

An edition of Towards a Francophone Community (2006)
Canada's Relations With France And French Africa, 1945-1968 (Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies)
By Robin S. Gendron
Publish Date
May 2006
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Language
eng
Pages
196
Description:
"Based on extensive archival research, Towards a Francophone Community is the first in-depth study of Canada's foreign policy toward France and the former French colonies. Robin Gendron rebuts the argument of Quebec nationalists and scholars that the Canadian government's neglect of French Africa forced Quebec to develop its own international identity. He shows that there had been active federal interest in French African affairs since the late 1940s, within the context of developments in NATO and the Cold War, the vagaries of Canada's relations with France, and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec."--Jacket.