Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: The First Artists
2: The Meeting and Mingling of Cultures
3: Colonial Societies
4: Common Showmen and Mountebanks
5: Culture on the Frontier
6: The Dream of Useful Knowledge
7: 'Streaks on the Horizon'
8: Importing Culture
9: Exporting Culture
10: The First World War
11: The New Parliament of Art
12: Patron Saints of Culture
13: The Second World War
14: Government Patronage
15: The Cultural Flowering
16: The Regulatory State
17: Towards the Future
Conclusion
Endnotes
Picture Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

Jonathan F. Vance holds the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture in the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario. His books include Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation (2008), Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation (2006), and High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination (2002). His 1997 monograph Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the
First World War won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, the C. P. Stacey Award, and the Dafoe Book Prize.