Between empire and republic: America in the colonial Canadian imagination Politics, literature, & film./ Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy.

Abstract

"This book uses literature to explain why pre-Confederation Canadians did not want to become Americans. The author argues that the perceived cultural distinctions between 19th-century American and colonial Canadian societies echoed public attitudes towards the political systems of the US and the British Empire, and the ideologies that shaped them"--