Thinkers and Dreamers : : Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger / / Gerald Friesen, Doug Owram.

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 inte...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 1 photo
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction /
1. Carl Berger: Ironic Man as Historian /
HISTORIOGRAPHY --
2. Engaging History: Historians, Storytelling, and Self /
3. Beyond the Search for Intellectuals: On the Paucity of Paradigms in the Writing of Canadian Intellectual History /
HISTORY --
4. 'Nebulous Penumbra': James Mark Baldwin and the Borderlands of Psychology /
5. Sir Andrew Macphail and the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal /
6. Toronto's Arts and Letters Club: A Public History Perspective /
7. Before the Citizenship Act: Confronting Canadian Citizenship in the House of Commons, 1900-1947 /
8. Modernist Blues: Performing Race in the Harlem Renaissance /
HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY --
9. Progress, Science, and Religion: Exploring Victorian Thought in Canada /
10. Cultural Diversity in Prairie Canada and the Writing of National History /
MILLENNIAL REFLECTIONS --
11. A New Era of History /
Contributors --
Index
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781442690165
9783110667691
9783110490954
DOI:10.3138/9781442690165
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Gerald Friesen, Doug Owram.