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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
On what grounds should language rights be accorded in Canada, and to whom? This is the central question that is addressed in C. Michael MacMillan's book The Practice of Language Rights in Canada. The issue of language rights in Canada …
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Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this ground-breaking work, Ellen Nerenberg offers an analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, the last fifteen years of Fascism and the fifteen that followed. Nerenberg diverges from the notion that a radical break …
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Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This ambitious interdisciplinary study undertakes a new definition of the eighteenth-century novel's investment in vision and visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the equally contentious genre of the portrait, particularly as represented …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
A Short History of the Ancient World begins with the Bronze Age and ends with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Rather than restricting his analysis to the Greek and Roman experience, Rauh introduces students to ancient Africa, Israel, Egypt, …
View book details for Promoting Family Wellness and Preventing Child Maltreatment
Fundamentals for Thinking and Action
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Based on extensive research over many years, with a broad range of participants in Canada and internationally, this collection of essays is an important contribution to the child welfare agenda. It deals with the promotion of emotional well-being in families, …
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Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in Quaqtaq, the first ethnography of a contemporary Canadian Inuit community to be published in over twenty-five years. The community of …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The impact of information technology (IT) on government in the last five years has been profound. Using the governments of Canada and Ontario (both recognized as international leaders in the use of IT) as case studies, Digital State at the …
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Theories of Democracy in Contention
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) has been described by Richard Popkin as the key intellectual figure at the outset of the eighteenth century. Examinations of libraries from the period show him to have been by far the most successful author of the …
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Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting societies known as chambers of rhetoric. Members of the chambers saw themselves not only as entertainers, but as religious and cultural leaders, and on …
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Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United …
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The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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The Sacred Flesh
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation …
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A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canadas system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the Indian Hospitals were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical …
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CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country and beyond on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of …
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Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Shakespeares Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropologys theory of the origins of human society explains the social …
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Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth centurys two predominant approaches to the natural world mechanistic materialism and vitalism in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the …
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Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spains American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is …
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