University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Beastly Possessions
Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures – as well as their representations – became commodities within Victorian...
Celebrating Canada
Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national andprovincial holidays...
by H. Boeschenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1949
This book begins the large task of sorting out the vast number of German literary works which the war has piled up before us. The author has culled over four hundred novels and critical works and by indicating the numbers and content of the more significant novels, and some of their stylistic characteristics,...
Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity
From Static and Genetic Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity, Janet Donohoe offers a compelling look into Husserl’s shift from a "static" to a "genetic" approach in his analysis of consciousness. Rather than view consciousness as an abstract unity, Husserl began investigating consciousness by...
Caring for the World
A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committing themselves to the growing field of global health. Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners...
Digital Currents
How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional and citizen journalists blurring like never before, Digital Currents illuminates the behind-the-scenes efforts of television newscasters to embrace the public’s participation in news and information...
Better Off Forgetting?
Essays on Archives, Public Policy, and Collective Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2010
Throughout Canada, provincial, federal, and municipal archives exist to house the records we produce. Some conceive of these institutions as old and staid, suggesting that archives are somehow trapped in the past. But archives are more than resources for professional scholars and interested individuals....
by Klaus Knorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1944
The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable...
Canadian Agricultural Policy
The Historical Pattern
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always...
by Ian Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
This book offers a detailed account, based on primary source materials from Britain, Canada, and Australia, of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised. It also traces the effects of both, placing them in the general contexts of British economic policy-making,...
Perogies and Politics
Canada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it.
For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics were inextricably linked. The interaction...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both...
Writings on the Sober Life
The Art and Grace of Living Long
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Alvise Cornaro (c.1484–1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly ambitious, he acquired a name for himself as a businessman, architect, and patron of the arts. Critically ill around age 40 – likely with diabetes and gout – he...
Taking Exception to the Law
Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal...