Vita

Gordon T. Stewart

Jack & Margaret Sweet Professor of History

Michigan State University

History Department, Morrill Hall,

Michigan State University,

East Lansing, MI 48824

e-mail: stewar14@msu.edu

I. Personal

born 6/7/45 Newport-on-Tay, Scotland

II. Education

Morgan Academy, Dundee, Scotland, 1957-63

MA: University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1963-1967, First Class Honours in Modern History

PH.D: Queen's University, Canada, 1967-1970. Dissertation title: "Nova Scotia and the American Revolution"

III. Positions Held

1970-1972 Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

1973-1974 Associate Professor, Michigan State University

1974-1975 Lecturer in American and British Empire History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

1975-1983 Associate Professor, Michigan State University

1983- Professor, Michigan State University

1986-1994 Chair of History, Michigan State University

1997-1998 Interim Dean, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University

2000- Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History

2003 Visiting Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (February-April)

IV. Publications

A. Books

A People Highly Favoured of God. The Nova Scotia Yankees and the American Revolution

with G.A.Rawlyk (Toronto, Macmillan, 1972)

Documents Relating to the Great Awakening in Nova Scotia 1760-1791 (Toronto, The Champlain Society, 1982)

The Origins of Canadian Politics (Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1986)

History of Canada to 1867 (Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Booklet, 1989; second edition, 1996)

The American Response to Canada since 1776 (East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1992)

Jute & Empire. The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire (Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1998)

Journeys to Empire. Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet 1774-
1904 (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

B. Articles and Book Chapters (all refereed)

"Nova Scotia's Sense of Mission," Social History/Histoire Sociale Vol. II (1968), pp.5-17

"Socio-Economic Factors in the Great Awakening: a Case Study." Acadiensis Vol.III (1973), pp.18-34

"Charisma and Integration: a North American Case," Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. XVI (1974), pp.138-149

"Ebenezer Moulton," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Vol.VI (Toronto, 1979), pp.564-565

"Political Patronage under Macdonald and Laurier," The American Review of Canadian Studies

Vol.X (1980), pp.3-27. Reprinted in J.M.Bumsted, ed., Interpreting Canada's Past Vol. II (Toronto, 1986), pp.28-51

"The British Reaction to the Conquest of Everest," Journal of Sports History Vol.VII (1980),

pp. 21-40

"John A. Macdonald's Greatest Triumph," The Canadian Historical Review Vol. LXIII (1982), pp. 3-34

"A Special Contiguous Economic Regime: an Overview of America's Canadian Policy," Diplomatic History Vol.VI (1982), pp. 339-358

"Jonathan Scott," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Vol.V (Toronto,1983), pp.743-744

"Whymper of the Matterhorn: a Victorian Tragedy," History Today Vol. XXXIII (1983),

pp. 5-13

"John A. Macdonald and the Origins of Canadian Politics," in W. Peter Ward and R. Kenneth Carty, eds., National Politics and Community in Canada (Vancouver, 1986), pp.15-47

"The Northwest Ordinance and the Balance of Power in North America," in Frederick D. Williams,ed., The Northwest Ordinance. Essays on its Formulation, Provisions and Legacy (East Lansing,1988)

"America's Canadian Policy," in Norman Hillmer,ed., Partners Nevertheless. Canadian-
American Relations in the Twentieth Century (Toronto, 1989), pp.11-32

"The Origins of Canadian Politics," in Alain-G. Gagnon and Brian Tanguay, eds., Democracy with Justice. Essays in Honour of Khayyam Zev Paltiel (Ottawa, 1992), pp.157-173

"Three Lessons for Mexico from Canadian-American Relations," Frontera Norte Vol.XI (1991)

"Documents on Canadian External Relations," in John Hilliker and Mary Halloran, eds., Diplomatic Documents and their Uses. Proceedings of the Third Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents 1994 (Ottawa,1995), pp.248-251

"Tenzing's Two Wrist-watches: the Conquest of Everest and Late Imperial Culture in Britain, 1921-1953," Past & Present Number 149 (1995) pp.170-197

"The Poverty of Canadian Politics?" Democratization Vol. III (1996), pp. 28-46 [Special Issue on "Democracy and North America" edited by Alan Ware, Worcester College, Oxford]

"Debate: Tenzing's Two Wrist-watches: the Conquest of Everest and Late Imperial Culture in Britain 1921-1953," Past & Present Number 157 (1997), pp. 178-190

"Is Canada De-Europeanized - Or Does Anyone Remember?", in Stephen Brooks, ed., The Challenge of Cultural Pluralism (Westport, Conn. & London, 2002), pp.3-15

"'An Objective of U.S. Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic': The United States and the End of Empire in Canada," in Phil Buckner. ed., Canada and the End of Empire (University of British Columbia Press, 2004), pp.94-117.

