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Author | : Jeffrey A. Keshen |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774850825 |
It was the “Good War.” Its cause was just; it ended the depression; and Canada’s contribution was nothing less than stellar. Canadians had every reason to applaud themselves, and the heroes that made the nation proud. But the dark truth was that not all Canadians were saints or soldiers. Indeed, many were sinners. In this eye-opening and captivating reassessment of Canadian commitment to the cause, some disturbing questions come to light. Were citizens working as hard as possible to back the war effort? Was there illegal profiting from the conflict? Did Canadian society suffer from a general decline of “morality” during the war? Would women truly “back the attack” in new factory jobs and the military, and then quietly return home? Would unattended youth produce a crisis with juvenile delinquency? How would Canada reintegrate a million veterans who, policy-makers feared, would create a social crisis if treated like their Great War counterparts? The first-ever synthesis of both the patriotic and the problematic in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers shows how moral and social changes, and the fears they generated, precipitated numerous, and often contradictory, legacies in law and society. From labour conflicts, to the black market, to prostitution, and beyond, Keshen acknowledges the underbelly of Canada’s Second World War, and demonstrates that the “Good War” was a complex tapestry of social forces – not all of which were above reproach.
Author | : Rita Katz |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231555083 |
Winner, 2022 Nellie Bly Book Award, Chanticleer International Book Awards More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of the jihadist militants she spent her days monitoring, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid attention to the Far Right. Now, years of attacks committed by extremists radicalized online—including mass murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as the Capitol siege—have brought home the danger. How has the internet shaped today’s threats, and what do the online origins of these movements reveal about how to stop them? In Saints and Soldiers, Katz reveals a new generation of terrorist movements that don’t just use the internet, but exist almost entirely on it. She provides a vivid view from the trenches, spanning edgy video game chat groups to what ISIS and Far-Right mass-shooters in El Paso, Orlando and elsewhere unwittingly reveal between the lines of their manifestos. Katz shows how the online cultures of these movements—far more than their ideologies and leaders—create today’s terrorists and shape how they commit “real world” violence. From ISIS to QAnon, Saints and Soldiers pinpoints the approaches needed for a new era in which arrests and military campaigns alone cannot stop these never-before-seen threats.
Author | : Ray Filby |
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Release | : 2016-01-09 |
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ISBN | : 9780995506909 |
Fictional backgrounds of some of the minor biblical characters whom Jesus and St. Paul encountered during their ministries. These backgrounds make these characters more than mere walk-on parts but real people whose needs Jesus was able to meet through his teaching or miracles.. Bible passages and study questions are included.
Author | : Edna O'Brien |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316175501 |
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity. In Send My Roots Rain, Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O'Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.
Author | : Charles Lamont Gunderson |
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Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
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Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Alban Goodier |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780898704631 |
Author | : Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
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Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : 9780807112441 |
Author | : Mrs. Armel O'Connor |
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Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : Andrew Iarocci |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442624493 |
The First and Second World Wars were two of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. In Canada, they claimed 110,000 lives and altered both the country’s domestic life and its international position. A Nation in Conflict is a concise, comparative overview of the Canadian national experience in the two world wars that transformed the nation and its people. With each chapter, military historians Jeffrey A. Keshen and Andrew Iarocci address Canada’s contribution to the war and its consequences. Integrating the latest research in military, social, political, and gender history, they examine everything from the front lines to the home front. Was conscription necessary? Did the conflicts change the status of Canadian women? Was Canada’s commitment worth the cost? Written both for classroom use and for the general reader, A Nation in Conflict is an accessible introduction to the complexities of Canada’s involvement in the twentieth century’s most important conflicts.