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

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 319 pages) : portrait
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Canada -- History.
Canada.
History.
Canada -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Berger, Carl, 1939-
Friesen, Gerald.
Owram, Doug, 1947-
Other Form: Print version: Thinkers and dreamers. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2011 9781442641952 (DLC) 2010549444 (OCoLC)702338438
ISBN 9781442690165 (electronic book)
144269016X (electronic book)
9781442641952
1442641959