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For Home and Empire

For Home and Empire

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

by Steve Marti

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Studies in Canadian Military History

Imprint: UBC Press

12 b&w photos, 2 illus., 3 maps

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9780774861229
Published: October 2019

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9780774861236
Published: October 2019

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This book will appeal not only to historians of the First World War and the British Empire but also to those with an interest in settler colonialism, voluntary action, and war and society in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

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

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.

Steve Marti’s lively and informative monograph For Home and Empire: Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War will be a worthwhile addition to the reading list of anyone interested in understanding the impact of the Great War on the British Empire. ~Patrick H. Brennan, Canadian Journal of History

Marti weaves together multiple strands of historiography to present fresh insights into the wartime societies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada...[his] level of detail and meticulously supported arguments offer little room for critique. ~Jordan Beavis, University of Newcastle, Australia, Canadian Military History

Marti’s research is impressive and suggestive, and the comparative approach will add substantially to further efforts to understand the Great War in the British Dominions. ~J.L. Grantastein, CHOICE Connect