For home and empire : voluntary mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War /
For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization across the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand home fronts. It draws together case studies from the dominion home fronts to build a history of nations and empire in wartime. In the First World War, dominion governments...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in Canadian military history.
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| Summary: | For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization across the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand home fronts. It draws together case studies from the dominion home fronts to build a history of nations and empire in wartime. In the First World War, dominion governments relied heavily on voluntary efforts to support the expansion of their skeletal peacetime armies into formidable expeditionary forces. Communities organized to raise recruits, donate funds and provide supplies ranging from a pair of socks to an airplane. Their efforts strengthened communal bonds, but they also reinforced class, race and gender boundaries. Which jurisdiction should provide for a soldier's wife if she moved from Hobart to northern Tasmania? Should Welsh women in Vancouver purchase comforts for local soldiers or for Welsh soldiers in the British Army? Should Māori volunteers enlist with their home regiment or with a separate battalion? Voluntary efforts reflected how community members understood their relationship to one another, to their dominion and to the Empire. Steve Marti examines the motives and actions of those involved in the voluntary war effort, applying the framework of settler colonialism to reveal the geographical and social divides that separated communities as they organized for war. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 201 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774861205 0774861207 |