Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter's Reports from London through War and Peace, 1936-1960
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 28 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199003938
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 236x161x34 mm
- Weight 642 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
Decades after political independence, Britain's cultural influence on the Canadian population remained strong. Beverly Baxter, a Canadian-born journalist and British politician, reinforced this imperial connection through his semi-monthly column in Maclean's magazine called, simply, London Letters. Accompanied by rare archival images, Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream is a history of politics, war, imperial and international relations,
culture, and the personalities that moved the world in the troubled middle years of the twentieth century.
Long description:
Decades after political independence, Britain's cultural influence on the Canadian population remained strong. Beverly Baxter, a Canadian-born journalist and British politician, reinforced this imperial connection through his semi-monthly column in Maclean's magazine called, simply, London Letters. Six hundred of these widely read and deeply influential articles were published from 1936 to 1960, becoming the most important Canadian source of information on British politics, culture,
and society of their time.
More than the story of Baxter himself, this stylishly written account provides new insights into a transformative era in Canadian history. As the British Empire disintegrated and a nationalistic Canada emerged on the world stage, Baxter maintained an imperial vision. His vivid and opinionated column reported on crucial international events-from the victory over Germany in 1945 to the Suez crisis-amidst a backdrop of rising global superpowers.
Accompanied by rare archival images, Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream is a history of politics, war, imperial and international relations, culture, and the personalities that moved the world in the troubled middle years of the twentieth century.
Thompson provides an elegy for a conception of the popular audience long gone.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Overture: An Imperial Citizen Goes Home
2. The British Imperial Standard
3. Pax Umbrellica
4. Who Lives if England Dies?
5. Churchill's War at Westminster
6. Hoping for a Priceless Victory
7. Fighting the New Jerusalem
8. No Glad Confident Morning
9. Suez: The Last Hinge of Empire
10. Envoi: There'll Always Be an England
Notes
Bibliography
Index
