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Book SynopsisNorth of America takes a fresh, sharp-eyed look at how Canadians of all stripes reacted to political, economic, and cultural events and influences emanating from postwar America.
Table of ContentsForeword / Robert Bothwell and John English
Introduction: Canada and Canadians in the Shadow of the American Century / Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson
Part 1: North America in a Cold War World
1 “A Natural Development”: Canada and Non-Alignment in the Age of Eisenhower / David Webster
2 Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus! Lester Pearson’s Visit to the Soviet Union and the West’s Détente Dilemma / Susan Colbourn
3 Living Dangerously: Canadian National Security Policy and the Nuclear Revolution / Timothy Andrews Sayle
4 From Normandy to NORAD: Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle in the Age of Eisenhower / Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson
Part 2: Politics and Identity in Postwar North America
5 An Emerging Constitutional Culture in Canada’s Postwar Moment / P.E. Bryden
6 Rethinking Postwar Domesticity: The Canadian Household in the 1950s / Bettina Liverant
7 Racial Discrimination in “Uncle Tom’s Town”: Media and the Americanization of Racism in Dresden, 1948–56 / Jennifer Tunnicliffe
8 Between Distrust and Acceptance: The Influence of the United States on Postwar Quebec / François-Olivier Dorais and Daniel Poitras
Part 3: Cultural Conundrums in an Age of Prosperity
9 Living the Good Life? Canadians and the Paradox of American Prosperity / Stephen Azzi
10 Make Room for (Canadian) TV: Print Media Cover the Arrival of Television in the Shadow of American Cultural Imperialism, 1930–52 / Emily LeDuc
11 Getting Off the Highway: Frederick Gardiner and Toronto’s Transit Policy in the Age of the Interstate Highway, 1954–63 / Jonathan English
12 Talking Jazz at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956–58 / Eric Fillion
Afterword / Norman Hillmer
List of Contributors; Index
