Memorial Hall Library

Your country, my country, a unified history of the United States and Canada, Robert Bothwell

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

no index present

non fiction

Your country, my country

892458766

Robert Bothwell

a unified history of the United States and Canada

"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

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?