Living with War – Twentieth–Century Conflict in Canadian and American History a…

Living with WarTwentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory\nAuthor(s): Robert Teigrob\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442644083, 978-1442644083\nSynopsis\nCanada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each countrys attitudes to war and peace match the realities?\n\n In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is experienced and remembered on both sides of the 49th parallel. Surveying popular and scholarly histories, films and literature, public memorials, and museum exhibits in both countries, he comes to some startling conclusions. Americans may seem more patriotic, even jingoistic, but they are also more willing to debate the pros and cons of their military actions. Canadians, though more diffident in their public displays of patriotism, are more willing than their southern neigh.