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A stubble-jumper in striped pants : memoirs of a prairie diplomat / Earl G. Drake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drake, Earl, author.
- Series:
- Studies in gender and history.
- Studies in gender and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drake, Earl.
- Diplomats--Canada--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- Canada--Foreign relations--1945-.
- Canada.
- Canada--Foreign relations--Asia.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Livres numeriques.
- Biographies.
- e-books.
- Autobiography
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Humorous, sharply written, and frank, the events recounted in these recollections include a first-hand account of the growing depth and complexity of Canada?s postwar relations with Asia.
- Contents:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Prologue""; ""1 A Prairie Puritan from Saskatchewan""; ""2 A Neophyte at External: Ottawa, 1955 and 1959�1961""; ""3 Getting Hooked on the Foreign Service: Pakistan, 1956�1958""; ""4 A Dancing Leader: Prime Minister Suhrawardy of Pakistan""; ""5 Confrontation and Partisanship: Malaysia, 1961�1964""; ""6 An Avuncular Leader: Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia""; ""7 International Development: Ottawa, 1965�1968 and 1972�1975""; ""8 The Temptations of Paris: The OECD, 1968�1972""; ""9 The Mighty World Bank: Washington, 1975�1982""
- ""10 A Controversial Leader: McNamara of the World Bank""""11 The Poetic in the Midst of Reality: Indonesia, 1982�1983""; ""12 An Iconoclast in China: Beijing, 1987�1989""; ""13 Tiananmen Crisis: China, 1989�1990""; ""14 An Unloved Leader: Premier Li Peng of China""; ""Epilogue""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-7049-5
- 9786612037191
- 1-282-03719-6
- OCLC:
- 903421446
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