Northern passage : American Vietnam War resisters in Canada /

More than 50,000 draft-age American men and women migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War, the largest political exodus from the United States since the American Revolution. How are we to understand this migration three decades later? Was their action simply a marginal, highly individualized spin-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hagan, John, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001
Cambridge, MA : c2001
Cambridge, Mass. : 2001
Cambridge, MA : 2001
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: First Snow
  • 1 Laws of Resistance
  • 2. Opening the Gates
  • 3. Toronto's American Ghetto
  • 4. Activism by Exile
  • 5. Two Amnesties and a Jailing
  • 6. Choosing Canada.
  • Preface: First Snow
  • Laws of Resistance
  • Opening the Gates
  • Toronto's American Ghetto
  • Activism by Exile
  • Two Amnesties and a Jailing
  • Choosing Canada
  • Preface: First Snow ix
  • 1 Laws of Resistance 1
  • 2 Opening the Gates 34
  • 3 Toronto's American Ghetto 66
  • 4 Activism by Exile 99
  • 5 Two Amnesties and a Jailing 138
  • 6 Choosing Canada 180