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Phillip Buckner (Ed.) - Canada and the British World: Culture, Migration, and Identity - 9780774813051 - V9780774813051
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Canada and the British World: Culture, Migration, and Identity

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Description for Canada and the British World: Culture, Migration, and Identity Hardback. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Canadian national identity underwent a transformation. This book surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on discrete aspects of Canadian identity, it reveals the complex relationship between Canada and the larger British world. Editor(s): Buckner, Phillip A.; Francis, R. Douglas. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFC; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.

In the decades following the Second World War, a revolutionary change took place in the Canadian national identity. The English-Canadian majority entered this period identifying themselves as British and emerged from it with a new, independent sense of themselves as purely Canadian. Assured of their unique place in the world, Canadians can now reflect on the legacies and lessons of their British colonial past.

Canada and the British World surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Canadian identity over more than a century, the complex and ... Read more

Candid and ambitious, Canada and the British World is recommended reading for historians and scholars of colonialism and nationalism, as well as anyone interested in what it really means to be Canadian.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774813051
SKU
V9780774813051
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Phillip Buckner (Ed.)
Phillip Buckner is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary.

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