University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Adapting in the Dust
Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan mission tested the mettle not just of Canada’s soldiers...
Canada Since 1945
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
From the preface:
"A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and...
Prejudice and Pride
Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American...
by Diamond Jenness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social...
by John Pepall
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
In Against Reform, John Pepall offers a stringent critique of proposed reforms to Canada's political institutions. Examining electoral reform, an elected or provincially appointed Senate and reduced terms for Senators, fixed election dates, recall, initiative, and parliamentary reform, including 'free...
Lions or Jellyfish
Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared “I would rather live one more day as a lion than ten years a jellyfish.” He was only the latest in a long line of Newfoundland premiers who have fought for that province’s...
In Gratitude for All the Gifts
Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Magdalena...
by Robin Healey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared...
Fact and Fiction
Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods...
The Natural City
Re-envisioning the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate...
The U.E.
A Tale of Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
A long narrative written in rhyming couplets and presented in 12 cantos, The U.E. tells the story of Walwyn and his sons, Ethwald and Eric, who come to Upper Canada from Yorkshire in the late 1820s, and the United Empire Loyalist Ranger John and his sons, Herman, Hendrick, Simcoe, and Hugh. The poem...
Encounters on the Passage
Inuit Meet the Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search...
Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli
Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions...