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Author : Douglas Baer,Edward Grabb,William Johnston,University of Alberta. Population Research Laboratory
Publisher : Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : OCLC:27003694
Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544457
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an “American” or “Canadian” culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, and the rivalries and alliances between its component nations, which conform to neither state nor international boundaries. He illustrates and explains why “American” values vary sharply from one region to another. Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how intranational differences have played a pivotal role at every point in the continent's history, from the American Revolution and the Civil War to the tumultuous sixties and the "blue county/red county" maps of recent presidential elections. American Nations is a revolutionary and revelatory take on America's myriad identities and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and are molding our future.
Author : Jeffrey Abbott,Robert T. Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877193845
In today's global economy, NAFTA continues to present unprecedented opportunities for companies in cross-border commerce. 'Uniting North American Business: NAFTA Best Practices' focuses on best business practices and lessons learned in the years since the NAFTA agreement was first signed, and their impact on both the economy and society. 'Uniting North American Business' provides you with the skills and competencies necessary to become more effective business managers and citizens in NAFTA countries by considering: * What is the scope of the NAFTA agreement itself? * What are some of the positive benefits of NAFTA? * What is really causing job loss attributed to NAFTA? * What should we know about Canada, the United States, and Mexico to better understand the culture and management philosophies of our partners? * What will society look like if current trends continue?
Author : Robert T. Moran,Jeffrey D. Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136350894
In today's global economy, NAFTA continues to present unprecedented opportunities for companies in cross-border commerce. 'Uniting North American Business: NAFTA Best Practices' focuses on best business practices and lessons learned in the years since the NAFTA agreement was first signed, and their impact on both the economy and society. 'Uniting North American Business' provides you with the skills and competencies necessary to become more effective business managers and citizens in NAFTA countries by considering: * What is the scope of the NAFTA agreement itself? * What are some of the positive benefits of NAFTA? * What is really causing job loss attributed to NAFTA? * What should we know about Canada, the United States, and Mexico to better understand the culture and management philosophies of our partners? * What will society look like if current trends continue?
Author : Nelson Wiseman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840613
What do we really mean by phrases such as "western Canadian political culture," "the centrist political culture of Ontario," "Red Toryism in the Maritimes," or "Prairie socialism"? What historical, geographical, and sociological factors came into play as these cultures were forged? In this book, Nelson Wiseman addresses many such questions, offering new ways of conceiving Canadian political culture. The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada.
Author : Jerry Diakiw
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656072553
Scholarly Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Canada, grade: -, York University, language: English, comment: Widely published articles on multiculturalism. Teaches at York University. Former school principal and school superintendent. Nominated for the York Presidents Teaching Award 2010, abstract: Many have argued that there is no such thing as a Canadian culture or identity. This article explores the history of how schools in the past have shaped a national identity and how cultures transmit their vaules and traditions to their young. This article argues that there are twelve commonplaces about Canada that all Canadians, regardless of where they live or how long they have lived here can identify with. The schools across the country have an obligation to debate, argue and explore these twelve commonplaces thereby promoting a shared Canadian culture that is fluid, flexible and evolving. It argues that these twelve are not fixed in stone but are just a starting point for "keeping the conversation going." It promotes a revisioning of our culture throiugh a myulticulturalism prism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biogeography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015250538
This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
Author : Michael Goldberg,John Mercer
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774843294
The continuing tendency to "continentalize" Canadian issues has been particularly marked in the area of urban studies where United States-based research findings, methodologies, and attitudes have held sway. In this book, Goldberg and Mercer demonstrate that the label "North American City" as widely used is inappropriate and misleading in discussion of the distinctive Canadian urban environment. Examining such elements of the cultural context as mass values, social and demographic structures, the economy, and political institutions, they reveal salient differences between Canada and the United States.
