Canadas of the mind : the making and unmaking of Canadian nationalisms in the twentieth century / edited by Norman Hillmer and Adam Chapnick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillmer, Norman.

Chapnick, Adam, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Canada--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Multiculturalism.

History.

Civilization.

Canada--Civilization--20th century.

Canada.

Canada--History--20th century.

Multiculturalism--Canada--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queens's University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Not since Peter Russell's Nationalism in Canada has a collection provided such a comprehensive exploration of the mythologies and paradoxes of the Canadian experience. Canadas of the Mind explores how the country's abundant nationalisms have made and unmade traditional understandings of Canada. From the vantage point of a new century, Canadas of the Mind reconstructs and re-evaluates dimensions of twentieth-century Canadian nationalisms - their meanings, their uses, their contradictions - from cultural, economic, intellectual, technological, political, international, and military perspectives. By probing deeply into Canada's multiple allegiances and identities, Canadas of the Mind offers visions of the nation that will define the country and its constituent parts in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction: An Abundance of Nationalisms / Norman Hillmer, Adam Chapnick 3

1 Comparing Mythologies: Twentieth-Century Canadian Constructions of Sir John Franklin / Janice Cavell 15

2 The All-Red Dream: Technological Nationalism and the Trans-Canada Telephone System / Robert Macdougall 46

3 Foreign Investment and the Paradox of Economic Nationalism / Stephen Azzi 63

4 Canada's Nationalist Internationalism: From the League of Nations to the United Nations / Hector Mackenzie 89

5 The Nationalization of Military History: Scholarship, Politics, and the Canadian War Museum / Roger Sarty 110

6 Branding Canada: Consumer Culture and the Development of Popular Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century / Paula Hastings 134

7 Lest We Forget: Two Solitudes in War and Memory / Alan Gordon 159

8 "The Real Discoverers and Master-Builders of This Nation": Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press and Nationalism in Canadian Art, 1920-1950 / Sandra Campbell 174

9 John Buchan and the British Imperial Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism / Peter Henshaw 191

10 Prairie Commemorations and the Nation: The Golden Jubilees of Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1955 / James Opp 214

11 Provincialism and Nationalism: A British Columbia Case Study / Patricia E. Roy 234

12 Aboriginal Nationalism in the Ascendancy: The Assembly of First Nations' First Campaign for the Inherent Right to Self-Government, 1968-1987 / Michael D. Behiels 260

13 Aboriginal Identities and the New Indian Problem / David Newhouse 287

14 The Peculiarity of Eracism: Mixed Race and Nonbelonging in the Multicultural Nation / Andrew Chung 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773532724

0773532722

9780773532731

0773532730

OCLC:

123127319