Donald Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt: Suzanne Voilquin, Ismayl Urbain, Jehan d’Ivray
Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt sets out to recover the obscured trajectories of three figures linked to the utopian Saint-Simonian movement who, across different circumstances, found themselves in Egypt during the nineteenth century. John David Ragan positions the book as both a biographical recovery and a theoretical intervention: to rethink the dominant narrative of Orientalist travel by foregrounding lives that complicate its assu…
L’École historique de Québec: Une histoire intellectuelle . François-Olivier Dorais
Seen but Not Seen: A Roundtable Discussion
Seen but Not Seen: A Roundtable Discussion. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 33, numéro 2, 2023, p. 1-254) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Canadian Historical Association’s Presidential Addresses, 1922–2022
On the occasion of the Canadian Historical Association’s centenary, this article surveys continuity and change in 100 years of presidential addresses. Using Penny Bryden’s idea of the nets we weave as historians to research and write history — an idea she developed in her 2021 presidential address — I reflect on my own net, how it has changed, and what it caught in reading every presidential address since 1922: national unity, limited identities,…
People, Politics, and Purpose: Biography and Canadian Political History . Greg Donaghy and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, eds
Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History ed. by Sean Carleton et al
Reviewed by: Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History ed. by Sean Carleton et al. Donald Wright Carleton, Sean, Ted McCoy, and Julia Smith, eds. – Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2021. 366 p. Dissenting Traditions begins not with its table of contents, which is a who's who of Left history in English Canada, but with its cover. Featuring an …
Canada: A Very Short Introduction
Canada: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of Canada’s history, and its many political and cultural achievements. Canada has never had a single national identity and is linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse. From the first European settlers onward, development and industrial growth were often at the expense of indigenous groups. The late 20th century saw a cultural explosion and the emergence of distinct nationalisms wit…
John A. MacDonald: The Young Politician, the Old Chieftain
Ramsay Cook: A Life in History
Ramsay Cook (1931–2016) was a respected scholar and a much-loved friend whose scholarship and graduate supervision helped a new generation of historians rewrite the history of Canada. To mark his life and career, the Canadian Historical Association hosted a round table at its 2017 annual meeting which provided the basis for the short essays in this “Life in History” section dedicated to Cook. Donald Wright uses Barker Fairley’s portrait of a youn…
His Macdonald , My Creighton, Biography, and the Writing of History
Despite its shortcomings, Donald Creighton's biography of Sir John A. Macdonald remains a milestone in Canadian historical writing. My biography of Donald Creighton therefore borrows from Creighton's Sir John A. Macdonald at the same time as it seeks to avoid its errors. Reflecting on the relationship between biographers and their subjects, I also consider the utility of biography to the writing of history
The Regenerators, 2nd Edition: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secular city.
Donald Creighton: A Life in History
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.
The Professionalization of History in English Canada
The Sound of One Voice: Eugene Forsey and His Letters to the Press
Gender and the Professionalization of History in English Canada before 1960
Taking its cue from Alison Prentice’s work on women historians in English Canada, this article argues that gender was central to the professionalization of history in English Canada before 1960. Whereas women were welcome participants in the writing and promoting of history when it was understood as a pastime, their participation was circumscribed as history professionalized. The professionalization of history involved boundary work, or the drawi…
Affirmative Action in the United States: Past, Present, and Future
John David Skrentny. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 312. Lydia Chavez. The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 305. Richard Delgado. The Coming Race Warf And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare. New York: New York Univer- sity Pres…
Commerce et Traite des Noirs aux Cotes Occidentales d'Afrique
The New Organ in Hexham Abbey
To Rebuild or Not to Rebuild? A Diocesan Adviser's Point of View
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To Rebuild or Not to Rebuild? A Diocesan Adviser's Point of View
The New Organ in Hexham Abbey
Commerce et Traite des Noirs aux Cotes Occidentales d'Afrique
Affirmative Action in the United States: Past, Present, and Future
John David Skrentny. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 312. Lydia Chavez. The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 305. Richard Delgado. The Coming Race Warf And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare. New York: New York Univer- sity Pres…
Gender and the Professionalization of History in English Canada before 1960
Taking its cue from Alison Prentice’s work on women historians in English Canada, this article argues that gender was central to the professionalization of history in English Canada before 1960. Whereas women were welcome participants in the writing and promoting of history when it was understood as a pastime, their participation was circumscribed as history professionalized. The professionalization of history involved boundary work, or the drawi…
The Sound of One Voice: Eugene Forsey and His Letters to the Press
The Professionalization of History in English Canada
Donald Creighton: A Life in History
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.
The Regenerators, 2nd Edition: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secular city.
His Macdonald , My Creighton, Biography, and the Writing of History
Despite its shortcomings, Donald Creighton's biography of Sir John A. Macdonald remains a milestone in Canadian historical writing. My biography of Donald Creighton therefore borrows from Creighton's Sir John A. Macdonald at the same time as it seeks to avoid its errors. Reflecting on the relationship between biographers and their subjects, I also consider the utility of biography to the writing of history
John A. MacDonald: The Young Politician, the Old Chieftain
Ramsay Cook: A Life in History
Ramsay Cook (1931–2016) was a respected scholar and a much-loved friend whose scholarship and graduate supervision helped a new generation of historians rewrite the history of Canada. To mark his life and career, the Canadian Historical Association hosted a round table at its 2017 annual meeting which provided the basis for the short essays in this “Life in History” section dedicated to Cook. Donald Wright uses Barker Fairley’s portrait of a youn…
Canada: A Very Short Introduction
Canada: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of Canada’s history, and its many political and cultural achievements. Canada has never had a single national identity and is linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse. From the first European settlers onward, development and industrial growth were often at the expense of indigenous groups. The late 20th century saw a cultural explosion and the emergence of distinct nationalisms wit…
Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History ed. by Sean Carleton et al
Reviewed by: Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History ed. by Sean Carleton et al. Donald Wright Carleton, Sean, Ted McCoy, and Julia Smith, eds. – Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2021. 366 p. Dissenting Traditions begins not with its table of contents, which is a who's who of Left history in English Canada, but with its cover. Featuring an …
Seen but Not Seen: A Roundtable Discussion
Seen but Not Seen: A Roundtable Discussion. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 33, numéro 2, 2023, p. 1-254) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Canadian Historical Association’s Presidential Addresses, 1922–2022
On the occasion of the Canadian Historical Association’s centenary, this article surveys continuity and change in 100 years of presidential addresses. Using Penny Bryden’s idea of the nets we weave as historians to research and write history — an idea she developed in her 2021 presidential address — I reflect on my own net, how it has changed, and what it caught in reading every presidential address since 1922: national unity, limited identities,…
People, Politics, and Purpose: Biography and Canadian Political History . Greg Donaghy and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, eds
L’École historique de Québec: Une histoire intellectuelle . François-Olivier Dorais
Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt: Suzanne Voilquin, Ismayl Urbain, Jehan d’Ivray
Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt sets out to recover the obscured trajectories of three figures linked to the utopian Saint-Simonian movement who, across different circumstances, found themselves in Egypt during the nineteenth century. John David Ragan positions the book as both a biographical recovery and a theoretical intervention: to rethink the dominant narrative of Orientalist travel by foregrounding lives that complicate its assu…
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