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Description
This book is a combination of five public lectures offered to the university and community during the academic year 1973–1974, given by the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University. These were given by leading scholars in their individual fields and are published here.
The essays are on such topics as family life in New France, the origins of British fiscal policy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, images of the negro in Victorian popular culture, Joseph Chamberlain and the “New Imperialism” in West Africa’s Gold Coast, and the controversial prime minister of Canada, Mackenzia King.
They are all important in their own sense as contributions to the historian’s ongoing search for the visible past.
Contributor Notes
Barry M. Gough is a Canadian maritime and naval historian. He has written more than a dozen books, working to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history. He was educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Montana, and King’s College London. He taught from 1972 to 2004 at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was also the founding director of Canadian Studies and on retirement was appointed University Professor Emeritus.
