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Fighting with the Empire: Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947 (Studies in Canadian Military History) - Softcover

Book 48 of 59: Studies in Canadian Military History
 
9780774860413: Fighting with the Empire: Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947 (Studies in Canadian Military History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0774860413 ISBN 13: 9780774860413
Publisher: UBC Press, 2019

Synopsis

Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to reexamine their relationship to Britain and to one another. As French Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and those with roots in continental Europe and beyond mobilized for war, their participation challenged the imagined homogeneity of Canada as a British nation. Fighting with the Empire examines the paradox of a national contribution to an imperial war effort, finding middle ground between affirming the emergence of a nation through warfare and equating Canadian nationalism with British imperialism.

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About the Author

Steve Marti is a First World War historian based in Kingston, Ontario. William John Pratt is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

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Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0774860413
ISBN 13 
9780774860413
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220
Editor
Marti Steve, Pratt William John