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View book details for Undoing Babel
The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel …
View book details for States and Nations, Power and Civility
Hallsian Perspectives
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Civility in national and international politics is under siege. In this volume, twelve distinguished sociologists and historians from North America, Europe, and China reflect on the nature and preservation of civility in and between nation states and empires in a …
View book details for Devastation and Laughter
Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s1930s)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gerin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gerin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reichs new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics …
View book details for Expanding the Gaze
Gender and the Politics of Surveillance
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From sexualized selfies and hidden camera documentaries to the bouncers monitoring patrons at Australian nightclubs, the ubiquity of contemporary surveillance goes far beyond the National Security Agencys bulk data collection or the proliferation of security cameras on every corner.Expanding the …
View book details for The Discovery of Insulin
The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What became of Erasmus books? The most famous scholar of his day died in peaceful prosperity and in the company of celebrated and responsible friends. His zeal for useful books was insatiable. Indeed, he had taken care to insure that …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Aristocrat, democrat, diplomat, cultural advocate, anglophile, fiercely proud CanadianVincent Massey was a complex, sometimes enigmatic figure. This finely crafted portrait of Masseys middle and later years, drawn extensively from its subjects diaries and papers, recalls a life of deep commitment …
View book details for Researches on Fungi, Vol. VII
The Sexual Process in the Uredinales
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This is the last volume of the late Professor Buller's monumental work on Fungi. Before his death in 1943, Dr. Buller had completed the manuscript; the final preparation for press has been made by Dr. G.R. Bisby of the Imperial …
View book details for The Relation between Physical and Mental Illness
The Physical Status of Psychiatric Patients at a Multiphasic Screening Survey
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The relation between mind and body has been keen of interest since antiquity. The author surveys the approaches to the subject from the observational to the experimental level. He presents the findings of a study carried out, at a community …
View book details for Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920, was born in the village of Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, in 1854. He practiced law in the province before entering politics. In 1896 he was elected to the House …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in …
View book details for The Last Cannon Shot
A Study of French-Canadian Nationalism 1837-1850
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Based on four years of research in the French-Canadian press of the 1840s and the private papers of the main French-Canadian politicians, British officials, and Roman Catholic religious leaders, this book describes in rich and lively detail the conflict of …
View book details for Medieval Celtic Literature
A Select Bibliography
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The focus of this bibliography is the native literary tradition expressed in Irish and Welsh verse and prose from the earliest time to circa 1450. Priority is given to the most recent critical works and editions, provided that they supersede …
View book details for The Judicial Committee and the British North America Act
An Analysis of the Interpretative Scheme for the Distribution of Legislative Powers
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian government. The author criticizes previous accounts of the Judicial Committees interpretative scheme for the British North American Act …
View book details for Brains and Numbers
Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated elite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study …
View book details for Drawn to See
Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
In this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during their research.
View book details for William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932
The Lonely Heights
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This second volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King (the first, written by R. MacG. Dawson, was published in 1958) covers the years 1924 to 1932. At the opening of this period, King was still an inexperienced and untried …
View book details for William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume III, 1932-1939
The Prism of Unity
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Aided by meticulous knowledge of the former Prime Minister's diary, and with characteristic conciseness and clarity, H. Blair Neatby has written the impressive and long-awaited third volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King. He carefully and judiciously untangles a …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The original work, in Russian, appeared in 1947 and is still regarded as an important contribution to knowledge of the early history of the Eskimo. This translation makes available in English the results of archaeological research in a significant area, …
View book details for Count Filippo; or The Unequal Marriage
A Drama in Five Acts
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A five-act tragedy in blank verse. The play is founded upon the old problem of an unnatural and ill-omened union between youth and age.
View book details for John Rae Political Economist: An Account of His Life and A Compilation of His Main Writings
Volume II: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy (reprinted)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of …
View book details for Description and Measurement of Bilingualism
An International Seminar, University of Moncton June 6-14, 1967
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In June 1967 the Canadian National Commission for Unesco and the Universite de Moncton jointly sponsored an international seminar on bilingualism. Although 1967 was Canada's centennial year, the seminar was concerned only incidentally with bilingualism in Canada. Instead, bilingualism was …
View book details for Essays in Political Economy
In Honour of E.J. Urwick
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume of essays in Political Science is a tribute to the character and work of Professor Edward Johns Urwick who in June, 1937, retired under the age limit from the chair of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. …
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