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Book Documents on the Confederation of British North America

Download or read book Documents on the Confederation of British North America written by G.P. Browne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition retains Browne's original introduction with its lucid exposition of events from 1858 to 1867. A new introduction by Janet Ajzenstat draws attention to the debt British North Americans owe to the political tradition of British liberalism.

Book Documents on the Confederation of British North America

Download or read book Documents on the Confederation of British North America written by G. P. Browne and published by McClelland and Stewart. This book was released on 1969 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents on the Confederation of British North America  A Compilation Based on Sir Joseph Pope s Confederation Documents Supplemented by Other Official Material  Edited and with an Introduction by G P  Browne

Download or read book Documents on the Confederation of British North America A Compilation Based on Sir Joseph Pope s Confederation Documents Supplemented by Other Official Material Edited and with an Introduction by G P Browne written by Gerald Peter BROWNE and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Founding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Ajzenstat
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0773575936
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Canadian Founding written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation.

Book Canadian Expeditionary Force  1914 1919

Download or read book Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 1919 written by G.W.L. Nicholson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.

Book W A  Mackintosh

Download or read book W A Mackintosh written by Hugh Grant and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.A. Mackintosh (1895-1970) was an exemplary public intellectual and a modest person of rare abilities. In the first biography of this influential economist, Hugh Grant addresses how Mackintosh's commitment to public service and to the principles of reason and tolerance shaped his contribution to economic scholarship, government policy, and university governance. In the 1920s and '30s, Mackintosh emerged as the country's leading economist. His most notable contribution was through his "co-discovery" with Harold Innis of the staple thesis of Canadian economic development, which informed research in the field for a generation. During the Second World War Mackintosh joined the Department of Finance, where he played a central role in the successful management of the wartime economy and in Canada's adoption of Keynesian economic policy. As the author of the federal government's 1945 White Paper, Mackintosh laid out the broad strokes of Canada's adherence to Keynesianism in the post-war period. After his return to Queen's, Mackintosh would become the university's fifteenth principal and guide the institution as it prepared for the transformation of Canadian universities. A remarkable man who had a profound influence on the development of modern Canada, this definitive biography restores the record on his important contributions to Canadian economic thought and national and international finance.

Book Lives in Transition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Baskerville
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0773596690
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Lives in Transition written by Peter Baskerville and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective histories and broad social change are informed by the ways in which personal lives unfold. Lives in Transition examines individual experiences within such collective histories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection brings together sources from Europe, North America, and Australia in order to advance the field of quantitative longitudinal historical research. The essays examine the lives and movements of various populations over time that were important for Europe and its overseas settlements - including the experience of convicts transported to Australia and Scots who moved freely to New Zealand. The micro-level roots of economic change and social mobility of settler society are analyzed through populations studies of Chicago, Montreal, as well as rural communities in Canada and the United States. Several studies also explore ethnic inequality as experienced by Polish immigrants, French-Canadians, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Lives in Transition demonstrates how the analysis of collective experience through both individual-level and large-scale data at different moments in history opens up important avenues for social science and historical research. Contributors include Luiza Antonie (Guelph), Peter Baskerville (Alberta), Kandace Bogaert (McMaster), John Cranfield (Guelph), Gordon Darroch (York), Allegra Fryxell (Cambridge), Ann Herring (McMaster), Kris Inwood (Guelph), Rebecca Kippen (Melbourne), Rebecca Lenihan (Guelph), Susan Hautaniemi Leonard (Michigan), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania), Janet McCalman (Melbourne), Evan Roberts (Minnesota), J. Andrew Ross (Guelph), Sherry Olson (McGill), Ken Sylvester (Michigan), Jane van Koeverden (Waterloo), Aaron Van Tassel (Western).

Book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

Download or read book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents written by S. R. Mealing and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada  1865

Download or read book Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada 1865 written by P.B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865, John A. Macdonald presses for the advantages of a strong central power; Alexander Galt puts forward the economic arguments for union; and critics of confederation, Christopher Dunkin and A.A. Dorion, express their misgivings with prophetic insight.

Book The Great War as I Saw It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick George Scott
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-09-01
  • ISBN : 0773596526
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book The Great War as I Saw It written by Frederick George Scott and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George Scott was an improbable volunteer, but also an invaluable war memoirist about life at the front. Enlisting at the very beginning of the conflict and serving on the Western Front until the Armistice, Scott became the most decorated Canadian chaplain. A High Anglican and staunch British imperialist described by one of his fellow officers as "an old snob of the old school," Scott also defied stereotypes, often rejecting the privileges he was entitled to as an officer and insisting on being at the frontlines with the rank-and-file soldiers, with whom he felt genuine kinship. As a result, he was seriously wounded in the autumn of 1918, near the end of the war. The Great War as I Saw It is an idiosyncratic portrait by a man of strong religious convictions witnessing the horror of modern warfare. In evocative prose shaped by his background as a poet, Scott moves between lighthearted moments and dark tragedy, including his wrenching account of searching for his own son’s body in a ruined battlefield. Rich in detail, it is one of the most diverse and complete first-hand accounts of the war ever published.

Book Monck Letters and Journals  1863 1868

Download or read book Monck Letters and Journals 1863 1868 written by Charles Stanley Monck Monck (Viscount) and published by McClelland and Steward. This book was released on 1970 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FR-RARE-BK (copy 4): Gift of Diana M. Schatz from the Norah and Roland Michener collection.

Book Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Download or read book Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier written by Oscar Skelton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1965-01-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With masterly sweep and vigorous prose, this biography, first published just two years after Laurier's death, surveys his career, especially the fifteen eventful years of his premiership. This volume covers the years 1841-1896.

Book The Crown and Canadian Federalism

Download or read book The Crown and Canadian Federalism written by D. Michael Jackson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever Canada’s constitutional monarchy should be treasured as a distinct asset for the nation. Following Queen Elizabeth II’s historic Diamond Jubilee in 2012, there is renewed interest in the institution of the Crown in Canada and the roles of the queen, governor general, and lieutenant governor. Author D. Michael Jackson traces the story of the monarchy and the Crown and shows how they are integral to Canada’s parliamentary democracy. His book underscores the Crown’s key contribution to the origins, evolution, and successful functioning of Canadian federalism, while the place of the monarchy in francophone Canada and the First Nations receives special attention. Complex issues such as the royal prerogative, constitutional conventions, the office of lieutenant governor, and Canada’s honours system are made readily accessible to the general reader. Jackson examines the option of republican governance for Canada and concludes that responsible government under a constitutional monarchy is far preferable. He further argues that the Crown should be treasured as a distinct asset for Canada.

Book The Life and Letters of Sir Wilfred Laurier

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Sir Wilfred Laurier written by Oscar Douglas Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Foreign Policy  1945 1954

Download or read book Canadian Foreign Policy 1945 1954 written by Robert Alexander MacKay and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sociology of Work

Download or read book The Sociology of Work written by Oswald Hall and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: