To Know Our Many Selves From The Study Of Canada To Canadian Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781897425725
Description: To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. In discussing this comprehensive examination of culture, Hoerder highlights its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of other ethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, a solid foundation was formed for the nation's master narrative --

Against this background, To Know Our Many Selves focuses on why Canadian studies can be used as a sound model for the study of other societies in a framework of transcultural societal studies --Book Jacket.