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History Post-confederation (1867-)

The Other Quiet Revolution

National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71

by (author) José E. Igartua

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-), Nationalism
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774840675
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774810913
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774810883
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

The Other Quiet Revolution traces the under-examined cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act and the 1956 Suez crisis to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70) and the adoption of the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971. José Igartua analyzes editorial opinion, political rhetoric, history textbooks, and public opinion polls to show how Canada’s self-conception as a British country dissolved as struggles with bilingualism and biculturalism, as well as Quebec’s constitutional demands, helped to fashion new representations of national identity in English-speaking Canada based on the civic principle of equality.

About the author

José E. Igartua is a retired professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

José E. Igartua's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science