In the aftermath of the Second World War, Canadian national identity underwent a transformation. This book surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on discrete aspects of Canadian identity, it reveals the complex relationship betwe…
In the decades following the Second World War, a revolutionary change took place in the Canadian national identity. The English-Canadian majority entered this period identifying themselves as British and emerged from it with a new, independent sense of themselves as purely Canad…
"Canada and the End of Empire deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history - the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolorization and the end of empire - particularly during the period of rapid disengagement in the 1950s and 60s." "Historia…