Thinkers and Dreamers : : Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger / / Gerald Friesen, Doug Owram.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Friesen, Gerald,; Owram, Doug,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 1 photo

Thinkers and Dreamers honours Carl C. Berger, professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto for more than forty years and author of influential works on Canadian intellectual history. In this collection, Professor Berger's colleagues and former students explore the currents of intellectual life in North America since the mid-nineteenth century.Broad in scope, the essays range in content from a commentary on works in intellectual history to analyses of the development of particular disciplines and distinctive cultural institutions. Several of the contributions provide sharp critiques of historical thought, including a discussion of professional scholarship and an analysis of the field of intellectual history. Others address issues that combine institutional and cultural history, such as an examination of Victorian Canada and a discussion of immigration and citizenship. These varied reflections aptly convey Berger's contributions to the study of Canadian history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Owram, Doug / Friesen, Gerald -- 1. Carl Berger: Ironic Man as Historian / Cook, Ramsay -- HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 2. Engaging History: Historians, Storytelling, and Self / McKillop, A.B. -- 3. Beyond the Search for Intellectuals: On the Paucity of Paradigms in the Writing of Canadian Intellectual History / Gauvreau, Michael -- HISTORY -- 4. 'Nebulous Penumbra': James Mark Baldwin and the Borderlands of Psychology / Shore, Marlene -- 5. Sir Andrew Macphail and the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal / Ross Robertson, Ian -- 6. Toronto's Arts and Letters Club: A Public History Perspective / Hamelin, Danielle -- 7. Before the Citizenship Act: Confronting Canadian Citizenship in the House of Commons, 1900-1947 / Ferguson, Barry -- 8. Modernist Blues: Performing Race in the Harlem Renaissance / Monod, David -- HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 9. Progress, Science, and Religion: Exploring Victorian Thought in Canada / Owram, Doug -- 10. Cultural Diversity in Prairie Canada and the Writing of National History / Friesen, Gerald / Kawata, Masako -- MILLENNIAL REFLECTIONS -- 11. A New Era of History / Bowker, Alan -- Contributors -- Index