Mackenzie King and the Prairie West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3983318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffery Taylor, Robert Wardhaugh (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Pages | 290 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25149235 |
| OpenAlex | W2314708683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
ÀBSTRÀCTThj-s thesis provides a history of the relat.ionshipbetween Prime Minister Will-iam Lyon Mackenzie King and the Prairie region of Canada.It offers insight int.o the career of Canada's longest serving prime minister and his handlj-ng of one of the most.politi-calIy complex regions in the nation.Mackenzie King entered the leadership of the national Lj-beral Party in 1919 with a remarkably sympathetj-c attitude toward t.he Prairi-e West.This attitude trans]ated into federal-policies directed at regaining Liberal support in t.he region during King's early administrations.By the t.j-me of his retirement in 1,948, his at.t.it.ude had undergone dramatic transition and the region responded in kind.The roots of the decline in Prairie Liberalism are buried v¡ithin the Mackenzie King era and a study of thÍs phenomenon helps e>çlain t.he place of the West in Canada.ii ÀCKNOWLEÐGEMEI{IIS Endeavouring to write political hist.ory in the age of 'the new social history' is a daunting task indeed.The history of 'dead whit.e males', we are told, has been overdone and energy should be dj-rect.edelsewhere.fn an ironic and hlpocriticaltwist, the prof ession t.reat.spolit.ícal-history in the same condescending manner that social history was treated in the past.In t.he same tradition of ironic twists, I would like to thank the profession, particularly my fellow graduate students, for this opposition.The crit.icisms aimed at my topic in t.he last.four and a half years have only heightened my determination
Archaeology · Geography · Physical geography · Canadian Identity and History · Environmental Science
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2017 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |