A long way to paradise : a new history of British Columbia politics /
Polarized. Partisan. The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada's most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, explorin...
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
[2021].
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| Series: | C.D. Howe series in Canadian political history.
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Table of Contents:
- Confederation and the Birth of Popular Politics, 1871-83
- Politics before Parties in a New Province, 1884-1902
- Singing the Song of Progress in the McBride Years, 1903-15
- Paradise Modern and the Party of Reform, 1916-28
- Pattullo's New Liberalism and the Revolt beyond the Rockies, 1928-41
- Unsettling Capitalism during the Depression, 1933-39
- The Politics of War and Keeping the Socialists at Bay, 1941-45
- Right versus Left and Social Credit's Triumph, 1945-52
- Prosperity for All and Province Building in the Bennett Era, 1952-72
- Trying to Dress Up the NDP in a Saville Row Suit, 1961-72
- Bennett's Defeat and BC's First Social Democratic Government, 1965-72.