Our Lives: Canada after 1945
First Edition
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550285505
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459400511
- Publish Date
- Dec 2012
- List Price
- $19.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459400504
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Canada has undergone many changes in the decades following World War II. From post-war prosperity and grrowing nationalism to corporate downsizing and globalization, the events of this six-decade period have been some of the most radical in the country's history.
Author Alvin Finkel looks at the people, forces, and events that have shaped post-war Canada. All the major themes in our history are discussed: the evolution of the welfare state, our economic domination by the United States, our halcyon days as a Middle Power, the Quiet Revolution, the First Nations' quest for autonomy, the flowering of English-Canadian nationalism, the rise of western alienation, the women's movement, Quebec nationalism, neo-conservatism, and globalization.
Extensively illustrated, Our Lives: Canada after 1945 is the first book for general readers to look in detail at Canada from the mid-forties through the mid-nineties. Successfully marrying the new social history with politics and economics, it is more than simply informative, provoking readers into a reconsideration of the key events that have shaped the country.
About the author
Alvin Finkel has taught Canadian history at Athabasca University since 1978. His main areas of research and teaching are the history of social policy, labour history, and Western Canadian history. Best known for his co-authorship with Margaret Conrad of the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples, his other publications include The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta and Our Lives: Canada after 1945. His latest book is Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History.
Other titles by Alvin Finkel
Compassion
A Global History of Social Policy
Social Policy and Practice in Canada
A History
Our Lives
Canada after 1945
Working People in Alberta
A History
The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
The The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
Social Policy and Practice in Canada
A History