University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Joe Salsberg
A Life of Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This book follows the life and intellectual journey of Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who became a major figure of the Ontario Left, a leading voice for human rights in the Ontario legislature, and an important journalist in the Jewish community. His life trajectory mirrored many...
Teachers of the Foothills Province
The Story of The Alberta Teachers' Association
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
In 1967 the Alberta Teachers' Association published, in honour of Canada's Centennial, a history of the public school system in Alberta entitled Schools of the Foothills Province. This informative book published for the Association by University of Toronto Press is now followed by a companion volume...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Mr. Guillet is a familiar figure in the field of Canadian local and social history: his work has been acclaimed for its thorough and accurate research, its skilful use of source material, its wealth of authenticated anecdote, and its attention to detail. Written in an attractive and comfortable style,...
Homelands and Empires
Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690–1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force. British Nova Scotia and French Acadia were imaginary places that administrators hoped to graft over the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, Passamaquoddy,...
Essays on German Literature
In Honour of G. Joyce Hallamore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The present Festschrift serves a dual purpose: firstly, to honour Professor Joyce Hallamore for her contribution to German studies in Canada, particularly at the University of British Columbia; secondly, to document the flourishing state of German studies in this country. Former and present students...
by Louise Arbour
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Reflecting on these experiences, she argues in War Crimes and the Culture of Peace that the level of public awareness...
The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles
Development, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen...
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus
An introduction with Erasmus' Preface and Ancillary Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Erasmus produced his five editions of the New Testament in Greek and Latin and his Paraphrases on the Gospels and Epistles almost contemporaneously with the tumultuous events that accompanied the beginnings of the Reformation in Europe. At the same time, his scholarship was a signal illustration of...
by Bernard Lonergan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
A companion to Philosophical and Theological Papers 1958-1964 (Volume 6 in the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan series), this anthology contains Lonergan's lectures on philosophy and theology given during the later period of his life, 1965-1980. These papers document his development in the discipline...
Tournaments of Value
Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1996
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial...
The League for Social Reconstruction
Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada, 1930-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
In 1931-2 the first organization of Canadian left-wing intellectuals was founded. Led by historian Frank Undergill of the University of Toronto and law professor and poet Frank Scott of McGill University, the League for Social Reconstruction was critical of industrial capitalism and called for basic...
New Designs for Learning
Highlights of the Reports of the Ontario Curriculum Institute, 1963-1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
The last twenty-five years have seen unprecedented growth in the application of science in critical areas of human endeavor. Explosive acceleration in the rate of growth of learning has created unquestioned benefits but it has also served as a catalyst for social, economic, and political changes of...
'Honest Enough to Be Bold'
The Life and Times of Sir James Pliny Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
On a promise of 'Clean, Uncorrupt, and Incorruptible Government,' James Pliny Whitney marked the end of an era of Liberal rule that had lasted for over three decades, and introduced to the province a new, 'progressive' brand of conservatism.
As this lively biography demonstrates, Whitney was...
A Meeting of Minds
The Massey College Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Opened in 1963, Massey College is a residential college for graduate students at the University of Toronto. The college was the brainchild of Vincent Massey, Canada’s first native-born Governor General, who wanted to create an intellectually stimulating milieu like the one he associated with the...