| Description |
1 online resource (142 p.) |
| Series |
InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict Series |
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InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Images of the Other and International Relations -- Introduction: Imagining the Other -- When and How Do Images of the Other Matter? -- Borderlands: Does Physical Contiguity Make a Difference? -- National Images and United States-Canada Relations -- 2 America: A Canadian Obsession -- Introduction -- Early Perceptions: Anti-American Elites and an Unconvinced Public -- The Rebellions of 1837-38: Rejection of the American Model? -- Fears of Annexation -- Canadian Ambivalence Toward America |
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The "New" Canadian Nationalism -- Multiculturalism as a Marker of Difference (and Superiority!) -- Old Cultural Tropes Die Hard -- American Decline, the Rise of Trumpism, and Canadians' Image of America -- Conclusion -- 3 Canada: From Existential Threat to the Unknown Country -- Introduction -- The Threat From the North -- The Early American Image of Les Canadiens and the Canadian People -- Canada as a Refuge From Injustice -- Reciprocity and Annexation -- The Friendly Neighbor Next Door -- The Popular Image of Canada: Public Opinion and the Media -- Canada in America's Culture Wars -- Conclusion |
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4 A Story of Asymmetry: The Policy Consequences of National Images -- Introduction -- Economics -- Security and Defense -- Communication and Culture -- The One-Way Mirror -- The Modern Era in US-Canada Relations -- Cultural Nationalism in Canada -- Economic Nationalism in Canada -- United States-Canada Free Trade -- The War in Iraq -- National Images Matter . . . Within Limits -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
The book explores the psychological-cultural dimension of the United States-Canada relationship by analyzing how each country has viewed the other. Drawing on a wide range of data the books explores how Americans and Canadians have viewed one another from the moment they were launched on separate trajectories |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Free trade -- Canada
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Free trade -- United States
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada
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Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040014455 |
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1040014453 |
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