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Christopher Hugh Moore (born 1950 in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an author, journalist, and blogger 〔()〕 about Canadian history. A freelance writer since 1978, Moore is unusual among professionally trained Canadian historians in that he supports himself by writing for general audiences. He is a longtime columnist for Canada's History magazine (formerly ''The Beaver'') and the author of many books. He has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Moore immigrated to Canada with his family in 1954, was raised in Nelson and Vancouver, British Columbia, and did undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia. He began his historical career as a researcher with the historic sites service of Parks Canada at Canada’s largest historic site reconstruction, the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.〔Canadian Who’s Who, article “Christopher Hugh Moore.”〕 After graduate studies at the University of Ottawa (M.A., History, 1977) and work with the Heritage Canada Foundation, Moore made Louisbourg the subject of his first book, ''Louisbourg Portraits: Life in An Eighteenth Century Garrison Town''.〔Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2000〕 ==Books== ''Louisbourg Portraits'' explores eighteenth century social history through archivally based studies of ordinary people: an accused thief, a merchant, a young bride, a migrant fisherman, and a soldier. Called “social history as it should be written,” by historian Desmond Morton, Louisbourg Portraits received Canada’s leading nonfiction prize, the Governor-General’s Literary Award for nonfiction, for 1982. An ebook version was published in 2011. ''The Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement'',〔Toronto: Macmillan, 1984; McClelland and Stewart, 2000〕 published in 1984 to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of loyalist settlement in Canada, mixes biographies of prominent and obscure individuals with a broad narrative of the loyalist experience. It received the Secretary of State’s Prize for Excellence in Canadian Studies in 1985. ''1867: How the Fathers Made A Deal'',〔Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1997〕 was born in the national debate over the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord constitutional reform proposals. It was “the first detailed examination of Canadian confederation in a generation.”〔Ajzenstat et al, editors, Canada’s Founding Debates, (Toronto: Stoddart, 1999), p. 497.〕 It combines Moore’s characteristic biographical focus with a new emphasis on political over social history. Moore argues that the constitutional processes of the 1860s compare well against the executive-driven deals that failed in the 1980s and 1990s due to a greater inclusion of opposing voices in the Confederation debates. He outlines the principles of Responsible Government laid out by William Warren Baldwin, Joseph Howe, Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin which inspired Macdonald, Cartier, McGee, and the Fathers as they framed the constitution. Canadian political commentator Dalton Camp called 1867 “just about the best book on our history I’ve ever read.”〔Toronto Star, December 16, 1998〕 In 2011, ''1867'' was named one of the twelve best Canadian political books of the previous twenty-five years〔()〕 and published as an ebook. In 2015, with the 150th anniversary of confederation approaching, Moore published ''Three Weeks in Quebec City: The Meeting that Made Canada'', a closely detailed account of the Quebec Conference of 1864. At Quebec the essence of the Canadian constitution—and Canadian nationhood—was negotiated and laid out in 72 Resolutions. These became the basis of the British North America Act 1867 and remain central to Canada’s constitution. ''Three Weeks'' ranges from the parties, dinners, and flirtations surrounding the conference to close analysis of the constitutional decisions made, the reasons for them, and who drove them.〔Penguin Canada Allan Lane, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Moore (Canadian historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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