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Book SynopsisPrejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American society from 1891 to 1945.
Trade Review'Prejudice & Pride is a noteworthy addition to Canadian historiography. B langer has done an important service by pointing to the centrality of modernity as an intellectual conception and organizing principle of Canadian intellectual debates concerning United States. This book will appeal to a broad scholarly audience.' -- Daniel Macfarlane H-Canada, August 12, 2011 'The book should be a required reading not only for students of the intellectual dimensions of imperialism and continentalism, but for all well-schooled readers with an interest inlate nineteenth and early twentieth-century Canadian history.' -- Christopher Pennington Canadian Historical review; vol93:02:2012 'Belanger offers a refreshingly different lens to the history of Canadian nationalism... He skillfully examines one of the most critical components of Canadian social and political thought, and his book will undoubtedly be indispensable, both for the study of Canadian-American relations and Canadian intellectual history.' -- Bruce Tucker American Studies Journal; vol 52:02:2013
Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsiIntroduction11.Canadian-American Relations: An Intellectual History202.American Politics and Philosophy703.Religion and Culture in the United States1154.Race and Gender in the United States1435.The Perils of Prosperity and the Search for Order1706.Canadian Identity and America1887.Twin Perils: Annexation and Americanization2158.Canadian-American Relations and American Foreign Policy2409.Canadian-American Trade, Unionism, and Migration273Conclusion308Corpus324Serials Examined384Secondary Sources390
