Our place in the sun : Canada and Cuba in the Castro era /

Our place in the sun : Canada and Cuba in the Castro era / Canada and Cuba in the Castro era edited by Robert Wright and Lana Wylie. - Toronto [Ont. ; Buffalo [N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Worlds apart / Canada, Cuba, and Latin America : a paradoxical relationship / Inside Castro's Cuba : the revolution and Canada's embassy in Havana / 'Calculated diplomacy' : John Diefenbaker and the origins of Canada's Cuba policy / Between nation and empire : the fair play for Cuba committees and the making of Canada-Cuba solidarity in the early 1960s / Cuba's long shadow : the progressive church movement and Canadian-Latin American relations, 1970-87 / Viva el pueblo cubano : Pierre Trudeau's distant Cuba, 1968-78 / Canadian-Cuban relations : muddling through the 'special period' / 'Northern ice' : Jean Chrétien and the failure of constructive engagement in Cuba / Ambassador MD : the role of health and biotechnology in Cuban foreign policy / Canadian-Cuban economic relations : past, present, prospective / Canada-Cuba relations : a multiple-personality foreign policy / Robert Wright, Lana Wylie -- Hal Klepak -- Don Munton, David Vogt -- Dennis Molinaro -- Cynthia Wright -- David Sheinin -- Greg Donaghy, Mary Halloran -- Peter McKenna, John M. Kirk -- Robert Wright -- Lana Wylie -- Archibald R.M. Ritter -- Mark Entwistle.

Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day.



9781442697324 9781442697973




Electronic Books.

F1029 / .O977 2009