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Secret service : political policing in Canada : from the Fenians to fortress America / Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, and Andrew Parnaby.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitaker, Reginald, 1943- author.
- Kealey, Gregory S., 1948- author.
- Parnaby, Andrew, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secret service--Canada--History.
- Secret service.
- Intelligence service--Canada--History.
- Intelligence service.
- Police--Political aspects--Canada--History.
- Police.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (720 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Political Policing in Canada
- Part One: Origins
- 1 The Empire Strikes Back
- 2 'You Drive Us Hindus out of Canada and We Will Drive Every White Man out of India!'
- 3 A War on Two Fronts
- Part Two: Survival and Revival
- 4 The RCMP, the Communist Party, and the Consolidation of Canada's Cold War
- 5 'Redder Than Ever': Political Policing during the Great Depression
- 6 Keep the Home Fires Burning, 1939-45
- Part Three: Cold War Canada
- 7 The Ice Age: Mounties on the Cold War Front Line, 1945-69
- 8 The Coyote, the Roadrunner, and the Reds under the Bed: Communist Espionage and Subversion
- Part Four: Separatists, Scandals, and Reform
- 9 National Unity, National Security: The Quebec Conundrum, 1960-84
- 10 'I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going on in Here!': The Creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- 11 Old Wine into New Bottles: CSIS, 1984-2001
- Part Five: After the Twin Towers
- 12 After the Deluge: In the Shadow of the Twin Towers, 2001-11
- 13 No More Mr Nice Spy: CSIS and the Dark Side of the War on Terror
- Conclusion : Policing Canadian Democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6238-7
- 1-4426-6237-9
- OCLC:
- 811964374
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