Secret Service : : Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America /

Secret Service : : Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America / / Gregory S. Kealey, Reg Whitaker, Andrew Parnaby.

Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Whitaker, Reg,
Kealey, Gregory S.,
Parnaby, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (720 p.) :; 25 illustrations
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Political Policing in Canada
  • Part One: Origins
  • 1 The Empire Strikes Back
  • 2 ‘You Drive Us Hindus out of Canada and We Will Drive Every White Man out of India!’
  • 3 A War on Two Fronts
  • Part Two: Survival and Revival
  • 4 The RCMP, the Communist Party, and the Consolidation of Canada’s Cold War
  • 5 ‘Redder Than Ever’: Political Policing during the Great Depression
  • 6 Keep the Home Fires Burning, 1939–45
  • Part Three: Cold War Canada
  • 7 The Ice Age: Mounties on the Cold War Front Line, 1945–69
  • 8 The Coyote, the Roadrunner, and the Reds under the Bed: Communist Espionage and Subversion
  • Part Four: Separatists, Scandals, and Reform
  • 9 National Unity, National Security: The Quebec Conundrum, 1960–84
  • 10 ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going on in Here!’: The Creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  • 11 Old Wine into New Bottles: CSIS, 1984–2001
  • Part Five: After the Twin Towers
  • 12 After the Deluge: In the Shadow of the Twin Towers, 2001–11
  • 13 No More Mr Nice Spy: CSIS and the Dark Side of the War on Terror
  • Conclusion: Policing Canadian Democracy
  • Notes
  • A Note on Sources
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

Similar Items