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To know our many selves : from the study of Canada to Canadian studies /

"To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian Studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Professor Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoerder, Dirk
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Edmonton : AU Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Traditions and Practices: From Colonial and Area to Cultural or Societal Studies
  • I. Framing Research on Canada: Burdens and Achievements of the Past
  • The Atlantic World: Creating Societies in Imperial Hinterlands
  • Canada's Peoples: Inclusions & Exclusions
  • Self-Constructions: From Regional Consciousnesses to National Billboards
  • II. From Privileged Discourses to Research on Social Spaces. Privileged Discourses up to 1920: Scholarship in the Making
  • Substantial Research: The Social Spaces of the Geological Survey of Canada
  • Learning and Society: Social Responsibility, Educational Institutions, Elite Formation
  • III. The Study of Canada: The Social Sciences, the Arts, New Media, 1920s-1950s. Data-Based Studies of Society: Political Economy, History, Sociology
  • Discourse-Based Reflections about Society: Where Were the Humanities?
  • IV. The Third Phase: Multiple Discourses about Interlinked Societies. Decolonization: The Changes of the 1960s
  • Visions and Borderlines: Canadian Studies since the 1960s
  • Views from the Outside: The Surge of International Canadian Studies
  • Agency in a Multicultural Society: Interdisciplinary Research Achievements
  • V. Perspectives. From Interest-Driven National Discourse to Transcultural Societal Studies
  • Interviews with the Author.