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A History of the Ontario Veterinary College
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In lively fashion Mr. Gattinger records the development of the Ontario Veterinary College, the oldest continuously operating veterinary school in this hemisphere. Viewing its history from the perspective of today, he sees the College and the profession it serves moving …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The possibility that the continents of the earth have undergone major changes in position during the earth's history has fascinated scholars for at least three hundred years. Recently, evidence from several scientific disciplines has shown that the possibility must be …
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The Politics of the Conservative Party under R.B. Bennett, 1927-1938
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When R.B. Bennett assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 1926, he inherited a party out of step with a modernizing Canada. Three years later, in the early days of the Depression, he led the Tories to …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on his research was the opening of New World lands by European peoples, and this North American experience is the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
James Joyce gave a life to Ulysses which is still felt today, after the shock of its realism and the dislocation of its techniques have been absorbed into the traditions they helped to establish. This study demonstrates the sources of …
View book details for Residential Water Demand
Alternative Choices for Management
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This detailed study of the use of water at different price levels by residential consumers in the Toronto-centred region from Hamilton to Oshawa challenges the basis of our present urban water supply policy. Adoption of the recommendations presented would mean …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Trent system of lakes, rivers, and canals occupies a considerable part of the counties of Hastings, Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough, Haliburton, and Victoria, in the province of Ontario. This volume of documents, records, and early writings covers the discovery and …
View book details for The Lives and Times of the Patriots
An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838 and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Lives and Times of the Patriots was first published in 1938, the centennial of the Upper Canadian Rebellion and the subsequent Patriot raids over the border from the United States. The Canadian part of the agitation for constitutional and …
View book details for Geometry of the Passions
Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The last thirty years have seen a renewed interest in the novels, plays, and essays of Marivaux. Each year more of his work is made available to the public in partial editions. More and better studies have appeared, superseding the …
View book details for Empire of the North Atlantic
The Maritime Struggle for North America, Second Edition
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This book is an exploration and interpretation of three centuries of European rivalry and expansion in and around the North Atlantic. Professor Graham tells the story from the first conquest of the ocean by the armed sailing ship at the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
La Galissioniere was the most remarkable of the governors of New France in the eighteenth century, although he spent only a short time there (1747 to 1749). He stood out above all through his intellectual qualities: his mind was brilliant, …
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The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantess Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on …
View book details for Life in Words
Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Bringing together her essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory, the collection foregrounds the common interest in the semantic implications of key …
View book details for Public Attitudes Towards Education in Ontario 1998
The Twelfth OISE/UT Survey
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Since 1978, the OISE/UT Survey has been the only extensive analysis of public concerns about educational issues in Canada to be published on a regular basis. The survey profiles current patterns and trends in public opinion about policy options for …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europes culture of dissection to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways …
View book details for Fairness in Taxation
Exploring the Principles
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The papers in this volume explore the idea of distributive justice and fairness in taxation. The collection begins with Heads excellent presentation and analysis of equity in the public finance literature. The other authors, starting from this point, critique and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, …
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The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of …
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick …
View book details for Indians in the Fur Trade
Their Roles as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the …
View book details for Critical Digital Studies
A Reader, Second Edition
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of …
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Transforming Canada's Banks for the Information Age
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Winner of the 2018 Donner Prize for the Best Public Policy Book by Canadian authors, Stumbling Giants by Patricia Meredith and James L. Darroch presents a compelling new vision of the Canadian banking industry in which stakeholders work together to …
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Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this seminal work, Maureen Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by European newcomers …
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Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1908 Canada celebrated its 300th anniversary the tercentenary of Champlain's founding of Quebec City. In two glorious weeks of parades, ceremonies, balls, and festivities, Canadians commemorated their history in a spectacle that would not be surpassed until the centennial …
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