Main entry:

Price, John, 1950-

Title & Author:

Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the transpacific / John Price.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.

Description:

xiv, 445 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Race, empire, and war. Prologue to war : migration, race, and empire -- China and the clash of empires -- December 1941 and World War -- Hiroshima and war's end -- Shades of liberation -- Boundaries of race and democracy -- Elusive justice : Canada and the Tokyo tribunal.
pt. 2. Pax Americana. Race, anti-communism, and Asia -- Mr. Kennan comes to Ottawa -- Canada, Asia, and "Pax Americana" -- America's prestige, Korea's War -- The San Francisco Peace Treaty and re-militarization of the transpacific -- Racism, war crimes, and the Korean war -- Vietnam : departures in Canadian foreign policy.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy. Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, including Vancouver's riots of 1907, the Chinese head tax, the wars in the pacific from 1937 to 1945, the internment of Japanese-Canadians, and Canada's early intervention in Vietnam. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada's European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle."--P. 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780774819831 (bound ; alk.)
0774819839 (bound ; alk.)
9780774819848 (pbk.)
0774819847 (pbk.)

Subject:

Imperialism History 20th century.
Asie Relations raciales Histoire 20e siècle.
Impérialisme Histoire 20e siècle.
Diplomatic relations.
Imperialism.
Race relations.
Canada Foreign relations Pacific Area.
Pacific Area Foreign relations Canada.
Canada Foreign relations Asia.
Asia Foreign relations Canada.
Canada Race relations History 20th century.
Asia Race relations History 20th century.
Canada History, Military 20th century.
Canada Relations extérieures Pacifique, Région du.
Pacifique, Région du Relations extérieures Canada.
Canada Relations extérieures Asie.
Asie Relations extérieures Canada.
Canada Relations raciales Histoire 20e siècle.
Canada Histoire militaire 20e siècle.
Asia.
Canada.
Pacific Area.

Form/genre:

History.
Military history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 274871
Call No.: BIB 208742
Status: Available