Modern Canada

* - Articles commissioned specifically for this volume.
Introduction
Part I: National Identity and Nationalism
1. Immigration and Multiculturalism
Augie Fleras: "Under Repair," "Work in Progress": Trajectories of Canadian Multiculturalism *
Stephanie Bangarth: Citizen Activism, Refugees, and the State: Two Case Studies in Canadian Immigration History *
2. "Canadian" Identity and Culture
Matthew Hayday: Fireworks, Folk-dancing, and Fostering a National Identity
Ryan Edwardson: Canadianization: Culture and Nationhood in the Postwar Years *
3. Nation within a Nation
Michael D. Behiels: Mulroney and a Nationalist Quebec: Key to Political Realignment in Canada?
David Newhouse: Aboriginal Identities and the New Indian Problem
Part II: Federalism, Liberalism, and Regionalism
4. Regional Politics and Identity
Alvin Finkel: Alberta Social Credit and the Second National Policy
Corey Slumkoski: "A narrow provincialism": Regionalism in Atlantic Canada, 1945-1970 *
5. The Welfare State
Sean Purdy: "It Was Tough on Everybody": Low-Income Families and Housing Hardship in Post-World War II Toronto
Raymond Blake: Intergovernmental Relations Trumps Social Policy Change: Trudeau, Constitutionalism, and Family Allowances
6. From Postwar Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism
Michael Goldfield & Bryan D. Palmer: Canada's Workers Movement: Uneven Developments
Brooke Jeffrey: The Harper Government and Open Federalism *
Part III: Canada and the World
7. Finding a "Middle-Power" Ground in the Postwar World
Hector Mackenzie: The "Revolution" in Canada's International Policies *
Andrew Preston: Balancing War and Peace: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War, 1961-1965
8. Canadians in the Developing World
David Webster: Eyeing the Indies: Canadian Relations with Indonesia, 1945-99 *
Ruth Compton Brouwer: When Missions Become Development: Ironies of "ngoization" in Mainstream Canadian Churches in the 1960s
9. Canada and the United States
Stephen Azzi: Foreign Investment and the Paradox of Economic Nationalism
Robert Huebert: The Transformation of Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: From Myth to Reality *
Part IV: The Rights Revolution
10. Early Human Rights Movements
Catherine Briggs: The "Social Answer": The Development of Maternity and Child Care Provisions in the 1960s *
Carmela Patrias: Socialists, Jews, and the 1947 Saskatchewan Bill of Rights
11. Rights in the 1960s and 1970s
Dominique Clement: Generations and the Transformation of Social Movements in Postwar Canada
Malgorzata Kierylo: The Recognition of Institutional Racism in Ontario: Public and Private Enquiries into Toronto's "Race Crisis," 1975-1982 *
12. The Charter Revolution
Chance Minnett Watchel and Matthew Hennigar: Righteous Litigation: An Examination of Christian Conservative Interest Group Litigation Before the Appellate Courts of Canada, 1982-2009 *
Miriam Smith: Social Movements and Judicial Empowerment: Courts, Public Policy, and Lesbian and Gay Organizing in Canada
Part V: Changing Values and Norms
13. The Environment
Mark Joseph McLaughlin: "As thick as molasses": Water Pollution Regulation in New Brunswick, 1947-1975 *
Tina Loo: Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River
14. Youth and Resistance
Matthew Roth: "How to Walk Safely in Immigration's Minefield": The Toronto Anti-Draft Programme and the Changing Needs of American War Resisters in Canada during the Vietnam War *
Christabelle Sethna: The University of Toronto Health Service, Oral Contraception, and Student Demand for Birth Control, 1960-70
15. Gender, Work, and Family
Barbara Freeman: Breaking Out of the Glass Cage: Women Newspaper Journalists in Canada, 1945-1975 *
Robert Rutherdale: Three Faces of Fatherhood as a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics as "Responsible Family Men" During Canada's Baby Boom
Conclusion
Glossary
Index

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Catherine Briggs is an instructor in the history department at St Jerome's University, University of Waterloo. She teaches a number of courses on Canadian history, including social and business history, and has published in the area of women's and social history.

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