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View book details for Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970
A People Transformed
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When war broke out in 1939 Canadian Mennonites were overwhelmingly a rural people. By 1970 they had largely completed one of the greatest `migrations' in their history the transformation from a rural to an urban community. In this third and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In his classic work Method in Theology, Bernard Lonergan left many questions unanswered in regard to his treatment of systematics. In What Is Systematic Theology? Robert M. Doran attempts to articulate and respond to these questions.Doran begins by accepting four …
View book details for Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett
Essays from Modern Drama
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This collection of essays, drawn from scholarship over the last forty years, explores the drama of four of the most influential proponents of modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, and Beckett. Although there are other dramatists who also contributed …
View book details for Who is Afraid of the State?
Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Is the government becoming less powerful? Is it in retreat vis-a-vis a proliferation of non-governmental agencies, multinational corporations, and international organizations? The essays in this collection argue that contrary to some private-sector populists the state is in the best position …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A century after the appearance of his famous works on religion, William James's philosophy of religion is still the subject of lively debate. James's numerous opponents have repeatedly charged him with abdication of intellectual responsibility, arguing that he advocated the …
View book details for Mothers of the Nation
Women, Families, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
How do nationalist governments cope with gender relations? Do their policies modernize, or entrench pre-modern gender roles? In Mothers of the Nation, Patrizia Albanese addresses these questions by assessing the impact of nationalist regimes on the status of women and …
View book details for Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome
Trials before the Papal Magistrates
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentatoin of nine criminal …
View book details for Narratives in the Making
Teaching and Learning at Corktown Community High School
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
At Corktown Community High School in Toronto, importance is placed on the education of the whole person. An alternative secondary school, it emphasizes the development of self-knowledge and responsiveness to others, creative and critical thought, and connectedness through the self, …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Have Canadian women gained from their pursuit of legal remedies to social, political, economic, and cultural inequalities? Is law a fruitful avenue for such struggles? Using liberal feminist, postmodern, critical, race, and queer theory, these essays confront the anti-rights critiques …
View book details for Worrying the Nation
Imagining a National Literature in English Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
How can a national literature in English-Canada be possible if Canadians cannot agree on who we are? This is the central question that Jonathan Kertzer 'worries' over in his book, Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada. …
View book details for Zarathustra's Sisters
Women's Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Although the names Mandel'shtam and Nijinsky more commonly evoke the Russian poet and the ballet dancer, their wives, Nadezhda and Romola are also beginning to attract attention. Similarly, the lives and works of Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, …
View book details for New Institutionalism
Theory and Analysis
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
New Institutionalism is currently one of the most prominent approaches in political science. In this innovative collection, top scholars in the field offer substantial theoretical and analytical contributions to new institutionalist scholarship, engaging in debates about structure and agency, state-society …
View book details for Reading and Writing Disability Differently
The Textured Life of Embodiment
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society.Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media …
View book details for Health Inequality
Morality and Measurement
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks …
View book details for Niki Goldschmidt
A Life in Canadian Music
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Niki Goldschmidt is central to the story of Canada's international musical presence in the second half of the twentieth century. He is well known as the organizer of the great Bach International Piano Competition as well as three immense choral …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Eradicating once and for all the unfounded notion that Frye was not a political writer, this eleventh volume in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye gathers together all of Northrop Frye's writings on politics, culture, the arts, history, literature, mass …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The writings of John Milton and William Blake were central to Northrop Frye's concept of the imaginative structure of Western literature and thought. He considered them the two most important poet-prophets in the English tradition.This volume brings together all of …
View book details for Between History and Histories
The Making of Silences and Commemorations
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Since the 1980s historians have been influenced by two anthropological concepts: cultural distance and awareness of small-scale interactions. Recent work, however, has shifted away from these notions. We now see that cultures cannot be studied as units with internal coherence …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume brings together 95 different pieces on education by Northrop Frye, dating from 1931 to 1989. It traces Frye's thinking about education from his student days through the campus unrest of the 1960s and the more recent budgetary crises …
View book details for Oil, the State, and Federalism
The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The creation and privatization of Petro-Canada provides an important lesson in state intervention and Canadian public policy. John Erik Fossum explores the reasons for the federal government's intervention in the energy industry between 1973 and 1984 and shows how its …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This collection of Northrop Frye's writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance spans forty years of his career as a university teacher, public critic, and major theorist of literature and its cultural functions. Extensive annotations and an in-depth critical introduction demonstrate …
View book details for The Ordering of Justice
A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system. They draw a picture of one who is dependent upon the orders and …
View book details for Valuing Care Work
Comparative Perspectives
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
There are many forms of paid and unpaid labour encompassed in health care systems, including home care for the elderly or disabled, community health services, and the care family members provide for loved ones. Valuing Care Work is an international …
View book details for Paddling Her Own Canoe
The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who 'talked back' to Euro-Canadian culture. Paddling Her Own Canoe is the …
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