University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books
Reading the Middle Ages
Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Covering over one thousand years of history and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition...
The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume II
From the Reformation to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-authored approach make it a valuable asset...
Indigenous Peoples of North America
A Concise Anthropological Overview
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Most books dealing with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of various culture areas which, while valuable, sometimes means that the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic...
Dominance and Decline
Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat, failing even to become the official opposition and recording their lowest ever share of the vote. Dominance and...
Community
A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.
What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments,...
Hidden Heads of Households
Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to...
by John Bratton, David Denham
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Most texts on classical social theory offer exhaustive coverage of every possible theorist, making it difficult to use the book in one semester. Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Second Edition represents a departure from this approach by offering solid coverage of the classical triumvirate...
Violence Against Women
Myths, Facts, Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. He then lays bare the...
Uneasy Partnership
The Politics of Business and Government in Canada, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In this new edition of Uneasy Partnership, Geoffrey Hale examines the interdependent relationship between Canadian governments and businesses, considering governments’ multiple roles in the economy and their implications for the business environment. Hale provides an overview of the historical dimensions...
Global Horizons
An Introduction to International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In the current era we have the ability to wage global war, interact economically and culturally with any part of the world, and communicate with each other in real time. Our horizons are now global. Time and space have contracted. This text takes the change in our horizons as a key feature of modern...
Truth and Indignation
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns...
Thinking Government
Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources...
Canada and the Third World
Overlapping Histories
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.
Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's...
Consuming Mexican Labor
From the Bracero Program to NAFTA
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Mexican migration to the United States and Canada is a highly contentious issue in the eyes of many North Americans, and every generation seems to construct the northward flow of labor as a brand new social problem. The history of Mexican labor migration to the United States, from the Bracero Program...