Thinkers and dreamers : historical essays in honour of Carl Berger / edited by Gerald Friesen and Doug Owram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friesen, Gerald, editor.

Owram, Doug, 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--History.

Canada.

Canada--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Broad in scope, the essays range in content from a commentary on works in intellectual history to analyses of the development of particular disciplines and distinctive cultural institutions. Several of the contributions provide sharp critiques of historical thought, including a discussion of professional scholarship and an analysis of the field of intellectual history. Others address issues that combine institutional and cultural history, such as an examination of Victorian Canada and a discussion of immigration and citizenship. These varied reflections aptly convey Berger's contributions to the study of Canadian history."--Pub. desc

"Thinkers and Dreamers honours Carl C. Berger, professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto for more than forty years and author of influential works on Canadian intellectual history. In this collection, Professor Berger's colleagues and former students explore the currents of intellectual life in North America since the mid-nineteenth century

Contents:

Carl Berger: Ironic Man as Historian

Engaging History: Historians, Storytelling, and Self

Beyond the Search for Intellectuals: On the paucity of Paradigms in the Writing of Canadian Intellectual History

'Nebulous Penumbra': James Mark Baldwin and the Borderlands of Psychology

Sir Andrew Macphail and the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal

Toronto's Arts and Letters Club: A Public History Perspective

Before the Citizenship Act: Confronting Canadian Citizenship in the House of Commons, 1900-1947

Modernist Blues: Performing Race in the Harlem Renaissance

Progress, Science, and Religion: Exploring Victorian Thought in Canada

Cultural Diversity in Prairie Canada and the Writing of National History

A New Era of History.

Notes:

Dust jacket: Thinkers & dreamers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9016-X

OCLC:

923775052