Frank Underhill And The Politics Of Ideas

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Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas

Author : Kenneth C. Dewar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773582614
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas written by Kenneth C. Dewar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Underhill (1889-1971) practically invented the role of public intellectual in English Canada through his journalism, essays, teaching, and political activity. He became one of the country's most controversial figures in the middle of the twentieth century by confronting the central political issues of his time and by actively working to reform the Canadian political landscape. His propagation of socialist ideas during the Great Depression and his criticism of the British Empire and British foreign policy almost cost him his job at the University of Toronto. In Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas, Kenneth Dewar demonstrates how Underhill's thought evolved from his days as a student at Toronto and Oxford, to his drafting of the Regina Manifesto - the founding platform of the leftist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - to his support of his long-time friend Lester Pearson’s Liberals in the 1960s. Not willing to be bound by partisan loyalties, his later shift toward the political centre dismayed many of his former allies. The various issues Underhill confronted, Dewar argues, were connected by the pioneering role he played as an intellectual and by his social democratic vision of politics. Dewar also reassesses Underhill’s historical work, focusing on how it differed from the new professional history practised by his younger colleagues. Intelligently written and thoroughly researched, Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas delivers important insights into twentieth-century political life and innumerable lessons for twenty-first century Canada.

Frank H. Underhill

Author : R. Douglas Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Frank H. Underhill written by R. Douglas Francis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vimy Trap

Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771132760
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Vimy Trap written by Ian McKay and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history—combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art—explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory.

Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada, 1784-1850

Author : David Mills
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773506602
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada, 1784-1850 written by David Mills and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyalty evolved as the central political idea in Upper Canada during the first half of the nineteenth century. It formed the basis of political legitimacy and acceptance into provincial society. David Mills examines the evolution and development of the concept of loyalty, placing special emphasis on the contribution of moderate reformers.

The Race Question in Canada

Author : André Siegfried
Publisher : London : E. Nash
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Race Question in Canada written by André Siegfried and published by London : E. Nash. This book was released on 1907 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Academic Freedom in Canada

Author : Michiel Horn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802007261
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Academic Freedom in Canada written by Michiel Horn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering issues from the resistance in universities to Darwinist thought, to the experience of women and ethnic minorities, to "economic" and "political correctness," from 1860 to the present.

Sovereign Idea

Author : Reginald Whitaker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773508414
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Sovereign Idea written by Reginald Whitaker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the best of Reg Whitaker's essays on democracy, federalism, and the state, A Sovereign Idea will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rise of the idea of democracy in Canada. The essays, each in its own way, are an attempt to discover how a more democratic Canada can be achieved.

The Government Generation

Author : Doug Owram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Government Generation written by Doug Owram and published by . This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry – between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments, and from them was born the modern welfare state. New services were created, along with new taxes to pay for them and expanded bureaucracies to administer them. Government activity grew enormously; so did government expenditures. The role of the state in a modern industrialized society became the focus of a lively and continuing debate for two generations of intellectual reformers. Doug Owram looks back at that debate and the academics, civil servants, and political activists who engaged in it. Adam Short, W.L. Grant, Frank Underhill, W.C. Clark, Harold Innis, and many others exchanged ideas – sometimes cautiously, sometimes passionately – about the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization. Owram explores the reforming impulse and its political dimension: the impact of warm and depression on attitudes to the state, the League of Social Reconstruction and its relations with the CCF, R.B. Bennett’s New Deal, and the various changes of heart experienced over forty years by Mackenzie King. The Canada that emerged from the Second World War was very different from the one that had existed at the turn of the century relations between the individual and the state had altered drastically and irrevocably. The people examined in this book and the social and political movements in which they believed helped shape Canada’s response to powerful forces that were changing its way of life forever.

Research and Reform

Author : Richard A. Rempel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773588906
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Research and Reform written by Richard A. Rempel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.P. Thompson was a passionate advocate of science education whose impact extended far beyond his home province of Saskatchewan. In Research and Reform, Richard Rempel brings to light the life, times, and legacy of a brilliant and influential geneticist. Born and raised in rural Ontario, Thompson's thirst for knowledge took him from a largely self-educated youth to undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto and Harvard, respectively, culminating in a successful career in the field of cytogenetics. The discoveries Thompson made working with wheat chromosomes spread across the country and brought him considerable renown within the scientific community. Research and Reform documents Thompson's revolutionary attempts to create a wheat hybrid resistant to fungal leaf rust - efforts supported by the Winnipeg Rust Laboratory, the National Research Council, and the Federal Department of Agriculture. Rempel also documents the sweeping curriculum reforms Thompson introduced to the University of Saskatchewan, first as dean of arts and sciences and later as president. Thompson's presidency demonstrated for the first time the depth of the constructive and cordial relationship that existed between Tommy Douglas's Cooperative Commonwealth Federation government and the university. Shedding light on Thompson's later years, Rempel describes how he became a key figure in the planning and establishment of Saskatchewan's 1962 Medicare legislation. An invaluable addition to the history of science and medicine in Canada, Research and Reform restores a Canadian scientist and educator to his rightful place in history.

