Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate Between Neighbo(u)ring States - Softcover

Soderstrom, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889776725 ISBN 13: 9780889776722

Verlag: University of Regina Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

How can neighbours that are side by side geographically be so far apart politically, culturally, ideologically, and economically?

In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home and their old led to a long-running reflection on what makes the two countries different. How could two places that are similar in so many ways be so disparate in others?

In Frenemy Nations, Soderstrom answers this question by addressing a range of geographical “odd couples”: including the United States and Canada; New Hampshire and Vermont; Alberta and Saskatchewan; Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Scotland and Ireland; Rwanda and Burundi; and more. Through it all, Soderstrom shows how tiny differences—in geographic features, colonial histories, resource competition, education, women’s roles, language, and migration—can have outsized effects on how polities develop.

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Mary Soderstrom has come far from her birthplace of Walla Walla, Washington. A world traveller, Soderstrom is now a Canadian and Montrealer. She is also the award-winning author of more than a dozen fiction and non-fiction books, including her acclaimed Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move, and most recently, Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Regina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0889776725
• ISBN 13: 9780889776722
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
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