University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by E.H. Moss, John Packer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Since the publication of the first edition more than thirty years ago, The Flora of Alberta has become the standard guide for naturalists, botanists, and all those interested in the wildlife of the province. It provides an inventory of 1775 known vascular plant species – ferns, conifers, and flowering...
Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that...
New Liberalism
The Political Economy of J.A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
John A. Hobson was a prominent member of a small band of British radicals who argued around the turn of the century that the consistent application of liberal ideas required the reorganization of capitalist societies along socialist lines. Allett here suggests that their march toward socialism was...
Comrades and Critics
Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2009
While Canadian historians have studied socialism in the 1930s, and although there have been many studies of American and British literary leftists from this period, Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Challenging dominant perceptions that this decade...
Ukraine
A History, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event...
Invaders as Ancestors
On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders...
Acculturation and Its Discontents
The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008
Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
The...
Paradise
Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
What was life like in the 1950s in small communities in Ontario? Lower-class and upper-class residents might have different memories of those days, but on one thing they would agree: it is a much different world in rural Ontario today. The old guard has lost most of its power, displaced partly by...
Brothers or Enemies
The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia from the 1840s to the 1870s
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies, Johannes Remy reveals that the roots of Ukrainian independence were planted fifty years earlier.
Remy contextualizes the Ukrainian national movement...
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic...
Canadian Content
Culture and the Quest for Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
A nation is given shape in large part through the cultural activities of its builders. Historically, nationalists have turned to the arts and media to articulate and institute a sense of unique national identity. This was certainly true of Canada in the twentieth century. Canadian Content explores...
Respectable Citizens
Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and...
Drawing Out Law
A Spirit's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2010
The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life. In Drawing Out Law, John Borrows (Kegedonce) skillfully juxtaposes Canadian legal policy and practice with the more broadly defined Anishinabek perception of law as it applies to community life, nature,...
O.D. Skelton
A Portrait of Canadian Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
When O.D. Skelton became Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s foreign policy advisor in 1923, he was already a celebrated critic of the status quo in international and domestic affairs, a loyal Liberal Party man, and a fervent nationalist who believed Canada needed to steer a path independent of Britain....