Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators – Canada’s Imperial and Foreign Policies
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Name: Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators – Canada’s Imperial and Foreign Policies
Format: epub
Size: 9.46 MB
Book:
Title: Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators
Author: Roy MacLaren
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: MQUP
ISBN: 9780773557147
Total pages: N/A
Description:
Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and regarding Hitler as a benign fellow mystic. In Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators Roy MacLaren leads readers through the political labyrinth that led to Canada’s involvement in the Second World War and its awakening as a forceful nation on the world stage. Prime Minister King’s fascination with foreign affairs extended from helping President Theodore Roosevelt exclude "little yellow men" from North America in 1908 to his conviction that appeasement of Hitler and Mussolini should be the cornerstone of Canada’s foreign and imperial policies in the 1930s. If war could be avoided, King thought, national unity could be preserved. MacLaren draws extensively from King’s diaries and letters and contemporary sources from Britain, the United…
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