In recent years, a growing number of books have been written that consider the long- standing and often complex relationship between Canada and the United States. These volumes have ranged from more academic treatments, such as John McDougall’s Drifting Together: The Political Economy of Canada-U.S. Integration, to more popular accounts, such as Jeffrey Simpson’s Star-Spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American Dream or Michael Adams’s Fire and Ice: The United States and Canada and the Myth of Converging Values. In his new work, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, Reginald C. Stuart has made a significant contribution to this literature. This is a detailed and thoroughly researched monograph that will be of interest to both academics and the public at large. Professor Stuart draws on materials from many disciplines, including history, political science, economics and sociology. In addition, he...
Edward Grabb is a professor of sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His main areas of interest are in social inequality and comparative sociology, including comparisons of Canada and the United States. His books include Theories of Social Inequality: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Harcourt, 2007), Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005), co-authored with James Curtis, and Social Inequality in Canada: Patterns, Problems, Policies (Pearson, 2004), co-edited with James Curtis and Neil Guppy.
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