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View book details for Leaders in the Shadows
The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager. Compared to elected politicians such as the mayor and the council, the work of a CAO is often overlooked and not well …
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 The Aesthetics of Nostalgia
Historical Representation in Old English Verse
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a window into Anglo-Saxon life. However, these poems are works of art as well as vehicles for ideology. …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, …
View book details for The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II
Student Edition and English Translation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The tragic tale of the lovers Tristran and Iseut, a Celtic story that eventually became part of the Arthurian legend, was one the most popular themes of medieval literature, in numerous languages. One of its earliest appearances is the late-twelfth-century …
View book details for Beyond Sambation
Selected Essays and Editorials 1928-1955 (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The broad range of A.M. Kleins interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials, and reviews a selection that also displays the qualities that distinguished all his creative writing and the highly idiosyncratic nature of his …
View book details for Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Volume II: G-K
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The appearance of Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine makes the second stage of a major publishing project. Based on twenty-five years' research by more than 100 scholars from around the world, the encyclopedia provides the most essential information …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can …
View book details for Divided Loyalties
The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of the country's history. Yet over the past two decades, the 'natural governing party' has seen a decrease in traditional support, finding itself in opposition for nearly half of that time. In …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay's, the first examples of the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960.
View book details for Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change
A Comparative Analysis
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape. Established to answer the tough questions, they have been charged with examining almost every aspect of public life.This collection brings together leading Canadian scholars working in …
View book details for The Art of the Possible
Government and Foreign Policy in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This study, admirable in the logic of its organization and in the freshness of its style, provides an absorbing account of historical developments and current practices in the making of Canada's foreign policy. It analyses carefully and vividly the way …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Robertson Davies (19131995), one of Canadas most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his …
View book details for Sharing the Past
The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960
Sharing the Past is an unprecedentedly detailed account of the intertwining discourses of Canadian history and creative literature. When social history emerged as its own field of study in the 1960s, it promised new stories that would bring readers away …
View book details for Deeply Rooted in the Present
Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises …
View book details for Dante's Lyric Poetry
Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dantes early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dantes Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda …
View book details for Allegories of Contamination
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick …
View book details for The Shaping of Peace
Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957 (Volume 1)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When Mackenzie King went to the San Francisco Conference he told the Commons that Canada had played its part in winning the war and it was now its duty to play a part in 'the shaping of peace.' This is …
View book details for The Politics of Eloquence
David Hume's Polite Rhetoric
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
History has shown us that the power of political speech can be put to both positive and manipulative ends - while rhetoric is a powerful tool for those who seek to persuade others to adopt their views, it can also …
View book details for A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812
John Norton - Teyoninhokarawen
A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict …
View book details for A Mennonite in Russia
The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers …
View book details for Screening Religions in Italy
Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-Secular Public Sphere
Religion has had been foundational in shaping Italy. Home to the Vatican State, the Italian peninsula is the religious centre for one billion Catholics globally. It is also increasingly home to those of other faiths, especially Islam. Italys development as …
View book details for German Expressionist Prose
Theory and Practice
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
An extreme sensitivity to gathering social crisis, an accompanying angry enthusiasm for artistic experimentation and renewal this compelling mix in German art, poetry, and drama of the period 1910 to 1925 continues to draw both scholarly attention and intense popular …
View book details for From Philosophy to Psychotherapy
A Phenomenological Model for Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Presenting a highly innovative exploration of the relationship between philosophical and psychological issues, Edwin L. Hersch argues that psychological theories and practices inescapably rest upon a series of philosophical positions whether they are acknowledged and reflected upon or not. To …
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