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- catalog abstract ""Globalization - seemingly the dominant economic force of this era - is a phenomenon that invites misrepresentation and exaggeration. One of its results has been to introduce several false premises into the country's policy debates. So says William Watson, whose new book draws on economics and history to pose interesting challenges to modes of thinking that have become habitual in late twentieth-century Canadian life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10875538.
- catalog coverage "Canada Civilization 1945- Foreign influences.".
- catalog coverage "Canada Foreign economic relations.".
- catalog created "c1998 (2000 pbk. printing).".
- catalog date "(2000 pbk. printing).".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998".
- catalog description ""Globalization - seemingly the dominant economic force of this era - is a phenomenon that invites misrepresentation and exaggeration. One of its results has been to introduce several false premises into the country's policy debates. So says William Watson, whose new book draws on economics and history to pose interesting challenges to modes of thinking that have become habitual in late twentieth-century Canadian life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-303) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Globalization. 1. Defining Moment. 2. The Globalization Hypothesis. 3. Four Hundred Years of Globalization. 4. Convergence? 5. Home Truths. 6. Are We There Yet? 7. Free to Choose -- pt. II. The Meaning of Canadian Life. 8. False Premise. 9. Governing Misperceptions. 10. The American 'Governmental Habit'. 11. T̀he Most Rugged Surviving Individualists'. 12. The American Lead. 13. Canadian Free Enterprise. 14. The Unimportance of Being Different. 15. Distinct Society? 16. Cement for a Nation? 17. The Rising Cost of Civilization. 18. The Psychic Costs of Government. 19. Virtually Canadian. 20. Do Countries Still Make Sense?".
- catalog extent "xii, 314 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0802042201 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0802083722 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada Civilization 1945- Foreign influences.".
- catalog spatial "Canada Foreign economic relations.".
- catalog subject "971.064/8 21".
- catalog subject "F1021.2 .W38 1998".
- catalog subject "Globalization.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Globalization. 1. Defining Moment. 2. The Globalization Hypothesis. 3. Four Hundred Years of Globalization. 4. Convergence? 5. Home Truths. 6. Are We There Yet? 7. Free to Choose -- pt. II. The Meaning of Canadian Life. 8. False Premise. 9. Governing Misperceptions. 10. The American 'Governmental Habit'. 11. T̀he Most Rugged Surviving Individualists'. 12. The American Lead. 13. Canadian Free Enterprise. 14. The Unimportance of Being Different. 15. Distinct Society? 16. Cement for a Nation? 17. The Rising Cost of Civilization. 18. The Psychic Costs of Government. 19. Virtually Canadian. 20. Do Countries Still Make Sense?".
- catalog title "Globalization and the meaning of Canadian life / William Watson.".
- catalog type "text".