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The ineffable character of "Britishness" has been used, often enigmatically, to describe Canada's distinct cultural flavour within North America. This mysterious quality, writes award-winning writer Jonathan Vance, goes back to the early days of Canadian history, and consists of far more than the sum of early migration patterns. It emerges from a long-standing respect for British liberal ideals and an identification with the British empire. Canada's own unique brand of Britishness evolved over a history of shared military endeavor, as Canadians fought alongside others to defend the ideals that the British Empire was deemed to represent. To understand Canada's history of Britishness, Vance looks into the military past of both countries. The fabric of Canadian life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries owes a great deal to the presence of British military. And this, observes Vance, is a two-way relationship: he reminds us that during the two World Wars, close to a million Canadians travelled to the United Kingdom. In this form of reverse colonialism, Canadians established modest outposts in Britain, and parts of the country were Canadianized. This new, outside-the-box narrative is Jonathan Vance at his best. Beautifully written, based on original research in the true sense of the word, and illustrated with previously unseen materials, this book reveals a side of Canada often forgotten by historians.
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Jonathan Vance is a specialist in Canadian military and cultural history, war and society in the twentieth century, and social memory. From 2000 to 2010 he held the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008. His book Death So Noble won the 1998 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, the 1998 C.P. Stacey Award, and the 1998 Dafoe Book Prize. In 2010, A History of Canadian Culture won the Lela Common Award from the Canadian Authors Association.
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This is more than a book, it documents at the highest professional standards an era and age wherein Canada and Britain stood together. A compelling read that I could not put down, it is much less a war book, and much more a recounting of a period fast disappearing from common knowledge.
For those like myself, whose father trained in England and would never discuss the war (Ortona, Scheldt, N. Africa, after being in the brig when his regiment left for HK...) it fills in so much for me. As scholarship it is measured and restrained; as entertainment it was heart warming and inspirational. The events of those two generations became my own.
A work that will stand for all time around this fateful period in our combined histories as nations.
For those like myself, whose father trained in England and would never discuss the war (Ortona, Scheldt, N. Africa, after being in the brig when his regiment left for HK...) it fills in so much for me. As scholarship it is measured and restrained; as entertainment it was heart warming and inspirational. The events of those two generations became my own.
A work that will stand for all time around this fateful period in our combined histories as nations.
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