Canada and the World since 1867

Asa McKercher is Assistant Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada. He has held research fellowships at the University of Oxford, UK, Queen’s University, Canada and Boston University, USA. In addition to over a dozen articles in major academic journals, he is the author of Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era (2016).

• Introduction: Canada and the World1. A Colonial Sort of Country: Canada and the British World2. Canada’s Century?: Expansion, Migration, and Colonialism3. From Colony to Nation: The Great War and Its Legacy4. A Time of Hope and Fear: Canadians and the Interwar Crises5. Coming of Age: Canada’s Second World War 6. A Brave New World: Canada and the Postwar Order7. A Middle Power: Canadians Confront the Cold War8. New Options, New Directions: The Trudeau Years9. The Global in the Local: Canada in the Long 1970s10. Canada and the Age of American Primacy11. A Global Country: Canada and GlobalizationEpilogue: Toward a Multipolar WorldNotesBibliographyIndex

Asa McKercher has written a very contemporary history of Canada's place in the world for a 21st century readership. The contentious issues of imperialism and colonialism lie at the heart of this thought-provoking text - not least the paradox of the Canadian self-image as a peace-loving, anti-colonial nation, and the reality of the treatment of its own indigenous peoples. The author adopts a wide-ranging and multi-dimensional approach to Canada's international history that should be welcomed by Canadians and non-Canadians alike.