Affiliation:
1. Michael Bliss is a professor of history at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is entitled Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Canada. He is now writing a book on Canada’s political traditions.
Abstract
The writing of Canadian history during the past twenty-five years has been characterized by an intense degree of specialization which has replaced older Canadian historians’ concern for explaining the nature of the country. A declining sense of Canada as a national entity underlies much of our current political and constitutional malaise. The Liberal nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s was an inadequate replacement for the more deeply-rooted vision of the country that a well-developed sense of history might offer. Without becoming nationalist mythologizers, and remembering the need to understand the country in its pluralism and diversity, Canadian historians might usefully remind themselves that their subject, after all, is Canada.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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