
1995A Land Without Gods✓ — Process Theory and the Gulf NahuasJacques M. ChevalierEnglish
1995Anti-racism Education✓ — Theory and PracticeGeorge Jerry Sefa DeiEnglish
1995Apostles of Greed✓ — Capitalism and the Myth of the Individual in the MarketAllan EnglerEnglish
1995Constructing Danger✓ — The Mis/representation of Crime in the NewsChristopher Ray McCormickEnglish
1995Empowerment for Sustainable Development✓ — Towards Operational Strategies—English
1995International Political Economy✓ — Understanding Global DisorderBjörn Hettne & Robert W. CoxEnglish
1995More Perishable than Lettuce or Tomatoes✓ — Labour Law Reform and Toronto's Newspapers
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
Edward T. SilvaEnglish
1995Politics on the Margins✓ — Restructuring and the Canadian Women's Movement
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
M. Janine BrodieEnglish
1995Politics on the Margins: Restructuring the Canadian Women's MovementM. Janine BrodieEnglish
1995-01-01Thunder in My Soul✓ — A Mohawk Woman SpeaksPatricia Monture-AngusEnglish
1995Undressing the Canadian State✓ — The Politics of Pornography from Hicklin to Butler
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
Kristen JohnsonEnglish
1996Efficiency Versus Equality — Health Reform in CanadaMichael Stingl & Donna M. WilsonEnglish
1996Efficiency vs Equality✓ — Health Reform in CanadaMichael Stingl & Donna WilsonEnglish
1996Muriel Duckworth, a Very Active Pacifist✓ — A BiographyMarion Douglas KeransEnglish
1996Politics of Community Services✓ — Immigrant Women, Class, and State
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
Roxana NgEnglish
1996Remaking Canadian Social Policy✓ — Social Security in the Late 1990sJane Pulkingham & Gordon TernowetskyEnglish
1996Smoke Screen✓ — Women's Smoking and Social ControlLorraine GreavesEnglish
1996Thin Ice✓ — Money, Politics and the Demise of an NHL Franchise
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
Jim SilverEnglish
1996Thunder in My Soul✓ — A Mohawk Woman SpeaksPatricia Monture-AngusEnglish
1996Women in Trouble✓ — Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of AbuseElizabeth ComackEnglish
1997Blaming Children✓ — Youth Crime, Moral Panic and the Politics of HateBernard SchisselEnglish
1997Child and Family Policies✓ — Struggles, Strategies and OptionsJane Pulkingham & Gordon TernowetskyEnglish
1997Crimes, Laws, and Communities✓John L. McMullanEnglish
1997Differing Visions✓ — Administering Indian Residential Schooling in Prince Albert 1867-1995Noel DyckEnglish
1997Dismantling a Nation✓ — The Transition to a Corporate Rule in CanadaStephen McBrideEnglish
1997Feminism and Families✓ — Critical Policies and Changing PracticesMeg LuxtonEnglish
1997Global Justice, Global Democracy✓
Socialist Studies -- 12
G. Peter PenzEnglish
1997Muriel Duckworth✓ — A Very Active PacifistMarion Douglas KeransEnglish
1997Open for Business, Closed to People✓ — Mike Harris's OntarioDiana Ralph, André Régimbald & Nérée St-AmandEnglish
1997Reinventing Political Science: A Feminist ApproachJill VickersEnglish
1997Society, State and Market✓ — A Guide to Competing Theories of DevelopmentJohn MartinussenEnglish
1997Tech High✓ — Globalization and the Future of Canadian Education: A Collection of Critical Perspectives on Social, Cultural and Political Dilemmas—English
1997The Míkmaw Concordat✓James Youngblood HendersonEnglish
1997The Post-development Reader✓Majid Rahnema & Victoria BawtreeEnglish
1997Transforming Communities✓William L. LuttrellEnglish
1997When the Fish Are Gone✓ — Ecological Disaster and Fishers in Northwest Newfoundland
Bibliographie Pp. 99-103
Craig T. PalmerEnglish
1998A Sense of Themselves✓ — Elizabeth Murray's Leadership in School and CommunityCarol E. HarrisEnglish
1998Aboriginal Fishing Rights✓ — Laws, Courts and PoliticsParnesh SharmaEnglish
1998Beyond Two Solitudes✓Donald B. Smith & Charles PhillipsEnglish
1998Circle Works✓ — Transforming Eurocentric ConsciousnessFyre Jean GravelineEnglish
