Fighting with the empire : Canada, Britain, and global conflict, 1867-1947 / edited by Steve Marti and William John Pratt.

"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. From 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to consider what bound them as a nation and entangled them in a s...

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Other Authors: Marti, Steve (Editor), Pratt, William J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2019]
Series:Studies in Canadian military history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fathers and sons of empire : domesticity, empire, and Canadian participation in the Anglo-Boer War / Amy Shaw
  • Daughter in my mother's house, but mistress in my own : questioning Canada's imperial relationship through patriotic work, 1914-18 / Steve Marti
  • Postal censorship and Canadian identity in the Second World War / William John Pratt
  • Guardians of empire? British imperial officers in Canada, 1874-1914 / Eirik Brazier
  • Francophone-Anglophone accommodation in practice : liberal foreign policy and national unity between the wars / Robert J. Talbot
  • Claiming Canada's king and queen : Canadians and the 1939 royal tour / Claire L. Halstead
  • For king or country? Quebec, the empire, and the First World War / Geoff Keelan
  • Anti-fascist strikes and the patriotic shield? Canadian workers and the employment of "enemy aliens" in the Second World War / Mikhail Bjorge
  • First Nations and the British connection during the Second World War / R. Scott Sheffield.