Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Decolonization and Nation Building
6. Sibling Rivalry: Australia and Canada from the Boer War to the Great War 13
7. Coming of Age: Independence and Foreign Policy in Canada and Australia, 1931–45 34
8. Colonization of Indigenous Peoples: The Movement toward New Relationships 62
9. Rivals, Allies, and Models
10. Australia and Canada in the World of International Commercial Aviation 99
11. “She Should Have Thought of Herself First”: Canada and Military Aid to Australia, 1939–45 124
12. In the Wake of Canada: Australia’s Middle-Power Diplomacy and the Attempt to Join the Atomic Special Relationship, 1943–57 151
13. Governments and Defectors: Responses to the Defections of Gouzenko in Canada and Petrov in Australia 183
14. Diplomacy in Easy Chairs: Casey, Pearson, and Australian-Canadian Relations, 1951–7 207
15. The Limits of Like-Mindedness: Australia, Canada, and Multilateral Trade 229
16. Keeping in Touch: Patterns of Networking in the Canadian-Australian Diplomatic Relationship 249
17. Conclusion 267
18. Select Bibliography 272
19. Contributors 276
20. Index 278