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Your Country, My Country - A Unified History of the United States and Canada (Paperback)
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Your Country, My Country - A Unified History of the United States and Canada (Paperback)
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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.
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