Canada and the End of Empire
Phillip Alfred Buckner
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. |
Contents
Introduction
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1 |
Imperial Twilight or When Did the Empire End?
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15 |
Canadian Relations with the United Kingdom at the End of Empire 195673
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25 |
Ready Aye Ready No More? Canada Britain and the Suez Crisis in the Canadian Press
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47 |
The Last Great Royal Tour Queen Elizabeths 1959 Tour to Canada
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66 |
An Objective of US Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic The United States and the End of Empire in Canada
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94 |
Britain Europe and Diefenbakers Trade Diversion Proposals 195758
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117 |
Customs Valuations and Other Irritants The Continuing Decline of AngloCanadian Trade in the 1960s
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133 |
The Persistence of Britain The Culture Project in Postwar Canada
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195 |
From Guthrie to Greenberg Canadian High Culture and the End of Empire
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206 |
Ontarios Agenda in PostImperial Constitutional Negotiations 194968
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216 |
The Last Gasp of Empire The 1964 Flag Debate Revisited
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232 |
One Flag One Throne One Empire The IODE the Great Flag Debate and the End of Empire
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251 |
More Royal than Canadian? The Royal Canadian Navys Search for Identity 191068
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272 |
Technology and Empire The Ideas of Harold A Innis and George P Grant
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285 |
Petitioning the Great White Mother First Nations Organizations and Lobbying in London
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299 |