{"product_id":"canadas-prime-ministers-and-the-shaping-of-a-national-identity-9780774869638","title":"Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Raymond B. Blake\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Theory - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigates how Canada crafted a national narrative after World War II. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Focusing on the post-Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime ministers worked to build national unity, forge a citizenship based on inclusion, and define a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is and what holds it together as a nation.","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47595374411927,"sku":"9780774869638","price":5220.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780774869638.webp?v=1774989550","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/canadas-prime-ministers-and-the-shaping-of-a-national-identity-9780774869638","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}