University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by John Preston Buschlen, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of bankclerks into a fraternal association, for their financial and social (including moral) betterment.'
Coast to Coast
Hockey in Canada to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover,...
by Robert Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario.
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller’s unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by...
Patrician Liberal
The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Patrician Liberal examines the life and career of a neglected figure in Canadian history, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. This book provides a detailed account of Joly’s political career as Quebec premier, Cabinet minister in the Laurier government, and lieutenant-governor of British Columbia,...
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent...
Enlightening Encounters
Photography in Italian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Enlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day. Investigating the ways in which Italian literature has responded to photographic practice and aesthetics, the contributors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives...
Federico Fellini
Painting in Film, Painting on Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir...
Smart Globalization
The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their...
The Loyal Atlantic
Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted...
Musical Canada
Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical...
Writing with a Vengeance
The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote...
Marco Bellocchio
The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's...
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
Philosophies of Iethi'nihstenha Ohwentsia'kekha (Land)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations.
Pathways for Remembering...