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Canada and the end of empire

"Canada and the End of Empire deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history - the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolorization and the end of empire - particularly during the period of rapid disengagement in the 1950s and 60s." "Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to look at the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. This book challenges this view and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadian historiography. An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies and imperial history, Canada and the End of Empire will be of interest to historians of the commonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in the relationship between colonialism and nationalism."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
UBC Press, Vancouver, ©2005
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780774809153, 9780774809160, 0774809159, 0774809167
56752164
Introduction / Phillip Buckner1 Imperial Twilight, or When Did the Empire End? / John Darwin2 Canadian Relations with the United Kingdom at the End of Empire, 1956-73 / John Hilliker and Greg Donaghy3 “Ready, Aye Ready” No More? Canada, Britain, and the Suez Crisis in the Canadian Press / José E. Igartua4 The Last Great Royal Tour: Queen Elizabeth’s 1959 Tour to Canada / Phillip Buckner5 “An Objective of U.S. Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic”: The United States and the End of Empire in Canada / Gordon T. Stewart6 Britain, Europe, and Diefenbaker’s Trade Diversion Proposals, 1957-58 / Tim Rooth7 Customs Valuations and Other Irritants: The Continuing Decline of Anglo-Canadian Trade in the 1960s / Bruce Muirhead8 Asleep at the Wheel?: British Motor Vehicle Exports to Canada, 1945-75 / Steve Koerner9 Britain, Europe, and the “Other Quiet Revolution” in Canada / Andrea Benvenuti and Stuart Ward10 Nostalgia and National Identity: The History and Social Studies Curriculum of Alberta and Ontario at the End of Empire / George Richardson11 The Persistence of Britain: The Culture Project in Post-War Canada / Paul Rutherford12 From Guthrie to Greenberg: Canadian High Culture and the End of Empire / Allan Smith13 Ontario’s Agenda in Post-Imperial Negotiations, 1949-68 / P.E. Bryden14 The Last Gasp of Empire: The 1964 Flag Debate Revisited / Gregory A. Johnson15 “One Flag, One Throne, One Empire”: the IODE, the Great Flag Debate, and the End of Empire / Lorraine Coops16 More Royal than Canadian?: The Royal Canadian Navy’s Search for Identity, 1910-68 / Marc Milner17 Technology and Empire: The Ideas of Harold Innis and George P. Grant / R. Douglas Francis18 Petitioning the Great White Mother: First Nations’ Organizations and Lobbying in London / J.R. (Jim) MillerContributorsIndex