The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War - Softcover

McKay, Ian; Swift, Jamie

 
9781771132756: The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

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The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history-combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art-explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University and the author of the award-winningReasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890 1920 and the co-author ofWarrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in the Age of Anxiety.

Kingston writer Jamie Swift is the author of numerous books. He works on social justice issues for the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul and lectures at the Smith School of Business at Queen s University

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