{"product_id":"9780774869645","title":"Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the post–Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime ministers worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raymond B. Blake (CA)","offers":[{"title":"UBC Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-11-01","offer_id":47748994728191,"sku":"9780774869645","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4de6ccb2-de0c-46b5-91c5-14b4712e1086.jpg?v=1765474895","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780774869645","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}