University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Cold Iron and Lady Godiva
Engineering Education at Toronto 1920-1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This informal volume concentrates on the last half century. It examines the development of the Faculty and of its undergraduate and alumni organizations; the changing undergraduate scene...
Industrial Relations
Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented...
Big Daddy
Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Frederick Gardiner's public life was rich and long, from his initiation into politics as a Toronto schoolboy before the First World War, through his involvement with the Ontario Conservative party and suburban politics in the 1930s and 1940s, on through his years as first chairman of Metropolitan...
Land of Choice
The Hungarians in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1957
Written by a Hungarian scholar who himself passed through the vicissitudes of migration and assimilation, this timely study of the movement of Hungarians into Canada has a special value. The author, a graduate of the University of Budapest, taught social history and sociology at the universities of...
Harlequin in Hogtown
George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre. Neil Carson's in-depth history of TWP traces the fortunes of many of its actors, writers, designers, and technicians...
The Thesis and the Book
A Guide for First-Time Academic Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2003
The academic caveat Publish or Perish is not a new one, and for over a quarter of a century, The Thesis and the Book has come to the aid of graduate students in their quest for publication. The doctoral dissertation, usually the first book-length study completed by a scholar, is, however, only rarely...
Making the Scene
Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, drug-fuelled final months. A flashpoint for...
Shape of the Suburbs
Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between...
Reclaiming the Don
An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York...
Twenty-five Years of Child Study
The Development of the Programme and Review of the Research at the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto 1926-1951
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
This is the story of the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, from its beginning in 1926 to the present. To honour the Director, W.E. Blatz, it has been written by members of the staff and its publication financed by parents of children who have attended the Nursery School and by students,...
by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's waterfront at the leading edge of change. As in other cities around the world, policymakers, planners, and developers are envisioning the waterfront as a space of promise and a prime location for massive investments. Currently, the waterfront...
'Romantic' and Its Cognates
The European History of a Word
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Ever since the word romantic and its many cognates in European languages began to be used as technical terms towards the end of the eighteenth century, the quest for a satisfactory definition of their meanings has continued unabated. This collection of essays traces the history of the word in the...
by Cyril Levitt, William Shaffir
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Ethnic tensions had been rising in Toronto throughout the hot summer of 1933. Hitler had recently come to power in Germany and some residents of the eastern beaches neighbourhood had formed "Swastika Clubs" to protect their community from "undesirable elements."
On August...
by G.P. deT. Glazebrook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This is the story of a town dropped by the hand of government into the midst of a virgin forest. It is the story of Toronto from its earliest days to the present, and of the generations who worked to bring it from clearing to town, from town to city, from city to metropolis.
George Glazebrook...