University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books
by John A. Bratton, David Denham
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate—Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber—by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman,...
Merchants in the City of Art
Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
European Union Governance and Policy Making
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
European Union Governance and Policy Making introduces Canadian students to the politics of the EU. Divided into three parts, the collection examines its political system (history, theories, institutions), specific policies, and some of the challenges that the EU currently faces. Geared toward students...
Truth and Indignation
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it is unfolding. Niezen uses interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission to raise important questions:...
Back Door Java
State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as unpaid...
Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation
A Reader, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The third edition of this popular reader reflects considerable changes. With over seventy readings representing a wide diversity of theorists, it offers a breadth of coverage not available in other collections. The framework for understanding theory as a set of conversations over time is maintained...
Talking Back to the Indian Act
Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage readers to develop the skills necessary to converse with primary sources in more refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
This comprehensive anthology offers over 40 readings that are critical to the understanding of anthropological theory and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline. The fourth edition maintains a strong focus on the "four-field" roots of the discipline in North America but has been reorganized...
The Trial of Tempel Anneke
Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
The Trial of Tempel Anneke examines documents from an early modern European witchcraft trial with the pedagogical goal of allowing students to interact directly with primary sources. A brief historiographical essay has been added, along with eleven civic records, including regulations about sorcery,...
Social Theory, Volume II
From Modern to Contemporary Theory, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The third edition of this popular reader reflects considerable changes. The framework for understanding theory as a set of conversations over time is maintained and deepened, but Volume II now begins with a focus on key transitional theorists who helped reconceive of classical theory in new ways....
Social Theory, Volume I
From Classical to Modern Theory, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The third edition of this popular reader reflects considerable changes. The framework for understanding theory as a set of conversations over time is maintained and deepened, pairing classical with contemporary readings to illustrate the ways in which theory continues to be reinterpreted over time....
An Uncertain Future
Voices of a French Jewish Community, 1940-2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrate how the Jewish community of Dijon has evolved over time in response to challenges both internal and...
Women and Gendered Violence in Canada
An Intersectional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Violence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women’s experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play,...
The Institutions of Human Rights
Developments and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Written from a global perspective, The Institutions of Human Rights is a contributed volume that examines international human rights institutions, procedures, and select issues. Closely examining international human rights organizations including the International Labour Organization, the International...