Roasting Chestnuts: The Mythology of Maritime Political Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774804981)

Roasting Chestnuts: The Mythology of Maritime Political Culture is a book about outdated political stereotypes. The Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia are often regarded as pre-modern hinterland in which corrupt practices and traditional loyalties continue to predominate. While this depiction of Maritime political life may, at one time, have been largely accurate, this is no longer the case. Employing a variety of indicators, this book argues that a new set of political images is needed to capture Maritime political reality today. What emerges from the analysis is a picture of Maritime politics which no longer differs markedly from that which exists in the rest of Canada.

Author: Ian Stewart
ISBN-10: 077480498X
ISBN-13: 9780774804981
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover