University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Shoestring Soldiers
The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915.
In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant...
The Virtues Reconciled
An Iconographical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1947
This volume contains the Alexander Lectures in University College, University of Toronto, for the session 1945-46, delivered by Samuel C. Chew, Professor of English Literature at Bryn Mawr College and author of Byron in England and The Crescent and the Rose.
For a number of years Professor...
Shock Tubes
Proceedings of the Seventh International Shock Tube Symposium held at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 23-25 June 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Toronto in June 1969. The symposium consisted of six sessions; each containing an invited paper, followed by six contributed papers reporting on recent, relevant research and development. The topics are: a review of research...
E.H. Norman
His Life and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats. His distinguished life and tragic death, in April 1957, are recalled and examined in this book by scholars and diplomats from four countries—the United States, Japan, Canada, and Britain.
Born...
The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972
A Case Study of Foreign Domination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Through...
Davidson Black
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
In 1929 a fossilized skull found in Peking was named Sinanthropus pekinensis, Peking Man. Dr. Davidson Black, a Canadian anatomist and anthropologist, was responsible for finding and identifying this important clue to the nature of the ancestors and development of modern Man. Although he won world...
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state...
Wages, Prices, Profits, and Economic Policy
Proceedings of a Conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem,"...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
In this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually,...
Partnership for Excellence
Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians...
Three Lectures
University of Toronto Installation Lectures, 1958
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
Hundreds were turned away from these lectures given on the day of the installation of Dr. Claude Bissell as President of the University of Toronto. Professor Frye spoke on "Humanities in a New World"; Professor Kluckhohn on "The Scientific Study of Values"; and Professor V.B. Wigglesworth on "Science: Pure and Applied".
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The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume One: 1897-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a Methodist preacher to his decision to enter politics in...
The Denison Family of Toronto
1792-1925
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The Denisons were an unusual and colourful family. For over a century – from the War of 1812 to the eve of the Depression – they were in the forefront of political, military, social, and intellectual life in Toronto. They took their duties to king and country seriously, serving in public and military...
Toronto, the Belfast of Canada
The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In late nineteenth-century Toronto, municipal politics were so dominated by the Irish Protestants of the Orange Order that the city was known as the “Belfast of Canada.” For almost a century, virtually every mayor of Toronto was an Orangeman and the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was a...