Your Country, My Country

A Unified History of the United States and Canada
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-544880-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 893 g

The book might almost be entitled Canadians in the Attic. Canada is the United States' forgotten twin, the country that resembles the United States more than any other, and that shares a history with America that goes back to the seventeenth century, and that includes the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the anti-slavery movement, to name only a few. Canada is in a way a measure of, a barometer of, American exceptionalism. What happens in Canada is often a reflection of what has happened in the United States, but by the same token, what happens in Canada is often a sign of what could happen in its American neighbor. While the two countries have distinct political systems, and particular histories, ideologically they are closer together than standard Canadian histories suggest. (Canadians are left out of standard American histories.) Arguably, Canada is the part of North America where the New Deal came to fruition in the 1960s, when it was frustrated in the United States. But no American political idea fails to penetrate Canada, and in the 2000s many Canadians, including the current Canadian government, seek to imitate or replicate the hard-right turn in American politics. From whatever direction, the Canadian experience illuminates American experience-- and vice-versa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bothwell, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Ch 1: Exceptional America: Sovereignties in Northern North Americans

- Ch 2: Exceptional Americans

- Ch 3: 1783-1815

- Ch 4: Postwar, 1815-1854

- Ch 5: A Colonial Nation, Its Neighbor, and Its Empire

- Ch 6: 1891-1914

- Ch 7: World War I

- Ch 8: Interwar

- Ch 9: Convergences, 1939-1949

- Ch 10: The Cold War, 1949-1979

- Ch 11: Unexpected Destinations

- Ch 12: Something Old, Something New

- Ch 13: Back to the Future?

- Notes

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

A history professor at the University of Toronto, Robert Bothwell has written books on a variety of topics in Canadian political, economic, and corporate history, as well as on Canadian-American relations and international history.