This text is an engaging survey of post-Second World War Canada, exploring ten themes key to the Canadian experience since 1945. An accessible narrative brings together recent scholarship to show how Canadians first re-created the nation following the Second World War, then experienced the
fragmentation of the Canada that had emerged, and ultimately remained committed to Canada as a nation-state and community.
Note: Each chapter also includes:
- Introduction
- Questions for Consideration
Introduction
1. Reconstructing the Sinews of Nation: The Statist, Infrastructure and Technological Impulse of Post-war Canada
Re-Making Canada: From Sea to Sea, to Inland Seas, to Dams and
Bridges, 1949, 1959, and 1997
The Modernity of Mobility and Architecture: "Trans-Canadas" on the Road and into the Sky, 1940s-1960s
Building a Re-Created Canada: Zenith and Decline, 1967-2000
Conclusion: Après le Deluge, Postmodern Resilience and Rebuilding
2. Unwelfare State:
The Common Good to Common Sense and Back Again
Foundations: A Keynesian Revolution, 1937-1957
Post-war Peak: Constructing a Canadian Welfare State, 1958-1971
Fragmentation: Neo-liberal Ideals, Fiscal Fears, Transnational Influences and "Common Sense", 1970-2015
Conclusion:
Canadian Welfare State Resilience, 2010-2017
3. Family Snapshot: Images and Realities of Ordinary Life
Baby Booms, Family Fictions and Back Alley Tragedies, 1945-1969
Canada's Sexual Revolutions Fragment the "Ideal," 1960s-
Conclusion: The Modern Family: Canadians in the
Twenty-First Century
4. Environmental Epoch: From Re-created Landscapes and Consumptive Suburbs to Green Revolutions
Green Awakenings, 1960-1990
Canadian, Continental, and Global Environmentalism, 1980s-
Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century and Canada's Environmental
Movement
5. Vox Populaire: From Mainstream Media and Maple Music to Cultural Conundrums and Disruptive Technologies
Post-war Praxis: A New Cultural and Media Landscape, 1945-1970
Messages and Mediums: Communications and Cultural Revolutions in Canada, 1960-1984
Digitization,
Disruption, and Dislocation: Canadian Culture since the 1980s-
Conclusion: Finding Canada in an Era of Data Fog
6. Gatekeepers to Global Citizens: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Identity in Post-war Canada
Delayed Re-creation: Canada, Race, and Post-war Immigration Booms,
1946-1971
From Vertical Mosaic to Multicultural Paradise? 1971-1988
The Limits of Tolerance: Questioning Multiculturalism
Conclusion: The Canadian Difference?
7. Party Ascendency, Political Fragmentation, Provincialism, and Realignment
Liberal Creation: National Party
Ascendency and Political Stability, 1935-1984
Fragmentation: Party System Collapse and Political and Regional Dislocation, 1984-1993
Provincialism: Quebec Separatism, Regionalism, and Provincial Alienation, 1960-2010
Resilience: Political Realignment and the Return of a Stable Party
System, 1993-2015
Conclusion: Baptisms by Fire
8. Dual Fragmentations: Assimilation to Awakening, Truth to Reconciliation - Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Attempting to Assimilate the Indian, 1945-1969
Fragmenting the Narrative of Assimilation and Decline, Fragmenting Canada:
1969-1996
Awareness, Truth and Reconciliation? 1996-
Conclusion: Resilience, and the Future of Canada
9. Canada in the World: An American Nation or an Icon of Internationalism?
Cold War Canada, an American Nation: 1945-1989
Canadian Internationalism: Organizations,
Diplomacy and Global Connections, 1945-1989
Post-Cold War Fragmentation and North Americanism: 1989-2001
Conclusion: Canadian Resilience in a New World Order, 2001-
10. From National Policies to Globalization, and from Booms to Busts to "Open for Business"
Prelude to the Boom:
Macroeconomic s Questions of Keynes, Currency and Trade, 1940-1960
Booms: Prosperity in a Post-war World of Plenty, 1945-1973
Busts: The End of Bretton Woods, Oil Embargoes, Deindustrialization, and Economic Uncertainty, 1973-1993
Open for Business: Neo-liberal Paradigms in Business and
Society, 1984-2015
Conclusion: The Consistent Contours of an Economy, 1955 and 2015
Epilogue:Understanding Canada Since 1945: Polarizing Trudeau, Four Years, and Ten Moments
Notes
Index
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Dimitry Anastakis is a professor in the Department of History at Trent University.
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