Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas
Title | Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth C. Dewar |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0773582614 |
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.
No Ordinary Academics
Title | No Ordinary Academics PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Spafford |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802044372 |
Describes the circumstances and people that turned a department in an isolated prairie university into a thriving intellectual community that would nurture some of Canada's best minds.
Frank H. Underhill
Title | Frank H. Underhill PDF eBook |
Author | R. Douglas Francis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Getting it Wrong
Title | Getting it Wrong PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Romney |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780802081056 |
This provocative book explains how divergent views of Canada's past have sown dissension between Qu?b?cois and other Canadians, disclosing a lost middle ground between the Canadian nationalist and Qu?bec nationalist visions of Canadian history.
Cultures, Communities, and Conflict
Title | Cultures, Communities, and Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Stortz |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2012-11-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1442664479 |
Cultures, Communities, and Conflict offers provocative, cutting-edge perspectives on the history of English-Canadian universities and war in the twentieth century. The contributors explore how universities contributed not only to Canadian war efforts, but to forging multiple understandings of intellectualism, academia, and community within an evolving Canadian nation. Contributing to the social, intellectual, and academic history of universities, the collection provides rich approaches to integral issues at the intersection of higher education and wartime, including academic freedom, gender, peace and activism on campus, and the challenges of ethnic diversity. The contributors place the historical university in several contexts, not the least of which is the university’s substantial power to construct and transform intellectual discourse and promote efforts for change both on- and off-campus. With its diverse research methodologies and its strong thematic structure, Cultures, Communities, and Conflict provides an energetic basis for new understandings of universities as historical partners in Canadian community and state formation.
The Professionalization of History in English Canada
Title | The Professionalization of History in English Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Donald A. Wright |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2015-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442629304 |
The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one. The Professionalization of History in English Canada charts the transition of the study of history from a leisurely pastime to that of a full-blown academic career for university-trained scholars - from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Donald Wright argues that professionalization was not, in fact, a benign process, nor was it inevitable. It was deliberate. Within two generations, historians saw the creation of a professional association - the Canadian Historical Association - and rise of an academic journal - the Canadian Historical Review. Professionalization was also gendered. In an effort to raise the status of the profession and protect the academic labour market for men, male historians made a concerted effort to exclude women from the academy. History's professionalization is best understood as a transition from one way of organizing intellectual life to another. What came before professionalization was not necessarily inferior, but rather, a different perspective of history. As well, Wright argues convincingly that professionalization inadvertently led to a popular inverse: the amateur historian, whose work is often more widely received and appreciated by the general public.
On Canada
Title | On Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Penlington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 217 |
Release | |
Genre | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | 9781487577469 |
This volume of essays and bibliography, compiled in his honour, reflects the breadth of Frank Underhill's influence in history, public policy, poetry, Canadian culture, and foreign relations.