Contours of Canadian thought / A. B. McKillop.

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McKillop explores the thought of a number of English-Canadian thinkers from the 1860s to the 1920s, decades that saw Canada's entry into the modern age.

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McKillop (Carleton University) has drawn together seven papers that appeared in various publications between 1974 and 1982 and a paper presented in 1984 into a solid study of English-Canadian intellectual history. Recognizing that little was written on the subject between the 1860s and the 1920s, the author suggests lines of research, and shows the contribution of such English-Canadian thinkers as Sir Daniel Wilson, William Dawson LeSueur, and John Watson. His voluminous footnotes not only reveal the state of intellectual history in Canada, but also in Britain and the US. McKillop explains well the purpose of his work: ``It is intended to introduce university students to some of the major works of scholarship in the small but lively field of Canadian intellectual history, to indicate problems inherent in the writing of intellectual history, and to suggest possible approaches that might help surmount these problems.'' The references to English-Canadian scholarly works, the vocabulary, and the contents in general suggest that only final-year undergraduates could appreciate or benefit from studying this work. Excellent index.-J.J. Talman, University of Western Ontario