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Canada and the End of Empire

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Description for Canada and the End of Empire Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Buckner, Phillip A. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1QDB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTQ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.

Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in “a fit of absence of mind.” Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. 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.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774809160
SKU
V9780774809160
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Phillip A. Buckner
Phillip Buckner is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Brunswick and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.

Reviews for Canada and the End of Empire
This timely collection consists of a comprehensice introduction and eighteen impressive chapters that rally around the theme of identifying, examining, and explaining Canada’s devolution from the British Empire. A strength of this collection is that it self-consciously reveals the politics of writing history, potentially reopening old wounds and inflicting fresh ones. Buckner has marshalled a relevant and knowledgeable group of ... Read more

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