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Education History

Cultures, Communities, and Conflict

Histories of Canadian Universities and War

by (author) Paul Stortz & E. Lisa Panayotidis

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2012
Category
History, Canada, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442645431
    Publish Date
    Nov 2012
    List Price
    $85.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442664470
    Publish Date
    Nov 2012
    List Price
    $71.00

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Cultures, Communities, and Conflict offers provocative, cutting-edge perspectives on the history of English-Canadian universities and war in the twentieth century. The contributors explore how universities contributed not only to Canadian war efforts, but to forging multiple understandings of intellectualism, academia, and community within an evolving Canadian nation.

Contributing to the social, intellectual, and academic history of universities, the collection provides rich approaches to integral issues at the intersection of higher education and wartime, including academic freedom, gender, peace and activism on campus, and the challenges of ethnic diversity. The contributors place the historical university in several contexts, not the least of which is the university’s substantial power to construct and transform intellectual discourse and promote efforts for change both on- and off-campus.

With its diverse research methodologies and its strong thematic structure, Cultures, Communities, and Conflict provides an energetic basis for new understandings of universities as historical partners in Canadian community and state formation.

About the authors

Paul Stortz is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary.

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E. Lisa Panayotidis is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary.

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