A focused view of an important period in Canadian history, replete with insightful stories, vignettes, and anecdotes, Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators shows Canada flexing its foreign ...policy under King's cautious eye and ultimately ineffective guiding hand.
A nation in conflict Iarocci, Andrew; Keshen, Jeff
A nation in conflict,
2015, 2015, 2016-02-02, 2016-01-27
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The First and Second World Wars were two of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. In Canada, they claimed 110,000 lives and altered both the country's domestic life and its ...international position. A Nation in Conflict is a concise, comparative overview of the Canadian national experience in the two world wars that transformed the nation and its people. With each chapter, military historians Jeffrey A. Keshen and Andrew Iarocci address Canada's contribution to the war and its consequences. Integrating the latest research in military, social, political, and gender history, they examine everything from the front lines to the home front. Was conscription necessary? Did the conflicts change the status of Canadian women? Was Canada's commitment worth the cost? Written both for classroom use and for the general reader, A Nation in Conflict is an accessible introduction to the complexities of Canada's involvement in the twentieth century's most important conflicts.
How did "ordinary women," like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women ...employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the concentration and death camp Majdanek/Lublin in Poland. Many female SS overseers in Majdanek perpetrated violence and terrorized prisoners not only when ordered to do so but also on their own initiative. The social order of the concentration camp, combined with individual propensities, shaped a microcosm in which violence became endemic to workaday life. The author's analysis of Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews illuminates the guards' social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day behavior during free time and on the "job," as they supervised prisoners on work detail and in the cell blocks, conducted roll calls, and "selected" girls and women for death in the gas chambers. Scrutinizing interactions and conflicts among female guards, relations with male colleagues and superiors, and internal hierarchies, FemaleSS Guards and Workaday Violenceshows how work routines, pressure to "resolve problems," material gratification, and Nazi propaganda stressing guards' roles in "creating a new order" heightened female overseers' identification with Nazi policies and radicalized their behavior.
Provides an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in the author's diary between the years 1942 and 1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in ...the Lwow Ghetto, the Janowska Concentration Camp, and in an underground bunker where he and twenty-three other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish farmer and his family. This is a tremendous resource for historians, scholars and those interested in the Holocaust.
Details the relationship between Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe and Prime Minister Mackenzie King, showing how the close association of the two affected Canadian history in many important ways.
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The careers of novelists such as James Michener ("Tales of the South Pacific"), Norman Mailer ("The Naked and the Dead") and James Jones ("The Thin Red Line") were born in the Pacific's scarlet ...tides, while chroniclers such as John Toland ("The Rising Sun") and Samuel Eliot Morison, the U.S. Navy's unofficial historian, left their marks narrating the big picture of America's struggle against the empire of Japan. Mr. Toll writes of one Japanese soldier's shock at the first sight of comrades he helped evacuate from Bougainville Island: "Hardly human beings, they were just skin and bones dressed in military uniform, thin as bamboo sticks.
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