University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Lyle Creelman
The Frontiers of Global Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This intriguing scholarly biography examines the important contributions of Canada’s foremost international nurse, Lyle Creelman. Creelman parlayed her experience as a community health nurse in British Columbia into significant international appointments with two organizations undertaking massive...
by Albert Breton, Anthony Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
A study of "economic imperialism" based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient.
From Arm's Length to Hands-On
The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada; the dualism had demanded double-barrelled ministries and the rotation of the capital, after 1849, between Toronto and Quebec City every four years.
The year 1867 was therefore a watershed....
"I wish to keep a record"
Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook.
*I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course...
A Croce Reader
Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.
A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Banksy is known worldwide for his politically subversive works of art, but he is far from the only artist whose creations are infused with internationally relevant, activist themes. How else can the arts help activate citizen participation in social justice movements? Moreover, what is the role of...
Douglas Duncan
A Memorial Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
This is an unusual memorial to an unusual man. Douglas Duncan was a Torontonian who, by his patronage of the arts, has had an almost incalculable influence on their development in Canada. A bibliophile all his life, he began by espousing bookbinding as his chosen profession and after studying in Paris...
Unarrested Archives
Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Sheila Watson (1909–1998), Jane Rule (1931–2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947– ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly...
Tracing Ochre
Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous...
Nation and History
Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland. In Nation and History, editors Peter Brock, John Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel have brought together twenty-four essays on Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, an era of unparalleled...
Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty
New Paths to National Emancipation and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
For thirty years, Alain-G. Gagnon has been one of the world’s leading experts on federalism and multinational democracies. In Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty, he presents an articulate and accessible introduction to the ways in which minority nations have begun to empower themselves in...
Celebrating Canada
Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues...
by Lucia Lo, Valerie Preston, Paul Anisef
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region,...
Media, Structures, and Power
The Robert E. Babe Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political...