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Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark : the West versus the rest since Confederation

By Mary , Janigan

Book information

Publisher
Turnaround [distributor], Knopf Canada;Knopf
Year
2012
ISBN
9780307400628, 030740062X, 978-0-307-40064-2
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3097595 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
448\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
Regionalism -- CanadaWestern -- Politics and government.;Canada -- PoliWestern.Western.;Climatic changes -- Canada.;Federal goverWestern.;Federal government -- Canada.;CanadaWestern.;Natural resources -- Canada

Description

The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate change heats up, 150 years of antipathy are coming to a head. Janigan takes readers back to a pivotal moment in 1918, when Canada's western premiers descended on Ottawa determined to control their own future--and as Margaret MacMillan did in Paris 1919, she deftly illustrates how the results reverberate to this day

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