Canada is in many ways a country of limits, a paradox for a place that enjoys virtually unlimited space. Most of that space is uninhabited, and much of it is uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge north but with most of its population in the south, hugging the U.S. border. An uneasy and difficult country, Canada has nevertheless defied the odds: it remains, in the 21st century, a haven of peace and a beacon of prosperity. Erudite yet accessible and marked by narrative flair, The Penguin History of Canada paints an expansive portrait of a dynamic and complex country.

The Penguin History of Canada

History

Bothwell, Robert

Americas

Penguin Canada

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

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.

Oxford University Press

Canada is in many ways a country of limits, a paradox for a place that enjoys virtually unlimited space. Most of that space is uninhabited, and much of it is uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge North but with most of its population in the South, hugging the American border. 
Canada's history, eminent historian Robert Bothwell argues, is more than simply regional or national. In some respects Canada makes most sense when viewed from the outside in. The world has always seen Canada as a terrain for experiment and a land of opportunity. The colonies and regions and disparate populations that became Canada derived from and were connected to a larger world. At first Canada's survival and, later, its prosperity depended on links with the world outside—the technologies that drove steamships and trains across oceans and continents; the armies that battled for North America; the furs, wheat, and gold that bought Canada a place in the world's trading system. Canada is unusual in other ways. Its inhabitants had to compromise deeply held beliefs about religion and nationality in order to live together. Compromise came only with difficulty, and the process of working out a tolerable system of government and politics has repeatedly produced painful confrontations between French and English, East and West, natives and non-natives. An uneasy and difficult country, Canada has nevertheless defied the odds: it remains, in the twenty-first century, a haven of peace and a beacon of prosperity. Erudite yet accessible and marked by narrative flair, The Penguin History of Canada paints an expansive portrait of a dynamic and complex country.

Penguin History of Canada

The first major biography of that awesome giant among Canadian politicians, the colossus who dominated the national landscape for more than a quarter century and left it irreversibly changed.

C. D. Howe, a biography

McClelland and Stewart

Canada Among Nations, 2008: 100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy

This edition offers a critical overview of a number of landmarks in the last 100 years of Canadian foreign policy. The editors take a look at the now almost mainstream 'declinist' thesis and at the continued relevance of Canada's relationships with its principal allies - the United Kingdom, France and the United States.

Politics & Social Sciences

Daudelin, Jean

Politics & Government

McGill-Queen's University Press

This edition offers a critical overview of a number of landmarks in the last 100 years of Canadian foreign policy. The editors take a look at the now almost mainstream 'declinist' thesis and at the continued relevance of Canada's relationships with its principal allies - the United Kingdom, France and the United States.

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories

This work examines relations between Canada and Quebec, which have never been easy. Issues such as the rebellions of 1837-38, conscription, the Quiet Revolution, language laws, the FLQ crisis, constitutional wrangles and Meech Lake are all covered.

Univ of British Columbia Pr

Relations between Canada and Quebec have never been easy. Beginning with the Conquest and working through the many political permutations before Confederation and since, there has always been conflict between the two governments and, in particular, between two points of view. The rebellions of 1837-8, conscription, the Quiet Revolution, language laws, the FLQ crisis and endless constitutional wrangles such as Meech Lake are just a sampling of the issues that have divided the nation. The cast of characters has been fascinating, too: Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Robert Bourassa, and Rene Levesque have all played centre stage. In the wake of a razor-thin majority for federalist forces in the referendum of 1995, the issue of separation continues to be complicated by the division of the huge national debt, the possibility of further territorial partition within a separate Quebec, the rights of First Nations people, and the spectre of separatist movements in Eastern Europe in recent years.

Relations between the rest of Canada and Quebec have never been easy. Beginning with the Conquest and working through the many political permutations before Copnfederation and since, there has always been conflict between the two governments, and, in particular, two points of view. The rebellions of 1837-38, conscription, the Quiet Revolution, language laws, endless constitutional wrangles, and Meech Lake are but a sampling of the issues that have divided the nation. A fascinating cast of characters has also emerged: Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Robert Bourassa, and René Lévasque have all played center stage. Now as a separatist provincial government plans yet another referendum on the possible independence of Quebec from Canada, the question is complicated by the division of the huge national debt, the rights of the First Nations peoples, and the specter of what has happened in recent years in Eastern Europe. Through interviews with a wide variety of politicians, journalists, and academics, Robert Bothwell skillfully weaves together a coherent account of the relationship between Canada and Quebec. Altogether this is a scintillating collage of personal accounts and considered opinions, one that acquaints us with the many different facets of this complicated yet crucial question: How did Canada and Quebec get to this crisis, and where do we go from here?

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories: Revised Edition

UBC Press

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The Penguin History of Canada

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

Penguin History of Canada

C. D. Howe, a biography

Canada Among Nations, 2008: 100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy

Canada Among Nations, 2008: 100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories: Revised Edition