The historical convention that a small group of Conservative M.P.s professed a clear doctrine of resistance to aggression and resolutely opposed the National Government's foreign policy is questioned by the author of this book, who concludes that in fact there was no cohesive or constant body of critics but rather that Conservative dissent was sporadic and discontinuous. Even the most outspoken critics, such as Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Leopold Amery, were less adamantly opposed to appeasement that it later appeared. In his analysis of this problem Dr. Thompson sheds new light on the nature of appeasement, the political situation which produced it, and the domestic debate which went on over it. Dr. Neville Thompson taught history at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.

The anti-appeasers: Conservative opposition to appeasement in the 30s

Thompson, Neville

Clarendon Press

Decades after political independence, Britain's cultural influence on the Canadian population remained strong. Beverly Baxter, a Canadian-born journalist and British politician, reinforced this imperial connection through his semi-monthly column in Maclean's magazine called, simply, London Letters. Six hundred of these widely read and deeply influential articles were published from 1936 to 1960, becoming the most important Canadian source of information on British politics, culture, and society of their time. More than the story of Baxter himself, this stylishly written account provides new insights into a transformative era in Canadian history. As the British Empire disintegrated and a nationalistic Canada emerged on the world stage, Baxter maintained an imperial vision. His vivid and opinionated column reported on crucial international events-from the victory over Germany in 1945 to the Suez crisis-amidst a backdrop of rising global superpowers. Accompanied by rare archival images, Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream is a history of politics, war, imperial and international relations, culture, and the personalities that moved the world in the troubled middle years of the twentieth century.

Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter's Reports from London through War and Peace, 1936-1960

History

Americas

Oxford University Press

This fascinating biography lies at the intersection of storytelling and Canadian experience in the rapidly modernizing late British Empire. Author and publisher (Horatio) Lovat Dickson (1902-87), known as Rache, recalls his travels throughout the Empire as the son of a mining engineer father alongside his developing love of words. Descended from an Empire-loving colonial family of "romantic Scots," who kept the "lone shieling of the misty island" enshrined in their imaginations, children grew up with "tales of long voyages . . . bred in the bone." Rache's own fascination with words and storytelling pulls him irresistibly, if not without difficulties, toward the world of letters. A compelling and dramatic story, it was called "first rate" by the New Yorker and "attractive and durable" by the New Statesman when first published in 1959. Nearly twenty years later, The Ante-Room was recorded by Dickson in daily instalments for the CBC's Morningside, and by popular demand was rebroadcast the following year. Dickson is a writer of spare and graceful prose, courageously self-critical and profoundly humanist. From his highly textured recollections of childhood experiences travelling from Australia to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to his survival of a range of adventures and misadventures in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Temiskaming, Rache slowly, and often painfully, comes of age. He eventually moves to Alberta to study literature, moving toward a role in international publishing. This is a Canadian-style Bildungsroman, exploring a no-fixed-address existence as well as feelings of ambivalence towards his inherited identity and narratives of origin.

The Ante-Room: Early Stages in a Literary Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Dickson (deceased), Lovat

Western University

Historical

First published in 1986. In this book Neville Thompson traces Wellington’s life after 1815 using then new archival and documentary records. The work examines the development of Wellington’s character and outlook, and assesses the significance of his persistent involvement in politics over three decades. It shows the Duke was a crucial figure in the development of the compromise between reform and the preservation of traditional institutions and practices. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Wellington After Waterloo

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Wellington after Waterloo

First published in 1986. In this book Neville Thompson traces Wellington’s life after 1815 using then new archival and documentary records. The work examines the development of Wellington’s character and outlook, and assesses the significance of his persistent involvement in politics over three decades. It shows the Duke was a crucial figure in the development of the compromise between reform and the preservation of traditional institutions and practices. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Routledge

Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, The Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries of Design and Inspiration includes essays and entries on the founding of the library and all aspects of its collections. Ranging from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial-revival design drawings of the 20th, the five centuries of books, drawings, and ephemera illustrated within represent the work of artisans, manufacturers, advertisers, and countless other hands through which the material surroundings of our everyday lives have passed. Each highlights the ways in which library resources contribute greatly to the stories of decorative arts objects.

The Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries of Design and Inspiration

Denker, Bert

Thompson, Eleanor McD

McKinstry, E. Richard

Price, Lois Olcott

Solensky, Jeanne

Oak Knoll Pr

Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries Of Design and Inspiration

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Jackie Loves Johnser OK?

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Mercier Press

"A welcome new bright spot in the vast literature of World War II." - DAVID SHRIBMAN The relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was among the most momentous - and mysterious - in history. The story of how these fiercely independent leaders worked together to defeat Hitler's Germany has been divined mainly from their cautious letters and the comments of staffers. Meanwhile, the detailed record of their fellow head of government, Canadian Prime Minister William L. Mackenzie King, who knew each of them better than they knew each other, has been largely overlooked. A sublime diplomat, King was determined, as leader of the largest British Dominion and America's closest neighbour, to serve as a lynchpin between the great powers. Churchill and Roosevelt both came to rely upon him as their next most important ally, routinely confiding in him and never suspecting that he was meticulously recording every word, prayer, slight, and tic from their countless interactions in his voluminous unpublished diary. The Third Man offers us a truly unique look at the personalities, the strategies, and the epic relationship that won WWII.

The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII

Military

Sutherland House

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