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Reviewed by Geoffrey Pearson
Northern Development: The Canadian Dilemma
Robert Page, professor of History/ Environmental Studies at Trent University, explores in his book one of the key characteristics that makes Canada what it is: its northernness, or ‘nordicity. The dilemma Page sees is in the dual attitude of Canadians toward the…
Monty the Field Marshal, 1944-1976
Hamilton’s third volume — Monty the Field Marshal 1944-1976 — is long (almost 1000 pages) and often filled with detail that could easily have been omitted. From the mass of data it is nonetheless possible to paint a fairly clear picture of…
Tug of War
Tug of War is the story of the campaign fought by the Canadian Army in September- October, 1944 in northern Belgium and the south-west corner of Holland. The virtue of the book is the reminder that the war in Europe after the…
A Life in Peace and War
For those Canadians who have been involved in the affairs and activities of the United Nations at any time, from its beginnings in 1945 until 1986, the name of Brian Urquhart has been known and respected as a model of what an…
The Great War in Africa
Early in this fine book, Farwell takes his readers to a London courtroom. “A witness spoke of a message [received from] Togoland. The judge comfortably enquired, Where is Togoland?’ ‘It is one of those places we have recently acquired my lord, ‘Cheap?’…
Beyond Forget
Forget (pronounced For-jay) is located south-east of Regina, nestled between the Manitoba and U.S. borders. Forget is one of those tiny prairie communities (population 88) that is fading gently into oblivion as if it were slowly being worn down by the harsh…
Saving China: Canadian Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom 1888–1959
The 600 Canadian Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries withdrawn from China after the People’s Republic was established in 1949 represented the largest Canadian activity overseas to that date, apart from the Canadian expeditionary forces overseas in the first and second world wars.…
Our Common Heritage
Gro Harlem Brundtland, chairperson of the Commission, captures the matter well in her forward. She and her 21 fellow commissioners were mandated by the U.N. General Assembly in 1983 to propose environmental strategies to achieve sustainable world development by the year 2000.…
The Norman Conundrum
Herbert Norman, missionary son, one time Communist, distinguished foreign service officer, important advisor to SCAP on Japanese constitutional reconstruction, and protégé of Lester Pearson, has become an object of Canadian attention 30 years after his death by suicide. Two recent books, one…
