The Government Generation : : Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900–1945 /

The Government Generation : : Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900–1945 / / Doug Owram.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Owram, Doug,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1986
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. 'A city of pigs': the intellectual community and social crisis 1895-1914
  • 2. The intellectual and the state 1900-14
  • 3. The social sciences and the search for authority 1906-16
  • 4. Statism and democracy 1914-18
  • 5. The social sciences and the service state 1919-29
  • 6. The formation of a new reform elite 1930-5
  • 7. Moving into the inner councils 1930-5
  • 8. The 'new millennialists': economics in the 1930s
  • 9. The problem of national unity and the Rowell-Sirois Report 1935-40
  • 10. Bureaucracy, war, and reform 1939-42
  • 11. The triumph of macro-economic management 1943-5
  • 12. Epilogue The Dominion-provincial conference on reconstruction - the limits of success
  • Note on sources
  • Notes
  • Index

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