University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Vincenzo Cuoco
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political revolution.
In...
In Defence of Canada Volume III
Peacemaking and Deterrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1972
The first two volumes of this outstanding history of Canada's defence and foreign policy have drawn unanimous acclaim from scholars and critics alike. Richard Preston said of the first volume that is 'opens up a new chapter in Canadian historiography' and of the second that is 'amply lives up to the...
Champlain
Founder of Quebec, Father of New France
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This standard general biography of Champlain, the founder of Canada, was issued previously in the famous Makers of Canada Series, which is now out of print, although still in frequent use in libraries. This is the first time any of the volumes has been published separately from the complete set.
by J.B. Bessinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
The author has attempted to cover the vocabulary of the whole corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse and make the word-list as broadly useful as possible for the general student of Anglo-Saxon literature.
Transforming Kafka
Translation Effects
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick O’Neill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce and Impossible...
Veiled Figures
Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries.
In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations...
Challenging Theocracy
Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century politics. Analyzing the relationship between religion and politics throughout the Middle East, Africa, and...
by Robert James Merrett
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove...
Fritz Bennewitz in India
Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz’ own writings, most published for the first time, in which he reflects on his production of plays...
Entangled Territorialities
Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Most of the entangled lands to which Indigenous peoples are connected have been physically transformed and their ecological...
Iberianism and Crisis
Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
"Iberianism" refers to a minority intellectual current which emerged in Spain and Portugal during the mid-nineteenth century and developed in step with the Iberian Peninsula’s successive crises. Iberianism sought to upend the peninsula’s political and intellectual status quo by advocating...
by Kirsten Wolf, Natalie M. van Deusen
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). While its predecessor dealt primarily with medieval prose texts about the saints, this volume not only focuses on medieval poems about saints...
The Traffic in Babies
Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces....
Wall Flower
A Life on the German Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight...