Prejudice and Pride: Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945 - Couverture rigide

Belanger, Damien-Claude

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442640456 ISBN 13 : 9781442640450

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2011

Synopsis

As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American society from 1891 to 1945.

Based on over five hundred texts drawn largely from the era's periodical literature, the study reveals that English and French Canadian intellectuals shared common preoccupations with the United States, though the English tended to emphasize political issues and the French cultural issues. Damien-Claude Belanger's in-depth analysis of anti-American sentiment during this era divides Canadian thinkers less along language lines and more according to their political stance as right-wing, left-wing, or centrist. Significantly, the era's discourse regarding American life and the Canadian-American relationship was less an expression of nationalism or a reaction to US policy than it was about the expression of wider attitudes concerning modernity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Damien-Claude Bélanger is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442640456
• ISBN 13: 9781442640450
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible