Books published by University of Toronto Press

Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.

This collection of essays by Sasha Sokolov - one of the most important living Russian novelists - presents his ideas on art, literature, writing, and culture.

In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' Don Quixote is as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.

This collection offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour during local elections in eight of Canada's largest cities.

Now in its third edition, this four-field introduction to anthropology shows students how anthropologists think about the world, highlighting anthropological perspectives on pandemics, social movements, and more.

This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.

Degrees of Dignity examines how global discourses and policy models are affecting and altering contemporary higher education systems in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

Providing rare insights into the doodem tradition and the concept of council fires, this book explores Indigenous law and the Anishinaabe's holistic approach to governance, territoriality, family, and kinship structures.

Informed by a social justice lens, and featuring Canadian content and context, this edited multi-disciplinary book looks at current trends in the teaching of sexuality in higher education, including sexual well-being, positivity, diversity, mutual consent. focuses on the teaching of sexuality in higher education.

Montreal at War chronicles the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and returned veterans in Montreal during the First World War.

German Social Democracy through British Eyes uses diplomatic reports sent from Germany to Britain to document the rise of social democracy as well as efforts to repress it.

This new collection of anthropological theory updates and diversifies the canon with contributions by important yet underrepresented scholars and theoretical discussions that reflect the state of the discipline today.

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty chronicles Canada's remarkable program in the wake of the First World War to kill forest pests using poison dropped from aircraft.

Detailed, engaging, and beautifully written, the fourth edition of A History of Science in Society explores the many ways in which science and society interact.

Cybersecurity Management looks at the current state of cybercrime and explores how organizations can develop resources and capabilities to prepare themselves for the changing cybersecurity environment.

Canada's Holy Grail investigates the political motivations of Lord Stanley and sheds light on the Stanley Cup as a symbol of Canadian unity.

This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.

This edited collection explores how the value of training and skills invested in internationally educated health professionals is transferred, and transformed, and in some cases tarnished, at all stages of the international migration process.

This edited collection explores how the value of training and skills invested in internationally educated health professionals is transferred, and transformed, and in some cases tarnished, at all stages of the international migration process.

This volume offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour in Montreal and Quebec City, two of Canada's most important urban centres.

This book sheds light on why the most powerful positions of political leadership remain outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.

In this revised and updated third edition, one of Canada's leading historians covers the history of the Canadian military to the present day.

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.

A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 - a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.

Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.

Prison Elite depicts the life of a VIP prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp system, providing a first-hand account of his mental life and coping strategies.

This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.

Nothing Less than Great addresses the current challenges faced by Canada's university system and offers solutions to help improve the academic experience of students.

Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.

In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, twenty-nine interdisciplinary scholars analyze how academics have thought, researched and written on Islam and Muslims in Canada since the 1970s.