Desmond Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desmond Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Canada and the First World War, Second Edition: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown
This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada’s experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada’s leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
Marc Milner. Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day
One feature of popular history that can be easily overlooked is that it keeps on growing, especially when personal ego is involved, as quite often is the case. Marc Milner is better known to his fellow Canadian historians as a historian of Canada’s modern navy. It seemed a suitable specialty for someone whose academic career seemed to be committed to the Halifax area, a naval base since 1743, when Admiral Sir William Cornwallis established a Brit…
Living with the First World War, 1914-1919: History as Personal Experience
Living with the First World War, 1914-1919:History as Personal Experience Desmond Morton (bio) AS AN ACADEMIC historian, I could have pursued a variety of possibly fascinating topics. How about municipal sewers across the world and their impact on human longevity? Or domestic pets and the changing patterns of species acceptance since the 1800s? Instead, to the astonishment of some and through encouragement from others, I was attracted by what con…
How Lower Canada Won the War of 1812: Text of a speech to the Stanstead Historical Society at the Colby-Curtis Museum on April 14, 2012 by Desmond Morton, professor of history emeritus at McGill Unive…
Between the summer of 1812 and the fall of 1814, Canada was engaged in a strange war with its young neighbor, the United States. Tradition has named the conflict the War of 1812 and a further tradi
Is History Another Word for Experience? Morton's Confessions
Near the end of his career as a military, political. and social historian, Des Morton reflects on his trade and his definition of history as ‘another word for experience.’ Like most people, we can have a cheerful or a gloomy view of the past. Both approaches deliver messages about how we can seize more happiness or avoid repeating mistakes. Neither approach is fool-proof
Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War
The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945
THE LAST GOOD WAR An Illustrated History of Canada in the second World War, 1939-1945 J. L. Granatstein Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005. x, 2$2pp, $55.00 cloth (ISBN 155054-913-8)As one of Canada's best known political and military historians and as the director of the Canadian War Museum won the long, exasperating struggle that ended this year with final, fitting monument to Canada's war veterans, Jack Granatstein has earned the right to pro…
Canada and the Two World Wars
CANADA AND THE TWO WORLD WARS J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton Toronto: Key Porter, 2003. xv, 360 pp, $42.00 paper (ISBN 1-55263-509-0)J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton, each a prominent Canadian military historians in his own right, have collaborated to produce Canada and the Two World Wars, a synthesis of their earlier works Marching to Armageddon and A Nation Forged in Fire. This one-volume history of Canada's participation during two wor…
Understanding Canadian Defence
Backbone of the Army: Non-Commissioned Officers in the Future Army
Entente cordiale? La section montréalaise du fonds patriotique canadien, 1914-1923 le bénévolat de guerre à Montréal
L'histoire de la guerre se concentre sur les soldats. Mais qu'arrive-t-il à ceux et celles qu'ils laissent derrière ? Dès le début de la guerre, en 1914, les Montréalais ont reconnu le fardeau des familles des réservistes faiblement rémunérés, français, belges et britanniques et, par la suite, celui des familles de leurs propres soldats canadiens. Le Fonds patriotique montréalais a hérité d'une vieille tradition charitable. Ses leaders, tels Herb…
Pierre Vennat, Les " Poilus " québécois de 1914-1918: Histoire des militaires canadiens-français de la Première Guerre mondiale
Pierre VENNAT, Les " Poilus " québécois de 1914-1918 : histoire des militaires canadiens-français de la Première Guerre mondiale. Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (Volume 42, numéro 3, 2001, p. 453-642) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Providing and Consuming Security in Canada's Century
Whether or not the twentieth century belonged to Canada, the past century should have more benign memories than some earlier ones, when war brought invasion, conquest, and devastation. The nineteenth century left Canada with a border and a durable solution to its eternal vulnerability. If the twentieth century involved Canada in war, it was Canada’s own decision, since Canadians had become, for a time, providers, not consumers, of security. That …
L'impact des Guerres mondiales sur le Canada
L'impact des Guerres mondiales sur le Canada
Some Millennial Reflections on the State of Canadian Labour History
The suprise of being invited to comment on the state of Canadian labour history was exceeded by the honour. The explosive early growth of the field in the 1970s, and its domination by the team that created Labour/Le Travail, has concealed stasis and even a decline in the past decade, a harsh economic climate sent the paths of the labour movement and of younger historians in unexpected directions. Historians who believed they got closer to the pre…
Government Worker Unions: A Review Article
One of the biggest bumps on that famous level playing field that free traders insist on establishing between the United States and Canada is labelled trade At roughly 36 per cent of the organizable work force, the organized share of the Canadian workforce is now triple the American rate. How did the bump appear? Will it last? How could it be flattened? Will it be? Until World War II, unionization rates in Canada consistently lagged behind those i…
La pénurie d'officiers francophones dans l'armée canadienne aux deux guerres mondiales
La pénurie d'officiers francophones dans l'armée canadienne aux deux guerres mondiales. An article from journal Bulletin d'histoire politique (La participation des Canadiens français à la Deuxième Guerre mondiale : mythes et réalités), on Érudit
Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902
From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada
The New Democracy: Challenging the Social Order in Industrial Ontario, 1914-1925
Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec
A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967
Labor Politics in Historical Perspective From PAC to COPE A Rope of Sand The Formative Years From Victory to Defeat
Political Choices and Electoral Consequences: A Study of Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party
On Guard for Thee: War, Ethnicity, and the Canadian State, 1939-1945
Histoire du syndicalisme Québécois: Des origines à nos jours
A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967
Labor Politics in Historical Perspective From PAC to COPE A Rope of Sand The Formative Years From Victory to Defeat
The History of the Actu
Canada and War, a Military and Political History
Building the Co-operative Commonwealth: Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada
On Guard for Thee: War, Ethnicity, and the Canadian State, 1939-1945
The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics of Change
Some Millennial Reflections on the State of Canadian Labour History
The suprise of being invited to comment on the state of Canadian labour history was exceeded by the honour. The explosive early growth of the field in the 1970s, and its domination by the team that created Labour/Le Travail, has concealed stasis and even a decline in the past decade, a harsh economic climate sent the paths of the labour movement and of younger historians in unexpected directions. Historians who believed they got closer to the pre…
Dangerous Patriots: Canada's Unknown Prisoners of War
Working People. An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour
Histoire de la Résistance (1940–44)
Histoire de la Résistance (1940–44) Get access Histoire de la RéSistance (1940–44). By Henri Michel. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1950. 127 pp. (Que Sais-je? Le Point des Connaissances Actuelles.) 7′ ′×412′ ′ . Frs.90. Desmond Morton Desmond Morton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1950, Pages 552–553, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607175 Published: 0…
Canada and the Two World Wars
CANADA AND THE TWO WORLD WARS J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton Toronto: Key Porter, 2003. xv, 360 pp, $42.00 paper (ISBN 1-55263-509-0)J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton, each a prominent Canadian military historians in his own right, have collaborated to produce Canada and the Two World Wars, a synthesis of their earlier works Marching to Armageddon and A Nation Forged in Fire. This one-volume history of Canada's participation during two wor…
Pierre Vennat, Les " Poilus " québécois de 1914-1918: Histoire des militaires canadiens-français de la Première Guerre mondiale
Pierre VENNAT, Les " Poilus " québécois de 1914-1918 : histoire des militaires canadiens-français de la Première Guerre mondiale. Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (Volume 42, numéro 3, 2001, p. 453-642) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
A Public Purpose: An Experience of Liberal Opposition and Canadian Government
Defending the Indefensible: Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Defence 1867–1987
Canada's history, wrote Charles Stacey in 1939, has alternated between 'long periods when the national defences are almost utterly neglected' and 'short violent interludes, arising out of sudden foreign complications, when the country awakes to the inadequacy of those defences and tries to make up for earlier inactivity.'1 Stacey wrote at a time when Ottawa had finally recognized the imminence of a second world war. In the ensuing half-century, a…
Defending the Indefensible: Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Defence 1867-1987
Desmond Morton, Defending the Indefensible: Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Defence 1867-1987, International Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, New Themes in Canadian Security (Autumn, 1987), pp. 627-644
Mise au point de Desmond Morton à propos du livre de Jacques Gouin: Bon coeur et bon bras : histoire du régiment de Maisonneuve 1880-1980
Mise au point de Desmond Morton à propos du livre de Jacques Gouin : bon coeur et bon bras : histoire du régiment de Maisonneuve 1880-1980. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 37, numéro 1, juin 1983, p. 3-154) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877-1900
The German Fifth Column in the Second World War
Journal Article The German Fifth Column in the Second World War Get access The German Fifth Column in the Second World War. Rev. ed. By Louis de Jong Trans. from the Dutch by C. M. Geyl. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. xi+308 pp. Maps. Index. 83⁄4′′ × 53⁄4′′. 28s. Desmond Morton Desmond Morton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 4, October 1956, Pages 486–487, http…
Histoire de la Résistance (1940–44)
Histoire de la Résistance (1940–44) Get access Histoire de la RéSistance (1940–44). By Henri Michel. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1950. 127 pp. (Que Sais-je? Le Point des Connaissances Actuelles.) 7′ ′×412′ ′ . Frs.90. Desmond Morton Desmond Morton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1950, Pages 552–553, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607175 Published: 0…
Secret Forces: The Technique of Underground Movements
Journal Article Secret Forces: The Technique of Underground Movements Get access Secret Forces: The Technique of Underground Movements. By F. O. Miksche. London, Faber, 1949. 181 pp. Diagrams. Maps. Index. 814′ ′×512′ ′ . 15S. Desmond Morton Desmond Morton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 1950, Pages 384–385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607674 Published: 01 July …
Morality in International Relations
Before 1914, the mass of the people in this country took little real interest in international affairs, which were commonly regarded as reserved to statesmen and their expert advisers. In Parliament, foreign affairs were looked on as a nonparty matter, about which, save on rare occasions, basic agreement on policy was reached behind the scenes between the Government of the day and opposition leaders. This attitude was by no means confined to Engl…
