1985 1st McGill-queen's. ISBN 0-7735-0449-4. Octavo, 328pp., hardcover. Fine.

United States Foreign Oil Policy, 1919-1948: For Profits and Security

Business & Money

Randall, Stephen J.

Economics

McGill Queens Univ

The authors argue that despite a shared continent and heritage, ambivalence has always characterized relations between the two countries - an ambivalence stemming from differences that Americans underestimate and that Canadians overstate.  Thompson and Randall begin with the century in which Canada was a pawn in the relations between the United States and Great Britain. They consider the years until World War II, during which Canada and the United States erected many of the bilateral institutions and mechanisms that govern their relationship in the twentieth century. The authors then explore the World War and Cold War alliance based on economic interest and shared anti-Communist that made Canada part of a "new American empire." The years from 1960 until 1984 most merit their subtitle, Ambivalent Allies, as it was then that this continental consensus fragmented. In 1984 the relationship was restored as Canada's Conservative government embraced the United States with an ardour that stunned a Canadian body politic nurtured on the milk of anti-Americanism.  The authors consider the economic and social dimensions of the relationship, from Canadian responses to the increasing weight of the U.S. cultural presence, to the archaic stereotypes through which Canadians and Americans understand each other. They conclude that while Canadians have been obsessed with the United States, Canada has been a matter of consuming disinterest to the United States public and to most of its leaders.  Despite the oft-repeated platitudes about a "special relationship" between the two countries, the authors maintain that what is striking is the extent to which U.S. policy toward Canada conforms to U.S. policy toward the rest of the world. For its part, Canada's preoccupation with the United States has shaped Canadian national policies. Any apparent contemporary trend toward consensus and convergence between the United States and Canada, they conclude, must be viewed through the lens of two centuries of ambiguity and ambivalence.

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies

Politics & Social Sciences

Thompson, John Herd

Politics & Government

McGill Queens Univ Pr

"Informative and entertaining ... Recounts with considerable verve the saga of Canadian-American relations over more than two centuries." Times Literary Supplement ----- "Fast-paced, informative, readable ... At once an impressive piece of scholarship and definitive work in the field." Historian ----- "Refreshingly sensitive to Canadian misperceptions of the United States as well as to the perennial American ignorance of Canada" New York Times Book Review ----- "An important book that promises to become the standard in the field . . . The reader is rewarded with a fair and insightful historical perspective of the complex North American relationship." Journal of American History ----- "First rate ... Should be considered for class adoption." American Review of Canadian Studies

History

Americas

Through market excesses and shortages, complicated by periodic anxiety over the exhaustion of fossil fuel sources, balancing the international quest for oil with reduction of dependence on foreign oil has been a persistent but elusive goal for U.S. governments. United States Foreign Oil Policy since World War I offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of American global oil policy from the administration of Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush's current regime.Stephen Randall demonstrates that U.S. foreign oil policy since World War I has been consistently based on ensuring an adequate supply of oil and oil products at reasonable prices to meet the industrial and military needs of American society. The result has been an ongoing search for energy security that has taken the United States into regions of the world where its national security interests would not otherwise have been at stake, even at the height of the Cold War.

United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, Second Edition

McGill-Queen's University Press

A timely analysis of American foreign oil policy and the intersection of energy interests and national and international security interests.

Book by Barry, Donald, Dickerson, Mark O.

Toward A North American Community?: Canada, The United States, And Mexico (Political Economy of Global Interdependence)

Tomlin, Brian

Winham, Gilbert R.

Barry, Donald

Canovas, Gustavo Vega

Westview Press

Strategically located at the gateway to the South American continent, Colombia has long been a key player in shaping the United States' involvement with its Latin American neighbors. In this book Stephen J. Randall examines the course of U.S.-Colombian relations over two centuries, taking into account the broad spectrum of political, social, cultural, and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction.
A leader in the movement for independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, Colombia shared with the United States the aspiration of becoming a leader for the entire hemisphere. Its early efforts in this direction―notably its initiation in the 1820s of the first Pan-American Conference―soon languished, however, as the unequal growth between the two countries took its toll. By the turn of the century, after years of destructive civil war, Colombia had slipped far behind its northern neighbor militarily, economically, and politically. The United States, meanwhile, had emerged as a great power, and the first major manifestation of the two countries' divergence came with the U.S.-supported secession of Panama in 1903―an event that deeply shocked Colombians and tainted their view of the United States for subsequent generations.
During the twentieth century, Randall explains, a tension in Colombian politics and culture has persisted between those who advocate an independent, even antagonistic, stance toward the United State

Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence (UNITED STATES AND THE AMERICAS)

Univ of Georgia Pr

Strategically located at the gateway to the South American continent, Colombia has long been a key player in shaping the United States' involvement with its Latin American neighbors. In this book Stephen J. Randall examines the course of U.S.-Colombian relations over two centuries, taking into account the broad spectrum of political, social, cultural, and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction.A leader in the movement for independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, Colombia shared with the United States the aspiration of becoming a leader for the entire hemisphere. Its early efforts in this direction―notably its initiation in the 1820s of the first Pan-American Conference―soon languished, however, as the unequal growth between the two countries took its toll. By the turn of the century, after years of destructive civil war, Colombia had slipped far behind its northern neighbor militarily, economically, and politically. The United States, meanwhile, had emerged as a great power, and the first major manifestation of the two countries' divergence came with the U.S.-supported secession of Panama in 1903―an event that deeply shocked Colombians and tainted their view of the United States for subsequent generations.During the twentieth century, Randall explains, a tension in Colombian politics and culture has persisted between those who advocate an independent, even antagonistic, stance toward the United State

Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence (The United States and the Americas)

University of Georgia Press

The United States and Canada have the world’s largest trading relationship and the longest shared border. Spanning the period from the American Revolution to post-9/11 debates over shared security, Canada and the United States offers a current, thoughtful assessment of relations between the two countries. Distilling a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic, and political developments of mutual importance over more than two centuries, this survey enables readers to grasp quickly the essence of the shared experience of these two countries.
This edition of Canada and the United States has been extensively rewritten and updated throughout to reflect new scholarly arguments, emphases, and discoveries. In addition, there is new material on such topics as energy, the environment, cultural and economic integration, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, border security, missile defense, and the second administration of George W. Bush.

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (The United States and the Americas Ser.)

The United States and Canada have the world’s largest trading relationship and the longest shared border. Spanning the period from the American Revolution to post-9/11 debates over shared security, Canada and the United States offers a current, thoughtful assessment of relations between the two countries. Distilling a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic, and political developments of mutual importance over more than two centuries, this survey enables readers to grasp quickly the essence of the shared experience of these two countries. This edition of Canada and the United States has been extensively rewritten and updated throughout to reflect new scholarly arguments, emphases, and discoveries. In addition, there is new material on such topics as energy, the environment, cultural and economic integration, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, border security, missile defense, and the second administration of George W. Bush.

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (The United States and the Americas)

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United States Foreign Oil Policy, 1919-1948: For Profits and Security

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies

United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, Second Edition

United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, Second Edition

Toward A North American Community?: Canada, The United States, And Mexico (Political Economy of Global Interdependence)

Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence (UNITED STATES AND THE AMERICAS)

Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence (The United States and the Americas)

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (The United States and the Americas Ser.)

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (The United States and the Americas)