Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators: Canada's Imperial and Foreign Policies

✍ Scribed by Roy MacLaren

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 355
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

How Canada's longest-serving prime minister addressed the growing power of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy.

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 King's cautious eye and ultimately ineffective guiding hand.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
MACKENZIE KING IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Illustrations
1 The Beginnings of the Affair
2 Asian Apprenticeship
3 Leadership Manoeuvres
4 Chanak and All That
5 Canada at the League of Nations
6 The Advent of the Dictators: Mussolini
7 The Advent of the Dictators: Hitler
8 King and Abyssinia: The Muddle
9 King and Abyssinia: The Domestic Scene
10 King and Abyssinia: The End
11 Appeasement
12 A Berliner in Berlin
13 Appalling Mischief
14 The End of the Affair
15 A Good Bit of Wool
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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