Books published by University of Toronto Press

In mid-19th century Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one. Yet their different experience have been much less studied than their US counterparts. The authors evaluate both emigration and settlement and present as well revealing personal documents about intense, often painful experiences of the settlers.

Professor Irving's book indicates how the apparent suddenness of the Social Credit rise to power and the magnitude of the victory aroused world-wide comment. He analyses systematically and comprehensively the rise of the movement as a phenomenon of mass psychology.

In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan's "concrete subjectivity."

This study investigates how the medium of sound and its most representative art form of music enable Virginia Woolf to develop fresh concepts and methods in her experimental fiction.

In Fruit of the Orchard, Jennifer N. Brown builds upon academic discourse about medieval readers, trans-Reformation studies, and Catherine of Siena to reveal insights into the changing devotional reading appetites and practices of the period.

The passions have long been condemned as the creator of disturbance and the purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but, as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision.

Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada examines the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada.

The essays in this volume help to explore the relations and the mutual responsibilities of the university and business.

This volume of documents, records, and early writings covers the discovery and settlement of Ontario's Trent valley, development and decline of the lumber trade, the Trent Canal and community life, and is abundantly illustrated in gravure and line from source materials.

This biography is the first full-length study entirely devoted to the Duchess of Newcastle showing her metamorphosis from an imaginative, bashful child into a romantic public figure emerging as the first woman writer of her times.

This volume establishes some of the limitations governing figurative language in Latin speech and prose, analysing the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero's letters, contrasting this naturalistic language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of Cicero's speeches.

This ground-breaking study of Italian-Canadian writers and artists with roots in Istria and Dalmatia highlights the history of their diaspora, the vitality of their literary and artistic works, and the distinctive multiculturalism that characterises them.

The author has attempted to cover the vocabulary of the whole corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse and make the word-list as broadly useful as possible for the general student of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Liber's book will transform our understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century.

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the thelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.

Bernard Shaw and William Archer is the final volume in the series on the Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. The two colleagues loved to debate with one another in public, and these feisty arguments regularly carried over to the letters, which bear witness to the vital partnership between a theatre critic and a playwright.

The judicial system occupies an important place in society, yet it has been one of the least studied of Canadian institutions, traditionally left to lawyers and members of the legal profession. In this volume nine non-lawyers scrutinize its operation in Canada from the perspectives of several academic disciplines.

Dr. Grima examines several alternative choices for management, such as metering, increasing marginal prices, sewerage charges, seasonal charges, and an increasing price block schedule, and describes the results of each.

First presented in 1970, the play's protagonist, Moische Schneiderman, is a tailor whose possessions include a small business, a large mortgage, a devoted wife, three beautiful daughters, and a sense of the ridiculous.

With incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession, this volume discusses the 'October crisis' in Quebec and other recent events, incorporating the author's selection of his recent writings on the irrelevance, or deliquescence, of modern diplomacy.

This study provides an absorbing account of historical developments and current practices in the making of Canada's foreign policy.

This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public.

Using her experience in various government departments and with several successful building conversation projects, Ann Falkner has written this practical handbook for those concerned about preserving heritage structures.

This volume makes a distinctive contribution to Yeats studies by bringing under discussion the kind of aesthetic views developed by Yeats in order to rationalize his own practice as poet and dramatist.

The purpose of this short volume is to contribute to an understanding of Ontario, to point out something of what it is both to those who are already acquainted with the province and to those who are being introduced to it for the first time.

The history of the Denisons' quarrel with the United States and their flamboyant nationalism challenges the reader to examine his own assumptions about the Canadian identity.

This introductory manual, now revised and updated in a second edition, was prepared by the Department of Anaesthesia in Canadian medical schools and provides the undergraduate medical student with an important foundation for wider knowledge in the realm of anaesthesiology.

Neil Carson's in-depth history of Toronto Workshop Productions, Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, traces the fortunes of the troupe's colourful artistic director, George Luscombe, and other members of the group.

Professor Grosman describes and analyses the prosecutor's informal relations with the police and defence lawyers, and the significance these relationships have for the accused and for the fair administration of justice.

This study will fill an important need by documenting statistically the extent and nature of custody before trial in the Toronto Magistrates' Courts, where the overwhelming majority of citizens charged with criminal offences in the Toronto area are tried.