"Henry Alline (1748-1784)," in Michael McClymond, ed., Encyclopedia of religious Revivals in America Vol. I (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 2007), pp. 13-14.

"The Beginning of Politics in Canada," in Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay,eds., Canadian Parties in Transition (Toronto, 2007)

"The British Invasion of Tibet and the Russo-Japanese War 1904," in Rotem Kowner,ed., Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 (Global Oriental, 2007)

"Endgame for Jute: Dundee and Calcutta 1890-2000," in James Tomlinson and Chris Whatley, eds., Jute No More. Dundee in the Twentieth Century," (Dundee University Press, 2011)

"1774: the Scottish Enlightenment meets the Tibetan Enlightenment," The Journal of World History vol.22, no.3 (September, 2011).

C. Selected Book Reviews

American Historical Review Vol.79(1974), p.1670: George F.G. Stanley, Canada Invaded 1775-
1776 (Toronto,1973)

American Historical Review Vol.93 (October, 1988), p.1142: J.M.Bumsted, Land, Settlement and Politics on Eighteenth Century Prince Edward Island (McGill-Queen's University Press,1987)

American Historical Review Vol.94 (April, 1989), pp.553-554 : Jane Errington, The Lion, the Eagle and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987)

American Historical Review Vol.101 (April,1996), pp.456-457: John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall, Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (University of Georgia Press,1994)

American Historical Review Vol.100 (October, 1995), p.1293: James S. Leamon, Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine (University of Massachusetts Press, 1993)

American Historical Review Vol. 105 (April 2000), pp.532-533: Julian Gwyn, Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia 1740-1870 (Montreal, 1998)

American Historical Review Vol. 110 (December 2005), pp.1515-1516: Elizabeth Mancke, Fault Lines of Empire. Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia 1760-1830 (New York, 2005)

William & Mary Quarterly Vol.34 (January, 1977), pp.138-140: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Vol.II: 1701-1740 and Vol.III:1741-1780 (University of Toronto Press,1969,1974)

William & Mary Quarterly Vol.39 (November, 1982),pp.694-696: John C. Reid, Acadia, Maine and New Scotland: Marginal Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (University of Toronto Press,1981)

William & Mary Quarterly Vol.54 (April, 1997), pp.436-438: Ernest Clarke, The Siege of Fort Cumberland 1776: An Episode in the American Revolution (McGill-Queen's University Press,1995)

William & Mary Quarterly Vol.43(1986), p.328: William Condon, 'The Envy of American States': The Lolyalist Dream for New Brunswick

The International History Review Vol. XXI (1999), pp.1088-1089: Edelgard Mahant and Graeme S. Mount, Invisible and Inaudible in Washington. American Policies towards Canada (Vancouver, BC, 1999)

The International History Review Vol. XXIV (2002), pp.528-532: Bruno Ramirez, Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States 1900-1930 (Cornell University Press, 2001) and John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada ( Harvard University Press, 2001).

African Studies Review Vol. 24 (1981), p.18: C. J. Driver, Patrick Duncan: South African and Pan-African (London,1980)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 63 (1982), pp.265-266: J. Cuthbertson, ed., The Journals of John Payzant (Toronto, 1982)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 65 (1984), pp.277-279: J.Murray Beck, Joseph Howe. The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873 (Toronto, 1984)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 74 (December, 1993), pp.611-612: H.H.Scobie and John Webster Grant, The Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press,1992)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol.69 (June, 1988), pp.273-274: Peter Brimelow, The Patriot Game. National Dreams and Political Realities (Toronto,1986)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 67 (September, 1986),pp.446-447: D.G.Bell,ed., Newlight Baptist Journals of James Manning and James Innis (Hantsport, Nova Scotia, 1984)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol.64 (1983), p.240: Beverley James and Barry Moody, eds., The Journal of Henry Alline

The Canadian Historical Review Vol.53 (December, 1972): pp.447-449: Judith Fingard, The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia 1783-1816 (Toronto, 1971)

The Canadian Historical Review Vol.53 (March, 1972),pp.78-80: J.M. Bumsted, Henry Alline 1748-1784 (University of Toronto Press, 1971)

The Canadian Journal of History, Vol. XXIV (August, 1989), pp.259-260: Reginald C. Stuart, United States Expansionism and British North America 1775-1871 (University of North Carolina, 1988)

Canadian Journal of Political Science Vol.22 (March, 1989), pp.177-178: Jeffrey Simpson, Spoils of Power: the Politics of Patronage (Toronto,1988)

