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A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s. Demonstrating how mosquito-ridden lowlands, frequent floods, and over-burdened municipal waterways shaped the city’s development, Reclaiming the Don illuminates the impact of the valley as a physical and conceptual place on Toronto’s development.Bonnell explains how for more than two centuries the Don has served as a source of raw materials, a sink for wastes, and a place of refuge for people pushed to the edges of society, as well as the site of numerous improvement schemes that have attempted to harness the river and its valley to build a prosperous metropolis. Exploring the interrelationship between urban residents and their natural environments, she shows how successive generations of Toronto residents have imagined the Don as an opportunity, a refuge, and an eyesore. Combining extensive research with in-depth analysis, Reclaiming the Don will be a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Toronto’s development.
A fascinating journey into life and law in late nineteenth-century Canada, Deadly Swindle tells the story of one the country's most sensational murder cases.
Drawing on ten significant criminal cases, this book sheds light on the development of the Canadian criminal justice system.
Vitalizing Vocabulary proposes that early childhood education in Canada must create a rich and lively lexicon for studying, shaping, intervening in, and creating the worlds that we share with children.
Engaging classic anthropological theory, Relative Strangers offers a fresh perspective on kinship in Palestine by focusing on Romani families of the region.
This book examines the literary representation of gardens - a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction - and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation.
This book examines Indigenous intellectual property as a legal matter rooted in and operating within distinct Indigenous legal frameworks.
This book examines Indigenous intellectual property as a legal matter rooted in and operating within distinct Indigenous legal frameworks.
This book integrates perspectives on growth-focused motivation into the practice of psychological assessment and intervention with children and youth.
The Inwardness of Things examines Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in a long-standing and timeless dispute between poetry and philosophy.
Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.
Examining television, film, and popular culture, Mother Trouble traces white maternal angst over a historical trajectory of more than fifty years.
Offering fresh perspectives on well-known texts, Against Reproduction is an accessible and compelling book that will affect the study of both Renaissance literature and queer theory.
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.
This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.
Within a narrative framework, Wright charts the development of modern design from its first appearance in an Eaton's department store, with pieces brought from the Paris Exposition of 1925, through its stealthy entry into Canadian homes, to its establishment as a dominant style.
This collection of diverse primary sources introduces students to the essential skill of reading historical sources.
Ross Woodman and Joel Faflak focus on the clash in British Romantic poets' works between depth psychology and mysticism in the context of post-Enlightenment crises of belief.
"The Second World War wreaked unprecedented devastation throughout Europe, necessitating monumental reconstruction efforts that burdened not only governments, but the lives of ordinary citizens. War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 examines this transitional period in the province of Arezzo by detailing the daily experiences of civilians through the traumas of war and the difficulties of recovery. Studying the aftermath of war in a new and insightful way, Victoria C. Belco shifts the perspective from the national to the local level. With this localized focus, she provides valuable insight into the ways in which civilians coped with an overwhelming range of problems--from adjusting to Allied occupation and widespread displacement to rampant unemployment and the restructuring of local administrations and institutions after fascism. Recreating the post-war atmosphere of disorder, need, and political upheaval, Belco shows how the competing community interests caused social fragmentations that impeded change, while the unity of a shared past prevented civil war."--
As global markets toppled during the 2008 financial crisis, the Canadian market for non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) seemed on the verge of collapsing. Back from the Brink explains the origins of the Canadian ABCP crisis and how an ambitious market restructuring prevented a $32 billion market from falling into chaos.
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as an ongoing story in the literary sense. Because this 'story' appeared, like so many nineteenth-century novels, in a series of installments in periodicals and reviews, it gained an appeal similar to that of fiction. Tracing the Connected Narrative examines written representations of nineteenth-century British expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. It places Arctic narratives in the broader context of the print culture of their time, especially periodical literature, which played an important role in shaping the public's understanding of Arctic exploration.Janice Cavell uncovers similarities between the presentation of exploration reports in periodicals and the serialized fiction that, she argues, predisposed readers to take an interest in the prolonged quest for the Northwest Passage. Cavell examines the same parallel in relation to the famous disappearance and subsequent search for the Franklin expedition. After the fate of Sir John Franklin had finally been revealed, the Illustrated London News printed a list of earlier articles on the missing expedition, suggesting that the public might wish to re-read them in order to 'trace the connected narrative' of this chapter in the Arctic story. Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell undertakes this task and, in the process, recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.
Les copies du manuscrit, neuf en tout, montrent avec quelle libert� les scribes manipulaient la langue de l'original. Dans une r�daction de notre Turpin I - une r�daction repr�sent�e par six manuscrits et reproduite int�gralement en appendice dans cette �dition - la pr�m�ditation associ�e � l'intervention des scribes rev�t plus d'importance
Drawing on contemporary Indigenous art practices, Aesthetics of Repair explores the collision of ceremonial protocols with visual forms of repair in the Pacific Northwest.
Images at War is a much-needed study of this early news medium and its part in the construction of nationalism in the midst of war.
The fourth edition of this critical text offers a concise and accessible survey of early social theorists, with updates that link classical theories to current events.
This collection sheds light on different aspects of the history of the Kurds in Syria during the Ottoman period.
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