A Township at War Contributor(s): Vance, Jonathan F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771123869 ISBN-13: 9781771123860 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: October 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - History | Social History |
Dewey: 971.352 |
LCCN: 2019403867 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9" L (1.20 lbs) 275 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: A Township at War is the story of one community, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. It takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, East Flamborough was like a thousand other rural townships in Canada, broadly representative in its wartime experience. A Township at War draws from rich narrative sources to reveal what rural people were like a century ago - how they saw the world, what they valued, and how they lived their lives. We see them coming to terms with global events that took their loved ones to distant battlefields, and dealing with the prosaic challenges of everyday life. Fall fairs, recruiting meetings, church services, school concerts - all are re-imagined to understand how rural Canadians coped with war, modernism, and a world that was changing more quickly than they were. This is a story of resilience and idealism, of violence and small-mindedness, of a world that has long disappeared and one that remains with us to this day. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vance, Jonathan F.: - Jonathan F. Vance is a native of Waterdown, Ontario, and the author of many books, including award-winners Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation (2008), and A History of Canadian Culture (2009). |
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