Asa McKercher, "Canada and the World since 1867" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

New Books in American Studies · Apr 10, 2020 · 1h 3m

If you haven’t been able to tell by the way I pronounce the word “about,” I should probably let you know that I’m from Canada. And I have to make a confession––growing up in Vancouver, I was fed the line that Canadian history was dull, that it lacked drama (i.e. no revolutionary war against England), and so my historical attention was always drawn to the US. It wasn’t until I was deep into college that I began to think otherwise. And, as a result, I know far too little about my country’s history. Asa McKercher’s superb new book, Canada and the World since 1867 (Bloomsbury Academic Press…