University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
1 Way 2 C The World
Writings 1984-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Assembling some of her most thought-provoking...
by R. MacGregor Dawson, W.F. Dawson, Norman Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
For more than a generation this concise survey has been the classic introduction to the fundamental ideas and structure of Canadian government and the practice of democracy in this country. It examines the various elements of federal government — the House of Commons, the cabinet, the Senate, the...
Courts in Federal Countries
Federalists or Unitarists?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany,...
Milanese Encounters
Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.
Cristina Moretti’s ethnographic study reveals how...
A Quiet Evolution
The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous...
Responding to Human Trafficking
Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Responding to Human Trafficking is the first book to critically examine responses to the growing issue of human trafficking in Canada. Julie Kaye challenges the separation of trafficking debates into international versus domestic emphases and explores the tangled ways in which anti-trafficking policies...
Artistic Impressions
Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century...
by Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history...
Hockey, PQ
Canada's Game in Quebec's Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada’s national sport has been used to signify a specific Québécois identity. Amy J. Ransom analyzes how Québécois writers, filmmakers,...
French 'Ecocritique'
Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent...
by Victor E Graham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
In this anthology an effort has been made to include representative selections from the most significant sixteenth-century French poets. With the exception if a few longer works (mainly those of Ronsard, Du Bartas, and D'Aubigné), poems are given complete. In addition, the original spelling and punctuation...
Communicating in Canada's Past
Essays in Media History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2009
Communicating in Canada's Past evolved out of essays presented at the inaugural Conference on Media History in Canada of 2006, which brought together media historians from across the disciplines and from both French and English Canada. The first collection of its kind, this volume assembles both well-established...
Innovation and the Social Economy
The Quebec Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Social economy organizations such as cooperatives, non-profits, mutual benefit groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations are uniquely positioned to respond not only to emerging social and economic needs, but also to new collective aspirations. In Québec, for instance, a pioneering social...
Culture, Communication and National Identity
The Case of Canadian Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
‘There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.’ So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada’s...