Pierre Berton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Berton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Berton |
| SIGNATURE | BERTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Service de Santé de la Jeunesse |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Garantie de l’éducation ou gestion des peines
La justice des mineurs est présentée comme responsable voire coupable parce qu’insuffisamment sévère. Redisons-le : la délinquance des mineurs n’est pas le produit de la justice, mais d’un échec de l’organisation socio-économique à « faire société » avec toutes ses composantes, à organiser la mixité sociale, à remplir son devoir d’avenir envers tous ses enfants, à faire vivre concrètement l’égalité et la fraternité pour que la diversité puisse s’…
Niagara
Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so maddened by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional …
Thoughts and Suggestions on the Social Problem and Things in General (1888-1889)
MY GRANDFATHER, PHILLIPS THOMPSON, was one of the best-known journalists of his era. He could write just about anything. He wrote newspaper columns, books, magazine artticles, skits, poems, and even songs. I'm sure if there'd been TV and radio he'd have appeared in those mediums. As it was, he was famous as a platform lecturer. He worked for the Mail and Empire, the Globe, the Toronto News, John Ross Robertson's Telegraph, and many other newspape…
The Great Depression
Livres reçus
Flames across the Border
The Invasion of Canada, 1812-1813
Why we act like Canadians
In a series of open letters to an American friend named Sam, (or to be more precise, "Uncle Sam" as a metaphorical representation of all of our friends south of our Canadian border), Pierre Berton uses colourful examples from our history, our climate, and our geography to explain the vagaries of our national character. In short, he explains to his befuddled American buddy not only what it is to be a Canadian but "why we act like Canadians"!?If th…
Flames Across the Border
The Impossible Railway
The National Dream
The Last Spike
The National Dream
The National Dream
Culture and Television
The National Dream
The Last Spike
Niagara
Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so maddened by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional …
The National Dream
The Impossible Railway
Culture and Television
The National Dream
The National Dream
The National Dream
The Last Spike
The Impossible Railway
Flames Across the Border
Why we act like Canadians
In a series of open letters to an American friend named Sam, (or to be more precise, "Uncle Sam" as a metaphorical representation of all of our friends south of our Canadian border), Pierre Berton uses colourful examples from our history, our climate, and our geography to explain the vagaries of our national character. In short, he explains to his befuddled American buddy not only what it is to be a Canadian but "why we act like Canadians"!?If th…
Flames across the Border
The Invasion of Canada, 1812-1813
Livres reçus
The Great Depression
Thoughts and Suggestions on the Social Problem and Things in General (1888-1889)
MY GRANDFATHER, PHILLIPS THOMPSON, was one of the best-known journalists of his era. He could write just about anything. He wrote newspaper columns, books, magazine artticles, skits, poems, and even songs. I'm sure if there'd been TV and radio he'd have appeared in those mediums. As it was, he was famous as a platform lecturer. He worked for the Mail and Empire, the Globe, the Toronto News, John Ross Robertson's Telegraph, and many other newspape…
Niagara
Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so maddened by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional …
Garantie de l’éducation ou gestion des peines
La justice des mineurs est présentée comme responsable voire coupable parce qu’insuffisamment sévère. Redisons-le : la délinquance des mineurs n’est pas le produit de la justice, mais d’un échec de l’organisation socio-économique à « faire société » avec toutes ses composantes, à organiser la mixité sociale, à remplir son devoir d’avenir envers tous ses enfants, à faire vivre concrètement l’égalité et la fraternité pour que la diversité puisse s’…
History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Dream (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)