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Author : Paul Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Very Public Life: Far from home written by Paul Martin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (589 download)
Download or read book A Very Public Life written by Paul Martin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Donaghy
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774829141
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Grit written by Greg Donaghy and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am not afraid to be called a politician,” declared Paul Martin Sr., defending his life’s work in politics. “Next to preaching the word of God, there is nothing nobler than to serve one’s fellow countrymen in government.” First elected to the House of Commons in 1935, Martin served in the cabinet of four prime ministers and ran for the Liberal Party leadership three times. This book examines his remarkable career as a liberal reformer and politician who tackled the issues of his day with consummate political skill and gritty determination. Cutting a broad swath through the history of twentieth-century Canada, Greg Donaghy uses extensive interviews and untapped archival sources to challenge the prevailing view of Martin as simply an ambitious Windsor ward heeler and party operator. Martin embraced a tolerant politics of compromise and accommodation that sought to unite Canadians in search of a more just and equitable world. Though some mocked his ambition and doubted his progressive politics, his resolute championing of health care and pension rights, new meanings for Canadian citizenship, and internationalism in world affairs would leave an indelible mark on Canada’s political landscape.
Author : Robert Alexander Wardhaugh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442610522
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes written by Robert Alexander Wardhaugh and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Wardhaugh chronicles Clark's contributions to Canada's modern state in Behind the Scenes, which reconstructs the public life and ideas of one of Canada's most important bureaucrats.
Author : Margaret K. Weiers
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781550022414
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Envoys Extraordinary written by Margaret K. Weiers and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about foreign policy. It is a book about women who stayed the course and are still on it, influencing, developing, shaping, and implementing Canadian foreign policy at home and abroad. It is a story, often told in their own words, of twenty-two remarkable women. With charm, grace, dignity, and intelligence, these women survived that most quintessential of Canadian establishments, the Department of External Affairs.
Author : Allan Gerald Levine
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1553655605
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book King written by Allan Gerald Levine and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2011 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance Praise for King "Here we have Allan Levine, one of the aces of Canadian historical chronicles, channelling Mackenzie King. And what a story they have to tell: our longest-serving prime minister, getting advice from his dog and having two-way conversations with his long-dead mother. If Canadian history was ever dull, it isn't now. Get this book." Book jacket.
Author : Gordon Robertson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802044457
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant written by Gordon Robertson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robertson presents a first-hand account of the events and personalities that shaped Canada during the critical post-war period, describes Canada's political development, and the prime ministers who presided over it.
Author : Adam Chapnick
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840498
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Middle Power Project written by Adam Chapnick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Power Project describes a defining period of Canadian and international history. During the Second World War, Canada transformed itself from British dominion to self-proclaimed middle power. It became an active, enthusiastic, and idealistic participant in the creation of one of the longest lasting global institutions of recent times – the United Nations. This was, in many historians’ opinions, the beginning of a golden age in Canadian diplomacy. Chapnick suggests that the golden age may not have been so lustrous. During the UN negotiations, Canadian policymakers were more cautious than idealistic. The civil service was inexperienced and often internally divided. Canada’s significant contributions were generally limited to the much neglected economic and social fields. Nevertheless, creating the UN changed what it meant to be Canadian. Rightly or wrongly, from the establishment of the UN onwards, Canadians would see themselves as leading internationalists. Based on materials not previously available to Canadian scholars, The Middle Power Project presents a critical reassessment of the traditional and widely accepted account of Canada’s role and interests in the formation of the United Nations. It will be be read carefully by historians and political scientists, and will be appreciated by general readers with an interest in Canadian and international history.
Author : Barry Cahill
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459506871
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (595 download)
Download or read book J.L. Ilsley: A Political Biography written by Barry Cahill and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farmer’s son from rural Nova Scotia, J. L. Ilsley (1894–1967) is an almost forgotten figure who played a key role in government during the Second World War, even though he was despised by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Ilsley was spectacularly successful in cajoling and compelling Canadians to pay for the war. He became a highly regarded national figure. He gradually established his claim to succeed William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister when the time came. Ultimately, in his devious way, King thwarted Ilsley’s ambition. Ilsley abandoned politics to take up the post of chief justice in Nova Scotia for 17 years. His place in Canadian political history has been undermined by family members who destroyed his personal papers. Historian and biographer Barry Cahill has pieced together the story of Ilsley’s career for the first time. He used the personal papers of other Ottawa figures of the times, previously secret cabinet records, and glimpses of the man as seen by others in his circle – including, of course, Mackenzie King in his voluminous diaries.
