A collection of work illuminating comparisons and contrasts between two former colonies of the British Empire. The essays cover the entire 20th century and examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, the military and diplomatic relations.

This book brings together recent and original work to illuminate comparisons and contrasts between two former colonies of the British Empire. The contributors include some of the top names in history and political science in Canada and Australia. They cover the entire twentieth century and examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, military, constitutional, imperial, and diplomatic relations. The comparisons include Aboriginal rights, nation-building, middle powers, and attitudes towards the Empire. This timely volume is well situated in the field of comparative studies, a new and growing area of study. It will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign affairs, the British Commonwealth and its dismantling, constitutional history, and international relations.

NATION BUILDING - Sibling Rivalry: Australia, and Canada from the Boer War to the Great War / Margaret MacMillan - Coming of Age: Independence and Foreign Policy in Canada and Australia, 1931-1945 / Francine McKenzie - The Australian and Canadian Colonization of Indigenous Peoples and the Movement Towards a New Relationship / Peter Russell RIVALS, ALLIES, AND MODELS - Australia and Canada in the World of International Commercial Aviation / David MacKenzie - "She Should Have Thought of Herself First": Canada and Military Aid to Australia, 1939-1945 / Galen Perras - In the Wake of Canada: Australia's Middle Power Diplomacy and the Attempt to Join the Atomic Special Relationship, 1943-1957 / Wayne Reynolds - Relations in the World of Intelligence: Gouzenko and Petrov Compared / Frank Cain - Diplomacy in "Easy Chairs": Casey, Pearson, and Aus- tralian-Canadian relations, 1951-1957 / Christopher Waters - The Limits of Like-Mindedness: Australia, Canada, and Multilateral Trade / Ann Capling and Kim Richard Nossal - Keeping in Touch: Patterns of Networking in the Canada-Australia Diplomatic Relationship / Andrew Cooper /