Enemy aliens, prisoners of war internment in Canada during the Great War
Title:
Enemy aliens, prisoners of war internment in Canada during the Great War
Author:
Kordan, Bohdan S.
ISBN:
9780773523500
9780773570122
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Publication Information:
Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 202 p.) : ill.
Series:
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series 2
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series 2.
Contents:
Nation-Building and the Great War -- Between Ambition and Threat: Canada and the Problem of the Enemy Alien -- Enemy Alien Internment: Obligations and Responsibilities -- The Policy and Practice of Canadian Internment: A Comparative Perspective -- The Prize of War: Internment in the Canadian Rockies -- War, Patriotism, and Internment: The Debate over Otherness -- Prisoners' Rolls.
Abstract:
"In Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear but critical analysis of the complex nature of this experience. Period photographs and first person accounts augment the text, helping to communicate the human drama of the story. A comprehensive roster identifying those interned in the frontier camps of the Rocky Mountains is included."--BOOK JACKET.
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