British North America and American Expansionism

Abstract

Reginald C. Stuart. United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. xvi + 374. Jane Errington. The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. Pp. x + 272. Martin Crawford. The Anglo-American Crisis of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Times and America, 1850-1862. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press. 1987. Pp. x + 178. Each of these three books attempts to revise to some degree the conventional views of Anglo-Canadian-American relations in the century from the 1770s to the 1870s. The first two books deal with broad issues of expansionism and national character, topics that have not been ignored by historians, while the third, more limited in scope, looks closely at that still sensitive topic of British public opinion about the United States in the Civil War era.