03277nam 2200709 450 991078066150332120230912154502.01-281-99593-297866119959351-4426-7538-110.3138/9781442675384(CKB)2430000000001789(OCoLC)666904031(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219136(SSID)ssj0000297686(PQKBManifestationID)11211870(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297686(PQKBWorkID)10334507(PQKB)10206362(CaBNvSL)thg00602039 (DE-B1597)464510(OCoLC)944178168(DE-B1597)9781442675384(Au-PeEL)EBL4671559(CaPaEBR)ebr11257265(OCoLC)958572009(OCoLC)1377279659(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104803(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/cgkjk7(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418019(MiAaPQ)EBC4671559(MiAaPQ)EBC3255229(EXLCZ)99243000000000178920160922e20001998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGlobalization and the meaning of Canadian life /William WatsonToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©19981 online resource (327 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-8372-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1.Globalization.1.Defining Moment.2.The Globalization Hypothesis.3.Four Hundred Years of Globalization.4.Convergence?5.Home Truths.6.Are We There Yet?7.Free to Choose --pt. II.The Meaning of Canadian Life.8.False Premise.9.Governing Misperceptions.10.The American 'Governmental Habit'.11.T̀he Most Rugged Surviving Individualists'.12.The American Lead.13.Canadian Free Enterprise.14.The Unimportance of Being Different.15.Distinct Society?16.Cement for a Nation?17.The Rising Cost of Civilization.18.The Psychic Costs of Government.19.Virtually Canadian.20.Do Countries Still Make Sense?"Globalization - seemingly the dominant economic force of this era - is a phenomenon that invites misrepresentation and exaggeration. One of its results has been to introduce several false premises into the country's policy debates. So says William Watson, whose new book draws on economics and history to pose interesting challenges to modes of thinking that have become habitual in late twentieth-century Canadian life."--JacketGlobalizationCanadaCivilization1945-Foreign influencesCanadaForeign economic relationsElectronic books. Globalization.971.0648Watson William G.1579395MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780661503321Globalization and the meaning of Canadian life3859474UNINA