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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Vimy trap, or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War
  title info:
    title: How we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War
  name:
    name part: McKay, Ian
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Swift, Jamie
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. 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."--
  table of contents: Prologue: "the dead on the field" -- Myths, memories, and a creation story -- A great war of attrition and futility: a capsule history -- In the wake of war: experiencing and remembering -- The wounds of memory, the push for peace -- The contested politics of peace and war -- Sculpting the jagged edges of war: momentous questions, monumental decisions -- The long and winding road to vimyism -- Vimy: the emerging myth -- The landscapes of great war memory.
  note: Ian McKay and Jamie Swift.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-357) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Collective memory
    geographic: Canada
  classification: D545.V5 M28 2016
  classification: 940.4/31
  identifier: 9781771132756
  identifier: 1771132752
  identifier: 9781771132763
  identifier: 1771132760
  identifier: 9781771132770
  identifier: 1771132779
  identifier: 2016497878
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 170217
    record change date: 20170926120245.0
    record identifier: in00003874063
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng