Canada's prime ministers and the shaping of a national identity /
"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....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | C.D. Howe series in Canadian political history.
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| Summary: | "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 minsters 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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| Physical Description: | xiii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Issued also in electronic format. |
| Awards: | WTC: Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, 2025 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774869638 0774869631 |