1998Manufacturing Guilt✓ — Wrongful Convictions in CanadaBarrie AndersonEnglish
1998Shrinking the State✓ — Globalization and Public Administration "Reform"John ShieldsEnglish
1998The Communist Manifesto✓FreeKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Samuel MooreEnglish
1998The David Levine Affair✓ — Separatist Betrayal or McCarthyism North?Randal Robert Alexander MarlinEnglish
1998The Westray Chronicles✓ — A Case Study of an Occupational DisasterChristopher Ray McCormickEnglish
1998Under the Gaze✓ — Learning to Be Black in White SocietyJennifer KellyEnglish
1999(Re) Defining Traditions✓ — Gender and Canadian Foreign PolicyEdna KeebleEnglish
1999Canada's National Child Benefit: Phoenix or Fizzle?—English
1999-09-01Canadian Critical Race Theory✓ — Racism and the LawCarol A. AylwardEnglish
1999Citizens or Consumers?✓ — Social Policy in a Market SocietyDave BroadEnglish
1999Journeying Forward✓ — Dreaming First Nations' IndependencePatricia Monture-AngusEnglish
1999Locating Law—English
1999Men and Power✓—English
1999Myth, Migration, and the Making of Memory✓ — Scotia and Nova Scotia, C.1700-1990—English
1999The Skin I'm In✓ — Racism, Sports and EducationChristopher Michael SpenceEnglish
2000An Ideal Prison?✓ — Critical Essays on Women's Imprisonment in Canada—English
2000Anti-racist Feminism✓ — Critical Race and Gender StudiesAgnes M. Calliste, George Jerry Sefa Dei & Margarida AguiarEnglish
2000Care and Consequences✓ — The Impact of Health Care Reform—English
2000Experiencing Difference✓Carl E. JamesEnglish
2000Giving Youth a Voice✓ — A Basis for Rethinking Adolescent ViolenceChristie L. BarronEnglish
2000No Place for Violence✓ — Canadian Aboriginal Alternatives—English
2000Power, Knowledge and Anti-racism Education✓ — A Critical ReaderAgnes M. Calliste & George J. Sefa DeiEnglish
2000Restructuring and Resistance✓ — Canadian Public Policy in the Age of Global CapitalismMike Burke, Colin Mooers & John ShieldsEnglish
2000Seeds of Fire✓ — Social Development in the Era of GlobalizationMaureen G. WilsonEnglish
2000Social Perspectives on Death and Dying✓Jeanette A. AugerEnglish
2000State Theories✓ — Classical, Global, and Feminist PerspectivesKenneth Murray KnuttilaEnglish
2000The Dome of Silence✓ — Sexual Harassment and Abuse in SportSandra KirbyEnglish
2000We Were Not the Savages✓ — A Mi'kmaq Perspective on the Collision Between European and Native American CivilizationsDaniel N. PaulEnglish
2001(Ab)using Power✓ — The Canadian ExperienceDorothy E. Chunn, Robert J. Menzies & Susan B. BoydEnglish
2001Building a Better World: An Introduction to Trade Unionism in CanadaErrol BlackEnglish
2001Changing Child Care — Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in CanadaSusan PrenticeEnglish
2001Globalization Unmasked✓ — Imperialism in the 21st CenturyJames F. PetrasEnglish
2001History in the Making — Raymond Williams, Edward Thompson and Radical Intellectuals, 1936-1956Stephen WoodhamsEnglish
2001Paradigm Shift✓ — Globalization and the Canadian StateStephen McBrideEnglish
2001Pieces of a Puzzle✓ — Perspectives on Child Sexual Abuse
Hurting and Healing Series on Intimate Violence; 2
Diane Hiebert-MurphyEnglish
2001Resist!✓ — A Grassroots Collection of Stories, Poetry, Photos and Analysis from the FTAA Protests in Québec City and Beyond: Words and Images of Activists, Writers, Artists, Filmmakers, Journalists, Students and Workers Form Across Canada and the U.S.Ren ZhangEnglish
2001The Free Market✓ — The Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalization
Global Issues
Amit BhaduriEnglish
2001The Gardens of Their Dreams✓ — Desertification and Culture in World HistoryBrian GriffithEnglish
2001The Tragedy of Progress✓ — Marxism, Modernity and the Aboriginal Question
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
David BedfordEnglish
2001Trading Development✓ — Trade, Globalization and Alternative Development Possibilities
Global Issues
Graham DunkleyEnglish
2001Up in Nipigon Country✓ — Anthropology as a Personal ExperienceEdward J. HedicanEnglish
