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Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity : The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History - Raymond B. Blake

Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity

By: Raymond B. Blake

Hardcover | 20 July 2024

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Investigates how Canada crafted a national narrative after World War II.

Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories.

Focusing on the post-Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime ministers worked to build national unity, forge a citizenship based on inclusion, and define a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is and what holds it together as a nation.

Industry Reviews
"No scholar has come close to delving this deeply into the spoken words of Canada's post-Second World War heads of government. This manuscript makes a crucial, original contribution to the Canadian scholarly canon."-- "Adam Chapnick, professor, Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College"
"This is an excellent and very valuable analysis of prime ministerial rhetoric since 1945."-- "Barbara J. Messamore, professor, History, University of the Fraser Valley"

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