University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...
High Ideals and Noble Intentions
Voluntary Sector-Government Relations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
The relationships between governments and the voluntary sector in Canada are long-standing and complex. Beginning with an historical overview of developments in voluntary sector-government relations from 1600 to 1930, High Ideals and Noble Intentions goes on to explore more recent events and to bring...
by David Bodle, Axel Ghazi, Moninuddin Syed
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
A communication system must have adequate electrical protection in order to meet the reliability standards for commercially acceptable service and to keep down maintenance expenses. This report characterizes, from the viewpoint of electrical protection and coordination, the conditions of the electrical...
Us, Them, and Others
Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
How do countries come to view themselves as being ‘multicultural’? Us, Them, and Others presents a dynamic new model for understanding pluralism based on the triangular relationship between three groups — the national majority, historically recognized minorities, and diverse immigrant bodies....
Critical Ecologies
The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Environmental movements are the subject of increasingly rigorous political theoretical study. Can the Frankfurt School's critical frameworks be used to address ecological issues, or do environmental conflicts remain part of the "failed promise" of this group? Critical Ecologies aims to redeem...
Governance in Northern Ontario
Economic Development and Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government engagement with the region. It brings together scholars from several disciplines to address the policy...
Productivity and Prosperity
A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Despite Canada’s economic success over the past thirty years, the country’s ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations. Economic experts and pundits repeatedly call for means of improving productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to prosperity....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Canada has been an engaged participant in global climate change negotiations since the late 1980s. Until recently, Canadian policy seemed to be driven in large part by a desire to join in multilateral efforts to address climate change. By contrast, current policy is seeking a "made in Canada"...
Residential Schools and Reconciliation
Canada Confronts Its History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement...
Significant Developments in Local School Systems
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume VI
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This volume deals with innovative developments of many different kinds in the local school systems in the years up to 1970. Information was obtained from a sampling of school boards, including the largest. The major purpose is to show what may be expected from an educational organization that gives...
Swedes in Canada
Invisible Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr’s Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every aspect of Canadian life, Swedish individuals...
Steering from the Centre
Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in the wake of...
Performance Anxiety
Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated a vision...