Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Undiplomatic history: rethinking Canada and the world -- The politics of sanctuary: John Surratt, the Catholic church, and the US Civil War -- Making time: transnational networks and the establishment of standard time in Canada and beyond -- Rethinking religion's role in Canadian Transnational relations -- Natural security: Canada-US environmental diplomacy -- Spreading the gospel of natural birth: Canadian contributions to an international medical movement, 1945-1960 -- Jameel's journal: Jim Peters, anti-orientalism, and Arab decolonization in 1960s Canada -- International development and the state in question: liberal internationalism, the new left, and Canadian university service overseas in Tanzania, 1963-1977 -- Making global citizen? Canadian women at the World Conference of the International Women's Year, Mexico City 1975 -- Dancing into hearts and minds: Canadian ballet exchanges with the communist world, 1956-76 -- The elephant in the room: rethinking cruise missile testing and Pierre Trudeau's peace mission -- Cold War endings: the Canadian Peace Congress and the Transnational Peace Movement, 1977-91 -- Canadian corporate social irresponsibility: a history -- Legislating hate: Canada, the UN, and the push to ban hate propaganda, 1960-70.