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  • A Samaritan State Revisited

    Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid

    by Greg Donaghy, David Webster, David Black, Stephen Brown, Kevin Brushett, Jill Campbell-Miller, Ted Cogan, Sonya de Laat, Laura Macdonald0, Dominique Marshall1, Asa McKercher2, Nassisse Solomon3, Stefano Tijerina4, Ryan Touhey5 ...
    Series Book 10 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies Series
    A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideological and institutional origins of Canada's official development assistance in the 1950s and specific themes in its evolution and professionalization after 1960, this collection is the first to explore Canada's ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Canada First, Not Canada Alone

    A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

    by Adam Chapnick, Asa McKercher ...
    Three recent Canadian prime ministers, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, and Justin Trudeau made the same claim shortly after forming a government: “Canada is Back.” Martin promised to reinvest in world affairs. Harper was focused on the military. Trudeau meant more involvement at the UN. Each leader made foreign policy a part of their political brand because they recognized that in today's world, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Building a Special Relationship

    Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61

    by Asa McKercher, Michael D. Stevenson ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    Building a Special Relationship offers thoughtful insight into Canadian and American foreign relations during the 1950s, when Canada and the United States found new diplomatic footing as allies in the shadow of the Cold War. This book shows how the Eisenhower years were crucial in forming the bilateral relationship that currently exists between Canada and the United States. Under President ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Canada and the World since 1867

    by Dr Asa McKercher ...
    Series series New Approaches to International History
    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 ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Entangled Terrains and Identities in Cuba

    Memories of Guantánamo

    by Asa McKercher, Catherine Krull ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    Entangled Terrains and Identities in Cuba: Memories of Guantánamo explores the challenges and conflicts of life in the transnational spaces between Cuba and the United States by examining the lived experiences of Alberto Jones, a first-generation black Cuban who worked at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Asa McKercher and Catherine Krull take readers on a journey through Jones’s life as he ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Mike’s World

    Lester B. Pearson and Canadian External Affairs

    by Asa McKercher, Galen Roger Perras ...
    Although fifty years have passed since Lester Pearson stepped down as prime minister, he still influences debates about Canada’s role in the world. Known as “Mike” to his friends, he has been credited with charting a “Pearsonian” course in which Canada took on a global role as a helpful fixer seeking to mediate disputes and promote international cooperation.Mike’s World explores the myths ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Camelot and Canada

    Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era

    by Asa McKercher ...
    In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts proclaimed at the University of New Brunswick that "Canada and the United States have carefully maintained the good fences that help make them good neighbours." He could not have foreseen that his presidency would be marked not just by some of the tensest moments of the Cold War but also by the most contentious moments in the Canadian-American ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • North of America

    Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60

    Edited by Asa McKercher, Michael D. Stevenson ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    In 1941, influential US publishing magnate Henry Luce declared the world was in the midst of the first great American century, believing his nation held the power and vision to lead and transform the world. What did a newly outward-looking and hegemonic United States mean for its northern neighbour? North of America is a sharp-eyed volume providing a unique look at postwar Canada, bringing to the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Undiplomatic History

    The New Study of Canada and the World

    Edited by Asa McKercher, Philip Van Huizen ...
    Series Book 2 - Rethinking Canada in the World
    When the field of Canadian history underwent major shifts in the 1990s, international history became marginalized and the focus turned away from foreign affairs. Over the past decade, however, the study of Canada and the world has been revitalized.Undiplomatic History charts these changes, bringing together leading and emerging historians of Canadian international and transnational relations to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Undiplomatic History

    The New Study of Canada and the World

    Edited by Asa McKercher, Philip Van Huizen ...
    Series Book 2 - Rethinking Canada in the World
    When the field of Canadian history underwent major shifts in the 1990s, international history became marginalized and the focus turned away from foreign affairs. Over the past decade, however, the study of Canada and the world has been revitalized.Undiplomatic History charts these changes, bringing together leading and emerging historians of Canadian international and transnational relations to ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • While Canada Slept

    How We Lost Our Place in the World

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride?With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect to sit at the global table by virtue of our economic power without ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Just Watch Me

    The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

    by John English ...
    This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD