Escott Reid : diplomat and scholar / edited by Greg Donaghy and Stéphane Roussel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roussel, Stéphane, 1964-

Donaghy, Greg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reid, Escott.

Glendon College.

World Bank.

Intellectuals.

Canada--Foreign relations--1945-.

Canada.

International relations.

Diplomats--Canada--Biography.

Diplomats.

Intellectuals--Canada--Biography.

World Bank--Officials and employees--Biography.

Glendon College--Officials and employees--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 144 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004]

Summary:

With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians and political scientists, Escott Reid: Diplomat and Scholar offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada, critically exploring the tensions between Reid's progressive idealism and the world in which he lived. Jack Granatstein introduces Reid and the forces that shaped his progressive idealism in the 1920s and 1930s. Hector Mackenzie assesses Reid's contribution to the creation of the United Nations in the mid-1940s, while David Haglund and Stephane Roussel examine Reid's crucial role in the negotiations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greg Donaghy, Bruce Muirhead, and Alyson King write, respectively, about Reid as high commissioner to India, as an important influence on World Bank policy in the early 1960s, and, finally, as founding principal of York University's Glendon College.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: pages [127]-135.

ISBN:

0773527133

OCLC:

55596246