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Reasoning otherwise : leftists and the people's enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920

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    Between the Lines, 2008

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  • Author: McKay, Ian
    Date:
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    2008
    Summary:

    Reasoning Otherwise is the first volume of Ian McKay's three-part history of the left in Canada. Using the strategy of "reconnaissance" first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, McKay examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to the Winnipeg General Strike. Armed with a new mixture of evolutionary theory and revolutionary politics, Canadian men and women who wanted to live otherwise transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race as they called for a great people's enlightenment and anticipated an entirely new politics for the future.

    Contents:
    • Introduction: Reconnaissance and Resistance
    • 1 Socialism: The Revolutionary Science of Social Evolution
    • 2 The Emergence of the First Formation in Canada, 1890-1902
    • 3 The Class Question
    • 4 The Religion Question
    • 5 The Woman Question
    • 6 The Race Question
    • 7 War, Revolution, and General Strike
    • 8 Showtime, 1920
    • Notes °
    Genre:
    History and geography, Canadian nonfiction, Political science
    Subject(s): Politics and government | Right and left (Political science) | Socialism
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Between the Lines
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781897071496, 1897071493