No ordinary academics : economics and political science at the University of Saskatchewan, 1910-1960 / Shirley Spafford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spafford, Shirley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Saskatchewan. Department of Economics and Political Science--History.

University of Saskatchewan.

Economics--Study and teaching (Higher)--Saskatchewan--Saskatoon--History--20th century.

Economics.

Political science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Saskatchewan--Saskatoon--History--20th century.

Political science.

College teachers--Saskatchewan--Saskatoon--History--20th century.

College teachers.

Saskatchewan--Saskatoon.

Genre:

Livres numeriques.

History.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Keynesian economist Mabel Timlin, the first woman to be elected President of the Canadian Political Science Association, and first woman to be elected to Section II of the Royal Society of Canada, went from secretary to student to Professor during her years at the University of Saskatchewan (1921 to 1959). In "No Ordinary Academics" Shirley Spafford describes the circumstances and people that turned a department in an isolated prairie university into a thriving intellectual community that would nurture some of Canada's best minds. Politics, Economics, Economic History, and other fundamental determinants of Canadian life arose from the research of liberal thinkers such as Timlin, Frank Underhill, MacGregor Dawson, and Norman Ward, who saw the necessity of the government's role in economic development. These were academics who knew how not to be dull - and this institutional biography is the same. As Spafford narrates the academics' daily lives, their struggles to gain recognition, the transfer of power from the president's office to the peer group of faculty members, and the cross-pollination of ideas with the University of Toronto, the drama of an intellectual community of the University of Saskatchewan is brought forth with an inspired originality, engendered, by the excitement of the place itself.

Contents:

PREFACE

1 A Workman

2 Bringing the Wisconsin Idea to Saskatchewan

3 An Orthodox Economist

4 Retrenchment

5 Political Science in Search of Itself

6 A Natural Minoritarian

7 A New Start

8 Three Colleagues

9 Wartime

10 Union and the New Members

11 The Britnell Years

12 Conclusion

NOTES

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-03705-6

9786612037054

1-4426-7775-9

OCLC:

288145769