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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812767303321

Autore

Romney Paul

Titolo

Getting it wrong : how Canadians forgot their past and imperilled Confederation / / Paul Romney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

9786612026010

1-282-02601-1

1-4426-7531-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

321.020971

Soggetti

Federal government - Canada

Constitutional history - Canada

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Canada Politique et gouvernement

Canada Relations entre anglophones et francophones

Canada Histoire constitutionnelle

Canada

Canada Politics and government

Canada English-French relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. 1820-1850: reformers and responsible government -- pt. 2. 1850-1890: the confederation compact -- pt. 3. 1890-1940: forgetting the compact -- pt. 4. 1940-1982: continentalism and nationalisms.

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative book explains how divergent views of Canada's past have sown dissension between Quebecois and other Canadians, disclosing a lost middle ground between the Canadian nationalist and Quebec nationalist visions of Canadian history.