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
- $32.95
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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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With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the concerns of Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the country’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Even as the military stumbled through massive demobilization and the government struggled to hang on to power, a new Canadian nationalism was forged. This fresh perspective on the concerns of the time exposes the ways in which war shaped 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
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
All the articles are short and highly readable and provide multiple notes for further research that will prove useful to beginning researchers.
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Other titles by Tim Cook
The Fight for History
75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
The Secret History of Soldiers
How Canadians Survived the Great War
Filling the Ranks
Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
Vimy
The Battle and the Legend
Fight to the Finish
Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945
Warlords
Borden Mackenzie King And Canada's World Wars
No Place to Run
The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
Clio's Warriors
Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars
The Madman and the Butcher
The Sensational Wars Of Sam Hughes And General Arthur Currie
At the Sharp End Volume One
Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916
Other titles by J.L. Granatstein
Canada at War
Conscription, Diplomacy, and Politics
Politics of Survival
The Conservative Part of Canada, 1939-1945
Trudeau’s World
Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84
Canada's Army
Waging War and Keeping the Peace
Filling the Ranks
Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
The Weight of Command
Voices of Canada’s Second World War Generals and Those Who Knew Them
The Greatest Victory
Canada's One Hundred Days, 1918
Mobilize!
Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War
In the National Interest
Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009
