Haldane : the forgotten statesman who shaped Britain and Canada / John Campbell ; in collaboration with Richard McLauchlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, John, 1947- author.

Contributor:

McLauchlan, Richard, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount, 1856-1928.

Haldane, R. B. Haldane.

Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography.

Statesmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 483 pages, 104 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army, the British Expeditionary Force, the Imperial General Staff, and the Officers' Training Corps? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the "redbrick" universities, and the Medical Research Council? This book restores Richard Burdon Haldane to his rightful place among the great men of British and Canadian history. Serving as war minister in the 1905 Liberal British government, his groundbreaking proposals on defence, education, and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his time – the very building blocks of modern Britain. Even the Canadian Constitution, as now interpreted, is unthinkable without Haldane. His ubiquitous networks ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, king to kaiser; his polymathic interests enabled pioneering cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in 1915 he was ejected from the Lord Chancellorship, unjustly vilified by an ignorant press campaign as a German sympathizer. John Campbell charts these ups and downs, reveals the intensely personal side of Haldane through previously unpublished love letters, and shows his enormous relevance in our search for just societies and states today. Amidst political and national instability, it is surely now right to reinstate Haldane as an outstanding example of true statesmanship.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Timelines of Haldane's Life and Times

Preface

Introduction

Laying the Foundations

A Family Tradition

The Head and the Heart

The Company of Friends

A Philosophy for Life

Wealth and the Nation

Building the State

A Brave New World

A Man for All Seasons

Education, Education, Education

War and Peace

The New State

Afterword

Acknowledgements

List of Sources for Illustrations

Notes

Bibliography and Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228002338

0228002338

9780228002321

022800232X

OCLC:

1376359267