Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity Hardback
by Raymond B. Blake
Part of the The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History series
Hardback
Description
Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story.
Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together.
This book is about those narratives and stories. Focusing on the post–Second World War period, Raymond B.
Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime ministers worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world.
They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow.
They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms.
Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation.
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:414 pages, 23 b&w photos
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2024
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- ISBN:9780774869638
Information
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:414 pages, 23 b&w photos
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774869638
