Celtic Lightning How The Scots And The Irish Created A Canadian Nation
by McGoogan, Ken
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1443425508
- ISBN 13
- 9781443425506
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Patrick Crean Editions. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2015. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1443425508 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 382 pages; "With Celtic Lightning, bestselling author Ken McGoogan plunges into the perpetual debate about Canadian roots and identity: Who do we think we are? He argues that Canadians have never investigated the demographic reality that informs this bookthe fact that more than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without cultural baggage? No history, no values, no vision? Impossible. McGoogan writes that, to understand who we are and where we are going, Canadians must look to cultural genealogy. He builds on the work of Richard Dawkins, who contends that ideas and values (memes) can be transmitted from one generation to another. Scottish and Irish immigrants arrived in Canada with values they had learned from their forebears. And they did so early enough, and in sufficient numbers, to shape an emerging Canadian nation." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18448
- Title
- Celtic Lightning How The Scots And The Irish Created A Canadian Nation
- Author
- McGoogan, Ken
- Illustrator
- Map Endpapers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1443425508
- ISBN 13
- 9781443425506
- Publisher
- Patrick Crean Editions
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- 1443425508, scottish, Culture, irish
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana;
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About Ainsworth Books
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