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The Man from Halifax : Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister /
Professor Waite has ably and intimately portrayed the private life of a late-Victorian politican: the sacrifice of home comforts, the loneliness of Ottawa, and the sense of public duty that drive Thomson, despite his natural inclinations, to persist in government service.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1985.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Man from Halifax : |b Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister / |c P.B. Waite. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a pt. 1. Halifax Boy and Lawyer, 1845-1877. 1. J.S. Thompson Comes to Halifax -- 2. Father and Son -- 3. The Courting of Annie Affleck -- 4. The Halifax of Alderman Thompson -- 5. Practising Law -- pt. 2. Politician, Attorney General, and Judge, 1877-1885. 6. Getting Elected for Antigonish -- 7. Attorney General of Nova Scotia -- 8. The Fall of the Holmes-Thompson Government -- 9. Mr. Justice Thompson -- pt. 3. The Train to Ottawa: Minster of Justice in Macdonald's Cabinet, 1885-1891. 10. Minister of Justice -- 11. Defending the Macdonald Government -- 12. Adminsitering the Department of Justice -- 13. Adventures in Washington -- 14. Overseer of Provincial Law: Thompson and Disallowance -- 15. Dragon's Teeth -- 16. Thompson's Canadian Diplomacy -- pt. 4. Becoming Prime Minister, 1891-1894. 17. The Wages of the Macdonald Era -- 18. Steadying the Helm -- 19. The New Prime Minister -- 20. The Paris Interlude, 1893 -- 21. The Weight of Responsibility -- 22. The End of Things -- 23. In the Service of His Country -- Epilogue. | |
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