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Canada in the World

Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination

An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins by arguing that the colonial relations with Indigenous peoples represent the first example of foreign policy, and demonstrates how these relations became a foundational and existential element of the new state. Colonialism—the project to establish settler capitalism in North America and the ideological assumption that Europeans were more advanced and thus deserved to conquer the Indigenous people—says Shipley, lives at the very heart of Canada.

Through a close examination of Canadian foreign policy, from crushing an Indigenous rebellion in El Salvador, “peacekeeping” missions in the Congo and Somalia, and Cold War interventions in Vietnam and Indonesia, to Canadian participation in the War on Terror, Canada in the World finds that this colonial heart has dictated Canada’s actions in the world since the beginning.

Highlighting the continuities across more than 150 years of history, Shipley demonstrates that Canadian policy and behaviour in the world is deep-rooted, and argues that changing this requires rethinking the fundamental nature of Canada itself.

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Tyler A. Shipley

Tyler A. Shipley is a Professor of Society, Culture and Commerce in the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University.

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- 11 $1.10

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New Worlds, East and West – Before Canada – Cartier’s Sauvages – Puritan Pathologies – On the Eve of Canada 23 $2.30

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The Roots of Confederation – 1867: The Birth of Canada – Clearing the Plains – Conquering the West – The Indian Act 26 $2.60

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The War of 1885 – Métis Resistance – Assimilation, Extermination, Cultural Genocide – The Residential School System – Policing the Colonized – Colonialism and … 36 $3.60

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Canada at the Fin de Siècle – Canadian Imperialism – The South African War – Imperialism and the Great War – Canada’s Great War – Vimyism 31 $3.10

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The 20th Century Begins – Between the Wars – Canadian Monopolists – The Spanish Civil War – The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion – Hitler’s Eyes – The Myth … 40 $4.00

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The Second World War – The Spectre of Jewish Bolshevism – None Is Too Many – Crimes and Contradictions – At War’s End – Death from Above, Death from Below 28 $2.80

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The Cold War – Israel, Suez and Canadian Mythology – The Dominion and the Rising Sun – The Scorched Earth of Korea – The Heroes of Dien Bien Phu – Saving Somoza: … 49 $4.90

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To Quarantine the Colonies – Heritage Minute: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba – The Butcher of Zacapa – The Riff-Raff of the Latin American Left – Quiet Complicity in … 45 $4.50

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Twilight of the Global 1960s – A “Middle Power” in the Middle East – Red Menace: Canada and the Contra Wars – Canada, Cabora Bossa and Apartheid – The … 48 $4.80

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War in the Gulf – The Peacekeeping Horizon – The Somalia Affair – “Ethnic Tension” and the Rwanda Genocides – Saint Roméo Dallaire – Paul Kagame, … 50 $5.00

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Afghanistan: Canada’s Longest War – “They Don’t Deserve Our Help” – “What the Afghans Need Is Colonizing” – Canada in the War on Terror … 54 $5.40

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Armoured Neoliberalism – The Ukraine Crisis – Uncreating Hugo Chávez – The Friendly Far Right: Colombia and Brazil – Blood of Extraction – Poisoning the Well … 55 $5.50

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