University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books
Politics in North America
Redefining Continental Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
It is no longer sufficient to examine discrete nation-states in isolation from each other. In Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations, prominent authors from Canada, the United States, and Mexico explore the politics of redefining the institutional, economic, geographic, and cultural...
Environmental Policy in North America
Approaches, Capacity, and the Management of Transboundary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. The...
Global Ecopolitics
Crisis, Governance, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days, rarely do we participate in a sustained analysis of environmental policy making. To remedy this shortcoming and to propel the discussion forward, Peter J. Stoett provides a concise introduction...
Conflict and Compromise
Pre-Confederation Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the interrelationships between events. Its main objective is to demonstrate that although Canadian history has been marked by cleavages and conflicts, there has been...
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented...
by Philip Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both of English-speaking...
Looking West
Regional Transformation and the Future of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Although a history of protest politics has done so much to define western Canada and to place it outside the Canadian mainstream, the aspirations and frustrations that animated western discontent over the years have been replaced by a new reality: the West is in, and many of the levers of national...
Experience Research Social Change
Critical Methods, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Experience Research Social Change is a “how to” guide to research that also raises broader theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions. First published in 1989, it was the first critical methods book, and continues to inspire generations of researchers, students, and community workers.
The...
A Different Kind of Ethnography
Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The...
Global Inequality
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between...
Lessons from Latin America
Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book addresses that gap, providing a fascinating...
Medieval England, 500-1500
A Reader, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The new edition of Medieval England, 500-1500, edited by Emilie Amt and Katherine Allen Smith, spans several centuries in 102 documents that present the social and political history of England. The documents include constitutional highlights and records such as the Magna Carta and Froissart's Chronicles,...
by Robert J. Muckle
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Introducing Archaeology offers a lively alternative to many other texts. While covering traditional elements of archaeology, including methods and prehistory, the book also integrates the key principles of curriculum reform for the twenty-first century, as outlined by the Society for American Archaeology....
Criminalization, Representation, Regulation
Thinking Differently about Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and...