The Unfinished Canadian
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The Unfinished Canadian
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Author : Andrew Cohen
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2008-11-04
The Unfinished Canadian written by Andrew Cohen and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-04 with History categories.
The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians. What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, and watch the same movies remain different from one another? As much as Canada may be seen as a copy, clone, or colony of America, we are unquestionably distinctive. It is a result of our geography, history, and politics. It comes from our demography and prosperity. Most of all, it comes from our character. In The Unfinished Canadian, Andrew Cohen delves into our past and present in search of our defining national characteristics. He questions hoary shibboleths, soothing mythologies, and old saws with irreverence, humour, and flintiness, unencumbered by our proverbial politeness (itself a great misperception) and our suffocating political correctness. We are so much, in so many shades, and it’s time we took an honest look at ourselves. In this provocative, passionate, and elegant book, Cohen argues that our mythology, our jealousy, our complacency, our apathy, our amnesia, and our moderation are all part of the unbearable lightness of being Canadian.
The Unfinished Canadian
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Author : Andrew Cohen
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2008-11-19
The Unfinished Canadian written by Andrew Cohen and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-19 with History categories.
The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians. What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, and watch the same movies remain different from one another? As much as Canada may be seen as a copy, clone, or colony of America, we are unquestionably distinctive. It is a result of our geography, history, and politics. It comes from our demography and prosperity. Most of all, it comes from our character. In The Unfinished Canadian, Andrew Cohen delves into our past and present in search of our defining national characteristics. He questions hoary shibboleths, soothing mythologies, and old saws with irreverence, humour, and flintiness, unencumbered by our proverbial politeness (itself a great misperception) and our suffocating political correctness. We are so much, in so many shades, and it’s time we took an honest look at ourselves. In this provocative, passionate, and elegant book, Cohen argues that our mythology, our jealousy, our complacency, our apathy, our amnesia, and our moderation are all part of the unbearable lightness of being Canadian.
The Unfinished Country
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Author : Bruce Hutchison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Unfinished Country written by Bruce Hutchison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Canada categories.
Canadian Nation An Unfinished Text
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Author : Peter Harcourt
language : en
Publisher:
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Canadian Nation An Unfinished Text written by Peter Harcourt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Canada And Colonialism
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Author : Jim Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Purich Books
Release Date : 2024-05-15
Canada And Colonialism written by Jim Reynolds and has been published by Purich Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-15 with History categories.
Colonialism endures in Canada today. Dismantling it requires an understanding of how colonialism operated across the British Empire and why Canada’s colonial experience was unique. Whereas colonies such as India were ruled through despotism and violence, Canada’s white settler population governed itself while oppressing the Indigenous peoples whose lands they were on. Canada and Colonialism shows that Canadians’ support for colonial rule – both at home and abroad – is the reason colonialism remains entrenched in Canadian law and society today. Author Jim Reynolds presents a truly compelling account of Canada’s colonial coming of age and its impacts on Indigenous peoples, including the settler-led internal colonialism behind the Indian Act and those who enforced it. As one of the nation’s leading experts in Aboriginal law, Reynolds provides a vital accounting of the historical underpinnings and contemporary challenges the nation must address to reconcile with Indigenous peoples and move toward decolonization.
The Unfinished Revolution
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Author : Doris Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Unfinished Revolution written by Doris Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Political Science categories.
Coverage primarily for Western Europe, but includes essays on Canada and the United States.
The Canada Mexico Relationship
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Author : Olga Abizaid Bucio
language : en
Publisher: FOCAL
Release Date : 2004-01-01
The Canada Mexico Relationship written by Olga Abizaid Bucio and has been published by FOCAL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Canada categories.
Lost Beneath The Ice
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Author : Andrew Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2013-11-04
Lost Beneath The Ice written by Andrew Cohen and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-04 with History categories.
The story of the bold voyage of HMS Investigator and the modern-day discovery of its wreck by Parks Canada’s underwater archaeologists. When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Like Franklin’s ships, though, Investigator disappeared in the most remote, bleak and unknown place on Earth. For three winters, its 66 souls were trapped in the unforgiving ice of Mercy Bay. They suffered cold, darkness, starvation, scurvy, boredom, depression and madness. When they were rescued in 1853, Investigator was abandoned. For more than a century and a half, the ship’s fate remained a mystery. Had it been crushed by the ice or swept out to sea? In 2010, Parks Canada sent a team of archaeologists to Mercy Bay to find out. It was a formidable challenge, demanding expertise and patience. There, off the shores of Aulavik National Park, they found Investigator. Lost Beneath the Ice is a tale of endurance, daring, deceit, courage, and irony. It is a story about a tempestuous crew, their mercurial captain, cynical surgeon and kind-hearted missionary. In the end, McClure found fame but lost his ship, some of his crew and much of his honour. Written with elegance and authority, illustrated with archival imagery and startling underwater photographs of Investigator and its artifacts, this is a sensational story of discovery and intrigue in Canada’s Arctic. Andrew Cohen is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist. Among his books are While Canada Slept, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Unfinished Canadian, and Extraordinary Canadians: Lester B. Pearson. He writes a nationally syndicated column for The Ottawa Citizen and comments regularly on CTV. A professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University, he is founding president of the Historica-Dominion Institute. He has twice received Queen’s Jubilee Medals.
While Canada Slept
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Author : Andrew Cohen
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2011-02-04
While Canada Slept written by Andrew Cohen and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-04 with History categories.
For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride? With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect to sit at the global table by virtue of our economic power without pursuing a foreign policy worthy of our history, geography, and diversity? Canada has been getting by on the cheap, writes Andrew Cohen in this timely, forceful, and insightful new book. Our reluctance to pay our own way has had a cost: it has eroded the pillars of our international stature. We are still trading on the reputation this country built two generations ago, but it is a reputation we no longer deserve. We claim to be engaged abroad, but for too long we have been a freeloader, trying to do the same for less, practising pinch-penny diplomacy and foreign policy on the cheap. Our capacity in these key areas has become glaringly inadequate, and now that weakness is compromising our ability to honour our traditional commitments overseas. The time is ripe for a thorough re-examination of our foreign policy, to affirm our values, to win the respect of our allies, to carry our weight.
Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson
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Author : Andrew Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2008-12-02
Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson written by Andrew Cohen and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, later serving as president of its General Assembly. He put Canada on the world stage when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his handling of the Suez Crisis, during which he brokered the formation of a UN peacekeeping force. Author Andrew Cohen, whose books have focused on Canada’s place in the world, is the perfect author to assess Pearson’s legacy.