University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation—about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from...
The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Literature and historical writing among the Czechs, as among many other nations lacking a political state, played a vital role in promoting national consciousness. This volume, written to honour the seventieth birthday of the eminent Czech historian Otakar Odložík, contains essays by outstanding...
Medieval Monasticism
A Select Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Medieval Monasticism is a bibliography meant as a guide to medieval monasticism, giving direction to the most important works in the subject and is prepared by an expert in the field, Dr. Constable. The bibliography has three aims: it meant to aid students who are relatively new to the area of study,...
by M. Owen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
How well do you think you know your opera? Match wits with Metropolitan Opera quiz master Father Owen Lee in forty-five opera-related puzzles, including straight-forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles. Each puzzle has a theme, such as baseball and opera, movies...
by Florence Hester Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
After Florence Hester Edgar passed away in 1944, there was found among her effects a quantity of compositions in prose and verse almost ready for publication. From this literary bequest has been selected the poetry that follows. Some poems were published in the daily press of Ottawa, and others in...
The Empire of Mind
Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and...
Western and Eastern Rambles
Travel Sketches of Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Joseph Howe was not yet a prominent politician in 1828 but he was already developing a deep interest in the political institutions of Nova Scotia, and his love of the land and its people was innate. In that year he began publishing, in the Novascotian of which he was then editor, a series of sketches...
Poems
Volume 1: The Poems and Volume 2: Notes and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
An edited collection of poems by Alexander Brome in which Roman Dubinski has restored him to view.
Useless Joyce
Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact...
by James Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) was a defender of 'the Natural Power of Kings against the Unnatural Liberty of the People.' His doctrine of omnicompetent sovereignty had little influence on the thought and political debates of his time, for none of his writings was published until the last few years...
by A.B. McKillop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The leaps of knowledge in nineteenth-century science shook the foundations of religious and humanistic values throughout much of the world. The Darwinian Revolution and similar developments presented enormous philosophical challenges to Canadian scientists, philosophers, and men of letters. Their...
The Book Unbound
Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate...
Russian Literature, 1988-1994
The End of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. With the state's relinquishment of control over literary production, writers acquired freedom of expression and publication. State publishing houses, now self-supporting enterprises, stopped printing money-losing...