Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. North America in a Cold War World
7. “A Natural Development” 17
8. Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus! 43
9. Living Dangerously 66
10. From Normandy to NORAD 90
11. Politics and Identity in Postwar North America
12. An Emerging Constitutional Culture in Canada’s Postwar Moment 121
13. Rethinking Postwar Domesticity 141
14. Racial Discrimination in “Uncle Tom’s Town” 176
15. Between Distrust and Acceptance 202
16. Cultural Conundrums in an Age of Prosperity
17. Living the Good Life? 235
18. Make Room for (Canadian) TV 259
19. Getting Of the Highway 288
20. Talking Jazz at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956–58 315
21. Afterword 341
22. Contributors 344
23. Index 347