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This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada’s experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada’s leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
List of contents
Preface, David MacKenzie
Introduction, David MacKenzie
I Introduction
1. Craig Brown's Logical Reason,Ramsay Cook
II Fighting the War
2. The Military Effort, 1914-1918, Terry Copp
3. Conscription in the Great War, J.L. Granatstein
4. Political Leadership in the First Worls War, John English
5. Against Isolationalism: Napoleon Belcourt, French Canada, and "La grande guerre", Patrice Dutil
6. The Economic Impact of the Great War, Douglas McCalla
III The War at Home
7. Mobilizing Canadian Women for War, Joan Sangster
8. Supporting Soldiers' Families: Separtion Allowance, Assigned Pay and the Unexpected, Des Morton
9. Ontario and the Great War: Variations on a Patriotic Theme, Adam Crerar
10. The Crusade for Science: Science and Technology on the Home Front. Rod Millard
11. Canada Invaded!: The Great War, Mass Culture, and Canadian Nationalism, Paul Litt
12. Eastern Approaches: Maritime Canada and Newfoundland, David MacKenzie
IV The Aftermath
13. Canada and the Peace Settlements, Margaret MacMillan
14. Remembering Armageddon, Jonathan Vance
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Edited by David MacKenzie
Summary
This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada’s experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada’s leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
