Contradictory Impulses

A richly documented study of the long-standing and complex interactions between Canada and Japan from the late 19th century until today.

Greg Donaghy is Head of the Historical Section at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Patricia E. Roy is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Victoria and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

Contributors: Carin Holroyd, Masako Iino, Hamish Ion, Gregory A. Johnson, John Kirton, Richard Leclerc, John D. Meehan, Galen Perras, John Price, Bill Rawling, Greg Robinson, David Sulz, Marie-Josée Therrien

Contradictory Impulses with its wide range of essays and comprehensive suggestions for further reading, is an important contribution to the literature on Canada and the Pacific in the twentieth century. The book is a welcome contribution to a field still dominated by scholarly interests in Canada and the Anglo-American world and where Canada's connections with Asia and the Pacific are too often ignored or mentioned only in passing.