Parties long estranged [electronic resource] : Canada and Australia in the twentieth century / edited by Margaret MacMillan and Francine McKenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacMillan, Margaret, 1943-

McKenzie, Francine, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Canada--Foreign relations--Australia.

Canada.

Australia--Foreign relations--Canada.

Australia.

Australia--Foreign relations--1900-1945.

Canada--Foreign relations--1945-.

Australia--Foreign relations--1945-.

Canada--Relations--Australia.

Australia--Relations--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together recent and original work to illuminate comparisons and contrasts between two former colonies of the British empire. The contributors include some of the top names in history and political science, in Canada and Australia. Parties Long Estranged covers the entire 20th century and examines different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, military, constitutional, imperial, and diplomatic relations. The comparisons include Aboriginal rights, nation-building, middle powers, and attitudes towards the Empire. This timely volume is well situated in the field of comparative studies, a new and growing area of study. It will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign affairs, the British commonwealth and its dismantling, constitutional history, and international relations.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Parties Long Estranged; Introduction; Part 1: Decolonization and Nation Building; 1 Sibling Rivalry: Australia and Canada from the Boer War to the Great War; 2 Coming of Age: Independence and Foreign Policy in Canada and Australia, 1931- 45; 3 Colonization of Indigenous Peoples: The Movement toward New Relationships; Part 2: Rivals, Allies, and Models; 4 Australia and Canada in the World of International Commercial Aviation; 5 "She Should Have Thought of Herself First": Canada and Military Aid to Australia, 1939- 45

6 In the Wake of Canada: Australia's Middle- Power Diplomacy and the Attempt to Join the Atomic Special Relationship, 1943- 577 Governments and Defectors: Responses to the Defections of Gouzenko in Canada and Petrov in Australia; 8 Diplomacy in Easy Chairs: Casey, Pearson, and Australian-Canadian Relations, 1951- 7; 9 The Limits of Like-Mindedness: Australia, Canada, and Multilateral Trade; 10 Keeping in Touch: Patterns of Networking in the Canadian-Australian Diplomatic Relationship; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12989-2

9786613129895

0-7748-5047-7

OCLC:

923440740