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UNINA9910781141903321 |
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Autore |
Webster David <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Fire and the full moon [[electronic resource] ] : Canada and Indonesia in a decolonizing world / / David Webster |
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Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-74065-2 |
9786612740657 |
0-7748-1685-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Decolonization - Indonesia - History |
Canada Foreign relations Indonesia |
Indonesia Foreign relations Canada |
Canada Foreign relations 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Canada, the United Nations, and the decolonization of Indonesia, 1945-49 -- The golden bridge : Canada and Indonesian economic development, 1950-63 -- Non-state networks and modernizing elites in the Sukarno years -- Canada, alliance politics, and the West New Guinea dispute, 1957-63 -- Canada, confrontation, and the end of empire in Southeast Asia, 1963-66 -- Pebbles in many shoes : development in Indonesia, decolonization in East Timor, 1968-99. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The history of Canada's postwar foreign policy is dominated by Cold War narratives � the Gouzenko Affair, UN peacekeeping missions, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. By contrast, the story of Canada's response to decolonization in the Global South is less well known. Fire and the Full Moon explores Canadian-Indonesian relations to determine whether Canada's postwar foreign policy was guided by an overarching set of principles. Canada, a loyal member of the Western alliance, wanted developing countries to follow a non-revolutionary model of decolonization and paid little attention to violations of human rights. Webster's reassessment of Canada's foreign-policy objectives in Indonesia, and of its own national image, will appeal to students of |
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diplomatic history interested in Asia and the developing world. |
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