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Canada and the Third World

Overlapping Histories

edited by Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills & Scott Rutherford

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2016
Category
General, Developing Countries, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442608061
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $106.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442606876
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $51.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442606890
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.

Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking four central questions: how can we understand the historical roots of Canada's relations with the Third World? How have Canadians, individuals and institutions alike, practiced and imagined development? How can we integrate Canada into global histories of empire, decolonization, and development? And how should we understand the relationship between issues such as poverty, racism, gender equality, and community development in the First and Third World alike?

About the authors

Karen Dubinsky is Professor of History and Global Development Studies at Queen's University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Within and Without the Nation: Transnational Canadian History (2015, co-editors Adele Perry and Henry Yu), My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela (2014, co-editors Caridad Cumana and Xenia Reloba), and Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas (2010).

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Sean Mills is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His book, The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal (2010), received the Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award in 2010 as well as an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. MacDonald Award in 2011.

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Scott Rutherford is a PhD Candidate, Department of History, Queen’s University.

 

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