National History Vol. I, No. 4 (Summer, 2000), pp.381-382: John Ralston Saul, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century (Toronto, 1997)

University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 70 (Winter 2000/2001), pp.394-396: Paul Hunt, ed., Terra Pacifica: People and Place in the Northwest States and Western Canada (Seattle, 1998)

University of Toronto Quarterly , Vol. 72 (Winter 2002-2003), pp.2-3: Francis M. Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure. The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary 1783-1842 (Toronto, 2002)

The Journal of American History (December 2006), pp.842-843: John Mark Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme. The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (New York, 2005)

D. Other Scholarship

(i) Papers Read

"Henry Alline: the First Canadian Leader," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1971

"Recent trends in Maritime Historiography," Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, 1972

"Political Patronage in Canada and Britain," University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Canadian Seminar, 1975

"Nova Scotia and the American Revolution: a Reconsideration," New York History Conference, Plattsburgh, NY, 1976

"The Nova Scotia Yankees as an Example of an Expatriate Community," Canadian Association for American Studies Annual Meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1977

"Charisma and Integration in Eighteenth Century Nova Scotia: a Re-evaluation?", Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 1977.

"Political Patronage in Canada 1790-1867," American Association for Canadian Studies, Washington,DC, 1979

"The Origins of Canadian Politics," Canadian Historical Association Annual meeting, Vancouver, 1983

"US Tariff Policy towards Canada," Canadian Historical Association Meeting, London, Ontario, 1987

"Two Eighteenth-century Constitutions: Canada 1791 and the United States 1787," Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Windsor, Ontario, June 1988

"The American Response to Canada: a Historical Perspective," Facing North/Facing South Colloquium, Western Michigan University, September 1989

"The Origins of Canadian Politics: an International Perspective," University of California, Berkeley, November 1990

"Patronage in Canadian Politics," Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, February 1990

"'An Objective of American Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic': the United States and the End of Empire in Canada." Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, England, April 2001.

"A British Colony in the Atlantic Pressure Cooker 1760-1800: the Origins of a Canadian Identity?" The Atlantic World. An Interdisciplinary Conference on Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World 1492-1888, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, September 17, 2004.

"How Many British Empires were there - and can America learn Lessons from them? Keynote Address, Mid-West Conference on British Studies, October 22, 2004

"What North Atlantic Triangle?" Joint Seminar of The Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, England, February 22, 2005.

"The First British Mission to Tibet, 1774," IVth. International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Literature from the Americas, Europe and China. Xian, China, May 2006

"Endgame for Jute: the Dundee and Calcutta Industries in the Twentieth Century," University of Dundee, March 2009.

"Empire & Exploration in Central Asia," American Historical Association Annual Meeting (joint session with National History Center), New York, January 2009.

(ii) Panelist/Commentator

"Liberalism and Republicanism in Canadian Political Thought," Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 1990

"Parties and Patronage in the Union of the Canadas 1840-1867," Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, 1990

"Debate on the Origins of Political Patronage in Canada," Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Kingston, Ontario, June 1991

"The Exercise of Power in Later Stuart England," Western Conference on British Studies, Tucson, Arizona, October 1991

"Commodification and Resistance in the 18th Century," Western Conference on British Studies, Boulder, Colorado, 1992

"Modern British Foreign Policy," Midwest Conference on British Studies, Minneapolis,1992

"Recent Trends in Maritime Historiography," American Association for Canadian Studies Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 1998

(iii) Reader for Publishers/Scholarly Associations

University of Michigan Press, University of Toronto Press, University of British Columbia Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Social Science Research Council of Canada, Canadian Historical Review, American Historical Review, William and Mary Quarterly , The Journal of Historical Geography

(iv) Miscellaneous

Winner of Best Article of the Year Prize, Canadian Historical Review, 1982

The Leon and Thea Koerner Distinguished Lecturer (joint with John Murrin of Princeton University), University of British Columbia, 1987

Chair of American Historical Association Albert B. Corey Prize Committee, 1990

Chair Joint American Historical Association/Canadian Historical Association Committee,

1997-98

Board of Editors, American Review of Canadian Studies, 1990-1995

Chair, Ellis W. Hawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2001-2002

Canada Council for the Arts, Killam Research Fellowship, Expert Evaluator (2002) for "Province, Oligarchy, and Land in Upper Canada 1788-1841."

Expert Consultant for BBC Documentary Commemorating 50th Anniversary of First Ascent of Everest, London 2002.

Consultant/ Interviewee for BBC Scotland Series "Scotland's Empire" 2003