For Home and Empire

Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand During the First World War

Steve Marti (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2019
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774861205 (ISBN)

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For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization across the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. As communities organized to raise recruits or donate funds, 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.

Steve Marti is a historian based in Kingston, Ontario. He is a co-editor of The Great War: From Memory to History and Fighting with the Empire: Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867–1947.

Introduction

1 Dominion over War: Local Volunteers, Dominion Mobilization, and the Imperial War Effort

2 Hands across the Sea: Greater Britain, New France, and the Ties to Home and Homeland

3 Far from Home: Race and the Boundaries of Communal Mobilization

4 Aliens or Allies: Southern and Eastern European Immigrants and the Bonds of Military Service

5 As Obsolete as the Buffalo and the Tomahawk: Assimilation, Autonomy, and the Mobilization of Indigenous Communities

Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Canadian Military History
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w photos, 2 illus., 3 maps
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-13	9780774861205 / 9780774861205
Zustand	Neuware