Canada An American Nation

Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122029
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Nations written by Colin Woodard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.

Author : John Boyko
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307361462
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Daring written by John Boyko and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself. In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war—Canadians fought in every major battle, supplied arms to the South, and many key Confederate meetings took place on Canadian soil. Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts from previously unaccessed primary sources, Boyko's fascinating new interpretation of the war will appeal to all readers of history.

Author : Allan Smith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773512528
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada-- an American Nation? written by Allan Smith and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challenged Canada's cultural independence and asks whether Canada has maintained its own identity.

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451603095
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Next American Nation written by Michael Lind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we now, or have we ever been, a nation? As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been in our history. Is our society disintegrating into a collection of separate ethnic enclaves, or is there a way that we can forge a coherent, unified identity as we enter the 21st century? In this "marvelously written, wide-ranging and thought-provoking"* book, Michael Lind provides a comprehensive revisionist view of the American past and offers a concrete proposal for nation-building reforms to strengthen the American future. He shows that the forces of nationalism and the ideal of a trans-racial melting pot need not be in conflict with each other, and he provides a practical agenda for a liberal nationalist revolution that would combine a new color-blind liberalism in civil rights with practical measures for reducing class-based barriers to racial integration. A stimulating critique of every kind of orthodox opinion as well as a vision of a new "Trans-American" majority, The Next American Nation may forever change the way we think and talk about American identity. *New York Newsday

Author : John Wesley Dafoe
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada, an American Nation written by John Wesley Dafoe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents an incredible history of Canada and follows a simple narrative style, delivering details on the subject with preciseness. The writer entertains the readers with several unknown facts about the country, the events, and the famous personages that shaped its history. Contents include: Canada's Rise to Nationhood Canada as a Democracy Canada as Neighbor

Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Nation written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty
Publisher : Harpercollins College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780065008487
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the American Nation written by Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History John A Garraty and published by Harpercollins College Division. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diane Francis
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443424412
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merger Of The Century written by Diane Francis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No two nations in the world are as integrated, economically and socially, as are the United States and Canada. We share geography, values and the largest unprotected border in the world. Regardless of this close friendship, our two countries are on a slow-motion collision course—with each other and with the rest of the world. While we wrestle with internal political gridlock and fiscal challenges and clash over border problems, the economies of the larger world change and flourish. Emerging economies sailed through the meltdown of 2008. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that by 2018, China's economy will be bigger than that of the United States; when combined with India, Japan and the four Asian Tigers—South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong--China's economy will be bigger than that of the G8 (minus Japan). Rather than continuing on this road to mutual decline, our two nations should chart a new course. Bestselling author Diane Francis proposes a simple and obvious solution: What if the United States and Canada merged into one country? The most audacious initiative since the Louisiana Purchase would solve the biggest problems each country expects to face: the U.S.'s national security threats and declining living standards; and Canada's difficulty controlling and developing its huge land mass stemming from a lack of capital, workers, technology and military might. Merger of the Century builds both a strong political argument and a compelling business case, treating our two countries not only as sovereign entities but as merging companies. We stand on the cusp of a new world order. Together, by marshalling resources and combining efforts, Canada and America have a greater chance of succeeding. As separate nations, the future is in much greater doubt indeed.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada, a North American Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence B. A. Hatter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939550
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens of Convenience written by Lawrence B. A. Hatter and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citizens of Convenience, Lawrence Hatter shows how this practice undermined the United States’ claim to nationhood and threatened the transcontinental imperial aspirations of U.S. policymakers. The U.S.-Canadian border was a critical site of United States nation- and empire-building during the first forty years of the republic. Hatter explains how the difficulty of distinguishing U.S. citizens from British subjects on the border posed a significant challenge to the United States’ founding claim that it formed a separate and unique nation. To establish authority over both its own nationals and an array of non-nationals within its borders, U.S. customs and territorial officials had to tailor policies to local needs while delineating and validating membership in the national community. This type of diplomacy—balancing the local with the transnational—helped to define the American people as a distinct nation within the Revolutionary Atlantic world and stake out the United States’ imperial domain in North America.