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Canada and
the End of Empire
Edited by Phillip Buckner
Canada and the End of
Empire looks at Canadian
diplomatic relations with
the United Kingdom and
the United States, the
Suez crisis, the changing
economic relationship with
Great Britain in the 1950s
and 1960s, the role of
educational and cultural
institutions in maintaining
the British connection, the
royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag
in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating
the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian
Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the
changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship.
Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view
the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective.
Canada and the End of Empire 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, this book will be of
interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to
scholars and students interested in the relationship
between colonialism and nationalism.
Contributors
Andrea Benvenuti and Stuart Ward; P.E. Bryden; Lorraine
Coops; John Darwin; R. Douglas Francis; John Hilliker and
Greg Donaghy; José E. Igartua; Gregory A. Johnson; Steve
Koerner; J.R. (Jim) Miller; Marc Milner; Bruce Muirhead;
George Richardson; Tim Rooth; Paul Rutherford; Allan Smith;
and Gordon T. Stewart
2004, 334 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0915-9 / 978-0-7748-0915-3 cloth $85.00
0-7748-0916-7 / 978-0-7748-0916-0 paper $32.95
Canada and
the British World
Culture, Migration, and Identity
Edited by Phillip Buckner and
R. Douglas Francis
In the decades following
the Second World War,
a revolutionary change
took place in the Canadian
national identity. The
English-Canadian majority
entered this period identifying
themselves as British
and emerged from it with
a new, independent sense
of themselves as purely
Canadian. Assured of their
unique place in the world, Canadians can now reflect
on the legacies and lessons of their British colonial
past.
Canada and the British World surveys Canada’s
national history through a British lens. In a series of
essays focusing on the social, cultural, and intellectual
aspects of Canadian identity over more than a century,
the complex and evolving relationship between
Canada and the larger British World is revealed.
Examining the transition from the strong belief of
nineteenth-century Canadians in the British character
of their country to the realities of modern multicultural
Canada, this book eschews nostalgia in its endeavour
to understand the dynamic and complicated society in
which Canadians did and do live.
Candid and ambitious, Canada and the British World
is recommended reading for historians and scholars
of colonialism and nationalism, as well as anyone
interested in what it really means to be Canadian.
2006, 352 pages, 6 x 9”
1 table
0-7748-1305-9 / 978-0-7748-1305-1 cloth $85.00
0-7748-1306-7 / 978-0-7748-1306-8 paper $34.95
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