Roy MacLaren Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators: Canada`s Imperial and Foreign Policies 9780773557147

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Автор: Roy MacLaren
Название: Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators: Canada`s Imperial and Foreign Policies
ISBN: 9780773557147
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История от древнейших времён до сегодняшнего дня

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

ISBN-10: 0773557148
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 360
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 15.05.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 23 b&w photos
Размер: 167 x 236 x 27
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,History: earliest times to present day, HISTORY / General,HISTORY / Canada / General,HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
Подзаголовок: Canada`s imperial and foreign policies
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and regarding Hitler as a benign fellow mystic. In Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators Roy MacLaren leads readers through the political labyrinth that led to Canadas involvement in the Second World War and its awakening as a forceful nation on the world stage. Prime Minister Kings fascination with foreign affairs extended from helping President Theodore Roosevelt exclude little yellow men from North America in 1908 to his conviction that appeasement of Hitler and Mussolini should be the cornerstone of Canadas foreign and imperial policies in the 1930s. If war could be avoided, King thought, national unity could be preserved. MacLaren draws extensively from Kings diaries and letters and contemporary sources from Britain, the United States, and Canada to describe how King strove to reconcile French Canadian isolationism with English Canadians commitment to the British Commonwealth. King, MacLaren explains, was convinced by the controversies of the First World War that another such conflagration would be disruptive to Canada. When King finally had to recognize that the Liberals electoral fortunes depended on English Canada having greater voting power than French Canada, he did not reflect on whether a higher morality and intellectual integrity should transcend his anxieties about national unity. A focused view of an important period in Canadian history, replete with insightful stories, vignettes, and anecdotes, Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators shows Canada flexing its foreign policy under Kings cautious eye and ultimately ineffective guiding hand.
Дополнительное описание: History of the Americas|History|General and world history

Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators: Canada`s Imperial and Foreign Policies, Roy MacLaren