Donald Creighton: A Life in History

by Donald Wright

Book Overview

A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was English Canada's first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it "had happened," he said, "the day before yesterday." And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442626828
• ISBN13: 9781442626829
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"