National Dreams : Myth, Memory, and Canadian History.

As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense o...

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Main Author: Francis, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010
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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: The Story of Canada; CHAPTER ONE: Making Tracks: The Myth of the CPR; CHAPTER TWO: The Mild West: The Myth of the RCMP; CHAPTER THREE: Your Majesty's Realm: The Myth of the Master Race; CHAPTER FOUR: The Infantilization of Quebec: The Myth of Unity; CHAPTER FIVE: Divided We Stand: The Myth of Heroism; CHAPTER SIX: The Ideology of the Canoe: The Myth of Wilderness; CHAPTER SEVEN: Great White Hope: The Myth of North; CONCLUSION: History in an Age of Anxiety; Endnotes; Photo Sources; Sources Consulted; Index. 
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