Discovering Confederation : A Canadian's Story.
Ajzenstat, Janet.
Discovering Confederation : A Canadian's Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (167 pages) - Footprints Series ; v.19 . - Footprints Series .
Cover -- Footprints Series -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Confederation Lost and Found -- 2 Finding Canada's Texts -- 3 Getting to Political Science -- 4 McMaster's Basement Lecture Halls -- 5 Allan Bloom and C.B. Macpherson -- 6 Our Greatest Constitutionalist -- 7 Divided Mind -- 8 Janet's Dilemma -- 9 The Great Delayers -- 10 Knocking on the Academic Door -- 11 Enter Peter J. Smith -- 12 The Failed Siege of McMaster -- 13 Happy Home in the West -- 14 The World Remade -- 15 On the Inside -- 16 The Law Class -- 17 The Confederation Texts -- 18 Making the Book -- 19 Human Rights -- 20 Return to the Law Class -- 21 Retirement as Career -- 22 Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig -- 23 In Demand as Expert: The Canadian Senate -- 24 "Your Publisher Is on the Line" -- 25 The "Revisionist Account" Revisited -- 26 Double-Duty Retirement -- 27 Return Trip to Primary Texts -- Notes -- Index.
A scholar's appreciation of the magnificent achievement that is the Canadian political constitution.
9780773590250
Ajzenstat, Janet,-1936-.
Political science-Canada-History.
Political scientists-Canada-Biography.
Intellectuals-Canada-Biography.
Canada-History-Confederation, 1867.
Canada-Politics and government.
Electronic books.
JA84.C2.A394 2014eb
320.092
Discovering Confederation : A Canadian's Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (167 pages) - Footprints Series ; v.19 . - Footprints Series .
Cover -- Footprints Series -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Confederation Lost and Found -- 2 Finding Canada's Texts -- 3 Getting to Political Science -- 4 McMaster's Basement Lecture Halls -- 5 Allan Bloom and C.B. Macpherson -- 6 Our Greatest Constitutionalist -- 7 Divided Mind -- 8 Janet's Dilemma -- 9 The Great Delayers -- 10 Knocking on the Academic Door -- 11 Enter Peter J. Smith -- 12 The Failed Siege of McMaster -- 13 Happy Home in the West -- 14 The World Remade -- 15 On the Inside -- 16 The Law Class -- 17 The Confederation Texts -- 18 Making the Book -- 19 Human Rights -- 20 Return to the Law Class -- 21 Retirement as Career -- 22 Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig -- 23 In Demand as Expert: The Canadian Senate -- 24 "Your Publisher Is on the Line" -- 25 The "Revisionist Account" Revisited -- 26 Double-Duty Retirement -- 27 Return Trip to Primary Texts -- Notes -- Index.
A scholar's appreciation of the magnificent achievement that is the Canadian political constitution.
9780773590250
Ajzenstat, Janet,-1936-.
Political science-Canada-History.
Political scientists-Canada-Biography.
Intellectuals-Canada-Biography.
Canada-History-Confederation, 1867.
Canada-Politics and government.
Electronic books.
JA84.C2.A394 2014eb
320.092