
The Orangeman, Second Edition
The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan, Second Edition
Don Akenson(Autor*in)
McGill-Queen's University Press
2. Auflage
Erschienen am 15. Februar 2023
Buch
Softcover
277 Seiten
978-0-2280-1180-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them - against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans - bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces.
Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country - the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson's telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald.
One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country - the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson's telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald.
One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Akenson's story rings true and his narrative reflects the historical imagination and archival research of a leading scholar." Quill and Quire "No book will set you straighter on the vicious sectarianism that once dominated our politics." Toronto Star "A commentary upon an historical figure and the writing of history itself. This gives the book a delicious irony that just might herald the advent of post-modernism in Canadian historical scholarship." Ontario History"A fascinating book that asks and answers the questions historians often avoid." The Globe and Mail
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Auflage
Second edition
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Montreal
Kanada
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Neue Ausgabe
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 150 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-2280-1180-4 (9780228011804)
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Person
Don Akenson, A.C. Hamilton Distinguished University Professor and Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University, is the author of An Irish History of Civilization, volumes 1 and 2.