{"product_id":"canadas-first-century","title":"Canada's First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Donald Creighton was a Red Ensign nationalist and firm supporter of the British Empire. At the time of writing this book, in 1970, he had come to believe that Canada was a lost cause. When everyone else was celebrating Canada's centennial, he was busy writing his own lament for a nation. Canada's First Century paints a large and complex canvas of historical rise and fall: a great transcontinental nation is built, but it is eventually\n\u003cbr\u003eundone as Canada turns its back on the British Empire and embraces a continental role alongside the United States. A courageous and contentious book for its day - Creighton is intensely anti-American and highly\n\u003cbr\u003ecritical of Quebec nationalism - it was met with criticism, but, as Donald Wright points out, Canada's First Century initially outsold Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and, for a time, even the Bible.A beautifully written, in-depth introduction by Donald Wright explores Creighton's larger understanding of Canadian history, his preoccupation with Canada's role in the Empire, and his major contribution to economics and geography as a key\n\u003cbr\u003efeature of history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060404539630,"sku":"9780195449228","price":23.53,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195449228.jpg?v=1736511257","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/canadas-first-century","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}