Canada and the World since 1867

Dr Asa McKercher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-03677-2 (ISBN)

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This book is a history of Canada’s role in the world as well as the impact of world events on Canada. Starting from the country’s quasi-independence from Britain in 1867, its analysis moves through events in Canadian and global history to the present day. Looking at Canada’s international relations from the perspective of elite actors and normal people alike, this study draws on original research and the latest work on Canadian international and transnational history to examine Canadians’ involvement with a diverse mix of issues, from trade and aid, to war and peace, to human rights and migration.

The book traces four inter-connected themes: independence and growing estrangement from Britain; the longstanding and ongoing tensions created by ever-closer relations with the United States; the huge movement of people from around the world into Canada; and the often overlooked but significant range of Canadian contacts with the non-Western world. With an emphasis on the reciprocal nature of Canada’s involvement in world affairs, ultimately it is the first work to blend international and transnational approaches to the history of Canadian international relations.

Asa McKercher is Assistant Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada. He has held research fellowships at the University of Oxford, UK, Queen’s University, Canada and Boston University, USA. In addition to over a dozen articles in major academic journals, he is the author of Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era (2016).

Introduction: Canada and the World
1. A Colonial Sort of Country: Canada and the British World
2. Canada’s Century?: Expansion, Migration, and Colonialism
3. From Colony to Nation: The Great War and Its Legacy
4. A Time of Hope and Fear: Canadians and the Interwar Crises
5. Coming of Age: Canada’s Second World War
6. A Brave New World: Canada and the Postwar Order
7. A Middle Power: Canadians Confront the Cold War
8. New Options, New Directions: The Trudeau Years
9. The Global in the Local: Canada in the Long 1970s
10. Canada and the Age of American Primacy
11. A Global Country: Canada and Globalization
Epilogue: Toward a Multipolar World
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	New Approaches to International History
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-350-03677-3 / 1350036773
ISBN-13	978-1-350-03677-2 / 9781350036772
Zustand	Neuware