University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Body & Soul
Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Illness affects us all; we are called on to support and care for loved ones who face health challenges, and in turn, we encounter our own physical and emotional frailties when our health declines. Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and...
Remodelling Communication
From WWII to the WWW
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture.
Proceeding model-by-model,...
Sexual Equality
A Mill-Taylor Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
All the significant ideas in nineteenth-century English feminism can be found in the prose and thought of John Stuart Mill and in those of the two women central to his life: Harriet Taylor, who married him in 1851, and her daughter, Helen Taylor. Together they produced some of the most powerful and...
Crispin Ier
La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin,...
Secret Service
Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance...
Jobs and Justice
Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that,...
Wrestling with Democracy
Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries...
By Great Waters
A Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
p>This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province’s history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical sources, which range in time from an...
Samson’s Cords
Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson’s Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond.
Alex Garganigo...
by Daniel Goldstick
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Dan Goldstick's Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its...
The Woman's Page
Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, journalism, politics, and social advocacy were largely male preserves. Six women, however, did manage to come to prominence through their writing and public performance: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeannette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake...
Religion, Culture, and the State
Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings,...
Climate Change Policy in North America
Designing Integration in a Regional System
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
While no supranational institutions exist to govern climate change in North America, a system of cooperation among a diverse range of actors and institutions is currently emerging. Given the range of interests that influence climate policy across political boundaries, can these distinct parts be integrated...
by Timothy C. Winegard
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global conflict, toxicity and economic disparity. When did oil become such a powerful commodity—during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the First World War.
In his groundbreaking book The First World...