New PDF release: The American Response to Canada Since 1776 (Canadian Series)

Canadians lengthy have engaged in in-depth, wide-ranging discussions approximately their nation's kin with the us. nonetheless, americans frequently were chuffed to just accept a sequence of unexamined myths approximately their country's unchanging, benign partnership with the "neighbor to the north". even supposing such perceptions of uninterrupted, pleasant kinfolk with Canada could dominate American well known opinion, let alone discussions in lots of American scholarly and political circles, they need to now not, in response to Stewart, shape the bases for long term U.S. overseas financial, political, and cultural family members with Canada. Stewart describes and analyzes the evolution of U.S. policymaking and U.S. coverage considering towards Canada, from the stressful and confrontational post-Revolutionary years to the signing of the loose alternate contract in 1988, to find if there are any everlasting features of yankee guidelines and attitudes with recognize to Canada. American policymakers have been involved for far of the interval earlier than international conflict II with Canada's function within the British empire, frequently considered as threatening, or not less than troubling, to constructing U.S. hegemony in North the USA or even, within the past due 19th century, to U.S. exchange around the Pacific. an everlasting objective of U.S. policymakers used to be to disengage Canada from that empire. in addition they inspiration that Canada's ordinary geographic and monetary orientation used to be southward to the united states, and policymakers have been severe of Canadian efforts to build an east- west economic system. The unfastened alternate contract of 1988 which ready the best way for north-south strains of monetary strength, during this context, were an goal of U.S. international coverage because the founding of the republic in 1776. even as, even if, those deep-seated U.S. pursuits have been frequently undermined by way of family lobbies and political elements in the united states, so much obviously in the course of the period of excessive price lists from the 1860s to the Thirties whilst U.S. tariff regulations truly inspired a separate, imperially-backed monetary and cultural course in Canada. whilst the dramatic shift towards integration in exchange, funding, security or even pop culture started to take carry within the Thirties, Forties and Nineteen Fifties within the wake of the melancholy and international battle II, American policymakers seen themselves as operating in concord with underlying, "natural" converging fiscal, political and cultural tendencies famous and accredited via their Canadian counterparts.