American national security and economic relations with Canada, 1945-1954
Title:
American national security and economic relations with Canada, 1945-1954
Author:
Aronsen, Lawrence, 1948-
ISBN:
9780313388231
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 212 p.) : maps.
Series:
Praeger studies in diplomacy and strategic thought,
Praeger studies in diplomacy and strategic thought.
Contents:
Maps and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The "Special Relationship" with Canada; Chapter One: Approaches to Canadian-American Economic Relations; Chapter Two: The State Department, Congress, and Trade Relations with Canada, 1945-1949; Chapter Three: Continental Industrial Mobilization Planning and Production, 1947-1953; Chapter Four: A "Have Not Nation": American National Security and Canadian Strategic Materials, 1947-1953; Chapter Five: The Continental Integration of Transportation: American National Security and the St. Lawrence Seaway Issue, 1945-1954
Abstract:
Aronsen draws on recently declassified documents in Ottawa and Washington to provide a reassessment of Canada's special relationship with the U.S. Toward this end, detailed new information is provided about Canada's contribution to the creation of the postwar economic order from the Bretton Woods Agreement to GATT. Canada's cooperation was rewarded by special economic concessions including the extension of the Hyde Park agreement in 1945, the inclusion of the off-shore purchases clause to the Marshall Plan, and Article II of the NATO Treaty. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Canada's resou.
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