{"product_id":"fighting-with-the-empire-9780774860413","title":"Fighting with the Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to define and redefine their relationship to Britain and to one another. As French Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and those with roots in Continental Europe and beyond mobilized in support of imperial war efforts, their participation challenged the imagined homogeneity of Canada as a British nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom soldiers overseas to workers on the home front  and from the cultural ties of imperial pageantry to the bonds of race and class \u003cem\u003e Fighting with the Empire \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the paradox of a national contribution to an imperial war effort. This insightful collection of connected case studies explores the middle ground between narratives that celebrate the emergence of a nation through warfare and those that equate Canadian nationalism with British \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting with the Empire\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful piece of scholarship and should appeal to a broad range of academic interests. -- Katelyn Stieva, University of New Brunswick * Canadian Military History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \/ \u003cem\u003eSteve Marti and William John Pratt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Mobility and Mobilization\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Fathers and Sons of Empire: Domesticity, Empire, and Canadian Participation in the Anglo-Boer War \/ \u003cem\u003eAmy Shaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Daughter in My Mother’s House, but Mistress in My Own: Questioning Canada’s Imperial Relationship through Patriotic Work, 1914–18 \/ \u003cem\u003eSteve Marti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Postal Censorship and Canadian Identity in the Second World War \/ \u003cem\u003eWilliam John Pratt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Persons and Power\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Guardians of Empire? Imperial Officers in Canada, 1874–1914 \/ \u003cem\u003eEirik Brazier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Francophone-Anglophone Accommodation in Practice: Liberal Foreign Policy and National Unity between the Wars \/ \u003cem\u003eRobert J. Talbot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Claiming Canada’s King and Queen: Canadians and the 1939 Royal Tour \/ \u003cem\u003eClaire L. Halstead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Hardly British\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 For King or Country? Quebec, the Empire, and the First World War \/ \u003cem\u003eGeoff Keelan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Anti-fascist Strikes and the Patriotic Shield? Canadian Workers and the Employment of “Enemy Aliens” in the Second World War \/ \u003cem\u003eMikhail Bjorge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 First Nations and the British Connection during the Second World War \/ \u003cem\u003eR. Scott Sheffield\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \/ \u003cem\u003eSteve Marti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404941009239,"sku":"9780774860413","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774860413.jpg?v=1730488131","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fighting-with-the-empire-9780774860413","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}