Silent surrender : the multinational corporation in Canada / Kari Levitt ; new introduction by the author ; new foreword by Mel Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitt, Kari.

Series:

Carleton library series ; 196.

Carleton library series ; 196

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations, American--Canada.

Corporations, American.

Corporations, Foreign--Canada.

Corporations, Foreign.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 193 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1970, Silent Surrender helped educate a generation of students about Canadian political economy. Kari Levitt details the historical background of foreign investments in Canada, their acceleration since World War II, and the nature of intrusions by multinational corporations into a sovereign state. Silent Surrender was prophetic in predicting that the ultimate consequence of relinquishing control of the Canadian economy to United States business interests would be political disintegration through the balkanization of the country and its eventual piecemeal absorption into the American imperial system. Republished with a new preface by noted scholar Mel Watkins and a postscript by the author, Silent Surrender's basic argument and underlying economic analysis remain remarkably fresh, particularly the question of whether cultural integration into continental American life has proceeded to a point where Canada is no longer a meaningful national community.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Tables

Foreword to the Carleton Library Series Edition

Foreword to the First Edition

Introduction to the Carleton Library Series Edition

Introduction to the First Edition

The Recolonization of Canada

The Old Mercantilism and the New

The Rise of the Nation State

Regression to Dependence

Who Decides?

Metropolis and Hinterland

The Harvest of Lengthening Dependence

Appendix

Index

Notes:

First ed. published: Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1970.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86017-8

9786612860171

0-7735-6987-1

OCLC:

923230218