University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Red, White, and Kind of Blue?
The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American...
by James Murray Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Here is a well-documented study of the structure, historical development, and present condition of the government of Nova Scotia. It deals with one of the oldest constitutions in Canada, one which was not created by statute but by the prerogative of the Crown.
Nova Scotia has two major claims...
Law of the Land
The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its...
Wives & Property
Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she...
by Mark w. Frankena, David T. Scheffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply...
None Is Too Many
Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category)
Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize
Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books
[This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior...
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Advocate of a New Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus’ historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals...
by Paul S. Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Since the rise of the modern nation state in Europe, political leaders have had to cope with the problems of conspiracy and internal security. The English Ministers and Jacobitism between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 is a study of the response made to these twin problems by the British central...
The Pope's Dilemma
Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost seventy...
Reformers and Babylon
English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church...
Romanesque Architecture and its Sculptural in Christian Spain, 1000-1120
Exploring Frontiers and Defining Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
The decades following the year 1000 marked a watershed in the history of the Iberian Peninsula when the balance of power shifted from Muslims to Christians. During this crucial period of religious and political change, Romanesque churches were constructed for the first time in Spain. Romanesque Architecture...
by Douglas H. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2008
Robert Barnes (1495-1540) was perhaps the most important sixteenth-century English Protestant reformer after William Tyndale. The shifting religious and political views of Henry VIII positioned Barnes at the opposite end of the popular ideology of the day, culminating in his execution in 1540 soon...
by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views. In this study, Dr. Byrd brings together and states carefully and accurately those beliefs,...
by Emily O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II’s Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.
In this book, Emily O’Brien positions Pius’ expansive autobiographical text within that century’s contentious...