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A fair country : telling truths about Canada  Cover Image Book Book

A fair country : telling truths about Canada / John Ralston Saul.

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  • ISBN: 9780143168423 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: xvi, 342 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. A métis civilization. What shaped us -- Marrying up -- Double denial -- Why we stumble -- Learning to see ourselves -- Progress -- Learning to imagine ourselves -- The minimal impairment of the environment -- Minimal impairment on the battlefield -- Within an ever-changing circle -- pt. 2. Peace, fairness and good government. One word -- Colonial fairness -- Imagining a fair country -- Order and fear, fear and order -- The eddy line of fairness --
pt. 3. The castrati. The nature of the elite -- Signs of failure -- What does all of this mean? -- How did we come to be this way? -- The colonial mind -- Two colonial tales -- The roots of failure -- pt. 4. An intentional civilization. From perception to action -- The north -- A circle of fairness.
Subject: National characteristics, Canadian.
Native peoples > Canada > Politics and government.
Elite (Social sciences) > Canada.
Equality > Canada.
Canada > Social conditions.
Canada > Politics and government.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Cranbrook Campus FC 97 .S37 2009 (Text) 31111000095685 CRANBROOK Volume hold Available -


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