Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century by MacMillan, Margaret (9780774809764)

Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century

by MacMillan, Margaret

Paperback - English

This book brings together recent and original work to illuminate comparisons and contrasts between two former colonies of the British empire. The contributors include some of the top names in history and political science, in Canada and Australia. Parties Long Estranged covers the entire 20th century and examines different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, military, constitutional, imperial, and diplomatic relations. The comparisons include Aboriginal rights, nation-building, middle powers, and attitudes towards the Empire.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0774809760

EAN

9780774809764

Publisher

UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Publication Date

01 Jul 2003

Pages

320

About Author

Margaret MacMillan is the author of "Women of the Raj "and "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World," which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, a Silver Medal for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. It was selected by the editors of "The New York Times" as one of the best books of 2002. Currently the provost of Trinity College and a professor of history at the University of Toronto, MacMillan takes up the position of warden of St. A