The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900-1945 - Brossura

Owram, Doug

 
9780802066046: The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900-1945
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ISBN 10: 0802066046 ISBN 13: 9780802066046
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1986

Sinossi

War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry – between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments, and from them was born the modern welfare state. New services were created, along with new taxes to pay for them and expanded bureaucracies to administer them. Government activity grew enormously; so did government expenditures. The role of the state in a modern industrialized society became the focus of a lively and continuing debate for two generations of intellectual reformers.
Doug Owram looks back at that debate and the academics, civil servants, and political activists who engaged in it. Adam Short, W.L. Grant, Frank Underhill, W.C. Clark, Harold Innis, and many others exchanged ideas – sometimes cautiously, sometimes passionately – about the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization. Owram explores the reforming impulse and its political dimension: the impact of warm and depression on attitudes to the state, the League of Social Reconstruction and its relations with the CCF, R.B. Bennett’s New Deal, and the various changes of heart experienced over forty years by Mackenzie King.
The Canada that emerged from the Second World War was very different from the one that had existed at the turn of the century relations between the individual and the state had altered drastically and irrevocably. The people examined in this book and the social and political movements in which they believed helped shape Canada’s response to powerful forces that were changing its way of life forever.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Doug Owram is Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

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Editore
Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1986
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0802066046
ISBN 13 
9780802066046
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
416
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780802025814: The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900-1945

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ISBN 10:  0802025811 ISBN 13:  9780802025814
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1986
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