Through interviews with politicians, journalists, and academics, Bothwell (history, U. of Toronto) investigates how the two bodies came to the current crisis and what directions might be possible. The
Alliance and Illusion is the definitive assessment of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era. A nuanced study of Canada's political leaders and the international influences that have driven externa
Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and
Noted Canadian historian Bothwell examines the country's foreign relations from the transmutation of World War II into the Cold War to the end of the Trudeau era. They have of course been shaped by th
An uneasy and difficult country, most of Canada's space is uninhabited, and much uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge North but with most of its population in the South, hugging the American bor
On 16 May 1930, Gilbert LaBine ddiscovered pitchblende near the shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. This is the story of Eldorado and the mine whose discovery marked the beginning
Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and u
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award established Canada’s reputation as a peacekeeping nation, but it als
Carroll (military and strategic studies, U. of Calgary) tells the behind the scenes story of Canadian statesman Lester Pearson (1897-1972) and his efforts to tame what had become an anarchic United Na
Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and contentious survey, Robert Bothwell, lan Dr
From 1942 to 1944 fifteen German submarines carried out extended combat missions in the St. Lawrence. They destroyed or severely damaged 27 ships, including three Canadian warships, a U.S. Army troop
