Clio's Warriors - Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars

Informationen zum Autor Tim Cook is the curator of the Canadian War Museum. He is the author of No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War (1999-2000), which won the C.P. Stacey award for best book in Canadian military history, and Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting in the Great War 1917-18 (2009), winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Klappentext Clio's Warriors examines how the Canadian world war experience has been constructed and reconstructed over time. Zusammenfassung Acclaimed historian and author Tim Cook (At the Sharp End) analyses where the practice of academic military history has come from and where it needs to go. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Writing the World Wars1 Documenting War and Forging Reputations, 1914-182 The War of Reputations, 1918-393 Clio in the Service of Mars, 1939-454 History Wars and War History, 1945-485 Official History, Contested Memory, 1948-606 Forging the Canon of Canadian World War History, 1960-2000Conclusion: An Ongoing DialogueNotesSelect Bibliography of Official and Semi-official Canadian HistoriesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Tim Cook
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2007
• EAN: 9780774812573
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1257-3
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H; Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H
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