Orienting Canada: Race, Empire, and the Transpacific
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John Price (Author)
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Colony to nation? Isolationism to internationalism? WASP society to a multicultural Canada? Focusing on imperial conflicts in the Pacific, Orienting Canada disrupts these familiar narratives in Canadian history by tracing the relationship between racism and Canadian foreign policy.
Grounded in transnationalism and anti-racist theory, this book reassesses critical transpacific incidents, including Vancouver's race riots of 1907, the Chinese head tax, the wars in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945, the internment of Japanese Canadians, and Canada's early intervention in Vietnam. Shocking revelations about the effects of racism and war into the 1960s are tempered by stories of community resilience and transformation. As a transpacific lens on the past, Orienting Canada deflects Canada's European gaze back onto itself to reveal images that both provoke and unsettle. 20 b&w photos, 1 map
About the Author
John Price is an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria.
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- Contributor: John Price
- Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
- ISBN13: 9780774819831
- Number of Pages: 464
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 800
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Release Date: 2011-05-27
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: John Price is an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria.
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