The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774810883)

The Other Quiet Revolution traces the under-examined cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act and the 1956 Suez crisis to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70) and the adoption of the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971. José Igartua analyzes editorial opinion, political rhetoric, history textbooks, and public opinion polls to show how Canada's self-conception as a British country dissolved as struggles with bilingualism and biculturalism, as well as Quebec's constitutional demands, helped to fashion new representations of national identity in English-speaking Canada based on the civic principle of equality.

Author: José E. Igartua
ISBN-10: 0774810882
ISBN-13: 9780774810883
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2006
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.30w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 84