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The Massey College Story
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Opened in 1963, Massey College is a residential college for graduate students at the University of Toronto. The college was the brainchild of Vincent Massey, Canadas first native-born Governor General, who wanted to create an intellectually stimulating milieu like the …
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Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santianez contends that fascism expressed …
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A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to …
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Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category) Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canadas Most Important Books[This] is a story best summed up in the words …
View book details for Continuity and Change in Canadian Politics
Essays in Honour of David E. Smith
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The state of Canadian politics is in constant flux. Current and recent issues and events have led to a host of changes in the way politics is done in this country and there are no signs of this trend coming …
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Creating Toronto's New City Hall, 1952-1966
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When Torontos New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council …
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Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not …
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Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, …
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Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination. It contains some twenty-three papers from representatives of the aboriginal peoples organizations, of governments, and of a variety of …
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Translation Effects
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafkas novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick ONeill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce …
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Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of …
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Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is …
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The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
On a chilly autumn night in 1942, a German spy was rowed ashore from a U-boat off the Gaspe coast to begin a deadly espionage mission against the Allies. Thanks to an alert hotel-keeper's son, Abwehr agent `Bobbi' was captured …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This workbook offers the teacher of Italian a varied collection of activities for the classroom. The thirty-one activities involve situations and guided exercises for creating dialogues, exchanging information, providing descriptions, and completing questionnaires and forms. In Litaliano si impara in …
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Gender, Governance, and Democracy in Ontario
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Femocratic Administration examines the gendered nature of public administration through a study of the Ontario Womens Directorate (OWD) between 1985 and 2000. Analysing the OWD from the perspective of feminist political economy, this book combines a detailed case study with …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume …
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Cervantes and the Literature of War
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with …
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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 …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A long-awaited companion volume to T.K. Pratt's Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, this delightful collection includes more than 1,000 proverbs, folk sayings, catchphrases, and idioms characteristic of the speech and attitudes of Prince Edward Islanders. Laid out in 72 …
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Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took …
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Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Giorgio Bassani (19162000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His …
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The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane. He died shortly after midnight the next day. George had been participating in a protest over land claims in Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been …
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Causes and Prevention - A Canadian Study
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Catastrophic Injuries in Sport and Recreation is an essential reference guide to safe participation in a wide variety of sports and recreational activities. A masterful achievement of methodology, it is the first complete epidemiological study and analysis of all catastrophic …
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