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Haycock Ronald |
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Titolo |
Sam Hughes [[electronic resource] ] : The Public Career of a Controversial Canadian, 1885-1916 / / Ronald G. Haycock |
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[Waterloo, Ont.], : Wilfrid Laurier University Press in collaboration with Canadian War Museum, Canadian Museum of Civilization, National Museums of Canada |
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Gerrards Cross, : Colin Smythe [distributor], c1986 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Collana |
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Canadian War Museum historical publication ; ; no. 21 |
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971.05 |
971.05/092 |
971.05/092/4 |
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Soggetti |
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Cabinet officers - Canada - Biography |
World War, 1914-1918 - Canada |
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Canada Politics and government 1867-1914 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p. 325-339. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Background, 1853-1885; 2. Journalism, the Militia, and Local Politics, 1885-1890; 3. Getting Elected, 1890-1892; 4. In Parliament, 1892-1899; 5. Hughes, Hutton, and the Contingents for South Africa, 1899; 6. The Proving Ground: South Africa, 1900; 7. A Loyal Veteran, 1900-1911; 8. A Loyal Maverick; 9. The Peacetime Minister, 1911-1914; 10. The Critics; 11. War and Mobilization: One Man's Show, 1914; 12. Recruiting, 1914-1916; 13. ""Done in Our Own Country"": War Supplies, 1914-1916; 14. Hughes' Hydra Overseas, 1914-1915 |
15. A Nightmare Removed: Reform and Resignation, 191616. Eclipse; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is based on the public career of a highly controversial Canadian, Sam Hughes 1885?1916. He is one of the most colourful, even bizarre, figures in Canadian history. Though he died in 1921, his name can still conjure up controversy and not a little |
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misunderstanding. His long career?in so many respects the quintessential story of a poor backwoods Ontario farm boy who made good by his own efforts?continues to exert a fascination that few other Canadian political figures could duplicate. Even though there has never been a major scholarly study of Sam Hughes, historia |
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