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Donald A. Wright - Donald Creighton: A Life in History - 9781442649477 - V9781442649477
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Donald Creighton: A Life in History

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Description for Donald Creighton: A Life in History hardcover. Through his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals. Num Pages: 496 pages, 41. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; BGH; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 850.

A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it “had happened,” he said, “the day before yesterday.” And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario, and – at least on one occasion – the British government.

Yet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his ... Read more

Through his virtuoso research into Creighton’s own voluminous papers, Wright paints a sensitive portrait of a brilliant but difficult man. Ultimately, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442649477
SKU
V9781442649477
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Donald A. Wright
Donald Wright is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick.

Reviews for Donald Creighton: A Life in History
‘Wright has not only written the definitive biography of one of Canada’s most important historians but provided us with a model of how a biography ought to be done.’
Phillip A. Buckner
The Dorchester Review Autumn/Winter 2015
‘Wright very self-consciously places his own biography within the romantic conventions of Creightonian history and romantic art, very appropriately joining ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Donald Creighton: A Life in History


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