Author : David MacKenzie
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774868821
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book King and Chaos written by David MacKenzie and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, Canadians went to the polls against a backdrop of the Great Depression and deteriorating international conditions. This election was like no other. As the Conservative government splintered under the weight of outdated policies, the opposition Liberals watched the destruction. Meanwhile, the newly minted Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Social Credit Party transformed the electoral base, bringing working-class Canadians – and working-class issues – more directly into the political process. Although the Liberals ultimately swept back to power under William Lyon Mackenzie King’s leadership, King and Chaos demonstrates that the 1935 election marked a true turning point, ending the dominance of the two-party system and making room for additional parties to win seats and influence government policy.
Author : James Pritchard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773585613
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A Bridge of Ships written by James Pritchard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Bridge of Ships James Pritchard tells the story of the rapidly changing circumstances and forceful personalities that shaped government shipbuilding policy. He examines the ownership and expansion of the shipyards and the role of ship repairing, as well as recruitment and training of the labour force. He also tells the story of the struggle for steel and the expansion of ancillary industries. Pritchard provides a definitive picture of Canada's wartime ship production, assesses the cost (more than $1.2 billion), and explains why such an enormous effort left such a short-lived legacy. The story of Canada's shipbuilding industry is as astonishing as that of the nation's wartime navy. The personnel of both expanded more than fifty times, yet the history of wartime shipbuilding remains virtually unknown. With the disappearance of the Canadian shipbuilding industry from both the land and memory, it is time to recall and assess its contribution to Allied victory.
Author : Taylor Hollander
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487521936
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Power, Politics, and Principles written by Taylor Hollander and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power, Politics, and Principles gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how a wartime order forced employers to the collective bargaining table and marked a new stage in Canadian industrial relations.
Author : Barry Cahill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152758920X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Norman McLeod Rogers written by Barry Cahill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhodes Scholar Norman McLeod Rogers (1894-1940) was Canada’s Minister of National Defence, and heir apparent to Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, when he was killed in the mysterious crash of the Royal Canadian Air Force bomber in which he was travelling en route from Ottawa to Toronto to deliver a speech. This book presents the story of his brief, but brilliant, career and his tragic death.
Author : Terence Allan Crowley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802079022
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Marriage of Minds written by Terence Allan Crowley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis, was highly praised by Vladimir Lenin. His wife, Isabel Skelton (1877-1956), wrote extensively about literature and history; she was the first historian to treat women from the country's past individually in their own right rather than as a generalized category. Both husband and wife promoted the idea that Canada was an independent nation that no longer needed Britain's tutelage. Terry Crowley has written a unique double biography that examines the lives of Isabel and Oscar, their works, and their careers. He shows how both individuals in their own way influenced the development of Canada as a nation state. Crowley questions why, when both Isabel and Oscar wrote influential works, Oscar's career blossomed, while Isabel remains virtually unrecognized. He concludes that despite Isabel's literary accomplishments, her life remained enmeshed in domestic and family roles, while Oscar's rise to prominence was facilitated by male scholarly and publishing networks as well as the support that women provided to men's careers. This book traces the lives of two people who rejected British colonialism and hailed a new nation on the world's stage, examining the intersections of gender, nationality, and literary expression at a significant juncture in Canada's history.
Author : Harold R. Troper
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080271
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Ethnicity, Politics, and Public Policy written by Harold R. Troper and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays on multiculturalism form a comprehensive picture of the problems and prospects of pluralism and mirror the nuanced issues which arise when theories and goals of cultural sensitivity confront real life.
Author : Adam Chapnick
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858877
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Canada's Voice written by Adam Chapnick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation of students and scholars. This book charts the life of a diplomat and public intellectual who influenced both how scholars and statespeople abroad viewed Canada and how Canadians saw themselves on the world stage.
Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864052
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent written by Patrice Dutil and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada’s global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together well-established and new scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of a politician whose astute policies and bold resolve moved Canada into the modern era.
