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Robert Rutherdale - Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada´s Great War - 9780774810135 - V9780774810135
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Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada´s Great War

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Description for Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada´s Great War Hardback. Alive with personal stories, this book considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217. Weight in Grams: 590.

In Hometown Horizons, Robert Rutherdale considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Drawing on newspaper archives and organizational documents, he examines how farmers near Lethbridge, Alberta, shopkeepers in Guelph, Ontario, and civic workers in Trois-Rivières, Québec took part in local activities that connected their everyday lives to a tumultuous period in history. Many important debates in social and cultural history are addressed, including demonization of enemy aliens, gendered fields of wartime philanthropy, state authority and citizenship, and commemoration and social memory.

The making of Canada’s home front, Rutherdale argues, was experienced fundamentally through local ... Read more

Hometown Horizons contributes to a growing body of work on the social and cultural histories of the First World War, and challenges historians to consider the place of everyday modes of communication in forming collective understandings of world events. This history of a war imagined will find an eager readership among social and military historians, cultural studies scholars, and anyone with an interest in wartime Canada.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774810135
SKU
V9780774810135
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Robert Rutherdale
Robert Rutherdale is a member of the Department of History at Algoma University College.

Reviews for Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada´s Great War
Readers will find a wealth of information in Hometown Horizons ... Rutherdale has provided a valuable addition to military and local history in this richly documented and nuanced study on the multi-faceted effects of the First World War on the Canadian home front.
Jeff Keshen, University of Ottawa
Canadian Historical Review
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