The League for Social Reconstruction

Author : Michiel Horn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590253
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The League for Social Reconstruction written by Michiel Horn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931-2 the first organization of Canadian left-wing intellectuals was founded. Led by historian Frank Underhill of the University of Toronto and law professor and poet Frank Scott of McGill University, the League for Social Reconstruction was critical of industrial capitalism and called for basic social and economic change through educational activity and parliamentary and constitutional channels. In the first history of this unique organization Michiel Horn outlines the League's aims and accomplishments and its ideological influence on the CCF and the NDP. Initially, the LSR avoided the term 'socialism' and remained uncommitted to any political part, although its choice of J.S. Woodsworth as honorary president made its sympathies clear. When, not long after the LSR's establishment, the CCF was founded, many League members joined it. An attempt to link the LSR openly with the CCF failed, but the League soon became known as the CCF's 'brain trust,' and the manifesto and programme adopted by the party in 1933 clearly reflected the influence of the LSR members. The League's own democratic socialist ideas were most fully stated in Social Planning for Canada (1935), Democracy Needs Socialism (1938), and in the pages of the Canadian Forum, acquired by the LSR in 1936. With the disillusionment of the later 1930s, the distraction of the war, and, most of all, the increased support enjoyed by the CCF after 1940, the LSR disappeared as a formal organization, but its ideas shaped a political tradition which found expression in the CCF and later the NDP.

Crisis, Challenge and Change

Author : Janine Brodie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581111
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Crisis, Challenge and Change written by Janine Brodie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-10-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canadian History: Confederation to the present

Author : Martin Brook Taylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802076762
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Canadian History: Confederation to the present written by Martin Brook Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume 2

Author : P.B. Waite
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566732
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume 2 written by P.B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-05-06 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of professors and students, deans and presidents, their ideas and idiosyncrasies, their triumphs and failures, provide the driving force of Waite's narrative. Avoiding the details of financing, curriculum, and administration that sometimes dominate institutional histories, Waite focuses on the men and women who were the blood of the university and who established its traditions and ethos. Halifax in peace and war is basic to Dalhousie's history, as is its relations with other colleges and universities in Nova Scotia. Waite sets all this out, placing Dalhousie's development within the larger Nova Scotian context.

Images of Canadianness

Author : Leen D'Haenens
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776604899
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Images of Canadianness written by Leen D'Haenens and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and Quebec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Quebec; the Belgian and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self-government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate their position in society; the Canada-US relationship; Canada's trade with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the information highway.

Lives of Dalhousie University

Author : Peter B. Waite
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773516441
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Dalhousie University written by Peter B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of professors and students, deans and presidents, their ideas and idiosyncrasies, their triumphs and failures, provide the driving force of Waite's narrative. Avoiding the details of financing, curriculum, and administration that sometimes dominate institutional histories, Waite focuses on the men and women who were the blood of the university and who established its traditions and ethos. Halifax in peace and war is basic to Dalhousie's history, as is its relations with other colleges and universities in Nova Scotia. Waite sets all this out, placing Dalhousie's development within the larger Nova Scotian context.

Literary History of Canada

Author : Carl F. Klinck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590989
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Literary History of Canada written by Carl F. Klinck and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1976-12-15 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work. It has already proven itself invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language. Volume 2, a revision of Part IV of the original edition, covers the period from about 1920 to 1960. The contributors to this volume are Desmond Pacey, William Kilbourn, Henry B. Mayo, Millar MacLure, John Webster Grant, Thomas A. Goudge, Elizabeth Waterston, Brandon Conron, Jay Macpherson, Sheila A. Egoff, Michael Tait, Hugo McPherson, Munro Beattie, and Northrop Frye.

Canadian Conservative Political Thought

Author : Lee Trepanier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100085888X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Conservative Political Thought written by Lee Trepanier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought’s recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.