University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Making and Remaking the Balkans
Nations and States Since 1878
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point,...
The Kantian Imperative
Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2005
Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy is almost universally understood as the attempt to analyse and defend a morality based on individual autonomy. In The Kantian Imperative, Paul Saurette challenges this interpretation by arguing that Kant's 'imperative' is actually based on a problematic appeal to 'common...
by Nellie Lillian McClung
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1972
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.
States and Nations, Power and Civility
Hallsian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Civility in national and international politics is under siege. In this volume, twelve distinguished sociologists and historians from North America, Europe, and China reflect on the nature and preservation of civility in and between nation states and empires in a set of geographically and historically...
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Volume V: St-Z
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.
Brewing Legal Times
Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Much socio-legal scholarship assumes that even if experiences of law and time differ, people and laws exist within an overarching, shared timeframe. In Brewing Legal Times, Emily Grabham boldly departs from this assumption, drawing on perspectives from actor-network theory, feminist theory, and legal...
Longing for Justice
Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education’s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. Jennifer S. Simpson...
New Soviet Gypsies
Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,”...
by Sheila Neysmith, Marge Reitsma-Street, Stephanie Baker-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Although women have long been members of the labour force, the proportion of domestic, caring, and community work they provide compared to men or the state has yet to decrease substantially. Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work offers a powerful new framework for understanding women's work in...
The Hotel
Occupied Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy.” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.
As a site of occupancy, the...
Medieval 'Artes Praedicandi'
A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Between the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries, theologians and preachers in Western Europe adopted a distinct and rigidly structured sermon format. The scholastic sermon, as it was known, was taught through technical treatises known as artes praedicandi, of which approximately 230 survive.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Public Security in Federal Polities is the first systematic and methodical study to bring together the fields of security studies and comparative federalism. The volume explores the symbiotic relationship between public security concerns and institutional design, public administration, and public...
Chaucer
A Select Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
More than 900 entries, carefully selected, organized, and annotated, and accompanied by informative background material, make this volume a unique and indispensable guide to Chaucer and related studies.
The entries are divided into three categories. The first includes materials necessary for...
Governing Practices
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and the Ethnographic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Neoliberalism is among the most commonly used concepts in the social sciences. Furthermore, it is one of the most influential factors that have shaped the formation of public policy and politics.
In Governing Practices, Michelle Brady and Randy Lippert bring together prominent scholars in sociology,...