Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Commonwealth Caribbean has had ties with Canada stretching back into the eighteenth century colonial system. Yet it, like Latin America, to which it is now more bureaucratically linked, has remained less attractive to the aspiring Foreign Service Officer than have other…
Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians
The literature on Italian-Canadians — not unlike that on many other ethnocultural minorities — has undergone in recent decades an important transition. At its early stage it was dominated by the filiopietistic genre — a type of writing that celebrates the past…
Cairo in the War — 1939-1945
Artemis Cooper, married to the writer Antony Beevor, is the grand-daughter of Duff and Diana Cooper. Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount of Norwich, was Minister of Information in Churchill’s cabinet from 1940-42 and British Ambassador to France from 1944 to 1947.…
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives
Its title notwithstanding, this book is not an encyclopedia in the conventional sense, but rather a reference work produced in a manner that will be familiar to readers of, for example, the New Cambridge Modern History. That is, it is a collection…
Daylight Upon Magic: The Royal Tour of Canada — 1939
The title of this absorbing book comes from Walter Bagehot who, a century and a quarter ago, was gently warning his mid-Victorian contemporaries, a propos of the reverential mystique of the monarchy, “we must not let in daylight upon magic”.
Sovereignty or Security: Government Policy in the Canadian North, 1936-1950
This book has been eagerly awaited since 1982 when Ms. Grant first presented her views in a paper entitled The Northern Nationalists: Crusaders and Supporters of a ‘New North’: 1940-1950. Without trying to be condescending, this is a competent book and one…
Pressure: How America Runs NATO
Who really runs NATO? That is the question that Dan Smith, associate director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, addresses in his book Pressure: How America Runs NATO. Smith’s argument is a more subtle variation of the conspiracy theories one finds in…
Second World War; Struggle for Survival; On Guard for Thee; A Nation Forged in Fire; Wartime
The Second World War has retained its fascination for readers, authors and publishers alike, as the plethora of volumes to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its formal beginning amply indicated. That interest is certainly understandable. Its imagery, vocabulary, characters and events are…
The Domestic Battleground: Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In The Domestic Battleground, David Taras and David Goldberg set out to awaken “the reader to the high stakes that Canadians have in the Middle East conflict and to the importance of the domestic battleground in influencing the policies Canada will pursue”.…
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Chia Chen and Chia Jung were imprisoned in the Prefecture of Chin-yi while the Ning Mansion was confiscated, together with all effects and clothing.
