University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Europe Un-Imagined
Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world’s first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision européenne (ARTE). ARTE calls itself the "European culture channel" and was launched in 1991 with a French-German intergovernmental mandate...
The National Mall
No Ordinary Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of the most important and highly visible urban public spaces in the U.S. It is considered by many Americans to be “the nation’s front yard.” Yet few have written about the role of this public space in the twenty-first century.
In The National...
Remaking Policy
Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
One of the most persistent puzzles in comparative public policy concerns the conditions under which discontinuous policy change occurs. In Remaking Policy, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy advances an ambitious new approach to understanding the relationship between political context and policy change.
Focusing...
'A Justifiable Obsession'
Conservative Ontario's Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
‘A Justifiable Obsession’ traces the evolution of Ontario’s relationship with the federal government in the years following the Second World War. Through extensive archival research in both national and provincial sources, P.E. Bryden demonstrates that the province’s successive Conservative...
Creeping Conformity
How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Creeping Conformity, the first history of suburbanization in Canada, provides a geographical perspective – both physical and social – on Canada's suburban past. Shaped by internal and external migration, decentralization of employment, and increased use of the streetcar and then the automobile,...
Law, Debt, and Merchant Power
The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century.
In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, JamesMuir offers...
by N.S. Takacsy, Edward Cape, William Haviland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The economic impact of free trade among the North Atlantic countries on the Canadian pulp and paper industry is here discussed in a detailed analysis of costs and marketing.
A Jamaican Plantation
The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the study reveals, in microcosm, the social and economic development of the area.
Obesity in Canada
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be “prevented” and “managed.”
Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical...
Ambiguous Antidotes
Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius’ Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has been widespread agreement within a given culture about what exactly constitutes a virtue or a vice,...
'Hang Onto These Words'
Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2005
In 1985 and 1986, ninety-year-old Witsuwit'en Chief, Maxlaxlex – or Johnny David as he is better known - was the first Witsuwit'en to give Commission Evidence in the Delgamuukw land claims case in which the Witsuwit'en and Gitxsan of Northern British Columbia were battling for title to their traditional...
Emotions, Community, and Citizenship
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Emotions are at the very heart of individual and communal actions. They influence our social and interpersonal behaviour and affect our perspectives on culture, history, politics, and morality.
Emotions, Community, and Citizenship is a pioneering work that brings together scholars from an array...
Classroom Action
Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960.