The Life of William Stevens Fielding as Statesman of the North Atlantic Triangle

Barry Cahill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

289 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5900-0 (ISBN)

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This book details the life of William Stevens Fielding (1848-1929), Canada's minister of finance for nineteen years and one of its most eminent and influential statesmen. After a successful career as a journalist in Halifax during which he rose from office boy to editor of Atlantic Canada's leading daily newspaper, he entered provincial politics. Becoming premier of Nova Scotia in 1884, he served for twelve years, during which he established a Liberal Party ascendancy which lasted for four decades. In 1896 he was recruited by Wilfrid Laurier to be minister of finance in the new Liberal government, serving continuously until the defeat of the Liberals in the federal election of 1911. He was Laurier's number two, English-Canadian lieutenant and heir apparent. Having nearly replaced Laurier as prime minister in 1908, he is best known for the 1911 free trade agreement with the United States, which he negotiated. He narrowly failed to succeed Laurier as Liberal leader in 1919, but became again minister of finance in the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mackenzie King which assumed office in December 1921.

Barry Cahill is an unaffiliated nonprofessional historian in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has published articles on legal history, African-Canadian history and the December 1917 Halifax Disaster but now specializes in Canadian political biography. He has published histories of the survival of Presbyterianism in Halifax, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and the Halifax Relief Commission, biographies of Chief Justice Lorne Clarke, J. L. Ilsley, Norman McLeod Rogers and Robert Winters, and a history of Mackenzie King biographies.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-0364-5900-4 / 1036459004
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5900-0 / 9781036459000
Zustand	Neuware