George Williams Brown
Canadian historian and editor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Williams Brown was a Canadian historian and editor. Born on April 3, 1894, in Glencoe, Middlesex County, Ontario, and died on October 19, 1963, in Ottawa, Ontario. Early life and education The son of Charles William Brown, a Methodist and United Church of Canada minister, and Ida Rebecca Brown, he grew up in Southwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. After graduating in history from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1915, he joined the Canadian Army but was invalided out and taught for a year in a Dukhobor community in Saskatchewan. He re-enlisted as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Tanks Corps, but World War I ended before he saw active service. After the War he taught for a year in Saskatoon Collegiate Institute and then went to the University of Chicago, where he received a PhD in history in 1924.
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- A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (1935) (107)
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads (1932) (75)
- The Economic History of Liberia (1942) (38)
- Haiti and the United States (1923) (28)
- Main Currents in American Thought. Vol. I, The Colonial Mind, 1620–1800; Vol. II, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800–1860 by Vernon Louis Parrington (review) (1927) (13)
- The Grit Party and the Great Reform Convention of 1859 (1935) (11)
- An Electronic Simultaneous Equation Solver (1948) (10)
- Early Days in Upper Canada: Letters of John Langton from the Backwoods of Upper Canada and the Audit Office of the Province of Canada ed. by W. A. Langton (review) (1926) (7)
- The Problem of Public and Historical Records in Canada (1944) (6)
- The Origins of Abolition in Santo Domingo (1922) (4)
- The “Atlantic Alliance” in Perspective (1957) (4)
- Canadian History in Retrospect and Prospect (1944) (3)
- Some Notes on the Formation of the Union Government in 1917 (1938) (3)
- The St. Lawrence in the Boundary Settlement of 1783 (1928) (3)
- A Canadian View (1942) (2)
- Provincial Archives in Canada (1935) (2)
- Canadian Nationalism: An Historical Approach (1954) (2)
- The Possibility of a Connection between Mitanni and the Dravidian Languages (2)
- Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804-1880 with a series of over one hundred reproductions of maps constituting an historical atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan (1932) (1)
- The Mis-Education of the Negro. By Carter Godwin Woodson. (Washington: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1933. xiv + 207 pp. Appendix.) (1933) (1)
- Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (1928) (1)
- The Civilization of the Old Northwest: A Study of Political, Social, and Economic Development, 1788-1812 (1935) (1)
- The Growth of Canadian National Feeling (1927) (1)
- Songs and Dances of Great Lakes Indians (1958) (1)
- Prāṇa and Apāna@@@Prana and Apana (1)
- The Early Methodist Church and the Canadian Point of View (1938) (1)
- The Durham Report and the Upper Canadian Scene (1939) (1)
- Trends Toward the Formation of a Southern Confederacy (1933) (1)
- The Southern Struggle and American Rights (1958) (1)
- Book Review:Canadians in the Making: A Social History of Canada Arthur R. M. Lower (1960) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (1944) (0)
- Shipways to the Sea: Our inland and coastal waterways by Ernest S. Clowes (review) (1929) (0)
- Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804–1880 with a series of over one hundred reproductions of maps constituting an historical atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan by Louis C. Karpinski (review) (1932) (0)
- The Opening of the St. Lawrence to American Shipping (1926) (0)
- The Canadian Commercial Revolution, 1845–51. By Gilbert Norman Tucker. Yale Historical Publications, Studies, IX. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1936. x + 258 pp. Appendices, bibliographical note, maps, and illustrations. $3.00.) (1937) (0)
- On the Idea of a National Library (1932) (0)
- Alexander Graham Bell: The Man who Contracted Space (1929) (0)
- History of the State of New York (1934) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1922) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (1943) (0)
- The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775: The British Story by Allen French (review) (1928) (0)
- The Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution by Edward E. Curtis (review) (1927) (0)
- The British Overseas: Exploits of a nation of Shopkeepers. By C. E. Carrington. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1950. Pp. xxi, 1092. $9.00.) (1952) (0)
- The Social Development of Canada: An Introductory Study with Select Documents by S. D. Clark (review) (1942) (0)
- Responsible Government in Canada (1932) (0)
- From Rattlesnake Hunt to Hockey: The History of Sports in Canada and of the Sportsmen of Peel 1798 to 1934 by Wm. Perkins Bull (review) (1935) (0)
- Some Recent Books on the History of the United States (1938) (0)
- Arms and the Maple Leaf: Memories of Canada’s Corps, 1918 by Wilfred Brenton Kerr (review) (1943) (0)
- The Īndo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered@@@The Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered (0)
- The Coming of the White Man, 1492–1848 by Herbert Ingram Priestley (review) (1931) (0)
- The St. Lawrence Navigation and Power Project (1930) (0)
- Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their Diversities of Origin and Later CharacteristicsThe Colonial Period of American HistoryThe New York Merchant on the Eve of the RevolutionHistory of the State of New York (1936) (0)
- The Aryanization of India (1931) (0)
- Book Review:The Cambridge History of the British Empire J. Holland Rose, A. P. Newton, E. A. Benians (1931) (0)
- Note on Angarôs, in Montgomery's 'Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur'@@@Note on Angaros, in Montgomery's 'Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur' (0)
- William Huskisson and Liberal Reform (1928) (0)
- Niagara in Politics: A critical account of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission by James Mavor (review) (1926) (0)
- Records of Niagara in the Days of Commodore Grant and Lieut.-Governor Gore, 1805–1811 ed. by Brigadier-General E. A. Cruikshank (review) (1933) (0)
- Dominion of Canada: Report of the Public Archives for the year 1929 by Arthur G. Doughty (review) (1930) (0)
- The British Empire (1928) (0)
- The St. Lawrence Waterway Project: The Story of the St. Lawrence River as an International Highway for Water-borne Commerce by George Washington Stephens (review) (1930) (0)
- The Economic Uses of International Rivers (1932) (0)
- An Historical Atlas of Canada (1928) (0)
- Liberia: A Century of Survival, 1847–1947 By Raymond Leslie Buell. [African Handbooks, 7.] Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1947. Pp. vi, 140. $1.50 (1948) (0)
- A History of Simcoe, 1829-1929 (1929) (0)
- The British Empire (1928) (0)
- The St. Lawrence Waterway Project: The Story of the St. Lawrence River as an International Highway for Water-borne Commerce (1930) (0)
- Alexander Graham Bell: The Man who Contracted Space by Catherine Mackenzie (review) (1929) (0)
- The Encyclopedia of Canada. Volume I: Aaltanhash--CartierviileThe Columbia Encyclopedia in One Volume (1935) (0)
- Notes and comments (1932) (0)
- Records of Niagara in the Days of Commodore Grant and Lieut.-Governor Gore, 1805-1811 (1933) (0)
- An Account of the Tamil Academies (1931) (0)
- Weyl Hermann. פילוסופיה של המתימטיקה (Philosophy of mathematics). Translated by Meuhad David (Klinghofer). Revised and annotated by Fraenkel Abraham Adolf. The Hebrew University Press Association, Jerusalem 1945, 7 + 82 pp. (1947) (0)
- The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III by L. B. Namier (review) (1929) (0)
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