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 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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.06
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0774809159 9780774851299
- LCCN
- F1034.2
- LCCN Item number
- C2796 2005eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (vi, 328 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521144 (OCoLC)70717893 (CaOOCEL)404066
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Table of Contents
- Canada and the End of Empire 1
- Edited by Phillip Buckner 3
- Canada and the End of Empire 3
- Contents 5
- Canada and the End of Empire 7
- Introduction 9
- Phillip Buckner 9
- Imperial Twilight or When Did the Empire End 23
- John Darwin 23
- Canadian Relations with the United Kingdom at the End of Empire 1956-73 33
- John Hilliker and Greg Donaghy 33
- Ready Aye Ready No More Canada Britain and the Suez Crisis in the Canadian Press 55
- José E. Igartua 55
- The Last Great Royal Tour Queen Elizabeths 1959 Tour to Canada 74
- Phillip Buckner 74
- An Objective of US Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic The United States and the End of Empire in Canada 102
- Gordon T. Stewart 102
- Britain Europe and Diefenbakers Trade Diversion Proposals 1957-58 125
- Tim Rooth 125
- Customs Valuations and Other Irritants The Continuing Decline of Anglo-Canadian Trade in the 1960s 141
- Bruce Muirhead 141
- Asleep at the Wheel British Motor Vehicle Exports to Canada 1945-75 159
- Steve Koerner 159
- Britain Europe and the Other Quiet Revolution in Canada 173
- Andrea Benvenuti and Stuart Ward 173
- Nostalgia and National Identity The History and Social Studies Curricula of Alberta and Ontario at the End of Empire 191
- George Richardson 191
- The Persistence of Britain The Culture Project in Postwar Canada 203
- Paul Rutherford 203
- From Guthrie to Greenberg Canadian High Culture and the End of Empire 214
- Allan Smith 214
- Ontarios Agenda in Post-Imperial Constitutional Negotiations 1949-68 224
- P.E. Bryden 224
- The Last Gasp of Empire The 1964 Flag Debate Revisited 240
- Gregory A. Johnson 240
- One Flag One Throne One Empire The IODE the Great Flag Debate and the End of Empire 259
- Lorraine Coops 259
- More Royal than Canadian The Royal Canadian Navys Search for Identity 1910-68 280
- Marc Milner 280
- Technology and Empire The Ideas of Harold A. Innis and George P. Grant 293
- R. Douglas Francis 293
- Petitioning the Great White Mother First Nations Organizations and Lobbying in London 307
- J.R. Jim Miller 307
- Contributors 327
- Index 329
