University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
The Moral Economy of Cities
Shaping Good Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In The Moral Economy of Cities, Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the 'good city' embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the...
by Rebecca Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story” provocatively examines the first Canadian film to explore pornography’s role in society from a feminist perspective. Directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein for Studio D, the National Film Board’s women’s unit, the film featured both Klein and Lindalee Tracey,...
by David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim in this work is to demonstrate the interrelationship of the two chambers and the...
This Is Not a Peace Pipe
Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal...
No Dogs in China
A Report on China Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
In 1949 the bamboo curtain clattered down over one-fifth of the people of the world. In one sudden twist of history, a vast community that had been militarily and politically allied with the West was transmuted into the ideological foe of everything the free world stands for. With the surprise intervention...
by Desiderius Erasmus, John Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia). This volume’s...
Christening Pagan Mysteries
Erasmus in Pursuit of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism. It acknowledges that it was a feat for him to challenge the obscurantism of late medieval schooling by restoring classical studies. It recognizes...
Living with War
Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Canada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each country’s attitudes to war and peace match the realities?
In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is experienced and remembered on both sides...
German Expressionist Prose
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
An extreme sensitivity to gathering social crisis, an accompanying angry enthusiasm for artistic experimentation and renewal – this compelling mix in German art, poetry, and drama of the period 1910 to 1925 continues to draw both scholarly attention and intense popular interest. In this book Augustinus...
by Douglas Bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been surpassed....
Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2009
Of all the stories that comprise The Canterbury Tales, certain ones have attracted more attention than others in terms of literary scholarship and canonization. The Monk's Tale, for instance, was popular in the decades after Chaucer's death, but has since suffered critical neglect, particularly in...
The External World and Our Knowledge of It
Hume's Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008
David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis....
Economic Woman
Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy...
We Are Now a Nation
Croats Between 'Home and Homeland'
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Yugoslav War of Succession had untold ramifications for those living in the embattled region. What often goes overlooked, however, is the impact that the war had on people from the former Yugoslavia who were living abroad. We are Now a Nation considers the effect that the war and the independence...