University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Finding the Right Words
Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Isidore of Seville (circa 570-636) was the author of the Etymologiae,. the most celebrated and widely circulated encyclopaedia of the western Middle Ages. In addition, Isidore's Synonyma were very successful and became one of the classics of medieval spirituality. Indeed, it was the Synonyma that...
The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal edict). This meeting...
The Mystical Science of the Soul
Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research...
(Re)Visualizing National History
Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians...
by Leon Harold Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian...
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
"On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from...
by Lucy M. Maulsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922*–1943* chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in...
Workplace Democracy
An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values...
Divided Loyalties
The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2010
The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of the country's history. Yet over the past two decades, the 'natural governing party' has seen a decrease in traditional support, finding itself in opposition for nearly half of that time. In Divided Loyalties, Brooke Jeffrey draws on her own experience...
Off and Running
The Prospects and Pitfalls of Government Transitions in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
One of the most pivotal events in the electoral cycle is the transition of a newly elected political party from opposition to government. The incoming prime minister or premier must assemble a team of ministers, advisors, and staff that is competent and ready to govern, without disrupting the day-to-day...
Deputy Ministers in Canada
Comparative and Jurisdictional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Collectively, provincial deputy ministers command the largest assembly of government budgets, employees, and influence in Canada, but despite their importance, they have not been the subject of systematic study until now. This unique volume, which deals with a uniquely significant topic, reviews the...
by Kenneth Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
The student who would understand the government of a country can only obtain a complete knowledge of it if he knows something of the government of its local subdivisions. Yet the Canadian student will find studies of Canadian local government almost non-existent. Similarly the citizen or municipal...
Confessional Cinema
Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion...
by David E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The Canadian system of federalism divides the power to govern between the central federal parliament and the provincial and territorial legislative assemblies. In what can be seen as a double federation, power is also divided culturally, between English and French Canada. The divisions of power and...