Nelson Wiseman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 504190 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nelson Wiseman |
| NOMBRES | Nelson |
| APELLIDO | Wiseman |
| FIRMA | WISEMAN N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Partisan Odysseys
Motifs or recurring elements in Canadian party politics speak to dominant ideas of the era. Partisan Odysseys looks at how political parties have adjusted, adapted, and sometimes reinvented themselves in response to these cultural cues.
The Fate of Labour Socialism
Holocaust Survivors in Canada
Reviewed by: Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947–1955 by Adara Goldberg Nelson Wiseman Adara Goldberg. Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947–1955. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015. 300pp. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. $24.95 sc. Adara Goldberg, the Education Director at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, tells the story of Canada’s settlement…
Reading Prairie Politics
The ideological, geographical, and disciplinary orientations in W.L. Morton's Manitoba: A History, Seymour Martin Lipset's Agrarian Socialism, and C.B. Macpherson's Democracy in Alberta offer divergent thematic entry points for the study of prairie politics. The rigorous research and graceful literary styles of Morton, Lipset, and Macpherson properly qualified their books as classics. In presenting readers with the idiosyncratic ideational enviro…
Manufacturing Mennonites
Reviewed by: Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba by Janis Thiessen Nelson Wiseman Janis Thiessen. Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 264 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $27.95 sc. Stereotypical images of first generation immigrants often associated them with specific occupations and locations: Icelanders with fishing on Lake Winn…
Community and Frontier
Reviewed by: Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland by John C. Lehr Nelson Wiseman John C. Lehr. Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. 2011. 216 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95 sc. Historical geographer John Lehr subscribes to French historian Marc Bloch’s idea that “all history is local” (7). Lehr’s book extends and builds on his re…
Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias
Reviewed by: Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism by Andrew Griffith Nelson Wiseman Andrew Griffith. Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism. Ottawa, ON: Anar Press, 2013. 120 pp. Notes. $14.99 sc. This slim but informative book sheds light on the understudied subject of the relations between political masters and their civil servants. Penned by a thoughtful former pub…
Ethnicity, Religion, and Socialism in Canada
This article articulates the idiosyncratic socialist affinities of ethnic and religious groups in Canada between the 1920s and the end of the Second World War by surveying a multitude of diverse secondary sources about the groups. Specific ethno-cultural groups accounted for the differences in support for the most prominent socialist parties, an unwieldy mixture of largely labour parties and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and the…
Debating Dissent
Reviewed by: Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties ed. by Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Gregory S. Kealey Nelson Wiseman Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Gregory S. Kealey, eds. Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 374 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95 sc. We are now as distant from the 1960s as that decade was from the First World War, but the past is always present. Indisputably, the tumul…
Grassroots Liberals
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Early Socialism in Canada
International and regional impulses have shaped Canadian socialism from the movement’s origins in the nineteenth century to the present. Many of Canada’s early socialists arrived as ready-made socialists from abroad. From the British Isles, continental Europe, and the United States, these idealists and dissidents imported radical political ideals, which they subsequently adapted to meet the emerging conditions of an industrializing, urbanizing Ca…
Winnipeg Beach
Reviewed by: Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967 by Dale Barbour Nelson Wiseman Dale Barbour. Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2011. 212 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $24.95 sc. Winnipeg Beach served as Manitoba’s Coney Island and, arguably, the principle resort on the prairies. This book highlights its halcyon days. In the ear…
The Public intellectual in Canada
Religion, Culture, and the State
Reviewed by: Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report ed. by Howard Adelman and Pierre Anctil Nelson Wiseman Howard Adelman and Pierre Anctil, eds. Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 151 pp. Notes. References. $21.95 sc. This thoughtful book brings together a philosopher and a historian as contributing editors and three profess…
The Making of the Mosaic
Reviewed by: The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy Nelson Wiseman Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock. The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy. Toronto: University of Alberta Press, 2010. 690 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 sc. Synthesizing material from diverse sources, this rich and lengthy tome revises and updates a first edition that appeared in the 1990s. Its lead author labour…
The Quest for a Quebec Constitution
