University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books

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by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972

The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence. These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never...
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by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1982

John Stuart Mill's political essays are a blend of the practical and the theoretical. In this volume are gathered together those in which the practical emphasis is more marked; those in which theory is predominant are found in Essays on Politics and Society, Vols XVIII and XIX of the Collected Works....
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by Jean Dangler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study...
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The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages

A decorum of convenient distinction

by Judson Boyce Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982

This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new...
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The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II

A Diplomatic Edition and a Critical Edition

by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

Written in the late-twelfth century, the Old French Romance of Tristran by Beroul is one of the earliest surviving versions of the story of Tristran and Iseut. Preserved in only one manuscript, the poem records the tragic tale that became one of the most popular themes of medieval literature, in several...
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Babylon Under Western Eyes

A Study of Allusion and Myth

by Andrew Scheil
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016

Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical,...
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A Nation of Immigrants

Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1998

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The...
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Viscount Haldane

'The Wicked Step-father of the Canadian Constitution'

by Frederick Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010

Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely...
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Merchant Writers

Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

by Vittore Branca
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of...
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Hegel and Canada

Unity of Opposites?

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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018

Hegel has had a remarkable, yet largely unremarked, role in Canada's intellectual development. In the last half of the twentieth-century, as Canada was coming to define itself in the wake of World War Two, some of Canada’s most thoughtful scholars turned to the work of G.W.F. Hegel for insight. Hegel...
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World Writing

Poetics, Ethics, Globalization

by Mary Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2008

Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of literature. World Writing is therefore concerned...
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The Feel of the City

Experiences of Urban Transformation

by Nicolas Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced...
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Herder

Aesthetics against Imperialism

by John K. Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged...
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The Making of the Mosaic

A History of Canadian Immigration Policy

by Ninette Kelley, M. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010

Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions,...
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