Orienting Canada: Race, Empire, and the Transpacific

by John Price and John Price

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, from the 1907 race riots to Canada's early intervention in Vietnam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774819847
• ISBN13: 9780774819848
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"