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Author: John Hagan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780674004719
ISBN 10: 067400471
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 31 May 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
There is much to admire in Northern Passage . For starters, Hagan's account of the Vietnam-era migration of young Americans to Canada makes important and original contributions to the study of social movements, the life-course, and the role of law in social change processes. Then there is the exemplary blend of qualitative and quantitative methods that enriches the study. Finally, there is the story itself and the light it sheds on one of the most important and dynamic chapters in the long and complicated relationship between the U.S. and Canada.--Doug McAdam, Stanford University, And Author Of freedom Summer
A searching (if at times somewhat turgid) and ultimately quite moving account of the draft exiles of the Vietnam War..It was the largest mass migration of Americans since the loyalists fled during the revolution: tens of thousands (perhaps more than 100,000) US citizens crossed the border to Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s to avoid military service in Vietnam. What sparked these actors to make so momentous a decision, and what (if anything) did it mean? Hagan himself went north, but he remained on the periphery of things in Alberta. Here, he concentrates on the Toronto community around Baldwin Street and the Amex war resisters' organization, interviewing activists to get a sense of their specific motivations (which ranged from a desire to flee a country that appeared to be unraveling as it ate its young to pointed acts of protest against the militarization of American life to a simple desire to live rather than die in a rice paddy). The author insists that this was not a ragtag army of losers and cowards, as many still perceive them, but a rational and responsible group of men who became the basis of a sustained antiwar movement and continuing social activism in a land that (luckily for them) was in the mood to assert its autonomy and sovereignty. Much of the story revolves around the amnesty issue, which most Americans erroneously think was settled by Jimmy Carter. Stylistically, Hagan's prose is a mixed bag, at times comfortable as an old jacket, then suffocating in the lint-choked language of social theory..Hagan shines some welcome light on a long-forgotten issue, which he is able to address as both participant and observer.. (Kirkus Reviews)
A searching...[and] quite moving account of the draft exiles of the Vietnam War...Perhaps more than 100,000 US citizens crossed the border to Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s to avoid military service in Vietnam. What sparked these actors to make so momentous a decision, and what (if anything) did it mean?...Hagan shines some welcome light on a long-forgotten issue, which he is able to address as both participant and observer.
Author Information
John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Toronto.
