Author: Robert Bothwell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political context of events.
Canada 1900-1945
Author: Robert Bothwell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political context of events.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political context of events.
The Government Generation
Author: Doug Owram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
The Government Generation
Author: Doug Owram
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781487578398
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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. Doug Owram looks at that debate and those who engaged in the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781487578398
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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. Doug Owram looks at that debate and those who engaged in the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization.
Age of Contention
Author: Jeff Keshen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780774735223
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780774735223
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Canada Since 1945
Author: Robert Bothwell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802066725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Reviews Canada's post-war history and recounts how Canadians strove for prosperity, international respectability, and a more vigorous national culture
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802066725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Reviews Canada's post-war history and recounts how Canadians strove for prosperity, international respectability, and a more vigorous national culture
The Government Generation. Canadian Intellectuals & the State 1900-1945
The Canada Year Book
Witness Against War
Author: Thomas Paul Socknat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Contradictory Impulses
Author: Greg Donaghy
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association. Canada's early participation in the Asia-Pacific region was hindered by "contradictory impulses" shaping its approach. For over half a century, racist restrictions curtailed immigration from Japan, even as Canadians manoeuvred for access to the fabled wealth of the Orient. Canada's relations with Japan have changed profoundly since then. In Contradictory Impulses, leading scholars draw upon the most recent archival research to examine an important bilateral relationship that has matured in fits and starts over the past century. As they makes clear, the two countries' political, economic, and diplomatic interests are now more closely aligned than ever before and wrapped up in a web of reinforcing cultural and social ties. Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association. Canada's early participation in the Asia-Pacific region was hindered by "contradictory impulses" shaping its approach. For over half a century, racist restrictions curtailed immigration from Japan, even as Canadians manoeuvred for access to the fabled wealth of the Orient. Canada's relations with Japan have changed profoundly since then. In Contradictory Impulses, leading scholars draw upon the most recent archival research to examine an important bilateral relationship that has matured in fits and starts over the past century. As they makes clear, the two countries' political, economic, and diplomatic interests are now more closely aligned than ever before and wrapped up in a web of reinforcing cultural and social ties. Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.
Canada and Quebec
Author: Robert Bothwell
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Relations between Canada and Quebec have never been easy. Beginning with the Conquest and working through the many political permutations before Confederation and since, there has always been conflict between the two governments and, in particular, between two points of view. The rebellions of 1837-8, conscription, the Quiet Revolution, language laws, the FLQ crisis and endless constitutional wrangles such as Meech Lake are just a sampling of the issues that have divided the nation. The cast of characters has been fascinating, too: Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Robert Bourassa, and Rene Levesque have all played centre stage. In the wake of a razor-thin majority for federalist forces in the referendum of 1995, the issue of separation continues to be complicated by the division of the huge national debt, the possibility of further territorial partition within a separate Quebec, the rights of First Nations people, and the spectre of separatist movements in Eastern Europe in recent years. Through interviews with a wide variety of politicians, journalists, and academics, Robert Bothwell skilfully weaves together a coherent account of the relationship between Canada and Quebec. We hear from Jean Chretien, Sharon Carstairs and Ovide Mercredi; Lise Bissonnette and Graham Fraser; Michael Bliss and Ramsay Cook; and many more. The text is an absorbing collage of personal accounts and considered opinions, one that acquaints us with the many different facets of this complicated yet crucial question: how did Canada and Quebec get to this impasse, and where do we go from here?
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Relations between Canada and Quebec have never been easy. Beginning with the Conquest and working through the many political permutations before Confederation and since, there has always been conflict between the two governments and, in particular, between two points of view. The rebellions of 1837-8, conscription, the Quiet Revolution, language laws, the FLQ crisis and endless constitutional wrangles such as Meech Lake are just a sampling of the issues that have divided the nation. The cast of characters has been fascinating, too: Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Robert Bourassa, and Rene Levesque have all played centre stage. In the wake of a razor-thin majority for federalist forces in the referendum of 1995, the issue of separation continues to be complicated by the division of the huge national debt, the possibility of further territorial partition within a separate Quebec, the rights of First Nations people, and the spectre of separatist movements in Eastern Europe in recent years. Through interviews with a wide variety of politicians, journalists, and academics, Robert Bothwell skilfully weaves together a coherent account of the relationship between Canada and Quebec. We hear from Jean Chretien, Sharon Carstairs and Ovide Mercredi; Lise Bissonnette and Graham Fraser; Michael Bliss and Ramsay Cook; and many more. The text is an absorbing collage of personal accounts and considered opinions, one that acquaints us with the many different facets of this complicated yet crucial question: how did Canada and Quebec get to this impasse, and where do we go from here?