University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Eating Chinese
Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
"Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please."
Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere - you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant - and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of...
Edible Histories, Cultural Politics
Towards a Canadian Food History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region,...
An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?
Challenges and Choices for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Forty years ago, as the United States became increasingly involved in Vietnam, questions were raised in Canada about the relationship between its foreign policy agenda and that of its southern neighbour. Now, with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is time to raise the same questions: does...
by James Farney
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The strength of the Tea Party and Religious Right in the United States, alongside the Harper Conservatives’ stance on same-sex marriage and religious freedom in Canada, has many asking whether social conservatism has come to define the right wing of North American politics.
In this timely...
Langstaff
A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
Hearing (Our) Voices
Involving Service Users in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing - carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Professor Barbara Schneider. Participants designed the...
by Amy Carney
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and...
Solution-Focused Interviewing
Applying Positive Psychology, A Manual for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Too often doctors, therapists, and social workers ask “what’s wrong in your life?” rather than “what do you want?” Ronald E. Warner’s Solution-Focused Interviewing is a practical guide to talking to clients using a solution-driven and strength-based approach that empowers clients and helps...
Do Men Mother?
Fathering, Care, and Domestic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2006
More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother? provides groundbreaking...
The King's Body
Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that...
Diaspora in the Countryside
Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to...
Commemorating Canada
History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.
Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been...
by Jason Blake
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes -...
Merry Hell
The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Merry Hell is the only complete history of the 25th Canadian infantry battalion, which was recruited in the autumn and winter of 1914–15 and served overseas from spring 1915 until spring 1919. Author Robert N Clements, who served in the battalion throughout that period and rose from private to captain,...