Research Catalog

Title

Escott Reid : diplomat and scholar / edited by Greg Donaghy and Stéphane Roussel.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Roussel, Stéphane, 1964-
• Donaghy, Greg.

Description

xi, 144 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Escott Reid: Diplomat and Scholar offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada. The authors challenge critics who dismiss Reid as an impractical idealist, demonstrating that his approach to policy-making was sophisticated and his progressive idealism tempered by an astute grasp of the competing interests of a range of national and bureaucratic powers. Reid's reflections on Canada's place in the world remain as relevant and provocative as when he wrote them."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Intellectuals > Canada > Biography
• Diplomats > Canada > Biography
• Glendon College Officials and employees > Biography
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1918-1945
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1945-
• World Bank Officials and employees > Biography
• Reid, Escott

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. [127]-135.

Contents

Foreword : Canada looks ahead : Escott Reid and Lester B. Pearson / Geoffrey A. H. Pearson -- Introduction : a liberal idealist in a hard-power world / Greg Donaghy and Stephane Roussel -- 1. Becoming difficult : Escott Reid's early years / J. L. Granatstein -- 2. "Writing marginal notes on the pages of history"? : Escott Reid and the founding of the United Nations, 1945-46 / Hector Mackenzie -- 3. Escott Reid, the North Atlantic Treaty, and Canadian strategic culture / David G. Haglund and Stephane Roussel -- 4. "The most important place in the world" : Escott Reid in India, 1952-57 / Greg Donaghy -- 5. The radical banker : Escott Reid, the World Bank, and aid to India, 1962-65 / Bruce Muirhead -- 6. The Glendon College experiment / Alyson King -- Conclusion / Stephane Roussel and Greg Donaghy.

ISBN

0773527133

OCLC

• 55596246
• SCSB-5151745

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries