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Canada´s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
Adam Chapnick
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Description for Canada´s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
Paperback. Canada s Voice is the first comprehensive biography of a diplomat and scholar who shaped foreign policy during Canada s golden age as a middle power. Num Pages: 384 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than diplomat and scholar John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation of students and scholars.
Canada’s Voice draws upon family letters, archival records, and more than 150 personal interviews to chronicle how Holmes influenced the way diplomats, scholars, and statespeople abroad viewed Canada and its citizens and how Canadians saw themselves on the world stage. Accessible and engrossing, this is ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774816724
SKU
V9780774816724
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99-1
About Adam Chapnick
Adam Chapnick is the deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College and an assistant professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. His previous book with UBC Press, The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations, was shortlisted for the 2005 Dafoe Book Prize.
Reviews for Canada´s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
It took one of the rising stars in the study of Canadian foreign policy – Adam Chapnick – to take on this task. The result is a tour de force.
Duane Bratt, Mount Royal University
Canadian Foreign Policy
Duane Bratt, Mount Royal University
Canadian Foreign Policy