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View book details for Saturday's Child
Memoirs of Canada's First Female Cabinet Minister
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister. John Diefenbaker appointed her Secretary of State in 1957. In the course of her career she also served as Minister of Citizenship …
View book details for A History of Canadian Legal Thought
Collected Essays
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as …
View book details for Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the …
View book details for Non-Euclidean Geometry
Fifth Edition
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The name non-Euclidean was used by Gauss to describe a system of geometry which differs from Euclid's in its properties of parallelism. Such a system was developed independently by Bolyai in Hungary and Lobatschewsky in Russia, about 120 years ago. …
View book details for The Research Compendium
Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile research experience in the educational programme of every student engaged …
View book details for Beyond Sight
Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 12001750
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch). The contributors argue that the uses …
View book details for Among the Forest Trees or, A Book of Facts and Incidents of Pioneer Life in Upper Canada
Arranged in the Form of a Story
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A book of pioneer life in Upper Canada, arranged in the form of a story. The author spent five-sevenths of his life among the pioneer settlers of Western Canada. The incidents in the story are taken from the active life …
View book details for Truth and Indignation
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, Second Edition
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews …
View book details for Erasmus and Voltaire
Why They Still Matter
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Despite comparisons between Erasmus and Voltaire having become common-place in the course of the nineteenth century, this is the first full study to bring them together in their careers, their works, and their historic afterlives. Each was a force for …
View book details for The Order of Canada
Genesis of an Honours System, Second Edition
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1966, a project to create a national honour for Canadians was begun. The order recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievements, dedication, and service to the country. It is a product of national identity, politics, and history, and includes such …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this report Professor Hartle presents the findings of a series of investigations that have been carried out, partly under the auspices and partly with the co-operation, of the Canadian Department of Labour. The object of the investigations, the Employment …
View book details for Lovers and Livers
Disease Concepts in History
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it? In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and …
View book details for Merleau-Ponty and Marxism
From Terror to Reform
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Influenced by Kojeve's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and turned to Marxism. This is the first …
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Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada. Since 1973, groups that have never signed treaties …
View book details for Postcolonial Counterpoint
Orientalism, France, and the Maghreb
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reichs new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics …
View book details for The Order of Canada
Its Origins, History, and Developments
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1966, a project to create a national honour for Canadians was begun. The first recipients of the Order of Canada were announced a year later, and in the nearly forty years since, the Order has become a symbol familiar …
View book details for Athens and Jerusalem
God, Humans, and Nature
What is the relation of philosophy and theology? This question has been a matter of perennial concern in the history of Western thought. Written by one of the premier philosophers in the areas of Jewish ethics and interfaith issues between …
View book details for Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range …
View book details for Canada's Navy, 2nd Edition
The First Century
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself …
View book details for Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Over the past thirty-five years, Canadas provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Electromagnetic distance measurement, by using light and microwaves for direct linear measurements and thus circumventing the need for traditional methods of triangulation, may well introduce a new era in surveying. This book brings together the work of forty-eight geodesists from …
View book details for Benjamin Disraeli Letters
1868, Volume X
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In February 1868 Benjamin Disraeli became the fortieth prime minister of Great Britain. The tenth volume of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters series is devoted exclusively to Disraelis copious correspondence during that momentous year. The volume contains 648 of Disraelis letters, …
View book details for Assisted Reproduction Policy in Canada
Framing, Federalism, and Failure
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The world has undergone a revolution in assisted reproduction, as processes such as in vitro fertilization, embryonic screening, and surrogacy have become commonplace. Yet when governments attempt to regulate this field, they have not always been successful. Canada is a …
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