Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War (Studies in Canadian Military History) - Softcover

Shaw, Amy J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774815949 ISBN 13: 9780774815949

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The First World War’s appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada’s first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those who saw military service as incompatible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of Conscience is the first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.

This book will appeal to readers interested in Canadian military and peace history. The book is also relevant to those concerned with questions of voluntarism and obligation in a democratic society, and issues of gender history and minority freedom and identity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Amy J. Shaw is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774815949
• ISBN 13: 9780774815949
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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