Books published by University of Toronto Press

In The Universal Self Miss Mackay examines Val�ry's achievement, both as poet and creative thinker, placing him in the environment of literary life in Paris; tracing the development of his thought, from his early friendship with Mallarm� to the years when his genius was widely acknowledged.

Where is Canada going in the next half-century? Have her people a sense of purpose for themselves or their country? A number of writers well known for their articles and books on the Canadian cultural, social, and political sense come together here to take up these vital questions.

A Peculiar Kind of Politics presents the inside story of how Canadians earned their autonomy in war through the increasing competence they displayed, not merely in action, but in their own administrative management.

Beckwith's career as a composer, performer, teacher, administrator, author, editor, and promoter of Canadian music is unparalleled. It is fitting, then, that this group of papers, organized as a tribute to him, reflects not only his contribution, but also the current major directions of Canadian music.

This casebook contains collections of facts or events, some hypothetical, but most of them historical, that raises serious conflicts of interest and require settlement by some device, either the dictate of some private individual or group, or the exercise of a more orderly "legal" procedure.

Thomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period. This is the only edition of Hood's letters; it is definitive and thoroughly annotated.

The Rock Observed is a study of how Newfoundland has been perceived over the centuries by the islanders themselves and by outsiders. It offers an integrated survey of Newfoundland literature, culture, and history.

This volume tells the story of the University from its beginning to the end of its first and most formative period in 1919-20. At his death in 1945, Professor Arthur S. Morton left uncompleted a manuscript of a history of the University; and from his material Dr. Carlyle King has extracted and assembled this book.

This is the story of entomology in western Canada from the time of the explorers to the outbreak of the Second World War. Riegert describes the impact of insect hordes; from the mosquitoes which assaulted the Danish explore Jens Munk on the shores of Hudson Bay in 1619, to the devastating plagues of grasshoppers of the 1930s.

This first extensive history of Canada's early book trade begins with the impact of the Gutenberg printing revolution. Parker analyses the role of technological advances in printing, to the growing complexity of the book trade in the major cities up to the time in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Arnold J. Toynbee's voluminous studies of world history embraced every civilization and religion of the past and present. In this volume twelve historians of widely differing specializations re-examine Toynbee's work. The volume is published to commemorate the centenary of Toynbee's birth.

The author examines a representative number of Goethe's poems, masques, theatrical prologues, and so on, and defines the circumstances of their origin, sometimes in detail and always in the context of the great artistic, social, and political movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Rooted in close analyses of individual poems, Many Glancing Colours becomes a study of the development and character of Tennyson's liberal artistic imagination.

The primary object of the series is to promote collaboration between lawyers, social scientists, juristic philosophers, and others who are interested in exploring social values, processes, and institutions. The present volume is devoted to topics relating to the changing role of trade union activity in Canada.

As the state comes to play a larger role in the community the question of the extent to which government is subject to the general law of the land assumes increasing importance. This book examines the limits of two related forms of state immunity: crown or governmental immunity from statue and intergovernmental immunity.

The book provides an account of conditions in Canada in 1957 as a background for its discussion of election issues and party organizations.

In this book, Paul Marshall offers the first systematic study of the development of the idea of vocation in England from 1500 to 1700.

The trading business of Peter and Isaac Buchanan became one of Canada's largest. This history of success and failure reveals much about the Anglo-Canadian trading system and the Upper Canadian economy of the period. This book illuminates a key period in Canada's economic and historical development.

Professor Hilborn has aimed primarily at presenting a Mexican national outlook, in the hope that more people may be led to interest themselves in the psychological and spiritual aspects of Mexican culture.

Marie Tremaine's bibliography was first published by UTP in 1951 and is a cornerstone of bibliography and book history studies in Canada.

The first Banff Conference on Theoretical Psychology was held in April 1965. The aim of the conference was to take the first steps toward defining areas of common ground among diverse theories of psychology, with a view to making more integrated and comprehensive statements about behaviour.

This latest volume in Pickersgill's memoirs cover his years in opposition, from St Laurent's defeat at the hands of Diefenbaker in 1957 through to the election of a Liberal government under Lester Pearson six years later and Pickersgill's session as House Leader.

This volume of essays and bibliography, compiled in his honour, reflects the breadth of Frank Underhill's influence in history, public policy, poetry, Canadian culture, and foreign relations.

Partly a love story, partly a fascinating view of nineteenth-century social history and developments in early Ontario, these letters are a moving revelation of two important Canadian ancestors.

This book gives a carefully documented interpretation of Canadian -American relations during an important period in Canadian history.

The essays in this volume have as their centre the Ancient Near East, the special field of interest of the distinguished scholar of the University of Toronto whom they honour.

This book is a detailed study of the debtor-creditor relationship, with particular attention to the position of the unsecured creditor. In these times of "credit-existence" this account is an important source of information for those in the field of law, economy, politics, and business.

In this work Mr. Mack explores the tension in Pope's life between Garden and City, between the poet's desire for seclusion and privacy and his concern for political and social issues.

This book is composed of five chapters, each containing a series of cases which courts have disposed of according to a particular jurisprudential insight, followed by a series of readings which present the same insight from a more abstract and general point of view.

In the study, emphasis is on the literary value of the Nibelungenlied rather than on philological questions surrounding it: it offers a close, detailed examination of the text itself.