Discovering Confederation : a Canadian's story / Janet Ajzenstat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ajzenstat, Janet, author.

Series:

Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; Volume 18.

Footprints Series ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ajzenstat, Janet, 1936-.

Ajzenstat, Janet.

Political science--Canada--History.

Political science.

Political scientists--Canada--Biography.

Political scientists.

Intellectuals--Canada--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Canada--History--Confederation, 1867.

Canada.

Canada--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author is one of Canada's most respected thinkers on the moral and philosophical foundations of responsible government and Confederation. This book offers a study of political science over the years through the intellectual lens of her career.

Contents:

1 Confederation Lost and Found

2 Finding Canada's Texts Getting to Political Science

3 Getting to Political Science

4 McMaster's Basement Lecture Halls

5 Allan Bloom and C.B. Macpherson

6 Our Greatest Constitutionalist

7 Divided Mind

8 Janet's Dilemma

9 The Great Delayers

10 Knocking on the Academic Door

11 Enter Peter J. Smith

12 The Failed Siege of McMaster

13 Happy Home in the West

14 The World Remade

15 On the Inside

16 The Law Class

17 The Confederation Texts

18 Making the Book

19 Human Rights

20 Return to the Law Class

21 Retirement as Career

22 Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

23 In Demand as Expert: The Canadian Senate

24 "Your Publisher Is on the Line"

25 The "Revisionist Account" Revisited

26 Double-Duty Retirement

27 Return Trip to Primary Texts.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773590267

0773590269

9780773590250

0773590250

OCLC:

881552183