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Book SynopsisThis study of Canada's diplomatic arrival in Japan and, by extension, East Asia, examines the political, economic, and cultural relations forged during this seminal period between the foremost power in Asia and the young dominion tentatively establishing itself in world affairs.
Trade ReviewMeehan has given us an important book that will serve as a benchmark for future historical research related to Canada-Japan relations…The book reminds us of long-forgotten details of Canadian foreign policy…[and] Meehan rightly upbraids traditionalists for the ‘Eurocentric focus of studies of Canada’s inter-war foreign policy.' -- John Price * International History Review, XXVIII, 3 *
With its seamless prose and array of interesting details, John Meehan’s
The Dominion of the Rising Sun is an accessible piece of scholarship on a previously neglected story within Canadian diplomatic history, Canada’s official relations with Japan from 1929 to 1941. -- Hyung Gu Lynn * University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 *
A well-written and well-researched book,
The Dominion and the Rising Sun will be, for many years, the starting point of future studies on Canada-Japan and Canada-East Asia research. -- Simon Nantais * Histoire Sociale/Social History, Vol. XXXIX, No. 77 *
Table of ContentsTables, Maps, and Photographs
Acknowledgments
Note on Names
Abbreviations
Prologue: Raising the Flag
1 A Window on the Orient
2 From Grand Beginnings to Depression Diplomacy
3 Manchuria Erupts
4 Failure at Geneva
5 The Calm before the Storm
6 A Bitter National Spirit
7 A Rude Awakening
8 The Road to War
9 Pacific Promise
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