2002Black Canadians✓ — History, Experience, Social ConditionsJoseph MensahEnglish
2002Blaming Children✓ — Youth Crime, Moral Panic and the Politics of HateBernard SchisselEnglish
2002Bringing the Food Economy Home✓ — Local Alternatives to Global AgribusinessHelena Norberg-HodgeEnglish
2002Challenging Politics✓ — COPE, Electoral Politics and Social MovementsDonna VogelEnglish
2002Deglobalization — Ideas for a New World Economy
Global Issues
Walden F. BelloEnglish
2002Disorderly People✓ — Law and the Politics of Exclusion in OntarioJoe Hermer & Janet MosherEnglish
2002From the Inside Looking Out✓ — Competing Ideas of Growing OldJeanette A. AugerEnglish
2002From the Inside Looking Out: Competing Ideas About Growing OldJeanette A. AugerEnglish
2002Globalization Unmasked✓ — Imperialism in the 21st CenturyJames F. Petras & Henry VeltmeyerEnglish
2002Palestine/Israel — Peace or ApartheidMarwān BishārahEnglish
2002Protest and Globalisation✓ — Prospects for Transnational SolidarityJames GoodmanEnglish
2002Ralph Miliband and the Making of the New Left✓Michael NewmanEnglish
2002Reclaiming Self✓ — Issues and Resources for Women Abused by Intimate Partners
Hurting and Healing Series
—English
2002Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin✓ — An Aboriginal Approach to HelpingMichael HartEnglish
2002Social Economy✓ — Health and Welfare in Four Canadian ProvincesYves Vaillancourt, Louise Tremblay & Stuart Anthony StilitzEnglish
2002Social Torment✓ — Globalization in Atlantic CanadaW. Thom WorkmanEnglish
2002Teaching ControversyLisa Marie Jakubowski & L. A. VisanoEnglish
2002The Enemy of Nature — The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?Joel KovelEnglish
2002The Fourth World✓ — An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism and Aboriginal Women's ActivismGrace Josephine Mildred Wuttunee OuelletteEnglish
2002The Impasse of Modernity — Debating the Future of the Global Market EconomyChristian ComeliauEnglish
2002The Market and Society: An Introduction to EconomicsJeanne BaillargeonEnglish
2002Thinking Ecologically✓ — Environmentally Thought, Values and PolicyBruce MoritoEnglish
2002Toxic Criminology✓ — Environment, Law and the State in Canada
Fernwood Basics
Susan C. BoydEnglish
2002Transforming the Field✓ — Critical Antiracist and Anti-oppressive Perspectives for the Human Services PracticumNarda RazackEnglish
2002Transforming the Field: Critical Antiracist & Anti-oppressive Perspectives for the Human Services Practicum✓—English
2003Accounting for Genocide — Canada's Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal PeopleDean E. Neu & Richard TherrienEnglish
2003Alternative Budgets✓ — Budgeting as If People MatteredJohn LoxleyEnglish
2003Another World Is Possible✓ — Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum—English
2003Challenging Politics✓ — COPE, Electoral Politics and Social MovementsDonna VogelEnglish
2003Challenging Politics: COPE, Electoral Politics and the New Social MovementsDonna VogelEnglish
2003Circle Works✓ — Transforming Eurocentric ConciousnessFyre Jean GravelineEnglish
2003Ecology and Social Work✓ — Toward a New ParadigmJohn CoatesEnglish
2003Free Trade✓ — Myth, Reality, and Alternatives
Global Issues
Graham DunkleyEnglish
2003Inside Capitalism✓ — An Introduction to Political EconomyPaul PhillipsEnglish
2003Power and Resistance✓ — Critical Thinking About Canadian Social IssuesLes SamuelsonEnglish
2003Taxing Illusions✓ — Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political TheoryPhillip Birger HansenEnglish
2004After Iraq — War, Imperialism and DemocracyJim HardingEnglish
2004Beyond Criminology — Taking Harm SeriouslyPaddy HillyardEnglish
2004Borders Matter✓ — Homeland Security and the Search for North AmericaDaniel DracheEnglish
2004Calculated Kindness✓ — Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in CanadaRose B. FolsonEnglish
2004Criminalizing Women✓ — Gender and (In)justice in Neoliberal Times—English
2004Globalization — Tame It or Scrap It?
