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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812937203321

Autore

Bélanger Damien-Claude <1976->

Titolo

Prejudice and pride : Canadian intellectuals confront the United States, 1891-1945 / / Damien-Claude Belanger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-9989-2

1-4426-8542-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

973.91

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Canada - Attitudes

Public opinion - Canada

Electronic books.

United States Foreign public opinion, Canadian

United States Civilization

Canada Relations United States

United States Relations Canada

Canada Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Canadian-American relations : an intellectual history -- American politics and philosophy -- Religion and culture in the United States -- Race and gender in the United States -- The perils of prosperity and the search for order -- Canadian identity and America -- Twin perils : annexation and Americanization -- Canadian-American relations and American foreign policy -- Canadian-American trade, unionism, and migration -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American society from 1891 to 1945. Based on over five hundred texts drawn largely from the era's



periodical literature, the study reveals that English and French Canadian intellectuals shared common preoccupations with the United States, though the English tended to emphasize political issues and the French cultural issues. Damien-Claude Bľanger's in-depth analysis of anti-American sentiment during this era divides Canadian thinkers less along language lines and more according to their political stance as right-wing, left-wing, or centrist. Significantly, the era's discourse regarding American life and the Canadian-American relationship was less an expression of nationalism or a reaction to US policy than it was about the expression of wider attitudes concerning modernity.