University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
The Cold Light of Dawn
A History of Canadian Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
The discovery in 1987 of a supernova brought to world attention the excellence of Canadian astronomers. As Richard Jarrell explains in this book, the path to excellence has been a long one. Although astronomy has been practised in this country from the earliest days of exploration, its professional...
Northern Star
J.S. Plaskett
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
John Stanley Plaskett was Canada’s pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science. Plaskett’s pioneering...
The Moselle
River and Canal from the Roman Empire to the European Economic Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
The Moselle has been one of the main arteries of European Communication and transportation for centuries. The Romans used it as a main thoroughfare from southern to northern Europe and also began the improvements to its navigation that have continued intermittently through the industrial revolution...
Room to Grow
A Study of Parent-Child Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The lives of seven children provides the focus for this penetrating look into the experiences that shape personality. As they emerge from the records collected over a twenty-year period by the University of Toronto's Institute of Child Study, they reveal the problems and frustrations met with in the...
La Chronique de Robert de Clari
Etude de la langue et du style
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the development of the French language, because it is one of the first original prose texts in...
Queering Urban Justice
Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People...
Creative Canada
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide...
Measuring the Mosaic
An Intellectual Biography of John Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars. In the first biography of this important figure, Rick Helmes-Hayes provides a...
Cinderella Army
The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2006
In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried...
University Commons Divided
Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In recent years, a number of controversies have emerged from inside Canadian universities. While some of these controversies reflect debates occurring at a broader societal level, others are unique to the culture of universities and the way in which they are governed. In University Commons Divided,...
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of...
Poetic Community
Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Poetic Community examines the relationship between poetry and community formation in the decades after the Second World War. In four detailed case studies (of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the Caribbean Artists Movement in London, the Women’s Liberation Movement at sites throughout the...
by Guillaume De Machaut, Minnette Gaudet, Constance B. Hieatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of fourteenth-century France, had considerable influence on subsequent generations of writers in both France and England. With this scholarly translation, Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt made his long-neglected narrative poem, the...
A Mile of Make-Believe
A History of the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This volume focuses on the Eaton’s sponsored parades that occurred in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton. There is also a discussion of small town alternatives,...