{"product_id":"9781442654730","title":"Canadian Issues: Essays in Honour of Henry F. Angus","description":"\u003cp\u003eTopics of widespread concern to Canadians interested in the social   sciences and to the general reading public are dealt with in this volume of essays   by a group of Canada's leading scholars in political science and history. The   book is presented in honour of Henry Forbes Angus, Head of the Department of   Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of British Columbia   from 1930 to 1956, and the authors are all his former students, colleagues or   associates. Included also are a bibliography of publications Dean Angus and, with   his consent, a thoughtful and humorous article of his entitled \"Administration   and Democracy.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Forbes Angus was born in Victoria, in 1891.   He received his school education in Victoria and subsequently attended the   Lycée Descartes at Tours (France) and McGill University from which he   received his B.A. in 1911. He proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford where he obtained   a B.A., first class, in 1913 and a B.C.L., also first class, in 1914. He won the   highly prized Vinerian Law Scholarship at Oxford in 1914, and was called to the   Inner Temple Bar in the same year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Angus served throughout the First   World War: in India from 1914 to 1916 and in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1919. He was   promoted to the rank of Captain and mentioned in despatches. He returned to British   Columbia after the war, and in 1919 was appointed Assistant Professor of Economics   at the University of British Columbia. In the same year he obtained his M.A. from   Oxford. He was promoted Head of the Department of Economics, Political Science and   Sociology in 1930. From 1949 to 1956 he was also Dean of Graduate   Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Angus was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in   1939 and was its President in 1951-1952. He has honorary degrees from McGill   University and from the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the Royal   Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, 1937-40, and a member of the Royal   Commission on Transportation, 1949-51. From 1941 to 1945 he was Special Assistant to   the Under Secretary of State for External Affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1955, Dean Angus has   been Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128227086576,"sku":"9781442654730","price":29.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442654730_p0.jpg?v=1763808904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442654730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}