Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas

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

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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

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

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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

Frank H. Underhill
Title Frank H. Underhill PDF eBook
Author R. Douglas Francis
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 1986
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Getting it Wrong

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

On Canada
Title On Canada PDF eBook
Author Norman Penlington
Publisher
Pages 217
Release
Genre BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN 9781487577469

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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.