Download or read book The Social Credit Movement in Alberta written by John A. Irving and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1959-12-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from New York and London, headlines in newspapers, spot news in broadcasts, had confirmed the slogan of Social Crediters, 'The Eyes of the World are on Alberta.' The morning after the election a number of people lined up at the city hall in Calgary to collect the first installment of the Social Credit dividend of $25 monthly, which, they confidently believed, would be immediately forthcoming from their new government." This quotation from 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. Why had the doctrines of Social Credit, promoted unsuccessfully in the British Commonwealth and the United States for nearly twenty years, achieved political acceptance in Alberta? Why had the people of Alberta elected to public office persons so little experienced in the economic and political world as William Aberhart and his Social Credit colleagues? Professor Iving answers these questions and analyses systematically and comprehensively the rise of the movement as a phenomenon of mass psychology. His study, based mainly on interviews, supplemented with references to private papers, newspapers, and government sources provides a truly fascinating record.
Download or read book Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta written by Edward Bell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-05-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years scholars have maintained that Social Credit was a protest on the part of small-scale farmers, who fought against their disadvantaged position in advanced capitalism by rejecting central Canada's control of the prairie region. The protest is usually described as conservative and its supporters portrayed as small agrarian capitalists who combined their opposition to regional exploitation with a firm commitment to capitalism. Based on a review of census materials on occupations, election results, and the party's statements and appeals, Bell reveals that this traditional interpretation is misguided on several counts. He provides a greatly revised picture of the movement's popular class base and its goals and motives, and shows that it was far more radical than commonly believed. The theory of social movements Bell draws from this analysis is applicable not only to Social Credit but to social movements in general. Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta will be of particular interest to sociologists, political scientists, and historians concerned with Canadian social movements and elections and the political history of the Great Depression.
Download or read book Fifty Years of Social Credit 1919 1969 written by Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre (England) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title comes from the Political Extremism and Radicalism digital archive series which provides access to primary sources for academic research and teaching purposes. Please be aware that users may find some of the content within this resource to be offensive.
Download or read book Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit written by Bob Hesketh and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Credit Movement had a Broad and significant impact on the social and political history of Alberta. A number of authors have examined this phenomenon, usually focusing on the economic and social conditions that influenced Social Credit's rise to power. Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit Ideology, however, is the first work dedicated expressly to the intellectual history of the Social Credit government of the 1930s and 1940s. Bob Hesketh challenges us to revise previous thinking about Social Credit by placing new emphasis on the influence of Major C.H. Douglas's conspiracy-based ideology on the Aberhart and Manning governments. The author is the first to contend that Douglas's beliefs were strongly influenced by the infamous anti-Semitic book, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Douglas believed that a Jewish financial conspiracy with the single goal of enslaving mankind was orchestrating world events. Hesketh analyses the shared ground between Douglas's conspiratorial thinking and the fundamentalism of Aberhart and Manning. He suggests that both Premiers understood and applied Douglas's teachings to a wide variety of government policies, from the famous monetary bills to numerous lesser known economic diversification initiatives. This book develops important new interpretations of Social Credit's behaviour as a movement, party, and government, providing an unprecedented focus on ideology. It will be an essential reference for historians and political scientists concerned with the history of Social Credit in Alberta.
Download or read book The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta written by Alvin Finkel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this account of the Social Credit transformation, Alvin Finkel challenges earlier works which focus purely on Social Credit monetary fixations and religiosity.
Download or read book The Social Credit Movement in Alberta written by Malcolm Gordon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Credit and the Federal Power in Canada written by J. R. Mallory and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Credit Party in Alberta written by Malcolm Gordon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of the Social Credit Movement in Alberta 1932 1935 written by Mary Louise Huston and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Discredit written by Janine Stingel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining Social Credit's anti-Semitic propaganda and the reaction of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Stingel details their mutual antagonism and explores why Congress was unable to stop Social Credit's blatant defamation. She argues that Congress's ineffective response was part of a broader problem in which passivity and a belief in "quiet diplomacy" undermined many of its efforts to combat intolerance. Stingel shows that both Social Credit and Congress changed considerably in the post-war period, as Social Credit abandoned its anti-Semitic trappings and Congress gradually adopted an assertive and pugnacious public relations philosophy that made it a champion of human rights in Canada. Social Discredit offers a fresh perspective on both the Social Credit movement and the Canadian Jewish Congress, substantively revising Social Credit historiography and providing a valuable addition to Canadian Jewish studies.
Download or read book Social Credit and Canada written by Bernard Albert Gabriel Lourier and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychological Aspects of the Social Credit Movement in Alberta written by John A. Irving and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Credit Movement in Alberta written by John A. Irving and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Psychological Aspects of the Social Credit Movement in Alberta written by John Allan Irving and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy in Alberta written by Crawford Brough Macpherson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to offering an original analysis of the party system and Alberta's political structures and institutions, Democracy in Alberta presents a fascinating micro-history of the social and economic characteristics of Alberta.
Download or read book Social Credit in Alberta written by K. J. Binns and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Populist Characteristics of the Early Social Credit Movement in Alberta written by Pashak, Leonard Barry and published by 1971.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