Author : Dr Gillian Mitchell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409493679
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based on original archival research carried out principally in Toronto, Washington and Ottawa, it is a thematic, rather than general, study of the movement which has been influenced by various academic disciplines, including history, musicology and folklore. Dr Gillian Mitchell begins with an introduction that provides vital context for the subject by tracing the development of the idea of 'the folk', folklore and folk music since the nineteenth century, and how that idea has been applied in the North American context, before going on to examine links forged by folksong collectors, artists and musicians between folk music and national identity during the early twentieth century. With the 'boom' of the revival in the early sixties came the ways in which the movement in both countries proudly promoted a vision of nation that was inclusive, pluralistic and eclectic. It was a vision which proved compatible with both Canada and America, enabling both countries to explore a diversity of music without exclusiveness or narrowness of focus. It was also closely linked to the idealism of the grassroots political movements of the early 1960s, such as integrationist civil rights, and the early student movement. After 1965 this inclusive vision of nation in folk music began to wane. While the celebrations of the Centennial in Canada led to a re-emphasis on the 'Canadianness' of Canadian folk music, the turbulent events in the United States led many ex-revivalists to turn away from politics and embrace new identities as introspective singer-songwriters. Many of those who remained interested in traditional folk music styles, such as Celtic or Klezmer music, tended to be very insular and conservative in their approach, rather than linking their chosen genre to a wider world of folk music; however, more recent attempts at 'fusion' or 'world' music suggest a return to the eclectic spirit of the 1960s folk revival. Thus, from 1945 to 1980, folk music in Canada and America experienced an evolving and complex relationship with the concepts of nation and national identity. Students will find the book useful as an introduction, not only to key themes in the folk revival, but also to concepts in the study of national identity and to topics in American and Canadian cultural history. Academic specialists will encounter an alternative perspective from the more general, broad approach offered by earlier histories of the folk revival movement.
Author : Alexa Mardian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3656917086
Research Paper (Pre-University) from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, language: English, abstract: Canadian or American - A small or an essential difference? The question already implies that the subject of this thesis is focusing on culture and aspects of civil society rather than e.g. geographical differences. Every country differs respectively its society from another but The United States and Canada are often assumed to be one of the most similar neighbours in the world. This is not surprising, due to the fact that 90 % of Canada's population lives within 120 kilometres of the US border. So, is national identity really a matter of distance? As the years go by this lively-discussed issue has induced many sociologists and psychologists to research but a general consensus has never been found. Canadians usually feel offended when they are named Americans and over the centuries Canada has tried to stress its unique identity and culture. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is often associated with the terms of "Canadian Nationalism" and "Anti-Americanism," or simply as Dr. Mark Snyder defines it as "identity by negation rather than affirmation." But contrastingly and according to the "American Myths Survey," a co-operation between the Innovative Research Group and The Dominion Institute, de facto just 24% of the Canadians and 17% of the Americans feel that their values are becoming more similar. Moreover, 27% of the Canadians and 20% of the Americans actually feel that their particular values are becoming "increasingly different." In order to analyze similarities and differences between the American and the Canadian civil society it is important to define culture at first. Culture, stated by Geert Hofstede, " ...] is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group from another." This thesis is focusing on some main aspects influencing and coining society and culture, such as norms, va
Author : Robert T. Moran,Jeffrey Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106014285404
A guide to understanding the cultural differences among Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., with a goal of beneficial business relationships in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Author : Douglas Edward Baer
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060812263
The papers in this volume provide a wide-ranging sample of the issues debated, the methodologies used, and the analytical orientations adopted by Canadian political sociologists. Drawing upon some of the top Canadian political sociologists, the book is organized into five parts: political beliefs and political culture; the state; social movements; political movements; and, politics and social class, each beginning with an introductory overview of the area by the volume's editor, Douglas Baer.
Author : McMaster University. Faculty of Business,Thomas Edward Muller
Publisher : Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:28499514
Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001347439
This provocative book regroups the areas of North America into divisions according to economic and social resources and needs.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000404489
In this essay which takes the form of letters written to an American friend, Berton's conviction is that Canadian culture has its own unique origins and that we are a people quite distinct from Americans. c1982.