Review: Witness to the Origins of the Cold War
| Date | 01 September 1984 |
| Published date | 01 September 1984 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070208403900314 |
| Author | Wesley T. Wooley |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Guides
and
bibliographies
on
Canada's foreign
relations
are
mostly
directed
to
the
study
of
twentieth-century
topics,
and
even
the
section
on foreign
and
defence
policy
in
the
Granatstein
and
Stevens
volume
2
covers
only
the
period
since
Confederation.
Since
so
much
of
Canada's
international
relations
in
the
earlier
period
also
involved
its
southern
neighbour,
the
Guide
has
a
special
usefulness
in
Canada.
Of
particular
interest
to
students
of
Canada's
foreign
relations
are
three
chapters:
'Colonial
and Imperial
Diplomacy
to
1774,'
'Canadian-
American
Boundary,
1783-1872,'
and
'Canadian-American
Relations
since
1941,'
the
last
edited
by
Robert
S.
Bothwell
of
the
University
of
Toronto.
The
editors
of
the
Guide
made
a
deliberate
decision
not
to
include
foreign-language
publications
except
as
judged
worthy
of
translation
into
English.
There
are
astonishingly
few
French-language
items
relating
to
Canada.
The
criteria
of
inclusion
and
exclusion
seem
clearer
for
materials
produced
by
historians
than
for
those
by
other
other
social
scientists.
It
would
have
been
convenient
to
have
the
number
of
pages
included
in
the
standard
information
about
mono-
graphs. Brief
annotations
inevitably
involve
apparently
cavalier
or
at
least
unsubstantiated
judgments.
None
of
the foregoing
com-
ments/quibbles
are
meant
to
detract
from
an
overall verdict
of
'well
done.'
W.T.R.
Fox/Columbia University
WITNESS
TO
THE
ORIGINS
OF
THE
COLD
WAR
Edited
by
Thomas
T.
Hammond
Seattle:
University
of
Washington
Press,
1982,
viii,
318pp,
Us$
22.50
The
vast
historical
literature
devoted
to
the
origins
of
the
Cold
War
contains
numerous
memoirs,
an
abundance
of
official
documents,
and
countless
interpretive
studies
by
historians
of
various
intellectual
and
political
persuasions.
Largely missing
from
this
ocean
of
com-
mentary,
however,
are
the
recollections
and
reflections
of
the middle
2
J.L.
Granatstein and
Paul Stevens,
Canada
Since
1867:
A
Bibliographical Guide
(Toronto:
Hakkert
1974).
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