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Canada's Great War, 1914-1918 - How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation (Hardcover)
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Canada's Great War, 1914-1918 - How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation (Hardcover)
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Canada's Great War, 1914-1918: How Canada Helped Save the British
Empire and Became a North American Nation describes the major role
that Canada played in helping the British Empire win the greatest
war in history-and, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in Canada's
closer integration not with the British Empire but with its
continental neighbor, the United States. When Britain declared war
against Germany and Austria-Hungary in August 1914, Canada was
automatically committed as well because of its status as a Dominion
in the British Empire. Despite not having a say in the matter, most
Canadians enthusiastically embraced the war effort in order to
defend the Empire and its values. In Canada's Great War, 1914-1918,
historian Brian Douglas Tennyson argues that Canada's participation
in the war weakened its relationship with Britain by stimulating a
greater sense of Canadian identity, while at the same time bringing
it much closer to the United States, especially after the latter
entered the war. Their wartime cooperation strengthened their
relationship, which had been delicate and often strained in the
nineteenth century. This was reflected in the greater integration
of their economies and the greater acceptance in Canada of American
cultural products such as books, magazines, radio broadcasting and
movies, and was symbolized by the astonishing American response to
the Halifax explosion in December 1917. By the end of the war,
Canadians were emerging as a North American people, no longer
fearing close ties to the United States, even as they maintained
their ties to the British Commonwealth. Canada's Great War,
1914-1918 will interest not only Canadians unaware of how greatly
their nation's participation in the First World War reshaped its
relationship with Britain and the United States, but also Americans
unacquainted with the magnitude of Canada's involvement in the war
and how that contribution drew the two nations closer together.
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