This article ponders the quest for a new Quebec constitution. It critically analyzes a proposed Quebec constitution introduced as a bill in Quebec's National Assembly in 2007 1 1. Québec Official Publisher (2007a Québec Official Publisher. 2007a. National Assembly, First Session, Thirty-Eighth Legislature, Bill 196, Québec Constitution. Québec Official Publisher http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/38legislature1/Projets-loi/Publics/07-a196.pdf (Accessed:…
Coming of Age
Reviewed by: Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba Nelson Wiseman Allan Levine. Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba. Winnipeg: Heartland Associates, 2009. 511 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $ 42.95 hc. Coming of Age contains a vast collection of well-told stories, anecdotes, and contextual information. Chronologically ordered, it lacks a driving theme that unrolls, but this absence is no shortc…
Immigration and Integration in Canada in the Twenty-first Century (review)
Reviewed by: Immigration and Integration in Canada in the Twenty-first Century Nelson Wiseman John Biles, Meyer Burstein, and James Frideres, eds. Immigration and Integration in Canada in the Twenty-first Century. Kingston, ON: Queen’s University School of Policy Studies, 2008. 304 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 sc. The government-funded Canadian branch of the Metropolis Project—an international network of nearly 8,000 policy-makers, prac…
Cities and Immigrants
Cities and Immigrants Nelson Wiseman Erin Tolley and Robert Young, eds. Immigrant Settlement Policy in Canadian Municipalities. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. 331 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95 sc. Kristin R. Good. Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 363 pp. Notes. References. Index. $32.95 sc. Reza Hasmath, ed. Managing Ethnic …
Trudeau
Trudeau: The Magnetic Enigma Nelson Wiseman John English. Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1919–1968. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 567 pp. Notes. Index. $24.95 sc. John English. Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1968–2000. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 789 pp. Notes. Index. $39.95 hc. Pierre Trudeau continues to be revered and reviled in different parts of Canada, but few dispute that his legacy is rem…
In Search of Canadian Political Culture
The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics
Politics in Manitoba
Reviewed by: Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters Nelson Wiseman Christopher Adams . Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2008. 233 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 sc. Compared to studies of politics in other provinces, there is a dearth of material on Manitoba. This good, accessible book is a remedy. For our purposes in this journal, we might ask, "What does it tell us o…
Multicultural Odysseys
Reviewed by: Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity Nelson Wiseman Will Kymlicka. Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 374 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 hc. Canada is a pioneer in multicultural policy, and Canadian political philosopher Will Kymlicka is an internationally recognized authority on multiculturalism. The range, …
Social Democracy in Twentieth Century Canada
Social democracy changed over the course of the twentieth century in relation to changes in the structure of Canada's economy, society and state. In the following article, we advance a framework to interpret and understand this process of change, identifying four major periods in the development of social democracy: Social Gospel (1900–1925), Social Planning (1925–1950), Social Security (1950–1975) and Social Movements (1975–2000). These periods …
Five Immigrant Waves
Dans cet article nous identifions cinq vagues d'immigration au Canada en quatre siècles et faisons le lien avec les points de vue idéologiques et expressions partisanes de chacune d'entre elles. Une perspective panoramique et historique permet de localiser les groupes d'immigrants dans les régions où ils se sont concentrés et de voir le lien entre les courants idéologiques de l'ancien et du nouveau monde. Ces groupes ont effectivement eu une infl…
Ethnic vs Class Voting
This paper examines the relationship of social class, ethnicity, and voting in the city of Winnipeg in the 1945 provincial election. Our data sources were the 1946 census and provincial election returns. The Winnipeg provincial constituency was selected for a number of reasons. In 1945, it corresponded to the city of Winnipeg boundaries, thus permitting the correlation of the 1946 Census of the Prairie Provinces data with the October 1945 voting …
A Note on “Hartz-Horowitz at Twenty
In an assessment of Louis Hartz's fragment theory, H. D. Forbes contends that its basic weaknesses are most easily exposed in the case of French Canada. This article argues the opposite: Hartz's approach in this case is particularly illuminating rather than representing its Achilles’ heel. Hartzian analysis is consistent with the historiography of French Canada. The growth of liberalism in the nineteenth century that Forbes points to in the Frenc…
The Questionable Relevance of the Constitution in Advancing Minority Cultural Rights in Manitoba
This article argues that constitutional guarantees for francophones and the laws abridging and expanding those rights have been to date largely irrelevant to the linguistic and political welfare of Franco-Manitobans. Rather than stressing the significance of jurisprudence, the article focusses on demography and behaviour. Franco-Manitobans, as defined by mother tongue, increased in relative numbers after their rights were infringed. Although the …
Government and Enterprise in Canada
