Skip to main content

Distributed for University of British Columbia Press

Hometown Horizons

Local Responses to Canada’s Great War

Robert Rutherdale considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Drawing on newspaper archives and organizational documents, he examines how farmers near Lethbridge, Alberta, shopkeepers in Guelph, Ontario, and civic workers in Trois-Rivières, Québec took part in local activities that connected their everyday lives to a tumultuous period in history.The making of Canada’s home front, Rutherdale argues, was experienced fundamentally through local means. Hometown Horizons challenges historians to consider the place of everyday modes of communication in forming collective understandings of world events.

360 pages | © 2004


Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Places and Sites

2 Dancing before Death

3 Hierarchies

4 Demonizations

5 Conscription Contested

6 Gendered Fields

7 Men Like Us

8 Beyond Hometown Horizons

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Be the first to know

Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!

Sign up here for updates about the Press