Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada

by Gerald Friesen

Book Overview

Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.

In a different approach to that old issue, 'the Canadian identity, ' Gerald Friesen links the media studies of Harold Innis to the social history of recent decades. The result is a framework for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802082831
• ISBN13: 9780802082831
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"