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Title

Yankee go home? : Canadians and anti-Americanism / J.L. Granatstein.

Author

Granatstein, J. L.

Publication

Toronto : HarperCollins, c1996.

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Description

xi, 317 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Whether it is resentment over trade barriers, fear of cultural domination, disapproval of U.S. foreign policy, or merely old-fashioned jealousy of a more powerful neighbour, Canadians have made excellent anti-Americans. Yankee Go Home? traces the winding course of this feeling over two centuries - from the United Empire Loyalists who fled north to escape unbridled republicanism, through the early twentieth century when the barons of business were determined to keep out U.S. competition, to the post-war period when Canadian nationalists took up the cry. Granatstein maintains that what began as a justifiable fear of invasion eventually became a tool of the economic and political elites bent on preserving their power. At first, anti-Americanism was largely the Tory way of keeping pro-British attitudes uppermost in the minds of Canadians. Later, with the right wing embracing the free-trade deal, it became the most important weapon of the nationalist left. Today, anti-Americanism is weaker than ever before. And what of the future? Will we inevitably become more "American" in spite of ourselves? Can we even agree on what being "Canadian" means?

Subject

• Nationalism > Canada
• Canada > Relations > United States
• United States > Relations > Canada

Note

• "A Phyllis Bruce book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Blind Hatred? The Loyalist Inheritance -- 2. Under Which Flag? The Free Trade Follies of 1891 and 1911 -- 3. On the American Road: The Critical Years, 1914-49 -- 4. Witch-Hunts and Fellow-Travellers: Cold War Anti-Americanism -- 5. Too Close for Comfort: John Diefenbaker and the Political Uses of Anti-Americanism -- 6. Class Traitor: Walter Gordon and American Investment -- 7. The Arrival of the Anti-American Americans: The Vietnam War and Draft Dodgers -- 8. Anti-Yankville: Robin Mathews versus the Americanization of Canadian Universities -- 9. Imagining Canada: Academics, Artists, Writers, and the Culture of Anti-Americanism -- 10. Last Gasp Anti-Americanism: The Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and After -- Conclusion: The End of Anti-Americanism.

ISBN

• 0002553015
• 0002550695

LCCN

cn^95933309^

OCLC

35884374

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library