Robert Bothwell

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Robert Selkirk Bothwell (born 17 August 1944) is a professor of Canadian history, and the foremost scholar on Canadian Cold War participation, as well as a much published author.

Professor Bothwell completed his BA at the University of Toronto and his PhD at Harvard University. He is currently Director of the University of Toronto's International Relations program at Trinity College, where he is a fellow, and a professor of Canadian political and diplomatic history.

A specialist in post-1945 international and Canadian history, Professor Bothwell is the co-author of a list of books including C.D. Howe (1979), Canada 1900-1945 (1987), Canada Since 1945 (1989), Pirouette (1990), Our Century (2000). He has also written Eldorado (1984), Nucleus (1988), Canada and the United States (1992), Canada and Quebec (1995), The Big Chill (1998), The Penguin History of Canada (2006) and Alliance and Illusion (2007). He has been a co-editor and editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1972-80). He is working on a book on Canadian foreign relations since 1984.

[edit] Selected bibliography

• Pearson, His Life and World, Toronto, 1978, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, ISBN 0-07-082305-7.
• C.D. Howe: A Biography, by Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn, Toronto, 1979, McClelland and Stewart, ISBN 0-7710-4535-2.
• Eldorado: Canada's National Uranium Company 1984
• A Short History of Ontario 1986
• Years of Victory 1987
• Nucleus: A History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1988, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-0820-2670-2.
• Loring Christie 1988
• Laying the Foundations 1991
• Canada & the United States 1991
• Canada & Quebec 1995
• The Big Chill 1998
• The Penguin History of Canada 2006