The Americanization Of Canada
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| Author | : Pierre Berton |
| Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Between 1907 and 1975, Hollywood movie-makers made 575 movies specifically set (although not usually filmed) in Canada. That statistic will startle those Canadians who have been told that foreign audiences won't sit still for a film about their country. As Pierre Berton points out in this explosive, tragic, and often funny book, the opposite is true. Movies about Canada have been making money in international markets for half a century. But the Canada that has been shown to the world is very different from the real Canada; and the Canadian image - now firmly fixed in the minds of three generations of moviegoers - is a caricature of the real thing. If Canadians have no sense of their own identity, it is partly because American movie-makers have distorted and blurred that identity. And if foreigners think of this country as a land of snowswept forests and mountains, devoid of larger cities and peopled by happy-go-lucky French-Canadians, wicked half-breeds, wild trappers and loggers, savage Indians and , above all, grim-jawed Mounties - that's because Hollywood has pictured us that way. -- Jacket flap.
| Author | : Samuel Erasmus Moffett |
| Publisher | : New York? : s.n. |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Canada |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Allan Douglas English |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780773527157 |
Examines military culture from a theoretical and a practical point of view Considers conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks Culture has been described as the bedrock of military effectiveness because it influences everything an armed service does. The recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks. In fact, a military's culture may determine its preferred way of fighting and dealing with other challenges, like incorporating new technologies, more than its doctrine or organizational structure. of view. It focuses on the Canadian and American military cultures, and it provides the first detailed examination of the culture of the Canadian Forces. It also compares their culture to that of the US armed forces. The book concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been Americanized to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in their personnel and roles, has experienced a certain degree of Canadianization at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.
| Author | : J. L. Granatstein |
| Publisher | : Copp Clark Professional |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Neil Nevitte |
| Publisher | : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1996-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Neil Nevitte demonstrates that the changing patterns of Canadian values are connected.
| Author | : Jordan Stanger-Ross |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0228003075 |
In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians by focusing on the deliberate and permanent destruction of home through the act of dispossession. All forms of property were taken. Families lost heirlooms and everyday possessions. They lost decades of investment and labour. They lost opportunities, neighbourhoods, and communities; they lost retirements, livelihoods, and educations. When Japanese Canadians were finally released from internment in 1949, they had no homes to return to. Asking why and how these events came to pass and charting Japanese Canadians' diverse responses, this book details the implications and legacies of injustice perpetrated under the cover of national security. In Landscapes of Injustice the diverse descendants of dispossession work together to understand what happened. They find that dispossession is not a chapter that closes or a period that neatly ends. It leaves enduring legacies of benefit and harm, shame and silence, and resilience and activism.
| Author | : Douglas V. Verney |
| Publisher | : Durham : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
This volume examines 150 years of Canadian political life in light if one of the country's most intractable problems, its cultural identity. Although many thoughtful Canadians remain dubious about the existence of a truly Canadian way of life, Douglas Verney argues that in fact Canada's political traditions embody and reflect a unique culture; and that although the Canadian government has been the primary instrument for nurturing this culture, it has been at the same time the entity most guilty of obscuring and ignoring it.
| Author | : Elizabeth R. Epperly |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780802044068 |
Contributors from a wide range of disciplines explore L.M. Montgomery's writing and its relation to Canadian nationalism, including regionalism, canon formation, and Canadian-Amerian cultural relations.
| Author | : Michael Gauvreau |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780773526082 |
Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955 argues that we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its considerable cultural and ideological diversity. The authors explore the quest for cultural reconstruction; the emergence of new definitions of elitism, mass culture, and the relationship between the state and the individual; the changing imperatives underlying organized labour's response to the demands of economic reconstruction; federal-provincial tensions over the shape of welfare policy; the recasting of youth identities by adult authorities and among middle-class university youth; and changing structures of authority within the family under the impact of new psychological expertise. viewed as an era of political and social consensus made possible by widely diffused prosperity, creeping Americanization and fears of radical subversion, and a dominant culture challenged periodically by the claims of marginal groups. By exploring what were actually the mainstream ideologies and cultural practices of the period, the authors argue that the postwar consensus was itself a precarious cultural ideal that was characterized by internal tensions and, while containing elements of conservatism, reflected considerable diversity in the way in which citizenship identities were defined.
| Author | : Jeffrey Cormier |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780802088154 |
In The Canadianization Movement, Jeffrey Cormier examines the 'Canadianization' of the Canadian intellectual and cultural communities from the 1960s to the 1980s. The author documents the efforts of cultural nationalists as they struggled to build a strong, vibrant Canadian cultural community. Cormier asks four questions to guide his analysis. First, why did the Canadianization movement emerge when it did? Second, how did the movement transform itself for long-term survival? Third, what kinds of mobilizing structures did the movement make use of, and what influence did these structures have on the movement's activities? And finally, how did the movement maintain itself in times when the political and media climate was unsupportive? Using data collected from archival sources as well as twenty-two in-depth interviews with participants, Cormier documents the actions that organizational intellectuals took in pushing for social and cultural change, an aspect of social movements literature that, until now, has largely been only theorized about.
