In Defence of Canada Volume II
Appeasement and Rearmament
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2018
- Category
- Canada, North America, General, General
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- ISBN
- 9781487596545
- Publish Date
- Dec 2018
- List Price
- $33.95
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Description
In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964). Like Volume I, Volume II rejects as outmoded and misleading the traditional division of national security policy into two compartments, one called foreign policy, the other, defence policy. Like Volume I, Volume II is meant to demonstrate that the military and diplomatic components of national security policy are, and ought to be, indissolubly combined, in study and analysis, as well as in formulation and execution. The emphasis in Volume II is mainly on the diplomatic: the tempo and importance of Canadian diplomacy steadily increase during the period with which it is concerned. That period opens with the Italian war aggression against Ethiopia in 1935. It closes in the late summer and early fall of 1940, as the twilight war becomes a total war.
About the author
James Eayrs is a former professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto and a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University. He received the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 1965 for the first two volumes of In Defence of Canada. Among his other books are The Art of the Possible and Diplomacy and its Discontents.
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The Art of the Possible
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From the Great War to the Great Depression
Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy
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In Defence of Canada Volume III
Peacemaking and Deterrence