Canada's 1960s : : The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era / / Bryan Palmer.

• VerfasserIn: Palmer, Bryan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity. Bryan D. Palmer demonstrates how after massive postwar immigration, new political movements, and at times violent protest, Canada could no longer be viewed in the old ways. National identity, long rooted in notions of Canada as a white settler Dominion of the North, marked profoundly by its origins as part of the British Empire, had become unsettled. Concerned with how Canadians entered the Sixties relatively secure in their national identities, Palmer explores the forces that contributed to the post-1970 uncertainty about what it is to be Canadian. Tracing the significance of dissent and upheaval among youth, trade unionists, university students, Native peoples, and Quebecois, Palmer shows how the Sixties ended the entrenched, nineteenth-century notions of Canada. The irony of this rebellious era, however, was that while it promised so much in the way of change, it failed to provide a new understanding of Canadian national identity. A compelling and highly accessible work of interpretive history, Canada's 1960s is the book of the decade about an era many regard as the most turbulent and significant since the years of the Great Depression and World War II.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Canada in the 1960s: Looking Backward -- PART I: Money and Madness in the Shadow of Fear -- Chapter One. When the Buck Was Bad : The Dollar and Canadian Identity Entering the 1960s -- Chapter Two. Shelter from the Storm: The Cold War and the Making of Early 1960s Canada -- PART II. National Identity and the Challenge of Change: From Munsinger to Trudeau -- Chapter Three. Scandalous Sex: A Cold (War) Case -- Chapter Four. Canada's Great White Hope: George Chuvalo vs. Muhammad Ali -- Chapter Five. Celebrity and Audacity: Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the Decade of the Philosopher King -- PART III: Suggestions of Tumult -- Chapter Six. Riotous Victorianism: From Youth Hooliganism to a Counterculture of Challenge -- Chapter Seven. Wildcat Workers: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle -- PART IV. Radicalism, Revolution, and Red Power -- Chapter Eight. New Left Liberations: The Poetics, Praxis, and Politics of Youth Radicalism -- Chapter Nine. Quebec: Revolution Now! -- Chapter Ten. The 'Discovery' of the 'Indian' -- PART V: Conclusion -- Chapter Eleven. Ironic Canadianism: National Identity and the 1960s -- Notes -- Index