Download or read book Plateaus of Freedom written by Mark Kristmanson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural studies reading of Canadian culture and its security dimension during the Second World War and then later the Cold War. Kristmanson uses a wide variety of evidence to construct a provocative argument about the formation and maturity of the Canadian state during the time period other historians have characterized as Canada's evolution from colony to nation.