Dependent America?
How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- General, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442644632
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $80.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442612778
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $50.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442661257
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $40.95
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Description
Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America
Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States' wealth, security, and global power.
This provocative work documents how Canada and Mexico offer the United States open markets for its investments and exports, massive flows of skilled and unskilled labour, and vast resource inputs— all of which boost its size and competitiveness — more than does any other US partner. They are also Uncle Sam's most important allies in supporting its anti-terrorist and anti-narcotics security. Clarkson and Mildenberger explain the paradox of these two countries' simultaneous importance and powerlessness by showing how the US government has systematically neutralized their potential influence.
Detailing the dynamics of North America's power relations, Dependent America? is a fitting conclusion to Clarkson's celebrated trilogy on the contradictory qualities of its regionalism — asymmetrical economic integration, thickened borders, and emasculated governance.
About the authors
Christina McCall (1935-2005) was a writer of literary non-fiction who worked a socio-political analyst for Maclean's, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, and the Globe and Mail. Grits, her portrait of the Liberal Party, was acclaimed as "one of the most important Canadian books." With her husband, Stephen Clarkson, she co-authored Trudeau and Our Times, the classic two-volume study of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his impact on Canadian society and politics, the first volume of which won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1990.
Stephen Clarkson's profile page
Matto Mildenberger is a PhD student in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
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