University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Transpeople
Repudiation, Trauma, Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines...
Wisdom, Justice and Charity
Canadian Social Welfare through the Life of Jane B. Wisdom, 1884-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
One of Canada’s first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at pivotal moments. Wisdom’s transnational career took her...
Sir Charles God Damn
The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long...
by Carl Spadoni, Judith Skelton Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture...
Brian Dickson
A Judge's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas...
Fields of Fire
The Canadians in Normandy: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a “failure” – that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed...
First Voyage Around the World (1519-1522)
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Lori Chambers’ fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice...
The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek
A Pandialectal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies between the systems of different dialects, with a diachronic statement of unproductive...
The Slovak National Awakening
An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals...
Compact, Contract, Covenant
Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and explanation...
by Sarah Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 1999
The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what...
The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928
The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their...
Spirits of the Rockies
Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the heart of spiritual and economic life for the Nakoda peoples. While they were displaced from the region by the reserve system and the creation of Canada’s first national park, in the twentieth century the Nakoda reasserted their presence in the valley...