Canada's 1960s : the ironies of identity in a rebellious era

Summary: Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity. Bryan D. Palmer demonstrates how after massive postwar immigration, new political movements, and at times violent protest, Canada could no longer be viewed in the old ways. National identity, long rooted in notions of Canada as a white settler Dominion of the North, marked profoundly by its origins as part of the British Empire, had become unsettled.

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ISBN: 9780802099549 (bound : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780802096593 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0802099548 (bound : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 080209659X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 605 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-574) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Prologue; Canada in the 1960s: Looking backward -- Part I: Money and madness in the shadow of fear - Chapter One: When the buck was bad: The dollar and Canadian identity enering the 1960s - Chapter Two: Shelter from the storm: The Cold War and the making of early 1960s Canada -- Part II: National identity and the challenge of change: From Munsinger to Trudeau - Chapter Three: Scandaloug sex: A Cold (War) Case - Chapter Four: Canada's great white hope: George Chuvalo vs. Muhammed Ali - Chapter Five: Celebrity and audacity: Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the decade of the philosopher king -- Part III: Suggestions of tumult - Chapter Six: Riotous VIctorianism: From youth hooliganism to a counterculture of challenge - Chapter Seven: Wildcat worker: The unruly fact of class struggle -- Part IV: Radicalism, revolution and red power - Chapter Eight: New left liberations; The poetics, praxis and politics of youth radicalism - Chapter Nine: Quebec: Revolution now! - Chapter Ten: The 'discovery' of the 'Indian' -- Part V: Conclusion -- Chaper Eleven: Ironic Canadianism: National identity and the 1960s -- Notes-- Index.