The German Fifth Column in the Second World War
Journal Article The German Fifth Column in the Second World War Get access The German Fifth Column in the Second World War. Rev. ed. By Louis de Jong Trans. from the Dutch by C. M. Geyl. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. xi+308 pp. Maps. Index. 83⁄4′′ × 53⁄4′′. 28s. Desmond Morton Desmond Morton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 4, October 1956, Pages 486–487, http…
Aid to the Civil Power: The Canadian Militia in Support of Social Order, 1867–1914
THROUCHO!JT THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Canadian militia was regularly called into service to meet threats to public order. In the absence of effective local or provincial police forces, the militia was frequently the only available support for a magistrate confronted by rioting Orangemen or defiant strikers. Officially created for the more glorious responsibility of national defence, the Canadian militia found a much more regular employment as an au…
Sir William Otter and Internment Operations in Canada during the First World War
Telegrams of the North-West Campaign, 1885
Journal Article Telegrams of the North-West Campaign, 1883. Ed. by Desmond Morton and Reginald H. Roy. (Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1972. ciii + 431 + xxi pp. Maps, illustration, appendix, notes, and index.) Get access John E. Sunder John E. Sunder University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 4, March 1974, Pages 1189–1190, https://doi.org/10…
The Defence of the Undefended Border: Planning for War in North America, 1867-1939
The Embarrassing Apotheosis of a ‘Great Canadian’: Sir Arthur Currie's Personal Crisis in 1917
empire had emotional as well as legal strength. The dominion's war effort in the first year of conflict revealed Canada's dependence on British example and direction as well as her own adolescent pride. Four years of' war brought a dramatic change. The ties of affection and allegiance might remain; the sense of dependence was ahnost wholly gone. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the Canadian Corps, the major fighting {brmation contributed by…
Junior but sovereign allies’: The transformation of the Canadian expeditionary force, 1914–1918
‘Kicking and Complaining’: Demobilization Riots in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1918–19
The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877-1900
A Peculiar Kind of Politics: Canada's Overseas Ministry in the First World War
A Peculiar Kind of Politics presents the inside story of how Canadians earned their autonomy in war through the increasing competence they displayed, not merely in action, but in their own administrative management.
Canada and War, a Military and Political History
The Bonus Campaign, 1919–21: Veterans and the Campaign for Re‐establishment
Mise au point de Desmond Morton à propos du livre de Jacques Gouin: Bon coeur et bon bras : histoire du régiment de Maisonneuve 1880-1980
Mise au point de Desmond Morton à propos du livre de Jacques Gouin : bon coeur et bon bras : histoire du régiment de Maisonneuve 1880-1980. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 37, numéro 1, juin 1983, p. 3-154) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Gouin, Jacques et al., Bon coeur et bon bras: Histoire du régiment de Maisonneuve, 1880-1980. Montréal, Cercle des officiers du régiment de Maisonneuve, 1980, 303 p
GOUIN, Jacques et al., Bon coeur et bon bras : Histoire du régiment de Maisonneuve, 1880-1980. Montréal, Cercle des officiers du régiment de Maisonneuve, 1980, 303 p.. An article from journal Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 36, Number 4, mars 1983, pp. 483-648), on Érudit
Working People. An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour
Dangerous Patriots: Canada's Unknown Prisoners of War
The History of the Actu
Building the Co-operative Commonwealth: Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada
Resisting the Pension Evil: Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Canada's Board of Pension Commissioners, 1916–33
ADVANTAGES enjoyed by a new country,' observed Major John Todd as he contemplated the problems of Canada's war disabled in 1915, 'is that when it is confronted by an unaccustomed situation it is usually possible for it, by a consideration of the history of other nations placed in similar circumstances, at least to avoid the mistakes of others.'• Canada's 'unaccustomed situation' in 1915 was the prospect of coping with the enormous toll of disable…
Gagnon, Jean-Pierre, Le 22 bataillon (canadien-français) 1914-1919: Étude socio-militaire. Ottawa et Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval en collaboration avec le ministère de la Défense national…
GAGNON, Jean-Pierre, Le 22e bataillon (canadien-français) 1914-1919 : étude socio-militaire. Ottawa et Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval en collaboration avec le ministère de la Défense nationale et le Centre d’édition du gouvernement du Canada, 1987. xix-460 p. 29,00 $. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 41, numéro 2, automne 1987, p. 155-330) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Defending the Indefensible: Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Defence 1867–1987
Canada's history, wrote Charles Stacey in 1939, has alternated between 'long periods when the national defences are almost utterly neglected' and 'short violent interludes, arising out of sudden foreign complications, when the country awakes to the inadequacy of those defences and tries to make up for earlier inactivity.'1 Stacey wrote at a time when Ottawa had finally recognized the imminence of a second world war. In the ensuing half-century, a…
Defending the Indefensible: Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Defence 1867-1987
Desmond Morton, Defending the Indefensible: Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Defence 1867-1987, International Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, New Themes in Canadian Security (Autumn, 1987), pp. 627-644
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