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The University of Toronto
A History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and...
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...
Diaspora in the Countryside
Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to...
Commemorating Canada
History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.
Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been...
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...
The Givenness of Desire
Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural...
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 Jason Blake
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes -...
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 Toni Leland
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Romance is the last thing on equestrienne Bethany Webb's mind as she gazes across the lush green fields of Highover Gate, her prestigious world-class training facility - the dream of a lifetime. Before the day is over, Beth's future is snatched right out from under her in one wet, terrifying instant.
Ambitious...