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This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895-1903

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This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895-1903 - Kohn, Edward P
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Kohn shows how Americans and Canadians often referred to each other as members of the same family, sharing the same blood, and drew upon the common lexicon of Anglo-Saxon rhetoric to undermine old rivalries and underscore shared interests. Though the predominance of Anglo-Saxonism proved short-lived, it left a legacy of Canadian-American goodwill as both nations accepted their shared destiny on the continent. Kohn argues that this new Canadian-American understanding fostered the Anglo-American special relationship that ...

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This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895-1903 2005, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, QC

ISBN-13: 9780773527966

Hardcover