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The masks of Proteus
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ISBN: 1282851519 9786612851513 0773562281 9780773562288 0773507310 9780773507319 0773516948 9780773516946 Year: 1990 Publisher: Montreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press

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Footsteps of the past
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ISBN: 1553804325 9781553804338 1553804333 9781553804314 1553804317 9781553804321 Year: 2015 Publisher: Vancouver, BC

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The Labyrinth of North American Identities
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ISBN: 1442605545 1442605537 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"What exactly does it mean to be North American? Europeans have been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and nature of Europe. The Labyrinth of North American Identities generates a similar discussion in the context of North America: what do we learn about North America as a unit and its individual countries when we explore the idea of a North American identity? Combining cultural, anthropological, historical, political, economic, and religious considerations, Philip Resnick acknowledges the relative differences in power and influence of the United States and its North American neighbours but digs deeper to uncover shared characteristics that constitute a labyrinth of North American identities unrestricted by national boundaries. To date, discussions of North America have largely revolved around the often technical implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or US homeland security. What has been lacking, by contrast, is a culturally-driven set of reflections. This book examines the legacy of indigenous cultures; the role of organized religion; pathways to independence; the role of imperial languages; manifest destiny; market capitalism and its limitations; democratic practices and failures; diverging uses of the state; new world utopias and dystopias; regional identities; and civilizational perspectives. What results is a vision of North America that defies any top-down attempt to impose a homogeneous 'North Americanness'."


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The European Roots of Canadian Identity
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ISBN: 1442608587 1442602325 Year: 2020 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both of English-speaking and French-speaking Canada are concerned, but it is no less true when one examines Canada's multiple national identities, robust social programs, increasingly secular values, and multilateral outlook on international affairs today. As the war in Iraq brought home, and the 2004 federal election reinforced, Canada is a more European-type society than is our neighbour to the south." "The author argues that Canada needs Europe as an effective counter-weight to the influence of the United States. He further argues that, at a deeper existential level, Canadians need relevant European references to better understand what makes them the kind of North Americans that they are."--Jacket

Twenty-first century democracy
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ISBN: 1282854690 9786612854699 0773566791 9780773566798 9780773516595 9780773516588 0773516581 077351659X 9781282854697 6612854693 Year: 1997 Publisher: Montréal Buffalo McGill-Queen's University Press

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Topics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Hobbesian analysis of the ongoing challenges that democratic theory faces; from an assertion of the importance of social and economic equality to a recognition of the limits of solidarity in the real world of pluralistic and divided societies in which we live; from identification with the cosmopolitan and the international to a defence of the national and the local; from a predilection for direct democracy and the lost community of republican theory, past and present, to a recognition of the fairly circumscribed ways in which these can ultimately be expressed in our day. In spite of the challenges facing global democracy, Resnick looks to the next millennium with renewed hope for the democratic project.


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The European Roots of Canadian Identity
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ISBN: 9781442602328 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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The Labyrinth of North American Identities
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ISBN: 9781442605534 1442605537 1442605537 9781442605541 1442605545 Year: 2012 Publisher: Toronto

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The politics of resentment : British Columbia regionalism and Canadian unity
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ISBN: 0774808047 Year: 2000 Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press,

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