This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada’s best-known historians. In Careless’s own words, History is dated. Its very claim is that the past does not fade into nothing but continues to matter, whether or not the purely present-minded are able to recognize that basic fact.
These essays cover the main lines of Careless’s career in Canadian scholarship. The collection is divided into four general subject areas each covering a main preoccupation in a distinguished career of over forty years. The first section concentrates on the earliest theme in his writing, George Brown and his times. The second centres on exploring various aspects of frontierism and metropolitanism in Canadian history. The third part deals with cities and regions focusing particularly on the West and nineteenth century Ontario. The final section picks up the threads of other themes including limited identities Canada and multiculturalism.
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971
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- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
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- 9781554881253 1550020676
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- F1026.6
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- C37 1996eb
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- 1 electronic text (359 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603045 (OCoLC)244771092 (CaOOCEL)410537
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Author‘s Foreword 10
- I. GEORGE BROWN AND HIS TIMES 12
- The Toronto Globe and Agrarian Radicalism 18
- Mid-Victorian Liberalism in Central Canadian Newspapers 48
- The Political Ideas of George Brown 68
- George Brown and the Mother of Confederation 78
- II. THE METROPOLITAN APPROACH 100
- Frontierism and Metropolitanism in Canadian History 106
- Aspects of Metropolitanism in Atlantic Canada 132
- Metropolis and Region 148
- The View from Ontario 168
- III. CITIES AND REGIONS 188
- Somewhat Narrow Horizons 194
- The Business Community in the Early Development of Victoria 208
- Urban Life in the West 236
- Some Aspects of Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario 256
- IV. OTHER THEMES 276
- “Limited Identities” in Canada 282
- “Waspishness” and Multiculture in Canada 296
- Emergence of Cabbagetown in Victorian Toronto 310
- Submarines, Princes and Hollywood Commandos or At Sea in B.C. 338
- Bibliography 354
