Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century

by Norman Hillmer, Adam Chapnick

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773532731
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	07/26/2007
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Norman Hillmer is professor of history and international affairs, Carleton University, and co-author of Empire to Umpire: Canada and the World into the Twenty-First Century.

Adam Chapnick is deputy chair, command, leadership, and management, and assist

Table of Contents

Preface     ix
Introduction: An Abundance of Nationalisms   Norman Hillmer   Adam Chapnick     3
Comparing Mythologies: Twentieth-Century Canadian Constructions of Sir John Franklin   Janice Cavell     15
The All-Red Dream: Technological Nationalism and the Trans-Canada Telephone System   Robert Macdougall     46
Foreign Investment and the Paradox of Economic Nationalism   Stephen Azzi     63
Canada's Nationalist Internationalism: From the League of Nations to the United Nations   Hector Mackenzie     89
The Nationalization of Military History: Scholarship, Politics, and the Canadian War Museum   Roger Sarty     110
Branding Canada: Consumer Culture and the Development of Popular Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century   Paula Hastings     134
Lest We Forget: Two Solitudes in War and Memory   Alan Gordon     159
"The Real Discoverers and Master-Builders of This Nation": Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press and Nationalism in Canadian Art, 1920-1950   Sandra Campbell     174
John Buchan and the British Imperial Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism   Peter Henshaw     191
Prairie Commemorations and the Nation: The Golden Jubilees of Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1955   James Opp     214
Provincialism and Nationalism: A British Columbia Case Study   Patricia e. Roy     234
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
Aboriginal Identities and the New Indian Problem   David Newhouse     287
The Peculiarity of Eracism: Mixed Race and Nonbelonging in the Multicultural Nation   Andrew Chung     300
Contributors     311
Index     313