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

Belanger, Damien-Claude

 
9781442640450: Prejudice and Pride: Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945
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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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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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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