The frontier of patriotism : Alberta and the First World War / / edited by Adriana A. Davies and Jeff Keshen

• Pubblicazione: Calgary, Alberta : , : University of Calgary Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (610 p.)
• Disciplina: 971.2302
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918 - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Alberta History 1905-1945; Alberta History, Military 20th century; Alberta Social conditions 1905-1945; Canada History 1914-1918
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): DaviesAdriana; KeshenJeff
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Series page; Full title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; TIMELINE; SECTION ONE: Albertans at War: The Military; Colour Insert; An Old Soldier Fades Away: Major General Sir Sam Steele in the First World War; Raymond Brutinel and the Genesis of Modern Mechanized Warfare; While You Were Away: Alberta's First World War Aviation History; Building on the Home Front: Armouries and Other Infrastructure; Aboriginal Alberta and the First World War; The Experiences of Lethbridge Men Overseas, 1914-1918; Sid Unwin's War; Alberta Remittance Men in the Great War ; The Effects of the First World War on the Franco-European Immigrants of AlbertaThe Little Institution that Could: The University of Alberta and the First World War; The Gospel of Sacrifice: Lady Principal Nettie Burkholder and Her Boys at the Front; Medical Contributions of Albertans in the First World War: Rising to the Challenge; Harold and Emma McGill: A War-Front Love Story; Private Stephen Smith and His Trench Art Belts; SECTION TWO: The Home Front: Context and Meaning; Enthusiasm Embattled: Alberta 1916; Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War ; "O valiant hearts who to your glory came": Protestant Responses to Alberta's Great WarAlberta Women in the First World War: A Genius for Organization; Armageddon: Alberta Newspapers and the Outbreak of the Great War, 1914; Edmonton's Local Heroes; Voices of War: The Press and the Personal; From Local to National: Pictorial Propaganda in Alberta during the First World War; The Great War and Labour in Alberta; The Great Western Garment Company during the First World War; The Bosworth Expedition: An Early Petroleum Survey; SECTION THREE: Communities at War; Edmonton and the Great War ; The First World War as a Local Experience: Mobilization, Citizen Voluntary Support, and Memorializing the Sacrifice in Lethbridge, AlbertaRed Deer and the First World War; Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau Signature Quilt; Calgary's Grand Theatre in the Great War; Student Life on the University of Alberta Campus during the First World War; Mobilizing Mount Royal: Capturing Campus Contributions to the Great War; Under Siege: The CEF Attack on the RNWMP Barracks in Calgary, October 1916 ; Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple AssociationConscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War; SECTION FOUR: Aftermath; War, Public Health, and the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic in Alberta; Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta; Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917-1931; First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums; APPENDIX; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; Back Cover
• Titolo autorizzato: The frontier of patriotism
• ISBN: 1-55238-836-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910466141103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Beyond boundaries series.