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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465203103321

Autore

Ajzenstat Janet

Titolo

Discovering Confederation : a Canadian's story / / Janet Ajzenstat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7735-9025-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Collana

Footprints Series ; ; Volume 18

Disciplina

320.092

Soggetti

Political science - Canada - History

Political scientists - Canada

Intellectuals - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada History Confederation, 1867

Canada Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Confederation Lost and Found -- 2 Finding Canada's Texts Getting to Political Science -- 3 Getting to Political Science -- 4 McMaster's Basement Lecture Halls -- 5 Allan Bloom and C.B. Macpherson -- 6 Our Greatest Constitutionalist -- 7 Divided Mind -- 8 Janet's Dilemma -- 9 The Great Delayers -- 10 Knocking on the Academic Door -- 11 Enter Peter J. Smith -- 12 The Failed Siege of McMaster -- 13 Happy Home in the West -- 14 The World Remade -- 15 On the Inside -- 16 The Law Class -- 17 The Confederation Texts -- 18 Making the Book -- 19 Human Rights -- 20 Return to the Law Class -- 21 Retirement as Career -- 22 Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig -- 23 In Demand as Expert: The Canadian Senate -- 24 "Your Publisher Is on the Line" -- 25 The "Revisionist Account" Revisited -- 26 Double-Duty Retirement -- 27 Return Trip to Primary Texts.

Sommario/riassunto

The author is one of Canada's most respected thinkers on the moral and philosophical foundations of responsible government and Confederation. This book offers a study of political science over the years through the intellectual lens of her career.