{"product_id":"the-orangeman-second-edition-9780228011804","title":"The Orangeman Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them  against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans  bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. \u003ci\u003eThe Orangeman\u003c\/i\u003e uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces.\u003cbr\u003eGowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country  the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. \u003ci\u003eThe Orangeman\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson's telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A commentary upon an historical figure and the writing of history itself. This gives the book a delicious irony that just might herald the advent of post-modernism in Canadian historical scholarship.” \u003ci\u003eOntario History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating book that asks and answers the questions historians often avoid.” \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400163205463,"sku":"9780228011804","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780228011804.jpg?v=1730469925","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-orangeman-second-edition-9780228011804","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}