Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Palmer, Bryan D.
Article Excerpt
Jose E. Igartua, The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-1971 (Vancouver: UBC Press 2006)
THIS BOOK IS ordered by an elegant analytic simplicity. Igartua addresses what is too often skirted in Canadian historiography. For all the discussion of representations of nationhood that now animates historians, few have actually bothered to consider how quickly Canadian identity shifted in the middle of the last century. English Canada (which, after all, was most emphatically the dominant voice within the 'two nations' paradigm), over the course of the two-and-a-half decades following World War II, became something other than what it had once been. The assumption of Britishness pervaded the idea of Canada until the 1950s, and so routine was this association of nationhood with ethnicity and Empire that few questioned it, even as it was being assailed by various forces and developments. Igartua shows how settled was this sense of a hybrid British-Canadian identity at mid-century through scrutiny of debates associated with a new Citizenship Bill, responses to suggestions that the name of the national...
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