Your country, my country [electronic resource] : a unified history of the United States and Canada / Robert Bothwell.
Bothwell, Robert, author.
2015
F1029.5.U6 B68 2015eb
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Title Your country, my country [electronic resource] : a unified history of the United States and Canada / Robert Bothwell.
Author Bothwell, Robert, author.
ISBN 9780190279660 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195448801
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (420 pages)
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195448801 doi
Call Number F1029.5.U6 B68 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 970
Summary "Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to historian Robert Bothwell. In this witty and accessible book, Bothwell argues that the shared history of the United States and Canada reveals more about each country than most would suspect. Your Country, My Country takes readers back to the seventeenth century, when a shared British colonial heritage set the two lands on paths that would remain intertwined to the present day. Tracing Canadian-American relations, shared values, and differences through the centuries, Bothwell suggests that Americans are neither unique nor exceptional, in terms of both their good characteristics and their bad ones. He brings this contention down to the present day by examining Canadian and American differences over such questions as universal health care in domestic policy and the Iraq war in foreign policy. What happens in Canada often reflects what has happened in the United States, but by the same token, what happens in Canada signals what could happen in its American neighbor. From whatever direction, this innovative volume contends, Canada's story illuminates America's-and vice-versa"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction
Ch 1: Exceptional America: Sovereignties in Northern North America
Ch 2: Patriots and Loyalists
Ch 3: The Unfinished Revolution, 1783-1815
Ch 4: Postwar, 1815-1854
Ch 5: A Colonial Nation, Its Neighbor, and Its Empire
Ch 6: Siblings and their Rivalries, 1891-1914
Ch 7: Relations Transformed by War
Ch 8: The Great Thaw, 1921-1939
Ch 9: Convergences, 1939-1949
Ch 10: Exceptional North America and the Cold War, 1949-1979
Ch 11: Unexpected Destinations
Ch 12: Something Old, Something New
Ch 13: Back to the Future?

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