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North 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.
List of contents
Foreword /
Robert Bothwell and John EnglishIntroduction: Canada and Canadians in the Shadow of the American Century /
Asa McKercher and Michael D. StevensonPart 1: North America in a Cold War World1 "A Natural Development": Canada and Non-Alignment in the Age of Eisenhower /
David Webster2 Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus! Lester Pearson's Visit to the Soviet Union and the West's Détente Dilemma /
Susan Colbourn3 Living Dangerously: Canadian National Security Policy and the Nuclear Revolution /
Timothy Andrews Sayle4 From Normandy to NORAD: Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle in the Age of Eisenhower /
Asa McKercher and Michael D. StevensonPart 2: Politics and Identity in Postwar North America5 An Emerging Constitutional Culture in Canada's Postwar Moment /
P.E. Bryden6 Rethinking Postwar Domesticity: The Canadian Household in the 1950s /
Bettina Liverant7 Racial Discrimination in "Uncle Tom's Town": Media and the Americanization of Racism in Dresden, 1948-56 /
Jennifer Tunnicliffe8 Between Distrust and Acceptance: The Influence of the United States on Postwar Quebec /
François-Olivier Dorais and Daniel PoitrasPart 3: Cultural Conundrums in an Age of Prosperity9 Living the Good Life? Canadians and the Paradox of American Prosperity /
Stephen Azzi10 Make Room for (Canadian) TV: Print Media Cover the Arrival of Television in the Shadow of American Cultural Imperialism, 1930-52 /
Emily LeDuc11 Getting Off the Highway: Frederick Gardiner and Toronto's Transit Policy in the Age of the Interstate Highway, 1954-63 /
Jonathan English12 Talking Jazz at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956-58 /
Eric FillionAfterword /
Norman HillmerList of Contributors; Index
About the author
Asa McKercher is an assistant professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. His publications include
Canada and the World Since 1867 and
Canada and Camelot: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era.
Michael D. Stevenson is a professor of history at Lakehead University. He is the author of
Canada's Greatest Wartime Muddle: National Selective Service and the Mobilization of Human Resources in Canada during World War II and editor of the 1957-58 volumes of
Documents on Canadian External Relations.
Contributors: Stephen Azzi, P.E. Bryden, Susan Colbourn, François-Olivier Dorais, Jonathan English, Eric Fillion, Norman Hillmer, Emily LeDuc, Bettina Liverant, Daniel Poitras, Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jennifer Tunnicliffe, David Webster