Reginald Charles Stuart (September 1, 1943 – April 29, 2018) was a
Canadian
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historian
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. The main focus of his work is on two major topics: the American experience with war as an instrument of policy and the relations of
Canadians
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and
Americans
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in what he terms Upper
North America. He retired in 2013 and lived in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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.
Career
Reginald C. Stuart was born on September 1, 1943 in
Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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. He received his
B.A.
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and
M.A.
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at the
University of British Columbia
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, and his
PhD.
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at the
University of Florida
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. He taught at
Prince of Wales College
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from 1968–1969 and at the
University of Prince Edward Island
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H ...
from 1969–1988. He came to
Mount Saint Vincent University
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in
Halifax
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* Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
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as Dean of Arts and Science in 1988 and became a full-time faculty member in 1996.
Awards
* Reginald C. Stuart won twice Merit Award for Scholarly Achievement at the University of Prince Edward Island (1982-1983) and (1987-1988).
* His ''United States Expansionism and British North America'' (1988) won the 1990 The Albert Corey Prize. This book is also one of the references to
War of 1812
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.
* He won the MSVU Award for Research Excellence (2004).
* He won a Canadian-American Fulbright award in 2003 and became the distinguished Chair in North American Studies at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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in Washington D.C. from January to June, 2004.
Selected publications
''Transnationalism in Canada-United States History'' Montreal:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. Co-editor with Michael D. Behiels.
*''Civil-Military Relations during the War of 1812.'' Westport, CT
Praeger 2009. This book is listed as one of the references to
Vermont National Guard
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.
''Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America'' Washington, DC: Co-published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
''Too Close? Too Far? Just Right? False Dichotomies and Canada-US Policy Making.''Orono, Maine: Canadian-American Center, No. 66, April 2006.
''United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871.''Chapel Hill:
the University of North Carolina Press
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, 1988. This book is also listed in the references to
Manifest destiny
Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
There were three basic tenets to the concept:
* The special virtues of the American people and th ...
.
*''The First Seventy-Five Years.'' Vancouver:
the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, 1988.
''War and American Thought: From the Revolution to the Monroe Doctrine.''Kent, Ohio:
the Kent State University Press
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, 1982.
''The Half-way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War.''Toronto:
University of Toronto Press
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The press originally printed only examination books and the university cale ...
, 1978.
Both ''Transnationalism in Canada-United States History'' and ''Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America'' are listed in the Further Reading to
Canada–United States relations
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.
Dr. Stuart's articles and reviews have appeared in The American Review of Canadian Studies,
Diplomatic History
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, Canadian Journal of History,
International History Review
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, Canadian Review of American Studies,
the Journal of Church and State, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, an
the Tennessee Historical Quarterly He contributed a chapter, "A Thousand Points of Partnership: Upper North America to 1931,"
in the book,''Forgotten Partnership Redux: Canada-U.S. Relations in the 21st Century.'' Amherst, NY:
Cambria Press
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, 2011, PP. 305–340. His article "Prologue to
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
There were three basic tenets to the concept:
* The special virtues of the American people and th ...
: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s" is in the references to
Louis McLane
Louis McLane (May 28, 1786 – October 7, 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, a member of the Federalist Party and later th ...
.
References
External links
The Mount website
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1943 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Canadian historians
Historians of Atlantic Canada
Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Writers from Vancouver
Academic staff of Mount Saint Vincent University
University of Florida alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
Academic staff of the University of Prince Edward Island
21st-century Canadian historians