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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778972403321

Autore

Stewart Gordon T (Gordon Thomas), <1945->

Titolo

The American response to Canada since 1776 [[electronic resource] /] / Gordon T. Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1992

ISBN

1-62896-211-9

0-87013-957-6

0-585-18800-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

MSU Press Canadian series ; ; no. 3

Disciplina

327.73071

Soggetti

United States Foreign relations Canada

Canada Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series statement from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Terminology; I. Introduction; II. "Tendencies to Bad Neighborhood" 1783-1854; III. "A Second Empire" 1854-1892; IV. "Broad Questions of National Policy" 1892-1911; V. "An Object of American Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic" 1911-1988; VI. Assessment; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Canadians long have engaged in in-depth, wide-ranging discussions about their nation's relations with the United States. On the other hand, American citizens usually have been satisfied to accept a series of unexamined myths about their country's unchanging, benign partnership with the ""neighbor to the north"". Although such perceptions of uninterrupted, friendly relations with Canada may dominate American popular opinion, not to mention discussions in many American scholarly and political circles, they should not, according to Stewart, form the bases for long-term U.S. international economi