Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit /
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| Author / Creator: | Hesketh, Bob, 1950- |
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| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997. |
| Description: | x, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2780702 |
| Summary: | The Social Credit Movement had a Broad and significant impact on the social and political history of Alberta. A number of authors have examined this phenomenon, usually focusing on the economic and social conditions that influenced Social Credit's rise to power. Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit Ideology, however, is the first work dedicated expressly to the intellectual history of the Social Credit government of the 1930s and 1940s.<p>Bob Hesketh challenges us to revise previous thinking about Social Credit by placing new emphasis on the influence of Major C.H. Douglas's conspiracy-based ideology on the Aberhart and Manning governments. The author is the first to contend that Douglas's beliefs were strongly influenced by the infamous anti-Semitic book, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Douglas believed that a Jewish financial conspiracy with the single goal of enslaving mankind was orchestrating world events. Hesketh analyses the shared ground between Douglas's conspiratorialthinking and the fundamentalism of Aberhart and Manning. He suggests that both Premiers understood and applied Douglas's teachings to a wide var |
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| Physical Description: | x, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0802041485 9780802041487 0802079946 9780802079947 |