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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786557003321

Autore

Stevenson Garth

Titolo

Building nations from diversity : Canadian and American experience compared / / Garth Stevenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7735-8321-1

0-7735-8320-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History. Series Two ; ; 35

Disciplina

305.800971

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - United States - History

Multiculturalism - Canada - History

Immigrants - Government policy - Canada - History

Immigrants - Government policy - United States - History

Canada Emigration and immigration History

United States Emigration and immigration History

Canada Ethnic relations History

United States Ethnic relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Setting the Patterns -- 3 The Irish -- 4 The Chinese -- 5 The Jews -- 6 Ethnic Minorities in Wartime -- Immigration Policy: The Rise and Fall of Nativism -- 8 The Politics of Language -- 9 Multiculturalism: The Biography of an Idea -- 10 Islamophobia -- 11 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences.