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Joseph Howe, Volume II: Volume II, the Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848-1873
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Joseph Howe, Volume II: Volume II, the Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848-1873 Hardcover - 1984

by Murray Beck

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Professor Beck shows how, in Churchillian fashion, the final resolution was preceded by a series of setbacks and disappointments in Howe's public life. These were the result of a bold colonization scheme encompassing an inter-colonial railway between Halifax and Quebec; a quixotic mission of recruitment in the United States for the British armies in the Crimea; the embattled leasdership of an unstable provincial administration in the early 1860s; and the hard-fought campaign to prevent passage of the British North America Act. Disillusioned by the indifference of British politician to his long-standing advocacy of a refurbished British Empire in whose government colonial leaders could share, Howe turned his energies to making the new Canadian federation work. A whole-hearted supporter of Confederation in his later years, Howe displayed an irrepressible vitality that Professor Beck sees as the trademark of the man.

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  • Title Joseph Howe, Volume II: Volume II, the Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848-1873
  • Author Murray Beck
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 359
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date September 1984
  • ISBN 9780773503885 / 0773503889
  • Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82094676
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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