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Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars
Contributor(s): Vance, Jonathan F. (Author)

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 ISBN: 019544809X     ISBN-13: 9780195448092
Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
OUR PRICE: $33.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-)
- History | Military - Canada
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 971
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" L (1.15 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Quill & Quire 10/01/2011 pg. 30
 
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Publisher Description:
The ineffable character of Britishness has been used, often enigmatically, to describe Canada's distinct cultural flavour within North America. This mysterious quality, writes award-winning writer Jonathan Vance, goes back to the early days of Canadian history, and consists of far more than
the sum of early migration patterns. It emerges from a long-standing respect for British liberal ideals and an identification with the British empire. Canada's own unique brand of Britishness evolved over a history of shared military endeavor, as Canadians fought alongside others to defend the
ideals that the British Empire was deemed to represent.

To understand Canada's history of Britishness, Vance looks into the military past of both countries. The fabric of Canadian life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries owes a great deal to the presence of British military. And this, observes Vance, is a two-way relationship: he reminds us that
during the two World Wars, close to a million Canadians travelled to the United Kingdom. In this form of reverse colonialism, Canadians established modest outposts in Britain, and parts of the country were Canadianized.

This new, outside-the-box narrative is Jonathan Vance at his best. Beautifully written, based on original research in the true sense of the word, and illustrated with previously unseen materials, this book reveals a side of Canada often forgotten by historians.
 
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