Hometown Horizons - Local Responses to Canada's Great War (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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-Rivieres, Quebec 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. fundamentally through local means. City parades, military send-offs, public school events, women's war relief efforts, and many other public exercises became the parochial lenses through which a distant war was viewed. Like no other book before it, this work argues that these experiences were the true realities of war, and that the old maxim that truth is war's first victim needs to be understood, even in the international and imperialistic Great War, as a profoundly local phenomenon. 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. military historians, cultural studies scholars, and anyone with an interest in wartime Canada.

General

Imprint:	University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Robert Rutherdale
Dimensions:	229 x 165mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn
Pages:	360
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7748-1013-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-7748-1013-0
Barcode:	9780774810135

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