People, Politics, and Purpose
Biography and Canadian Political History
Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of British Columbia Press
- Date of Publication 15 February 2023
- ISBN 9780774866804
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English 438
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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.
" MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction / P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Greg Donaghy
1 Canada's Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928–84 / Robert Bothwell and Norman Hillmer
2 That Bouncy Man: Americans and Lester B. Pearson / Galen Roger Perras and Asa McKercher
3 The Lumberjack Wars 1943–44: Canadian-American Relations at the Border and the Lives of Ordinary People / Angelika Sauer
4 Competing Biographies: How James Gladstone Became Canada's First Indigenous Senator / P. Whitney Lackenbauer
5 Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography / Stephen Azzi
6 Scandal and the Decentring of Canadian Biography: The Case of Gerda Munsinger / P.E. Bryden
7 Herb Gray and the founding of the Foreign Investment Review Agency / Jennifer Levin Bonder
8 The Fine Balance Intended: Allan J. MacEachen and Canadian Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1974–84 / Greg Donaghy
9 A Journey Without Maps: John Hadwen in India 1979–83 / Ryan Touhey
Conclusion: The Academic as Activist / John Milloy
Contributors; Index
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