Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation

Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
ISBN-10
0307400646
ISBN-13
9780307400642
Category
History
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2012-11-06
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Author
Mary Janigan

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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