National holidays and minority festivals in Canadian nation-building

This study of Canadian national holidays examines their role as a complex and dynamic instrument of nation-building from 1867 to the early 2000s. It indentifies three phases of nation-building, labelled assimilation, transformation and multiculturalism. It takes the ideological change in Canada in 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhu, Lianbi
Other Authors: Baycroft, Timothy P. ; Ziemann, Benjamin
Published: University of Sheffield 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557557