University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Along a River
The First French-Canadian Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides,...
by Paul Gérin-Lajoie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
On one of the most important and controversial matters in Canada—the drafting of an amending clause to the British North America Act. A forceful, lucid discussion of past amendments, conflicting views, and a possible solution. This book won the Grand Prize of the Province of Quebec for Moral and Political Science in 1950. Canadian Government Series.
Becoming a History Teacher
Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond. Teachers, teacher education programs, schools, and ministries of education across Canada are all among those embracing the idea that...
Modern Animalism
Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic...
Making Yugoslavs
Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new Yugoslav national identity on his subjects....
Within and Without the Nation
Canadian History as Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation brings scholars from a range of disciplines together...
Nuclear Portraits
Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has become a hotly contested issue. In the face of climate change, and the search for alternative forms of energy, nuclear power continues to affect the lives of communities around the world.
In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America,...
Publicity and the Canadian State
Critical Communications Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian “publicity state.” This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state’s relationship with publicity practices and the “permanent...
by A. Margaret Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Few political leaders in Ontario's history have had as lasting an impact on the province, and perhaps on the nation, as Oliver Mowat, premier from 1872 to 1896. Under his leadership Ontario flourished economically, socially, and politically.
Among the many political skills that Mowat brought...
Judeans and Jews
Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”? What difference does it make? Today, many scholars consider “Judeans” the more authentic term, and “Jews” and “Judaism” merely anachronisms.
In Judeans and Jews, Daniel...
by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote antimafia activities. The societal...
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.
Arielle Saiber explores the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers: Leon Battista Alberti’s...
The World of the Irish Wonder Tale
An Introduction to the Study of Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
Fairy tales are a rich element of childhood in many cultures around the world. But in Ireland, where they are known as wonder tales, these stories of magic and enchantment are not restricted to young audiences; Irish wonder tales are told to adults.
So that the modern reader can fully appreciate...
by Lowell Cross
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This exhaustive bibliography, reflecting current interest in electronic music, includes all available citations of books, articles, and monographs pertaining to "musique concrète," "Elektronische Musik," "tape music," and "computer music" from publications...