Joseph Howe: The Briton Becomes Canadian - Couverture souple

Beck, Murray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0773504478 ISBN 13 : 9780773504479

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Professor Beck shows how, in Churchillian fashion, the final resolution was preceded by a series of setbacks and disappointments in Howe's public life. These were the result of a bold colonization scheme encompassing an inter-colonial railway between Halifax and Quebec; a quixotic mission of recruitment in the United States for the British armies in the Crimea; the embattled leasdership of an unstable provincial administration in the early 1860s; and the hard-fought campaign to prevent passage of the British North America Act. Disillusioned by the indifference of British politician to his long-standing advocacy of a refurbished British Empire in whose government colonial leaders could share, Howe turned his energies to making the new Canadian federation work. A whole-hearted supporter of Confederation in his later years, Howe displayed an irrepressible vitality that Professor Beck sees as the trademark of the man.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773504478
• ISBN 13: 9780773504479
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible