
Careless at Work
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This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada's best-known historians. In Careless's own words, History is dated. Its very claim is that the past does not fade into nothing but continues to matter, whether or not the purely present-minded are able to recognize that basic fact.
These essays cover the main lines of Careless's career in Canadian scholarship. The collection is divided into four general subject areas each covering a main preoccupation in a distinguished career of over forty years. The first section concentrates on the earliest theme in his writing, George Brown and his times. The second centres on exploring various aspects of frontierism and metropolitanism in Canadian history. The third part deals with cities and regions focusing particularly on the West and nineteenth century Ontario. The final section picks up the threads of other themes including limited identities Canada and multiculturalism.
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J.M.S. Careless, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, was for many years Chairman of the Department of History. His historical research and writing have brought him many awards. In 1953, he won the Governor General's Award for Canada: A Story of Challenge, and in 1963 the same award for his two volume biography of George Brown, Brown of the Globe (reprinted by Dundurn Press in 1989). Deceased on April 6, 2009.
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- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Author's Foreword
- I. George Brown and His Times
- The Toronto Globe and Agrarian Radicalism
- Mid-Victorian Liberalism in Central Canadian Newspapers
- The Political Ideas of George Brown
- George Brown and the Mother of Confederation
- II. The Metropolitan Approach
- Frontierism and Metropolitanism in Canadian History
- Aspects of Metropolitanism in Atlantic Canada
- Metropolis and Region
- The View from Ontario
- III. Cities and Regions
- Somewhat Narrow Horizons
- The Business Community in the Early Development of Victoria
- Urban Life in the West
- Some Aspects of Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
- IV. Other Themes
- "Limited Identities" in Canada
- "Waspishness" and Multiculture in Canada
- Emergence of Cabbagetown in Victorian Toronto
- Submarines, Princes and Hollywood Commandos or At Sea in B.C.
- Bibliography
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