University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
The Last Plague
Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since...
Tranquil Prisons
Chemical Incarceration under Community Treatment Orders
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe and effective, and that recovery depends on biological adjustment. Under new laws, patients can be required to remain on these medications...
Negotiating the Deal
Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada. Since 1973, groups that have never signed treaties with the...
Revisiting 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath...
Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered
British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice, but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges' loyalty to the Crown, and on occasion...
Mussolini's Decennale
Aura and Mythmaking in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini’s March on Rome, was fascism’s Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism’s seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a deliberate attempt to radicalize the original movement and develop it into an imperial and racist regime.
In...
Jewish People, Yiddish Nation
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified...
by John Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice. Problems arise when they are treated as timeless models of unchanging truth that require unwavering deference and unquestioning obedience. Freedom and Indigenous...
Schooling the Next Generation
Creating Success in Urban Elementary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. At their best, they enable students to overcome challenges like poverty by providing vital literacy and numeracy skills. At their worst, they condemn students to...
Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Research is as critical to social work practice as individual and group counseling skills, policy analysis, or community development. Using an approach similar to those adopted in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice and in so doing, promotes an understanding...
by Julius Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status.
In Marriage,...
Seeing Things
From Shakespeare to Pixar
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative...
Stranger Rape
Rapists, Masculinity and Penal Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Kevin Denys Bonnycastle’s Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them. Using new data derived from official offender files, offender program observations, and the men’s personal histories, Bonnycastle documents, compares, and contrasts their...
by Beverly Leipert, Belinda Leach, Wilfreda Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play...