University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
A Prophet in Politics
A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In this elegant and rigorously researched work, Kenneth McNaught details the life, work, and principles of J.S Woodsworth and shows the powerful moral and political force that the pacifist, Methodist thinker exerted on Canadian politics.
Woodsworth first went to the House of Commons in 1922,...
Misunderstanding Cults
Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polarized area of study. Working towards a moderate "third path" in the heated debate over new religious movements or cults, this collection includes contributions from both scholars who have been...
Milton and the Climates of Reading
Essays by Balachandra Rajan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Scholarly criticism of John Milton's writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra...
Europeanizing Greece
The Effects of Ten Years of EU Structural Funds, 1989-1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
While Greece's debt crisis continues to dominate international headlines, the country has received remarkably little scholarly attention – especially in comparison to other European Union members. Europeanizing Greece explores the developments that resulted from Greece's European integration between...
Residential Water Demand
Alternative Choices for Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This detailed study of the use of water at different price levels by residential consumers in the Toronto-centred region from Hamilton to Oshawa challenges the basis of our present urban water supply policy. Adoption of the recommendations presented would mean higher prices to householders, but a...
Inventing Sam Slick
A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States.
Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not...
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of...
John Rae Political Economist: An Account of His Life and A Compilation of His Main Writings
Volume II: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy (reprinted)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of his articles and essays on a variety of topics. These miscellaneous...
John Rae Political Economist: An Account of His Life and A Compilation of His Main Writings
Volume I: Life and Miscellaneous Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of his articles and essays on a variety of topics. These miscellaneous...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been primarily limited to traditional studies based on a historical, 'progressive' view or to the critiques of contemporary writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault,...
by Jean-Charles Falardeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
This thought-provoking volume, which represents a re-shaping of the Plaunt Lectures delivered at Carleton University, 1960, offers impressions of the art of living in Canada by one who has been deeply concerned with the relationships between our two cultures. The purpose of the author is to stimulate...
by Christopher Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's...
A Fatherly Eye
Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration...
The Slow Professor
Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.
In...