The Search for a New National Identity - The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s (Hardcover, New edition)

This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a "people" from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Taking as its central theme the way each country responded to the introduction of new migrants, the book asks a key historical question: why and how did multiculturalism replace Britishness as the defining idea of community for English-speaking Canada and Australia, and what does this say about their respective experiences of nationalism in the twentieth century? The book begins from a simple premise - namely, that the path towards the adoption of multiculturalism as the orthodox way of defining national community in English-speaking Canada and Australia in the latter half of the twentieth century was both uncertain and unsteady. It followed a period in which both nations had looked first and foremost to Britain to define their national self-image. In both nations, however, following the breakdown of their more formal and institutional ties to the 'mother-country' in the post-war period there was a crisis of national meaning, and policy makers and politicians moved quickly to fill the void with a new idea of the nation, one that was the very antithesis to the White, monolithic idea of Britishness. This book will be useful for both history and politics courses in Australia and Canada, as well as internationally.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas, 2
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Jatinder Mann
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-3369-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	1-4331-3369-5
Barcode:	9781433133695

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