University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Bedside Matters
The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they...
Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Essays in Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
The first comprehensive history of Newfoundland was published in 1793, but a centenary and a half passed before the first university course in the history of the island was offered there. During the past fifteen years there has been growing activity in the subject. This volume is the work of six scholars...
The Chaining of Prometheus
Evolution of a Power Structure for Canadian Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The development of a national science policy for Canada – and the priorities to be set within any such policy – have been topics of a mounting debate within government and the scientific community. The questions involved are of concern in every country today: Can governments now afford to support...
Observing the Outports
Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The years after Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John’s, a new generation of faculty saw...
Tariff Procedures and Trade Barriers
A Study of Indirect Protection in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Most Canadians are vividly aware of some of the effects tariffs have on their daily lives. As consumers they pay more than their American neighbours for many articles in everyday use; as producers they often find their markets drastically restricted because of tariff barriers. Indeed, the customs...
Life and Labour in Newfoundland
Based on Lectures delivered at the Memorial University of Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
This study of Newfoundland is a brilliant combination of first-hand observation, and of research into fascinating source materials. Professor Fay made tours of Newfoundland and of Labrador and examined documentary material in London and the West Country. Both his observations and his source-material...
by Herbert Kalbfleisch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
This is the story of the rise and eventual disappearance of approximately thirty German weekly newspapers during a period of slightly more than eighty years. It describes the successes and difficulties encountered in maintaining a newspaper press directed at a minority group which was being slowly...
Eastern and Western Perspectives
Papers from the Joint Atlantic Canada/Western Canadian Studies Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
The Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at...
Constance Maynard's Passions
Religion, Sexuality, and an English Educational Pioneer, 1849-1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Successful but self-tormented, English educational pioneer Constance Maynard (1849–1935) was a deeply religious evangelical Christian whose personal atonement theology demanded that one resist carnal feelings to achieve personal salvation. As the founder of Westfield College at the University of...
Bora Laskin
Bringing Law to Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a judge on...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 842-992 (1518-1519)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus' life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann Froben during the crucial phases in the production of his revised New Testament, the edition that he...
Cultures, Communities, and Conflict
Histories of Canadian Universities and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Cultures, Communities, and Conflict offers provocative, cutting-edge perspectives on the history of English-Canadian universities and war in the twentieth century. The contributors explore how universities contributed not only to Canadian war efforts, but to forging multiple understandings of intellectualism,...
A Theatre for Spenserians
Papers of the International Spencer Colloquium Fredericton, New Brunswick October 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The International Spenser Colloquium, sponsored by St Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick, was held in Fredericton in 1969 to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Spenser's first appearance in print in A Theatre for Wordlings. The intention of the colloquium was to honour...
The Epic of Juan Latino
Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).
Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino’s life in Granada, Iberia’s...