Parties Long Estranged

Margaret MacMillan is Provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto, and the author of Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, among many other publications. Francine McKenzie teaches history at the University of Western Ontario and is the author of Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth 1939-1948: The Politics of Preference.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Francine McKenzie and Margaret MacMillanPart 1: Decolonization and Nation Building1 Sibling Rivalry: Australia and Canada from the Boer War to the Great War / Margaret MacMillan2 Coming of Age: Independence and Foreign Policy in Canada and Australia, 1931-45 / Francine McKenzie3 Colonization of Indigenous Peoples: The Movement toward a New Relationship / Peter RussellPart 2: Rivals, Allies, and Models4 Australia and Canada in the World of International Commercial Aviation / David MacKenzie5 "She Should Have Thought of Herself First": Canada and Military Aid to Australia, 1939-45 / Galen Perras6 In the Wake of Canada: Australia's Middle Power Diplomacy and the Attempt to Join the Atomic Special Relationship, 1943-57 / Wayne Reynolds7 Governments and Defectors: Responses to the Defections of Gouzenko in Canada and Petrov in Australia / Frank Cain8 Diplomacy in Easy Chairs: Casey, Pearson, and Australian-Canadian Relations, 1951-7 / Christopher Waters9 The Limits of Like-Mindedness: Australia, Canada, and Multilateral Trade / Ann Capling and Kim Richard Nossal10 Keeping in Touch: Patterns of Networking in the Canadian-Australian Diplomatic Relationship / Andrew F. CooperConclusion / Francine McKenzie and Margaret MacMillanSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

What this book offers is a wealth of detail on an interesting choice of subjects. The research is sound, the interpretations are thoughtful, and the writing is clear and sometimes elegant ... a major contribution to our understanding of how two communities with much in common have endeavoured to overcome the powerful forces keeping them apart. - John Hilliker (International Journal, Summer 2003) The backgrounds and interests of the coeditors reveal a great deal about the core focus. The writing skills and knowledge of diplomatic history of Margaret MacMillan, author of the widely acclaimed Paris 1919, are often in evidence. Her particular interest in the period surrounding the First World War is complemented by Francine McKenzie's grounding in the interwar years ... Scholars are indebted to MacMillan, McKenzie, and the other contributors to this volume for assessing the twentieth-century background so carefully. - Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05)