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View book details for Chaucers Squires Tale, Franklins Tale, and Physicians Tale
An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-2005
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The latest volume in the Chaucer Bibliographies series, meticulously assembled by Kenneth Bleeth, is the most comprehensive record of scholarship on Chaucers Squires Tale, Franklins Tale, and Physicians Tale. The bibliography treats each tale as a unit, enables the reader …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women …
View book details for One in a Thousand
The Life of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching …
View book details for The Feel of the City
Experiences of Urban Transformation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions …
View book details for Digital Currents
How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional and citizen journalists blurring like never before, Digital Currents illuminates the behind-the-scenes efforts of television newscasters to embrace the publics participation in news and information …
View book details for Theodahad
A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Educated in Platonic philosophy rather than the military arts, the Ostrogothic king Theodahad was never meant to rule. His unexpected nomination as co-regent by his cousin Queen Amalasuintha plunged him into the intrigues of the Gothic court, and Theodahad soon …
View book details for Benjamin Disraeli Letters
1865-1867, Volume IX
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Times Literary Supplement recently praised the Benjamin Disraeli Letters volumes as a remarkable series ... on its way to becoming one of the landmarks of Victorian-era scholarship. Each volume provides a unique record of Disraelis daily activities as well …
View book details for Learning Activism
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, …
View book details for Curriculum Reform in Ontario
'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally.Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and …
View book details for Armies of Peace
Canada and the UNRRA Years
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was the first international organization to be established after the Second World War, and Canada played a key role in its formation. Formal studies of UNRRA, however, have tended to focus on …
View book details for Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain
A Critical Overview
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along …
View book details for Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign
The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign, examines the ways in which vernacular biographies of kings from the later French Middle Ages reflected and contributed to transformations in late-medieval political and philosophical thought. Using a lens of literary analysis for works that have …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, …
View book details for Boccaccio's Naked Muse
Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed …
View book details for Encounters on the Passage
Inuit Meet the Explorers
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were …
View book details for New Soviet Gypsies
Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, Gypsies threatened the Bolsheviks ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural backwardness, and …
View book details for For Home, Country, and Race
Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The crucial role of compulsory schooling in the fostering of national identities is dynamically demonstrated in Stephen Heathorn's study of the elementary school system in England at the turn of the century. His book analyses how a specific ideal of …
View book details for Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory
Approaches, Scholars, Terms
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome …
View book details for A Fatherly Eye
Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White …
Charles Cruickshank provides a full account of the German invasion, the subsequent landings of various British agents, raids and an attempt to end the occupation using psychological warfare. He also looks at how the islanders and Wehrmacht lived, the reality …
View book details for The War in the Peninsula
Some Letters of a Lancashire Officer
Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at the battle of Salamanca. He was killed at Roncesvalles on 25 July 1813 during the Battle of …
The Real German War Plan, 1904-14 fundamentally changes our understanding of German military planning before the First World War. On the basis of newly discovered or long-neglected documents in German military archives, this book gives the first description of Schlieffen's …
View book details for Ninety Seconds at Zeebrugge
The Herald of Free Enterprise Story
Herald of Free Enterprise set sail on a routine voyage to Dover in March 1987, carrying hundreds of passengers, including British army personnel, day-trippers and drivers. Minutes after leaving Zeebrugge, the ferry began to capsize. Terrified passengers were separated from …
Originally published in 1964, this is a critically acclaimed classic history of the military engagements of the Somme that raged from July to November 1916. It tells of bloody battles interspersed with trench actions of dreadful intensity. In addition to …
The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confederate propaganda film "Gone With The Wind" referred to as "Knights," earned their massacre bona fides by murdering thousands of blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans. …
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