Social Democracy in Twentieth Century Canada
Social democracy changed over the course of the twentieth century in relation to changes in the structure of Canada's economy, society and state. In the following article, we advance a framework to interpret and understand this process of change, identifying four major periods in the development of social democracy: Social Gospel (1900–1925), Social Planning (1925–1950), Social Security (1950–1975) and Social Movements (1975–2000). These periods …
Five Immigrant Waves
Dans cet article nous identifions cinq vagues d'immigration au Canada en quatre siècles et faisons le lien avec les points de vue idéologiques et expressions partisanes de chacune d'entre elles. Une perspective panoramique et historique permet de localiser les groupes d'immigrants dans les régions où ils se sont concentrés et de voir le lien entre les courants idéologiques de l'ancien et du nouveau monde. Ces groupes ont effectivement eu une infl…
Ethnicity, Religion, and Socialism in Canada
This article articulates the idiosyncratic socialist affinities of ethnic and religious groups in Canada between the 1920s and the end of the Second World War by surveying a multitude of diverse secondary sources about the groups. Specific ethno-cultural groups accounted for the differences in support for the most prominent socialist parties, an unwieldy mixture of largely labour parties and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and the…
Cities and Immigrants
Cities and Immigrants Nelson Wiseman Erin Tolley and Robert Young, eds. Immigrant Settlement Policy in Canadian Municipalities. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. 331 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95 sc. Kristin R. Good. Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 363 pp. Notes. References. Index. $32.95 sc. Reza Hasmath, ed. Managing Ethnic …
The Eclipse of the NDP
THE NDP APPEARS to be in its death throes, an expiring force in Canadian politics. It is intellectually bankrupt, financially broke, and reeling politically. Consider the coming and passing of 1994 — exactly a half century since the election of the Saskatchewan CCF as North America's first socialist government —with the absence of a major celebration. Although the party then only ruled in Manitoba, there was a strong sense that its fortunes were …
The CCF and the Manitoba ‘Non‐partisan’ Government of 1940
Ethnic vs Class Voting
This paper examines the relationship of social class, ethnicity, and voting in the city of Winnipeg in the 1945 provincial election. Our data sources were the 1946 census and provincial election returns. The Winnipeg provincial constituency was selected for a number of reasons. In 1945, it corresponded to the city of Winnipeg boundaries, thus permitting the correlation of the 1946 Census of the Prairie Provinces data with the October 1945 voting …
Class and ethnic voting in Winnipeg
Une occasion unique pour evaluer la force relative de la classe par rapport à celle des déterminants ethniques pendant des scrutins provinciaux fut fournie par le développement historique de la classe et des relations ethnologiques à Winnipeg, et le fait que la cité entière fut une circonscription électorale avec plusiers membres pour des raisons de representativité dans la legislature provinciale. Des recherches statistiques ont été effectués su…
Class and ethnic voting in Winnipeg during the Cold War
En employant une combinaison de données sur les scrutins et sur le recensement Social les auteurs de cet article examinent l'importance relative des déterminants ethniques par rapport à ceux de la classe Sociale dans les manières de voter des électeurs dans trois circonscriptions électorales de Winnipeg avec plusieurs membres, au cours des élections provinciales de 1949 et de 1953. En comparaison avec les manières de voter aux élections provincia…
Voting in Winnipeg during the Depression
Ce texte examine les bases sociales de l'appui à un parti pendant la Grande Crise à Winnipeg. Les résultats du recensement et des élections ont été correlés, et des analyses de régression multiple et de régression ‘ridge’ ont servi à mesurer l'ampleur relative des variables de classe et d'ethnologie. En outre, une analyse corroborative a été faite pour ce qui a trait aux transferts de bulletins de vote, procédure permise sous le règlement de repr…
Planning for Remote Communities
This study deals with the problem of collecting demographic data and assessing housing needs in remote Northern communities. The specific case dealt with is a shared-cost federal-provincial survey project conducted in isolated M6tis communities in northern Manitoba in the mid1970s. There is a discussion of the problems of employing Southern data-collecting methods in such a setting. An inventory of alternative government sources of demographic an…
Social Democracy in Manitoba
In this volume, Nelson Wiseman skilfully describes the history of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba, tracing the roots of the social democratic movement to the years of mass immigration and social unrest that preceded the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919. Drawing extensively on personal interviews, on the private papers and correspondence of party leaders and activists, and on archival materials, Wiseman portrays clearly the party’s philosophy …
The Crisis of Social Democracy in Canada
IN THE MONTHS PRIOR to the September 1984 federal election, the polls indicated a sharp fall in the New Democratic Party's popular support, even in its western bastion.Media commentators, even staunch party supporters, predicted the imminent collapse of the NDP to levels near the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's prostration after the 1958 Diefcnbaker sweep.The NDP was out of touch, it was claimed.The NDP's answers were old hat.Such views se…
