| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Edward P. Kohn. This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895–1903. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2004. Pp. 254. $75.00.
Edward P. Kohn's book focuses on Canada-related aspects of the much-studied Anglo-American rapprochement of 1895–1903. Canada's role in the rapprochement gets attention; the way the rapprochement affected Canadian-American relations is considered; and the North American significance of the idea that the English-speaking peoples of the North Atlantic region were united by a common Anglo-Saxon heritage receives particularly close scrutiny.	1
Canada's role in the rapprochement was both diplomatic and ideological. Although Britain was formally in charge of Canada's foreign relations, British authorities had since the Treaty of Washington (1871) been consulting the dominion in areas in which it had an interest. They continued the practice in their end-of-the-century negotiations with the Americans, particularly over the difficult Alaska boundary issue, with the result that Canada had an important, albeit not determining, place in the outcome of those negotiations. Canada also participated in the shaping of the Anglo-Saxon idea. Seeing association with that idea as allowing identification with leading international actors, Canadians took up the task of articulating and broadcasting it with as much enthusiasm as the British and Americans.	. . .

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