Why Canada is not the United States. A Historical Context of Contemporary Geopolitical Tensions
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the political culture of the 19th century in the British Empire in order to explain the historical reasons that informed the Canadian choice to reject the political model offered by the American republic, and which illuminate the Canadian resistance to recent suggestions to join the United States. As early as the nineteenth century, the two political communities in North America developed national narratives and competing national identities that were articulated in political and cultural terms, rather than ethnic or religious ones, and built their institutional arrangements around competing definitions of liberty.
Author: Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Institution: Miami University
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7127110939