The Indian Ideology
The Indian Ideology is a slim volume by Perry Anderson, the eminent British neo- Marxist historian. It caused a firestorm in academe when first published (as three essays in the London Review of Books). Collected and published in 2014 by Verso, it…
How The English Establishment Framed Stephen Ward
Authors Caroline Kennedy and Phillip Knightley have penned a compellingly well-written account of how the “swinging” London of the 1960s was also sometimes a lynching London. Their topic is of twin and interrelated scandals: the political sex and security scandal best known…
Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan
When Balwant Bhaneja retired from the Canadian Foreign Service he bravely undertook a solo voyage to Pakistan where his parents had lived to adulthood, about which he only had some vague childhood recollections and where he had no known relatives. This slim…
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now, Our War in Afghanistan
Canada, 2013, 298 pp., $32.99 CDN.
Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
The term “cyberspace” was coined by the Vancouver science-fiction writer William Gibson. In his 1984 novel Neuromancer, he defined it as “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions…” This prescient metaphor has become a household term in a world increasingly engaged in…
Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars
In this carefully researched and clearly written volume, award-winning military historian Dr. Tim Cook of the Canadian War Museum steps well back from the front lines with a comparative study of how Canada’s unwarlike prime ministers dealt with the national strains and…
Finding JAPAN: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia
Canada’s fascination with Japan, and Asia generally, seems to come back into fashion every generation or so. We are currently going through another of those surges of interest as a result of trade and diplomatic initiatives. A trade agreement with Japan is…
Volcano Rising: An Ambassador’s Diary
VOLCANO RISING: AN AMBASSADOR’S DIARY, by John Kneale, to be published Spring 2013; Baico Publishing and Bookstore, 2012, 320 pp, $22.95. Available at www baico ca, [email protected] and chapters.ca
Demystifying Food from Farm to Fork
Reviewed by Richard Kohler
Henry Kissinger On China
Henry Kissinger needs no introduction. For the past sixty years his has been the voice of foreign policy par excellence, at the perihelion of momentous events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. At 89 his views remain central to…
