The Government Generation : Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900-1945 / Doug Owram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owram, Doug, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Canada.

Intellectuals.

Canada--Politics and government--20th century.

Canada.

Canada--Economic policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry - between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments and from them was born the modern welfare state. Doug Owram looks at that debate and those who engaged in the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; 1 'A city of pigs': the intellectual community and social crisis, 1895-1914; 2 The intellectual and the state, 1900-14; 3 The social sciences and the search for authority, 1906-16; 4 Statism and democracy, 1914-18; 5 The social sciences and the service state, 1919-29; 6 The formation of a new reform elite, 1930-5; 7 Moving into the inner councils, 1930-5; 8 The 'new millennialists': economics in the 1930s; 9 The problem of national unity and the Rowell-Sirois Report, 1935-40; 10 Bureaucracy, war, and reform, 1939-42; 11 The triumph of macro-economic management, 1943-5

12 Epilogue: the Dominion-provincial conference on reconstruction

the limits of successNOTE ON SOURCES; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-392) index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7839-3

OCLC:

1112626048