Canada 1919
A Nation Shaped by War
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2020
- Category
- Canada, Veterans, World War I, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774864107
- Publish Date
- Jun 2020
- List Price
- $32.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774864077
- Publish Date
- Jun 2020
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774864084
- Publish Date
- Mar 2021
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War, as the survivors attempted to right the country and chart a path into the future.
Veterans returned home full of both sorrow and pride in their accomplishments, wondering what would they do and how they would fit in with their families. The military stumbled through massive demobilization. The government struggled to hang on to power. And a new Canadian nationalism was forged.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the concerns of the time: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; Canada’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which war shaped and changed Canada – and the ways it did not.
About the authors
TIM COOK is the Great War historian at the Canadian War Museum, as well as an adjunct professor at Carleton University. He is the author of five other books, including Shock Troops, which won the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2009. He was also awarded the Ottawa Book Award and the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End. Cook lives in Ottawa with his family.
J. L. GRANATSTEIN is the author of over 60 books, including the bestsellersWho Killed The Canadian Military? and Whose War Is It?, along withYankee Go Home?, Victory 1945 and The Generals, which won the J. W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography. A distinguished research professor of history emeritus at York University, he was a member of the RMC Board of Governors and is chair of the Advisory Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He lives in Toronto. Visit Granatstein atwww.whosewar.ca.
Editorial Reviews
Canada 1919 is highly recommended to all those interested in the history of early twentieth-century Canada, World War I, and the medical and social history of the period.
University of Toronto Quarterly
"Cook and Granatstein’s volume offers a rich selection of interpretations from scholars of the World War I period…"
University of Toronto Quarterly.
This collection of essays by established historians and emerging scholars, based on a 2019 conference at the Canadian War Museum, provides a richly detailed, if not quite comprehensive, portrait of Canada on the precipice of modernity.
Histoire Sociale
Altogether, this is a fascinating collection of papers and recommended reading for anyone interested in the history of Canada’s role in the Great War.
Prairie History
This work is fantastic, and the breadth of topics covered truly gives the reader a rich flavor of the issues facing not just Canada, but global democracies at the end of the First World War.
American Review of Canadian Studies
All the articles are short and highly readable and provide multiple notes for further research that will prove useful to beginning researchers.
CHOICE Connect
"I recommend this edited collection to anyone who wants to understand the immediate and long-lasting legacies—both positive and negative—of the First World War on Canada."
Ontario Historical Society Review
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