HISTORY 727 / Culture, Politics, and Society in Canada, 1939-1989

3 unit(s)

M. Gauvreau

This course examines the encounter of Canadians with political, social, and cultural modernity in the five decades between the onset of World War II and the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. It explores themes such as development in the wartime and postwar Canadian welfare states, the culture of the postwar family; the redefinition of youth identities in the 1950s and 1960s; the nature of postwar immigration; the origins and nature of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution; transformations within the ideology of liberalism; federalism and constitutional change; and the contested nature of Canada’s integration into a North American political and economic system.