People, Politics, and Purpose

Biography and Canadian Political History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Biography is "not on the periphery of history but in the middle of it," historian Peter Waite astutely remarked. People, Politics, and Purpose brings the historian's myriad tools to bear on Canadians, from prime ministers to lumberjacks to Indigenous leaders. Drawing on the rich details of biography – the what – the contributors also address the larger questions of motivation – the so what – that drive history. In the process, they prove the value of analyzing both macro- and micro-dynamics within Canadian politics and society to illuminate the roles of political actors. As such, the biographies in People, Politics, and Purpose are not simply stories about the lives of individuals but critical reflections on subjects who are directly involved in, and affected by, politics in Canada. This book makes for lively reading that stimulates fresh thinking about political biography and the direction of political history more generally.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieC.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
Antal sidor274
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774866804

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The late Greg Donaghy was the director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. His publications include Grit: The Life and Politics of Paul Martin Sr and Tolerant Allies: Canada and the United States, 1963–1968. P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North at Trent University. Among his more than fifty books are The Canadian Rangers: A Living History; Breaking Through? Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic; and China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada.Contributors: Stephen Azzi, Jennifer Levin Bonder, Robert Bothwell, P.E. Bryden, Norman Hillmer, Galen Roger Perras, Asa McKercher, John Milloy, Angelika Sauer, Ryan Touhey.

Introduction / P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy1 Canada's Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928–84 / Robert Bothwell and Norman Hillmer2 That Bouncy Man: Americans and Lester B. Pearson / Galen Roger Perras and Asa McKercher3 The Lumberjack Wars 1943–44: Canadian-American Relations at the Border and the Lives of Ordinary People / Angelika Sauer4 Competing Biographies: How James Gladstone Became Canada's First Indigenous Senator / P. Whitney Lackenbauer5 Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography / Stephen Azzi6 Scandal and the Decentring of Canadian Biography: The Case of Gerda Munsinger / P.E. Bryden7 Herb Gray and the founding of the Foreign Investment Review Agency / Jennifer Levin Bonder8 The Fine Balance Intended: Allan J. MacEachen and Canadian Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1974–84 / Greg Donaghy9 A Journey Without Maps: John Hadwen in India 1979–83 / Ryan TouheyConclusion: The Academic as Activist / John MilloyContributors; Index