Carl Berger: 3 books
The Sense of Power
Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation. This influential book demonstrated that the movement – which held that Canada could only become a great nation within the British...
Broadsides and Bayonets
The Propaganda War of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1961, author Carl Berger has “attempted to encompass the story of propaganda and subversion in the American Revolutionary War. The archives and literature of the Revolution contain many intriguing references to “secret arts and machinations,” some relating to incidents...
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history...