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Canadian historian
George Norman Hillmer
CM
(born 1942) is a Canadian historian and is among the leading scholars on
Canada?US relations
.
Hillmer completed his
Bachelor of Arts
and
Master of Arts
degrees in history at the
University of Toronto
in 1966 and 1967, respectively, before going on to earn a
Doctor of Philosophy
degree from
Christ's College, Cambridge
, in 1974. During this period, he also worked as an assistant to former
Prime Minister
Lester Pearson
, who was then working at
Carleton University
's
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
. In 1972, Hillmer joined the Directorate of History at Canada's
Department of National Defence
as a staff historian. He rose to become the acting director of the directorate before shifting in 1990 to a full-time career as a professor of history and international affairs at
Carleton University
, a position he continues to hold.
Hillmer collaborates with other scholars on many of his book projects, often with the respected Canadian historian
J. L. Granatstein
.
In December 2016, Hillmer was named a
Member of the Order of Canada
.
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He is a two time winner of the
C.P. Stacey Prize
for "for distinguished publications on the twentieth-century military experience."
Books
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- O. D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), xii, 424.
- Canada's International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives, and Politics
(Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2008) [with Brian W. Tomlin and Fen Osler Hampson], vi, 432 pp.
- The Atlas of Canada and the World
(Vancouver, Toronto, New York: Whitecap Books, 1999), 223 pp.
- Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders
(Toronto: Harper Collins, 1999) [with J. L. Granatstein], 233 pp.
- Elder Daughter of the Empire: A History of Canadian?British Relations, 1713?1982
(in Japanese; Tosui Shobo, Tokyo, 1997) [with Kazuo Kimura and P. A. Buckner], xii, 271 pp.
- Empire to Umpire: Canada and the World to the 1990s
(Toronto: Copp Clark Longman, 1994) [with J. L. Granatstein], ix, 373 pp. Revised and expanded as
Empire to Umpire: Canada and the World into the Twenty-First Century
(Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007), xiii, 393 pp.
- For Better or for Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s
(Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1991) [with J. L. Granatstein], xvi, 334 pp. Revised and expanded as
For Better or for Worse: Canada and the United States into the Twenty-First Century
(Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007), xviii, 359 pp.
- Negotiating Freer Trade: The United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the Trade Agreements of 1938
(Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989) [with Ian M. Drummond], x, 197 pp.
Edited books
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- O. D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press and The Champlain Society; both editions, 2013), xx, 53 page introduction, 517 pp.
- Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007) [with Adam Chapnick], x, 326 pp.
- Fuelling Progress: One Hundred Years of the Canadian Gas Association, 1907-2007
(Ottawa: Canadian Gas Association, 2007) [by Tim Krywulak], xi, 180 pp.
- The Land Newly Found: Eyewitness Accounts of the Canadian Immigrant Experience
(Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2006) [with J.L. Granatstein], 431 pp.
- Canada Among Nations 2004: Setting Priorities Straight
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) [with David Carment and Fen Osler Hampson], x, 291 pp.
- Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada's Military History
(Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004) [with J.L. Granatstein], 490 pp.
- Among Nations 2003: Coping with the American Colossus
(Don Mills, Ontario: Press, 2003) [with David Carment and Fen Osler Hampson], xii, 354 pp.
- Activism and (Non)Alignment: The Relationship Between Foreign Policy and Security Doctrine
(Stockholm: The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 2002) [with Ann-Sofie Dahl], vii, 154 pp.
- First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada's Past
(Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002) [with J.L. Granatstein], 486 pp.
- Canada Among Nations 2002: A Fading Power
(Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2002) [with Maureen Appel Molot], xii, 299 pp.
- Canada Among Nations 2001: The Axworthy Legacy
(Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2001) [with Fen Osler Hampson and Maureen Appel Molot], xiv, 235 pp.
- Pearson: the Unlikely Gladiator
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999), x, 213 pp.
- A Country of Limitations: Canada and the World in 1939/Un pays dans la gene: le Canada et le monde en 1939
(Ottawa: Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War/Comite canadien D'Histoire de la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale, 1996) [with Robert Bothwell, Roger Sarty, and Claude Beauregard], 295 pp.
- Documents relatifs aux relations exterieures du Canada/Documents on Canadian External Relations
, Volume XIII:
1947
(Ottawa: Affaires exterieures et Commerce exterieur Canada/External Affairs and International Trade Canada, 1993) [with Donald Page], xxxvii, 1654 pp.
- Making a Difference? Canada's Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order
(Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1992) [with John English], xx, 236 pp. French edition:
La politique etrangere canadienne dans un ordre international en mutation: une volonte de se demarquer?
(Quebec: Centre Quebecois des Relations internationales, Universite Laval, 1992), 338 pp. Chinese edition. (Beijing: The Social Science Publishing House, 2002), 267 pp.
- Partners Nevertheless: Canadian?American Relations in the Twentieth Century
(Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1989), 322 pp.
- Nearly Neighbours: Canada and the Soviet Union from Cold War to Detente and Beyond
(Kingston: Frye Publishers, 1989) [with J. L. Black], xii, 174 pp.
- On Guard for Thee: War, Ethnicity, and the Canadian State, 1939?1945
(Ottawa: Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, 1988) [with B. Kordan and L. Luciuk], xx, 282 pp.
- The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume II: The Creation of a National Air Force
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986) [by W.A.B. Douglas], xix, 797 pp. Winner of the 1988 C. P. Stacey Award.
- The First: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Mansergh
(London: Frank Cass, 1980) [with P.G. Wigley], 192 pp.
- A Foremost Nation: Canadian Foreign Policy and a Changing World
(Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977) [with Garth Stevenson], 296 pp.
- The In?Between Time: Canadian External Policy in the 1930s
(Toronto: Copp Clark, 1974) [with Robert Bothwell], 224 pp.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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