University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by John G. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationship between native inhabitants and colonial settlers a defining characteristic of Acadia/Nova Scotia...
by Bruce Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression....
Colour-Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1999
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal...
Loyalties in Conflict
A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion,1812-1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by Loyalists from New York, and followed by much larger numbers of land seekers from New England, this was...
by Brian Cherney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.
Harry Somers,...
The New Bibliopolis
French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books....
Dying from Improvement
Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that...
Wagner and the Wonder of Art
An Introduction to Die Meistersinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of genius ever achieved by any artist...
More of a Man
Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed...
Testimonies and Secrets
The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844–1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of...
Schooling in Modernity
The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic...
Post-TV
Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the late 2000s, television no longer referred to an object to be watched; it had transformed into content to be streamed, downloaded, and shared. Tens of millions of viewers have “cut the cord,” abandoned cable television, tuned into online services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and also...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Two: 1948-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. In the second volume of his memoirs, he provides a first-person account of the busy and challenging decade that followed his entry...
Stages of Reality
Theatricality in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television.
Stages...