Volume 37, Number 13 · August 16, 1990
The New Canadas
By J.M. Cameron
Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada
by Seymour Martin Lipset
Routledge, 337 pp., $29.95
North American Cultures: Values and Institutions in Canada and the United States
by Seymour Martin Lipset
Borderlands Monograph Series #3, 50 pp., $5.00
To pass from the United States to Canada or from Canada to the United States at any of the border crossings is certainly to enter a different world. But this is also true when one passes from Indiana to Kentucky, or Utah to Nevada; or, within Canada, from Ontario to the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (I set aside the special case of Quebec); or within the countries of Europe, from the Côte d'Or to Provence, or the canton of Geneva to the Valais, or from Tuscany to the old Kingdom of Naples, or from Castile to Catalonia. It was the perception of such differences, puzzling and troubling and stimulating, that seems to have suggested to Max Weber the hypothesis set out in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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