Global Issues
Greg BuckmanEnglish
2004Governing Under Stress✓ — Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization
Globalization and the Semi-periphery: Impacts, Opposition, Alternatives
Marjorie Griffin Cohen & Stephen ClarksonEnglish
2004Grassroots Leaders Building Skills: A Course in Community LeadershipAnne BishopEnglish
2004Healing Wounded Hearts✓Fyre Jean GravelineEnglish
2004Identity, Place, Knowledge✓ — Social Movements Contesting GlobalizationJanet M. ConwayEnglish
2004Imperial Overstretch✓ — George W. Bush and the Hubris of EmpireRoger Burbach & Jim TarbellEnglish
2004Language and Hegemony in Gramsci✓
Reading Gramsci
Peter IvesEnglish
2004Mexico in Transition✓ — Neoliberal Globalism, the State and Civil Society
Globalization and the Semi-periphery
Gerardo OteroEnglish
2004Paradigm Shift✓ — Globalization and the Canadian StateStephen McBrideEnglish
2004Perils and Possibilities✓ — Social Activism and the LawByron M. SheldrickEnglish
2004Possibilities and Limitations — Multicultural Policies and Programs in Canada—English
2004The Global Women's Movement — Origins, Issues and Strategies
Global Issues
Peggy AntrobusEnglish
2004The Globalisation Decade✓ — A Critical Reader—English
2004The Globalization Decade — A Critical ReaderLeo Panitch, Colin Leys, Alan Zuege & Martijin KoningsEnglish
2004The Power to Criminalize✓ — Violence, Inequality and LawElizabeth Comack & Gillian BalfourEnglish
2004The Power to Criminalize: Violence, Inequality and the LawElizabeth ComackEnglish
2004The Three Waves of Globalization✓ — A History of a Developing Global ConsciousnessRobert T. Robertson & Robert Thomas RobertsonEnglish
2004When Teens Abuse Their Parents✓Barbara CottrellEnglish
2004Within Our Reach✓ — Preventing Abuse Across the Lifespan—English
2004Women Fishes These Days✓Brenda GrzeticEnglish
2005Beyond Token Change✓ — Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in InstitutionsAnne BishopEnglish
2005Canada in Haiti✓ — Waging War on the Poor MajorityYves Engler & Anthony FentonEnglish
2005Challenges and Perils✓ — Social Democracy in Neoliberal TimesWilliam K. Carroll & Robert RatnerEnglish
2005Changing Tides✓ — Gender, Fisheries and GlobalizationBarbara NeisEnglish
2005Consuming Sustainability✓ — Critical Social Analyses of Ecological ChangeDebra J. Davidson & Kierstin Carolyn HattEnglish
2005Ecofeminism✓Maria Mies & Vandana ShivaEnglish
2005Empire with Imperialism✓ — The Globalizing Dynamics of Neo-liberal CapitalismJames F. Petras & Henry VeltmeyerEnglish
2005Feminist Frameworks✓ — Building Theory on Violence Against WomenLisa S. PriceEnglish
2005Gendered Intersections✓ — An Introduction to Women's and Gender StudiesLesley Biggs & Pamela DowneEnglish
2005Global Trade✓ — Past Mistakes, Future Choices
Global Issues Series
Greg BuckmanEnglish
2005Globalization and Development✓ — A GlossaryMichael MasonEnglish
2005Inference & Persuasion✓ — An Introduction to Logic [and] Critical ReasoningLeslie Armour & Richard FeistEnglish
2005Inference and Persuasion✓Leslie Armour & Richard FeistEnglish
2005Paradigm Shift✓ — Globalization and the Canadian StateStephen McBrideEnglish
2005Playing Left Wing✓ — From Rink Rat to Student RadicalYves EnglerEnglish
2005Possibilities and Limitations✓ — Multicultural Policies and Programs in CanadaCarl E. JamesEnglish
2005Reinventing Political Science✓ — A Feminist ApproachJill VickersEnglish
2005Ruling Canada✓ — Corporate Cohesion and DemocracyJamie BrownleeEnglish
2005Sex Traffic✓ — Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation
Global Issues
Paola Monzini & Patrick CamillerEnglish
2005Social Inclusion✓ — Canadian PerspectivesTed Richmond & Anver SaloojeeEnglish
2005Telling Tales✓ — Living the Effects of Public PolicySheila M. NeysmithEnglish
2005Telling the Truth
Socialist Register
Leo Panitch & Colin LeysEnglish
2006“A” Threat from Within✓ — A Century of Jewish Opposition to ZionismYakov M. RabkinEnglish
2006Creating Criminals✓ — Prisons and People in a Market Society
Global Issues
Vivien SternEnglish
2006Criminalizing Women✓ — Gender and (In)justice in Neoliberal TimesGillian BalfourEnglish
2006Destination in Doubt — Russia Since 1989
Global History of the Present
Stephen LovellEnglish
2006Doing Anti Oppressive Practice✓ — Building Tranformative, Politicized Social Work—English
2006First Nations History✓ — We Were Not the SavagesDaniel N. PaulEnglish
2006Food Is Different✓ — Why We Must Get the WTO Out of Agriculture
Global Issues
Peter RossetEnglish
2006International Migration✓ — Globalization's Last Frontier
Global Issues
Jonathon Wayne MosesEnglish
2006Living the Experiences: Migration, Exclusion, & Anti-Racist Practice✓—English
2006Living with Reform✓ — China Since 1989
Global History of the Present
Timothy CheekEnglish
2006Nanotechnology✓ — New Promises, New DangersToby ShelleyEnglish
2006Partners for Progress✓ — A Canada-Africa Venture in University Building—English
2006Poetics of Anti-Racism✓—English
2006Realizing Hope✓ — Life Beyond CapitalismMichael AlbertEnglish