Government and Enterprise in Canada
A Note on “Hartz-Horowitz at Twenty
In an assessment of Louis Hartz's fragment theory, H. D. Forbes contends that its basic weaknesses are most easily exposed in the case of French Canada. This article argues the opposite: Hartz's approach in this case is particularly illuminating rather than representing its Achilles’ heel. Hartzian analysis is consistent with the historiography of French Canada. The growth of liberalism in the nineteenth century that Forbes points to in the Frenc…
The Party That Changed Canada
The Native Issue in Canada
The Questionable Relevance of the Constitution in Advancing Minority Cultural Rights in Manitoba
This article argues that constitutional guarantees for francophones and the laws abridging and expanding those rights have been to date largely irrelevant to the linguistic and political welfare of Franco-Manitobans. Rather than stressing the significance of jurisprudence, the article focusses on demography and behaviour. Franco-Manitobans, as defined by mother tongue, increased in relative numbers after their rights were infringed. Although the …
The Eclipse of the NDP
THE NDP APPEARS to be in its death throes, an expiring force in Canadian politics. It is intellectually bankrupt, financially broke, and reeling politically. Consider the coming and passing of 1994 — exactly a half century since the election of the Saskatchewan CCF as North America's first socialist government —with the absence of a major celebration. Although the party then only ruled in Manitoba, there was a strong sense that its fortunes were …
The direction of public enterprise in Canada
This article contextualises the rise, demise and diversity of the Canadian public enterprise experience in terms of its ideological, historical and managerial dimensions. Developments at both the national and sub‐national levels of government are analysed. Provincial governments have exceptionally extensive jurisdictional authority in the Canadian federal system; some have been policy and administrative leaders in public enterprise. Ideological d…
Government Restructuring and Career Public Service in Canada. Monographs on Canadian Public Administration ‐No. 23
The Future of Social Democracy
Does 'Left of Centre' Necessarily Mean Political Marginalisation? It began to seem so with the steady rise of the Right over the past 25 years. Recently, however, there has been a turnaround. Over the last two years, social democratic parties have been elected to government in Britain, France, and Germany. They now control government alone, or in coalition with other left-leaning parties, in thirteen of the fifteen states of the European Economic…
Reading Ontario politics and public administration
Manitoba's French-Language Crisis
Manitoba's French-Language Crisis: A Cautionary Tale, Raymond M. Hébert, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, pp. xvi, 296.Raymond Hébert, a professor at Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, was passionately engaged as a participant-observer in the divisive debate he documents regarding the proposed constitutional entrenchment of French-language government services in Manitoba in 1983–4. When his family settled in Man…
Multicultural Odysseys
Reviewed by: Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity Nelson Wiseman Will Kymlicka. Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 374 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 hc. Canada is a pioneer in multicultural policy, and Canadian political philosopher Will Kymlicka is an internationally recognized authority on multiculturalism. The range, …
Social Democracy in Twentieth Century Canada
Social democracy changed over the course of the twentieth century in relation to changes in the structure of Canada's economy, society and state. In the following article, we advance a framework to interpret and understand this process of change, identifying four major periods in the development of social democracy: Social Gospel (1900–1925), Social Planning (1925–1950), Social Security (1950–1975) and Social Movements (1975–2000). These periods …
Five Immigrant Waves
Dans cet article nous identifions cinq vagues d'immigration au Canada en quatre siècles et faisons le lien avec les points de vue idéologiques et expressions partisanes de chacune d'entre elles. Une perspective panoramique et historique permet de localiser les groupes d'immigrants dans les régions où ils se sont concentrés et de voir le lien entre les courants idéologiques de l'ancien et du nouveau monde. Ces groupes ont effectivement eu une infl…
In Search of Canadian Political Culture
The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics
Politics in Manitoba
Reviewed by: Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters Nelson Wiseman Christopher Adams . Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2008. 233 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 sc. Compared to studies of politics in other provinces, there is a dearth of material on Manitoba. This good, accessible book is a remedy. For our purposes in this journal, we might ask, "What does it tell us o…
Trudeau
Trudeau: The Magnetic Enigma Nelson Wiseman John English. Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1919–1968. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 567 pp. Notes. Index. $24.95 sc. John English. Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1968–2000. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 789 pp. Notes. Index. $39.95 hc. Pierre Trudeau continues to be revered and reviled in different parts of Canada, but few dispute that his legacy is rem…
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