One in a Thousand

The Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps

Graham Broad (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781442607460 (ISBN)

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This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching valuable lessons on how to do history: why the past matters, why historians take different approaches, how to pose historical questions, how to identify relevant source materials, and the importance of thoughtful, intelligent, and respectful treatment of historical subjects.

The book includes a timeline of the subject's life, a map of relevant combat areas in the Battle of the Somme, and nine illustrations. It concludes with four unsolved events in McKay's life: a mysterious woman, a strange advertisement for batteries, an empty envelope, and an unknown grave—demonstrating that even a detailed history about one person's life is never really complete.

Graham Broad is an associate professor of History at Kings College at Western University.

Acknowledgements
Timeline
Introduction
Historians and Their Sources

1. To Western and to War: 1892–1916
Historians and Fact Finding
2. Over the Somme: July–October 1916
Triangulation and Reading Against the Grain
3. The Battle, October 28, 1916—March 14, 1917
Mentalité and the Military Past
4. The Choice: March 15–December 28, 1917
Thinking about Thoughts: The Past as a Foreign Country
5. The Letter: January 1918–July 31, 1932
Historians, Historical Ethics, and the End of History

Appendix: The Mysteries
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2017
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781442607460 / 9781442607460
Zustand	Neuware