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McKay, Ian, 1953-
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Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Collective memory -- Canada.
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McKay, Ian, 1953-
Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Collective memory -- Canada.
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The Vimy trap or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War / Ian McKay and Jamie Swift.
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McKay, Ian, 1953-
Between the Lines, 2016.
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940
.431
F583v
Subjects
Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Collective memory -- Canada.
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9781771132756 (pbk.)
Description:
372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. "Vimyism" - today's official story of glorious, martial patriotism, contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history - combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art - explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory. Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University and the author of Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 and the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in the Age of Anxiety. Kingston writer Jamie Swift works on social justice issues for the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul"--Provided by publisher.
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Swift, Jamie, 1951-
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