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Item Details
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CANADA AND THE END OF EMPIRE
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| By: |
Phillip A. Buckner (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774809167 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774809160 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 June, 2005 |
| Pages: |
334 |
| Description: |
This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history -- the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire. |
| Synopsis: |
Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in"a fit of absence of mind." Whatever the truth of thiscomment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled insuch a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject inpost-Confederation Canadian history -- the implications to Canada andCanadians of British decolonization and the end of empire.Canada and the End of Empire looks at Canadian diplomaticrelations with the United Kingdom and the United States, the Suezcrisis, the changing economic relationship with Great Britain in the1950s and 1960s, the role of educational and cultural institutions inmaintaining the British connection, the royal tour of 1959, thedecision to adopt a new flag in 1964, the efforts to find a formula forrepatriating the constitution, the Canadianization of the RoyalCanadian Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the changed natureof the Anglo-Canadian relationship. Historians in Commonwealthcountries tend to view the end of British rule from a nationalistperspective. Canada and the End of Empire challenges this viewand demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadianhistoriography.An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies andimperial history, this book will be of interest to historians of theCommonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in therelationship between colonialism and nationalism. |
| Illustrations: |
5 b&w figures and tables |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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