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View book details for Unexpected Affinities
Reading Across Cultures
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
East-West comparative literature is a field of study that has seen tremendous growth in recent years. In this pioneering study, renowned scholar Zhang Longxi offers a much-needed reappraisal of the thematic and conceptual similarities that unite literary and cultural traditions …
View book details for Utopian Pedagogy
Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Utopian Pedagogy is a critical exploration of educational struggles within and against neoliberalism. Editors Mark Cote, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter, along with a number of innovative voices from a variety of different academic fields and political movements, …
View book details for Home Economics
Nationalism and the Making of Migrant Workers in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration policy since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers. In Home Economics, Nandita Sharma shows how Canadian policies on citizenship and …
View book details for How Should I Read These?
Native Women Writers in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Helen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and outsider in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose …
View book details for Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Hrotsvit was the first dramatist of Christianity, the first female Saxon poet, the first Germanic author to employ the Faust theme, and one of the first Western writers to compose a Christian epic. The essays in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim examine …
View book details for Images at War
Illustrated Periodicals and Constructed Nations
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Using the press coverage of the Franco-Prussian war as a starting point, Michele Martins Images at War examines nineteenth-century illustrated periodicals published in France, Germany, England, and Canada (with references also to Italy and the United States), and argues that …
View book details for In the Grip of Freedom
Law and Modernity in Max Weber
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Faith in the utility and value of legal rights forms the political common sense of our age. With its profound breadth and insight into the modern condition, Max Weber's social and political thought is widely considered to be the most …
View book details for Face to the Village
The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to 'face the countryside' generated a wealth of intelligence that …
View book details for English Biography in the Seventeenth Century
A Critical Survey
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Although biography is one of todays most flourishing literary genres, its early history has attracted much less attention than that of other forms, a neglect that is especially apparent in the case of the formative period of English biography, the …
View book details for Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing
Power, Difference, Property
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Collaborative writing is not a new phenomenon, nor is it specific to a particular genre of writing. In Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing, Lorraine York presents an eminently readable study of the history of collaborative writing and common critical reactions to …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Robert Copland (fl. 1505-1546) had a long career as a poet, translator, and printer, and his achievements were substantial. As a printer, he worked for and with Wynkyn de Worde, and his editions look back to the work of Caxton, …
View book details for Sacred Violence
The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N. Claster examines warfare between Christians and Muslims for control of the embattled city of Jerusalem. Beyond the battlefield, however, Claster explains the relationship of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the Holy City …
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The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this groundbreaking work, urban anthropologist Rae Bridgman, in careful and intimate detail, explores the perspectives of the women who work and live at Savard's, a unique shelter for homeless women. Bridgman uses the design and development of Savard's a …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The ancient artifacts so carefully restored and exhibited in museums open vast windows to our understanding of humanity's past. But for every question an artefact can answer about an earlier civilization, a dozen more are raised. How long ago was …
View book details for Multiple Account Benefit-Cost Analysis
A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that …
View book details for Searching Shakespeare
Studies in Culture and Authority
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Original in topic and approach, Searching Shakespeare presents a political-historical exploration of Shakespeare's drama, examining the plays in the context of current ideological concerns history, memory, marginality, and nationalism. Derek Cohen predicates his argument on the supposition that the individual, …
View book details for Ruling by Schooling Quebec
Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebecs educational …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen …
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Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen's University
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
As Registrar of Queen's University, Jean Royce shaped the university's development, and personified the university for generations of students. Appointed in 1933 by men who sought to exclude women from positions of authority, Jean Royce navigated the precarious gendered environment …
View book details for Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians
History, Politics, and Identity
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day …
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The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel …
View book details for Shakespeare in Canada
A World Elsewhere?
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Is there a distinctly Canadian Shakespeare? What is the status and function of Shakespeare in various locations within the nation: at Stratford, on CBC radio, in regional and university theatres, in Canadian drama and popular culture? Shakespeare in Canada brings …
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Designs and Trials in <em>Paradise Lost</em>
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or designs that govern Paradise Lost, and looks …
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Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of …
View book details for Foundations of Governance
Municipal Government in Canada's Provinces
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come …
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