Description
Book SynopsisAlive with personal stories, this book considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War.
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Hometown Horizons ... Rutherdale has provided a valuable addition to military and local history in this richly documented and nuanced study on the multi-faceted effects of the First World War on the Canadian home front. -- Jeff Keshen, University of Ottawa * Canadian Historical Review *
Robert Rutherdale’s
Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada’s Great War is an important work that contributes to a social and cultural understanding of the war. … This book stands out in the literature by offering a microscopic view of the struggle. … Overall, Rutherdale’s book is important in the uniqueness of its localized approach. It offers a wealth of information and the depth of the author’s research is impressive. Individuals from each community are brought to life and this work goes a long way in highlighting the importance of the local response to the Great War.
Hometown Horizons is useful not only within the historiography of the First World War but also within the study of French-English relations, gender history, and rural and urban history in Canada. * Canadian Military History, Spring 2007 1/1/2007 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Places and Sites
2 Dancing before Death
3 Hierarchies
4 Demonizations
5 Conscription Contested
6 Gendered Fields
7 Men Like Us
8 Beyond Hometown Horizons
Notes
Bibliography
Index
