Thinkers and Dreamers : Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger

Thinkers and Dreamers honours Carl C. Berger, professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto for more than forty years and author of influential works on Canadian intellectual history. In this collection, Professor Berger's colleagues and former students explore the currents of intellectual life in North America since the mid-nineteenth century. Broad in scope, the essays range in content from a commentary on works in intellectual history to analyses of the development of particular disciplines and distinctive cultural institutions. Several of the contributions provide sharp critiques of historical thought, including a discussion of professional scholarship and an analysis of the field of intellectual history. Others address issues that combine institutional and cultural history, such as an examination of Victorian Canada and a discussion of immigration and citizenship. These varied reflections aptly convey Berger's contributions to the study of Canadian history. Contents 5 Introduction 7 1. Carl Berger: Ironic Man as Historian 19 HISTORIOGRAPHY 39 2. Engaging History: Historians, Storytelling, and Self 39 3. Beyond the Search for Intellectuals: On the Paucity of Paradigms in the Writing of Canadian Intellectual History 59 HISTORY 99 4. ‘Nebulous Penumbra’: James Mark Baldwin and the Borderlands of Psychology 99 5. Sir Andrew Macphail and the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal 132 6. Toronto’s Arts and Letters Club: A Public History Perspective 150 7. Before the Citizenship Act: Confronting Canadian Citizenship in the House of Commons, 1900–1947 169 8. Modernist Blues: Performing Race in the Harlem Renaissance 196 HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 231 9. Progress, Science, and Religion: Exploring Victorian Thought in Canada 231 10. Cultural Diversity in Prairie Canada and the Writing of National History 251 MILLENNIAL REFLECTIONS 277 11. A New Era of History 277 Contributors 315 Index 319 Broad in scope, the essays range in content from a commentary on works in intellectual history to analyses of the development of particular disciplines and distinctive cultural institutions. Several of the contributions provide sharp critiques of historical thought, including a discussion of professional scholarship and an analysis of the field of intellectual history. Others address issues that combine institutional and cultural history, such as an examination of Victorian Canada and a discussion of immigration and citizenship. These varied reflections aptly convey Berger's contributions to the study of Canadian history."--Pub. desc Edited By Gerald Friesen And Doug Owram. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.