Harrison and Blaine
No Reciprocity for Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allan B Spetter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-156 |
| Publication date | 1981-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-012-02-01 |
| OpenAlex | W2048373655 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In four short years, 1889-93, President Benjamin Harrison and Secretary of State James G. Blaine launched the most ambitious program of commercial reciprocity of the late nineteenth century. The effort centered on the rec- iprocity amendment attached to the McKinley Tariff of 1890 as part of a comprehensive attempt to strengthen ties with all the nations of the hemis- phere-except Canada. The legendary Blaine indeed made the struggle to establish commercial reciprocity "the last great political effort of his career...Yet he also fought for a "hemispheric system based on peaceful intercourse, arbitral procedures for the settlement of disputes, and con- ferences that would deal with general inter-American issues." He had the unqualified commitment of Harrison, "the first President since the Civil War who fully recognized the need to coordinate the strategic, diplomatic, and economic factors of [foreign] policy."1 But Harrison and Blaine had separate plans for Canada. As long as Canada remained part of the British Empire, the two statesmen could not integrate it into a hemisphere dominated by the United States
Economic history · Empire · Political science · Politics · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |