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A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants : Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat.
In the spring of 1989, Earl Drake, Canadian ambassador to China, found himself in the midst of the Tiananmen Square crisis. Asked to evacuate Beijing's Canadian residents in a hurry, to maintain control of the embassy, and to provide a voice of reason to the media, he resolved to write his memo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Toronto Press
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Prologue""; ""1 A Prairie Puritan from Saskatchewan""; ""2 A Neophyte at External: Ottawa, 1955 and 1959�1961""; ""3 Getting Hooked on the Foreign Service: Pakistan, 1956�1958""; ""4 A Dancing Leader: Prime Minister Suhrawardy of Pakistan""; ""5 Confrontation and Partisanship: Malaysia, 1961�1964""; ""6 An Avuncular Leader: Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia""; ""7 International Development: Ottawa, 1965�1968 and 1972�1975""; ""8 The Temptations of Paris: The OECD, 1968�1972""; ""9 The Mighty World Bank: Washington, 1975�1982""
- ""10 A Controversial Leader: McNamara of the World Bank""""11 The Poetic in the Midst of Reality: Indonesia, 1982�1983""; ""12 An Iconoclast in China: Beijing, 1987�1989""; ""13 Tiananmen Crisis: China, 1989�1990""; ""14 An Unloved Leader: Premier Li Peng of China""; ""Epilogue""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations""