University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
No Trespassing
Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged instrument of control, and finally globalization as...
Securitized Citizens
Canadian Muslims’ Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post–9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging.
In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of the ideas dominant groups and institutions...
by Saint Aldhelm
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called “Britain’s first man of letters.” Among his many influential poetic texts were the hundred riddles that made up his Aenigmata. In Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles, A.M....
A Darkened House
Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in public health, and...
Canadian State Trials Volume I
Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
]State trials reveal much about a nation's insecurities and shed light on important themes in political, constitutional, and legal history. In Canada, perceived and real threats to the state have ranged from dissent, disaffection, and the emergence of threatening ideologies to insurrection, riot,...
Schedule Effects
Drugs, Drinking, and Aggression
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
In Toronto in 1970 the Addiction Research Foundation held a symposium on schedule-induced and schedule-dependent phenomena. The Foundation's main concerns with drug-behaviour-environment interactions, but because it is difficult to consider these interactions in isolation from general behavioural...
Public Health in the Age of Anxiety
Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Controversies and scepticism surrounding vaccinations, though not new, have increasingly come to the fore as more individuals decide not to inoculate themselves or their children for cultural, religious, or other reasons. Their personal decisions put the rights of the individual on a collision course...
Apocalypse Delayed
The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Since 1876, Jehovah’s Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. Charles T. Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ’s church would be raptured in 1878, and by 1914 Christ would destroy the nations and establish his kingdom on...
Stalin's Empire of Memory
Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Based on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin's Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin,...
Gendered Pasts
Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust upon...
by John Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Law’s Indigenous Ethics examines the revitalization of Indigenous peoples’ relationship to their own laws and, in so doing, attempts to enrich Canadian constitutional law more generally. Organized around the seven Anishinaabe grandmother and grandfather teachings of love, truth, bravery, humility,...
Roads to Confederation
The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the...
Ethnicity and Aboriginality
Case Studies in Ethnonationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Ethnonationalism is a phenomenon of great importance in many parts of the world today. In this collection of papers, nine distinguished anthropologists focus on Canadian and international case studies to show how ethnonational claims of cultural groups have been expressed and developed in specific...
by Nanda K. Choudhry, Yehuda Kotowitz, John A. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The TRACE (Toronto annual Canadian econometric) model is an annual, non-linear econometric model of the Canadian economy designed primarily to forecast the statistics which appear in the principal tables of the Canadian National Income and Expenditure Accounts. TRACE is the first Canadian econometric...