The Apathetic and the Defiant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Apathetic and the Defiant write by Craig Leslie Mantle. This book was released on 2007. The Apathetic and the Defiant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the War of 1812 to the First World War, this book reveals that disobedience has marked all of the major conflicts in which Canada has participated.
Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919
Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919 write by Brian Douglas Tennyson. This book was released on 2017-11-21. Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth historical study of Nova Scotia’s role in WWI and its lingering impact on the region, its people, and its economy. Though the First World War ended in 1918, it continued to haunt Canada for generations. In Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson examines what was, for the people of Canada, an unprecedented period collective military trauma. As Tennyson demonstrates, the war effort didn’t end with the brave soldiers and sailors who went overseas. It also touched the lives of civilians who worked in the fishery, on the farms, and in the forests, coals mines, and steel mills. A specialist in early twentieth-century Canadian political history, Tennyson examines the economic impact of the war with incisive clarity. In an often overlooked cost of the conflict, it shattered Nova Scotia's dream of becoming the Atlantic gateway and the industrial heartland of Canada. This volume includes 30 black and white photos.
Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle
Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle write by Alan Bowker. This book was released on 2015-12-07. Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the rise of Canada on the world stage, which Leacock profiled with keen wit and observational skill. With Bowker as your guide, explore what it was really like to live through the great upheaval that pushed Canada to come into its own on the world stage. A Time Such as There Never Was Before Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, and its end was supposed to bring a world made new. But the conflict had cost sixty thousand Canadian lives, with many more wounded, and had stirred up divisions in the young, diverse country. With Canada struggling to define itself, labour, farmers, business, the church, social reformers, and minorities all held extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. Whose hopes would be realized, and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today. On the Front Line of Life In the last decade of his life, Stephen Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address issues he cared about most — education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world — and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intelligent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress.
Death Or Deliverance
Death Or Deliverance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Or Deliverance write by Teresa Iacobelli. This book was released on 2013-08-27. Death Or Deliverance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as brutal and inflexible, and social memories of this system of frontline justice have inspired modern movements to seek pardons for soldiers executed on the battlefield. In this powerful and moving book, Teresa Iacobelli looks beyond stories of callous generals and quick executions to consider the trials of nearly two hundred soldiers who were sentenced to death but spared by a disciplinary system capable of thoughtful review and compassion. By bringing to light these men's experiences, Death or Deliverance reconsiders an important chapter in the history of both a war and a nation.
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
A Time Such as There Never Was Before - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Time Such as There Never Was Before write by Alan Bowker. This book was released on 2014-08-19. A Time Such as There Never Was Before available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.
