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Book SynopsisCanada at War explores the impact of the two world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, acting as the book’s central figure. In this collection of essays, J.L. Granatstein brings together research from archives in Canada and abroad, illuminating Canada''s political transition from the British to American sphere of influence in the first half of the twentieth century. Granatstein reflects on the most significant issues affecting Canadians during the wars, showing how this period ushered change into the Canadian landscape and transformed Canada into the country that it is today.
Table of ContentsPreface Permissions Introduction Section One: Conscription 1. "To win, at any cost": Politics and Manpower Policies, 1917 2. Conscription in the Great War 3. The Conservative Party and Conscription in the Second World War 4. The York South By-Election of February 9, 1942: A Turning Point in Canadian Politics 5. The "Hard" Obligations of Citizenship: The Second World War in Canada 6. Conscription and My Politics Section Two: Diplomacy 7. "A Self-Evident National Duty": Canadian Foreign Policy, 1935–1939 (with Robert Bothwell) 8. Mackenzie King and Canada at Ogdensburg, August 1940 9. The Hyde Park Declaration 1941: Origins and Significance (with R.D. Cuff) 10. The Man Who Wasn't There: Mackenzie King, Canada, and the Atlantic Charter 11. Happily on the Margins: Mackenzie King and Canada at the Quebec Conferences Section Three: Politics 12. Financing the Liberal Party, 1935–1945 13. King and His Cabinet: The War Years 14. The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version (with Gregory A. Johnson) 15. Arming the Nation: Canada's Industrial War Effort, 1939–1945 Section Four: Reflections 16. A Half-Century On: The Veterans' Experience 17. "What Is to Be Done?": The Future of Canadian Second World War History 18. Thirty Years in the Trenches: A Military Historian's Report on the War between Teaching and Research
