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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Pembroke. August 4, 1914. On a verandah in town four young people anxiously await news that will change irrevocably the course of their lives. A fifth arrives, out of breath, with the latest bulletin from the telegraph office. War has …
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Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous …
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sa vie et ses ouvrages
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaires first and longest essay on Poe was published in …
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Evolution of a Power Structure for Canadian Science
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The development of a national science policy for Canada and the priorities to be set within any such policy have been topics of a mounting debate within government and the scientific community. The questions involved are of concern in every …
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Power and Gender in Late Medieval France
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted …
View book details for Growing into Resilience
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge. In Growing into Resilience, Andre P. Grace and Kristopher …
View book details for Canadian Agricultural Policy
The Historical Pattern
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural …
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A Guide to Leading High-Performance Organizations for Engineers and Scientists
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Aimed at practicing engineers and scientists as well as students, Everyone a Leader: A Guide to Leading High-Performance Organizations for Engineers and Scientists offers innovative learning frameworks for acquiring competence in leadership that were originally developed at DuPont Canada. This …
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Policy-making, Administration, and Finance in the 1960s
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The governing and financing of public education is everywhere a complex undertaking. The 1960s was for Ontario a vital decade in education, when the structure of local school boards, provincial and federal financing and control, the provision of academic and …
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The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Patrician Liberal examines the life and career of a neglected figure in Canadian history, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere. This book provides a detailed account of Jolys political career as Quebec premier, Cabinet minister in the Laurier government, and lieutenant-governor …
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The Art and Science of Complexity in Business
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the new knowledge economy, traditional modes of thinking are no longer effective. Compartmentalizing problems and solutions and assuming everything can be solved with the right formula can no longer keep pace with the radical changes occurring daily in the …
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Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a brave new world of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which …
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Children, Elders, and Literacies in Intergenerational Curricula
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Intergenerational learning programs bring together skipped generations (for instance, elders and young children) to promote expansive communication and identity options for participants, as well as the forging of relationships between generations. More specifically, these programs help foster multimodal literacy for …
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Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, …
View book details for Stalin's Gulag at War
Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Far from Moscow, Western Siberia was a key area for evacuated factories and for production in support …
View book details for The Admans Dilemma
From Barnum to Trump
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Admans Dilemma is a cultural biography that explores the rise and fall of the advertising man as a figure who became effectively a licensed deceiver in the process of governing the lives of American consumers. Apparently this personage was …
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Lotteries, Gaming Machines, and Casinos in Cross-National Focus
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions. Gambling for Profit is a cross-national history of the emergence of legal gambling, …
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Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed …
View book details for Spatial Evolution of Manufacturing
Southern Ontario 1851-1891
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Europeans who settled previously unpopulated and unexploited regions of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries of the world had two economic alternatives: subsistence activities or the production of primary goods for export. In general the latter prevailed and …
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A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Casebooks in business history are designed to instruct students in classrooms and boardrooms about the evolution of business management. The first casebook for the study of business history in a Canadian context, Joseph E. Martin's text will help students, both …
View book details for Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship
Precarious Legal Status in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Global Promise of Federalism honours the life and work of Richard Simeon, one of Canadas foremost experts on federalism. It features a group of distinguished scholars of federalism from Canada and abroad who take up some of the fundamental …
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Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on …
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River and Canal from the Roman Empire to the European Economic Community
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Moselle has been one of the main arteries of European Communication and transportation for centuries. The Romans used it as a main thoroughfare from southern to northern Europe and also began the improvements to its navigation that have continued …
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A Collection of Documents on the Indian Lands of the Grand River
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume traces the history of the Indians in the Grand River Valley from the first written record in 1627 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Much of the book is devoted to the Six Nations Indians who, dispossessed …
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