Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

Vance, William; Franklin, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0774806001 / ISBN 13: 9780774806008

Published by UBC Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774806001
• ISBN 13: 9780774806008
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This book examines Canada’s collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.

About the Author

Jonathan Vance teaches in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War through the Twentieth Century (UBC Press, 1994).