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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J.L. GranatsteinPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781487549831ISBN 10: 1487549830 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 06 May 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Permissions Introduction Section 1: Canada and the United States 1. Getting on with the Americans: Changing Canadian Perceptions of the United States, 1939–1945 2. Canada and the Marshall Plan, June–December 1947 3. The Rise and Fall of Canadian–American Free Trade, 1947–1948 4. Too Close for Comfort: John Diefenbaker and the Political Uses of Anti-Americanism 5. When Push Came to Shove: Canada and the United States 6. A Friendly Agreement in Advance: Canada-US Defence Relations Past, Present, and Future Section 2: Canada and Britain 7. The Anglocentrism of Canadian Diplomacy 8. Dealing with London 9. How Britain’s Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States 10. From Mother Country to Far-Away Relative: The Canadian-British Military Relationship from 1945 Section 3: Canada in the World 11. Canada as an Ally: Always Difficult, Always Divided 12. When the Department of External Affairs Mattered – And When It Shouldn’t Have 13. Peacekeeping Is Our Profession? 14. Peacekeeping: Did Canada Make a Difference? And What Difference Did Peacekeeping Make to Canada? 15. What’s Wrong with Peacekeeping? 16. War and Peacekeeping in the Canadian Psyche 17. Changing Alliances: Canada and the Soviet Union, 1939–1945 18. From Gouzenko to Gorbachev: Canada’s Cold War 19. Multiculturalism and Canadian Foreign Policy 20. Can Canada Have a Grand Strategy?Reviews"""If you want to know how Canada found and sometimes lost its way in the world, begin with this book. Granatstein has long been the leading interpreter of Canadian foreign and defence policy. He is a scholar who makes his words count, and you'll discover that the pages almost turn themselves.""--Norman Hillmer, Chancellor's Professor of History and International Affairs, Carleton University ""These lively essays, written over the course of a lifetime, showcase Granatstein at his best: they are deeply researched, full of insights, and trenchant in the way that both his friends and his enemies expect.""--P.E. Bryden, Professor of History, University of Victoria ""These essays show why Granatstein is Canada's best-known historian. They also show that we must know our national history not only to understand how we became the people we are but to know what national story we want to build in the future.""--Raymond B. Blake, Professor of History, University of Regina, and Fellow, Royal Society of Canada ""In Friends and Enemies we have an invaluable distillation of the key research of Canada's doyen of national security history.--Randall Wakelam, FRHS, Associate Professor Emeritus of History, Royal Military College of Canada" Author InformationJ.L. Granatstein is the former director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum and a distinguished research professor emeritus of history. He is an award-winning author of more than sixty books on Canadian political and military history, the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, and an Officer of the Order of Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |