Canada's 1960s : : The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era / / Bryan Palmer.
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 personalitie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
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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