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Visions of Canada : the Alan B. Plaunt memorial lectures, 1958-1992 / edited by Bernard Ostry and Janice Yalden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostry, Bernard, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canada--Politics and government--1945-.
- Canada.
- Canada--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Canada--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Canada--Foreign relations--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (587 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Alan B. Plaunt memorial lectures, 1958-1992
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contributors include Jacob Viner, F.R. Scott, Jean-Charles Falardeau, Harry Johnson, J.A. Corry, James Eayres, Kenneth Hare, Scott Gordon, Jane Jacobs, Maurice Strong, Mordecai Richler, John Hirsch, Guy Rocher, Charles Taylor, Stanley Roberts, Michael Kirby, John Meisel, Sylvia Ostry, Larkin Kerwin, Peter Lougheed, Mel Hurtig, Allan Gotlieb, Lise Bissonnette, and Bernard Ostry.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface The Plaunt Lectures in the Intellectual Life of Carleton University
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Canada and Its Giant Neighbour
- Civil Liberties and Canadian Federalism
- Roots and Values in Canadian Lives
- Canada in a Changing World Economy
- The Changing Conditions of Politics
- Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy
- On University Freedom in the Canadian Context
- Social Science and Modern Man
- The Changing Economy of Canada
- Development, Environment, and the New Global Imperative
- Untitled
- Life as an Artist in Canada
- History and Social Change: Some Myths and Realities
- Language and Human Nature
- The Canadian Constitution: What Is at Stake in the West?
- Reflections on the Management of Government in the 1980s
- Bureaucrats and Reformers: A Remediable Dissonance?
- The World Economy: Marking Time
- The More Thou Searchest, the More Thou Shalt Marvel: The Role of Canadian Science
- Opportunities for Canadian Growth: Canada-United States Trade
- Abandoning the Greatest Asset That We Have
- Some Personal Reflections on Canadian Foreign Policy
- Le Canada est-il viable? Il lui faudrait des prophètes…
- The Survival of Canada through Broadcasting
- Appendix
- Notes:
- Lectures originally delivered at Carleton University from 1958 to 1992.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86160-3
- 9786612861604
- 0-7735-7159-0
- OCLC:
- 70718169
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