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by A. Margaret Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Few political leaders in Ontario's history have had as lasting an impact on the province, and perhaps on the nation, as Oliver Mowat, premier from 1872 to 1896. Under his leadership Ontario flourished economically, socially, and politically.
Among the many political skills that Mowat brought...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume III, 1932-1939
The Prism of Unity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Aided by meticulous knowledge of the former Prime Minister's diary, and with characteristic conciseness and clarity, H. Blair Neatby has written the impressive and long-awaited third volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King. He carefully and judiciously untangles a complexity of issues in...
Growing Urban Economies
Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in...
Miracles and Sacrilege
Robert Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2008
Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini’s film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court...
by Alan G. Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Regional disparities in income have been an important part of the growth of experience of most nation states. Canada is no exception. In a large country, thinly populated and having a wide diversity of resources, cultures, and locational advantages, it is only natural to expect the existence of dissimilar...
Judeans and Jews
Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”? What difference does it make? Today, many scholars consider “Judeans” the more authentic term, and “Jews” and “Judaism” merely anachronisms.
In Judeans and Jews, Daniel...
Fictions of Youth
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical...
by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote antimafia activities. The societal...
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.
Arielle Saiber explores the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers: Leon Battista Alberti’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional...
Twilight of the Renaissance
The Life of Juan de Valdes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Diplomat, courtier, and heretic, Juan de Valdés (c.1500-1541) was one of the most famous humanist writers in Renaissance Spain. In this biography, Daniel A. Crews paints a lively portrait of a complex and fascinating figure by focusing on Valdés's service as an imperial courtier and how his employments...
Edgar Allan Poe
sa vie et ses ouvrages
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire’s first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use...
Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers'
A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1995
Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers. A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged, based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Karen...
Testimony on Trial
Conrad, James, and the Contest for Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Who is a more authoritative source of information — the person who experiences it firsthand, or a more ‘impartial’ authority? In the late nineteenth century, testimony became a common feature of literary works both fact and fiction. But with the rise of new journalism, the power of testimony...