《希尔时报》:2017年最佳图书
约翰·F·肯尼迪、纳尔逊·曼德拉、英迪拉·甘地和其他几十位世界领导人的独特视角通过他们的眼睛揭示了加拿大和加拿大人。
在第一次世界大战期间,外国领导人开始在我们的下议院向加拿大人发表讲话,从那以后,他们继续影响我们如何看待我们在全球事务中的作用。一个世纪以来,这场世界人物游行带来了关于加拿大在世界大战、联合国、冷战安全、非殖民化和现代化、推进人权、环境保护和打击恐怖主义方面的重要性的紧急信息。
在加拿大议会发表讲话的所有外国领导人都试图在迅速变化的全球环境中,在本国和我们之间建立新的伙伴关系。几十年来,这些演讲描绘了国际事务和加拿大在世界上地位的惊人转变。没有任何其他来源提供这一系列高级演讲的完整记录,这些演讲首次在众议院以外国声音聚集在这里。
Foreign Voices in the House: A Century of Addresses to Canada’s Parliament by World Leaders
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
Unique views from John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, and dozens of other world leaders reveal Canada and Canadians through their eyes.
During the First World War, foreign leaders began addressing Canadians in our House of Commons and, ever since, have continued influencing how we think about our role in global affairs. For a century now, this parade of world figures has brought urgent messages about Canada’s importance in world wars, the United Nations, Cold War security, decolonization and modernization, advancing human rights, environmental conservation, and combating terrorism.
All of the foreign leaders addressing Canada’s parliament sought to forge new partnerships between their own countries and ours in a rapidly evolving global context. Over the decades these speeches chart the stunning transformation of international affairs and Canada’s place in the world. No other source provides a complete record of this body of high-level oratory, gathered here for the first time in Foreign Voices in the House.
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