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

• Autore: Ajzenstat Janet
• Pubblicazione: Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.092
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Canada - History; Political scientists - Canada; Intellectuals - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Canada History Confederation, 1867; Canada Politics and government
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Discovering Confederation
• ISBN: 0-7735-9026-9; 0-7735-9025-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792167903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; ; Volume 18.