Review: Canada: Canada since
| Date | 01 March 1991 |
| Author | M.J. Tucker |
| Published date | 01 March 1991 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209104600116 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/CANADA
197
CANADA
CANADA
SIN(:E
1945
Power,
politics,
and
provincialism
Robert
Bothwell,
Ian
Drummond,
John
English
Toronto:
University
of
Toronto
Press,
revised
edition
1989,
xii,
5o8pp,
$40.00
cloth,
$19.95
paper
Canada
since
1945
is
not
imperative
reading
for
students
and
prac-
titioners
of
Canadian
foreign
policy.
But
it
is
erudite
and
eminently
readable and
makes
an
important
contribution
to
this
field.
The
sub-title
notwithstanding,
this
is
a
history
of
post-
1945
Canada
in
virtually
all
of
its
dimensions.
Wisely,
therefore,
the
organizational
framework
for this
ambitious
undertaking
is
chronological.
Part one
provides
a
succinct
overview
of
the
'patterns
of
change'
in
post-
1945
Canada
and
its
external
environment.
Parts
two
through
five
focus
sequentially
on
'the
era
of
Mackenzie
King,'
the
St
Laurent
years,
the
Diefenbaker
years,
and
the
Pearson
years.
And
part
six
of
this
revised
edition
takes
readers
'into
the
seventies
and
beyond.'
Woven
into
each
of
these
discrete
sections,
however,
are
rich
and
varied
chapters
on
Canada's
economy,
society,
culture,
politics,
and
foreign
policy.
Those
on
foreign
policy
are
illuminating
in
their
own
right.
By
setting
these
chapters
within
the
broader
context
of
a
study
of
Canadian
politics
and
society,
Bothwell,
Drummond,
and
English
relay
an
intimate
and
lively
sense
of
the
domestic
side
to
Canada's
post-i1945
external
rela-
tions.
When dealing
with
foreign
policy,
the
authors
are
at
their
best
in
the
pre-198o
period.
It
may
well
be
that
in
post-1945
Canada
'histori-
ans
were
probably
the
most
productive
scholars'
(p
157),
but
this
history
of
Canada
is
rather
lean
on
post-198o foreign
policy
develop-
ments.
Canada's
anxieties
and
initiatives
over
the
East-West
detente
and
arms control,
the
Commonwealth
and
la
Francophonie are,
for
instance,
all
too briefly
alluded
to.
And,
in
a
world
of
emerging
trading
blocs,
readers
are
left
uncertain
about
whether
Canada's
developing
economic
relationship
with
the
United
States
under
the
free
trade
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