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Language Shaped by Silence

The mind and craft of a deaf writer

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

Exclaim!

Pop punk in the key of eh

Robert Bothwell

Robert Bothwell teaches Canadian foreign relations at the University of Toronto, and has written on Canada’s participation in the British Empire.

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Robert Bothwell

Breaking the Ties

Historical Glimpses at Canada’s gradual disengagement from Britain April 2005
The University of British Columbia Press has celebrated the new year 2005 with the production of a collection of essays entitled Canada and the End of Empire, edited by a senior Canadian historian, Phillip Buckner. Throughout most of the period since the 1950s, that title would have been considered a commonplace: empires have been the stuff of fulmination for the agitated…