Jonathan F. Vance

Maple Leaf Empire

Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars

Buch

Canada embodies its own unique hybrid of Britishness, emerging from a long-standing respect for British liberal ideals and a shared culture of empire. Author Jonathan Vance reminds us that Canadians fought two World Wars alongside others in defense of the ideals that the British Empire was deemed to represent. Vance looks into the shared military past of both countries. The fabric of Canadian life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries owes a great deal to the presence of the British military. And in the twentieth century, this relationship shows some reversal: during the two World Wars, close to a million Canadians travelled to the Unite… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-544809-2
EAN: 9780195448092
Produktnummer: 22687874
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Canada
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B17.6 cm x D2.2 cm 534 g
Abbildungen: 46 black and white illustrations, 22 colour illustrations
Gewicht: 534
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Jonathan Vance is a specialist in Canadian military and cultural history, war and society in the twentieth century, and social memory. From 2000 to 2010 he held the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008. His book Death So Noble won the 1998 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, the 1998 C.P. Stacey Award, and the 1998 Dafoe Book Prize. In 2010, A History of Canadian Culture won the LelaCommon Award from the Canadian Authors Association.