A Great Duty
Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:22nd Oct '03
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An exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and post-Second World War Canada.
Shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. This title looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, and commemoration.An exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and post
"A fine piece of work. This book is carefully and clearly argued in a way that is at once conceptually rich, interpretatively challenging, and remarkably easy to read. It rests on a rigorous examination of primary and secondary sources, all of which are utilized in ways that build argument effectively. Indeed, argument and evidence have a very comfortable relationship with each other throughout." Allan Smith, Department of History, University of British Columbia
ISBN: 9780773526006
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384 pages