Canada and the Age of Conflict : Volume 1: 1867-1921 / C.P. Stacey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stacey, C.P., author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Captivity narratives--Western countries--History and criticism.

Captivity narratives.

Prisoners' writings--History and criticism.

Prisoners' writings.

Imprisonment--Western countries--History--19th century--Sources.

Imprisonment.

Subjectivity.

Canada.

Canada--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume begins his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world.The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity, begins at home. To this end Professor Stacey emphasizes how changing social, economic, and political conditions within Canada have dictated her reactions to external problems.Volume I begins at Confederation in 1867. It describes how an isolated self-governing colony whose external relations were controlled by the British Foreign Office was broken in upon by the menaces of the modern age of world conflict and under these pressures found itself assuming the status and powers of a nation state. The dramatic years of the First World War and the peace settlement are dealt with in detail, and Volume I ends with the advent of Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1921.The men who made Canadian policy are strongly depicted. There are pen portraits of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen, the influential civil servant Loring Christie, the young Mackenzie King, and many other Canadians, and of the statesmen abroad with whom they had to deal.

Contents:

Preface

The new "nation", 1867

Macdonald and the pursuit of national policies, 1867-1896

Laurier, nationalism, and imperialism

Laurier and the Americans, 1896-1909

External relations and the fall of Laurier

The first years of Borden, 1911-1914: a new direction

The world explodes, 1914-1916

Commonwealth and Anglo-Saxon alliance, 1917-1918

The peace and the League

Reaction from the heroic age, 1919-1920

Meighen, Christie, and two conferences, 1920-21

Appendix A. Canadian external trade

statistics of imports and exports, 1868-1921

Appendix B. Exports from Canada to the united kingdom and the United States

selected important commodities, 1887-1920.

Notes:

First published: Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1977-1981.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-261) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-5938-6

1-4426-2812-X

OCLC:

903440960