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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783801003321

Autore

Christie Nancy

Titolo

Cultures of citizenship in post-war Canada, 1940-1955 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-86147-6

9786612861475

0-7735-7144-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GauvreauMichael <1956->

ChristieNancy <1958->

Disciplina

971.063

Soggetti

Families - Canada - History

Families - Canada - Historiography

Canada Social conditions 1945-

Canada History 1914-1945

Canada History 1945-

Canada Histoire 1939-1945

Canada Histoire 1945-1963

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Stabbing our spirits broad awake" : reconstructing Canadian culture, 1940-1948 / Leonard Kuffert -- "Look out for Leviathan" : the search for a conservative modernist consensus / Nancy Christie -- Teamwork for harmony : labour-management production committees and the post-war settlement in Canada / Peter S. McInnis -- Beyond the Green Book : the Ontario approach to intergovernmental relations, 1945-1955 / P.E. Bryden -- Between the future and the present : Montreal University student youth and the post-war years, 1945-1960 / Karine Hébert -- ; The protracted birth of the Canadian "teenager" : work, citizenship, and the Canadian Youth Commission, 1943-1955 / Michael Gauvreau -- "We admire modern parents" : The Ecole des Parents du Québec and the post-war Quebec family, 1940-1959 / Denyse Baillargeon.



Sommario/riassunto

The years between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s have usually been viewed as an era of political and social consensus made possible by widely diffused prosperity, creeping Americanization and fears of radical subversion, and a dominant culture challenged periodically by the claims of marginal groups. By exploring what were actually the mainstream ideologies and cultural practices of the period, the authors argue that the postwar consensus was itself a precarious cultural ideal that was characterized by internal tensions and, while containing elements of conservatism, reflected considerable diversity in the way in which citizenship identities were defined. Contributors include Denyse Baillargeon (Université de Montréal), P.E. Bryden (Mount Allison University), Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, Karine Hebert (Carleton University), Len Kuffert (Carleton University), and Peter S. McInnis (St Francis Xavier University).