Nations, Ideas, Identities
Published on 1. June 2000
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Hardback
320 pages
978-0-19-541463-9 (ISBN)
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This text grew out of an Ottawa conference in the fall of 1997, which was organized by two of his former PhD students, Michael Behiels and Marcel Martel. The essayists are all former PhD students of Professor Cook's, and their work reflects the range of Cook's scholarly interest as well as the transformation of the historical profession in Canada following the growth of graduate history programmes in the late 1960s. This collection is both a tribute to Ramsay Cook and a testimony to the maturation of Canadian historiography. Among the topics which cover culture, ideas, nationalism, native voices, and women, readers will learn about the biases underlying Canadian art exhibitions, the role of sealing in the formulation of Newfoundlanders' identity, why Harold Innis was concerned with the uses and abuses of power, how contemporary Quebecois nationalists abandoned the Francophone minority communities after World War II, the struggle for Indian votes in Saskatchewan elections in the 1960s and 1970s, and the radicalization of female workers in Quebec's cotton industry at the turn of the century.
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Part One: The Role of Culture ; Ann Davis, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary: Much Ado About Something: A Brief Study of the History of Canadian Art Exhibitions; Norman Knowles, University of Calgary: Christ in the Crowsnest: Religion and the Anglo-Protestant Working Class in the Crowsnest Pass, 1898-1918; Peter E. Rider, Canadian Museum of Civilization: Swiling and Newfoundland Identity; Mary Vipond, Concordia University: Desperately Seeking the Audience for Early Canadian Radio; Part Two: Nationalism, Racism, and the Canadian Question ; Marcel Martel: Hors du Quebec, point de salut: The Intellectual Liquidation of Minority Francophones in the Imagination of Nationalist Quebec, 1945-1969; Phyllis M. Senese, University of Victoria: Seduced by the Dark Side: Racism and Anti-Semitism in the Slipstream of Nationalism; Part Three: Canadian Women Exercising Agency at Home and Abroad ; Gail C. Brandt, renison College, University of Waterloo: The Problem of 'Passivity' and Female Workers in the Quebec Cotton Industry, 1880-1910; Ruth C. Brouwer, University of Western Ontario: Standard versus Sisterhood: Dr Murray, President Kim and Distinctive Approaches to Medical Education at Ewa woman's University, Seoul, 1947-50; Michael D. Behiels: Native Feminism vs. Aboriginal Nationalism: The Native Women's Association of Canada's Quest for Gender Equality, 1983-1994; Part Four: Ideas and Their Impact ; Brian J. Fraser, University of British Columbia: James A. Macdonald and the Theology of the Regenerators, 1890-1914; Michael Horn, Glendon College, York University: The Concept of Academic Freedom in English Canada: 1919-1964; R. Douglas Francis, University of Calgary: The Anatomy of Power: A Theme in the Writings of Harold Innis; Patrice A. Dutil, TV Ontario: 'Wanted: A Phoenix': Ramsay Cook and the Exhaustian of Ideas, 1960-68; Part Five: Native Voices: From New France to the Canadian Prairies ; Jose A. Brandao, University of Western Michigan: Ignored Voices: Nineteenth Century French Canadian Views of Iroquois-French Relations; James Pitsula, University of Regina: The Indian Vote in Saskatchewan Elections; Ramsay Cook: A Bibliography; PhD Dissertations Supervised by Ramsay Cook.