McGill in History

Brian Lewis is professor of history at McGill University.Don Nerbas is associate professor of history and St Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies at McGill University.Melissa N. Shaw is assistant professor of history at McGill University.

• Figures viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 3Brian Lewis, Don Nerbas, and Melissa N. Shaw1 McGill’s Glasgow: City, University, Atlantic Slavery, and Abolition, 1744–66 19Stephen Mullen2 A North Atlantic “Provincial”: James McGill, Empire, “Property,” and “Improvement” 41Andrew Mackillop3 James McGill and Constructing the History of a University 60Brian Young4 “To Relieve It from Present Embarrassments”: Fiduciary Colonialism in Service to McGill College 83Brian Gettler5 Willie McDonald’s McGill: A Student’s Experience in the Late Nineteenth Century 104Don Nerbas6 “What Is Money?” Stephen Leacock and Jacob Viner at McGill 132E.A. Heaman7 “Risky Business”: Social Sciences, McGill, and the Interwar Years 164Marlene Shore8 “A Distinct Blow to Our Esteem of That Outstanding Institution”: McGill University’s Racial Exclusion of Japanese Canadians, 1943–45 194Tess Elsworthy9 Beyond the Headlines: Heinz Lehmann and the History of McGill Psychiatry 223Andrea Tone10 “A Perfect Storm”: Operation McGill Français, 28 March 1969 250Jean-Philippe Warren11 The Queering of McGill 271Brian LewisEpilogue 293Wendell Nii Laryea AdjeteyContributors 301Index 305

"This is a history that responds to the expanded, decentralized nature of the twenty-first-century university. McGill is seen through the eyes of members of its multifaceted and diverse community; the traditional comprehensive, synthetic, and inevitably conformist institutional history is replaced by many snapshots, each bringing a different hue to the university experience over time. Marshalling a particularly impressive array of talented scholars across various disciplines, McGill in History opens a new and many-paned window on McGill’s past." Duncan L. McDowall, Queen’s University