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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Duty to Dissent

Henri Bourassa and the First World War

by (author) Geoff Keelan

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2019
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-), Social History, World War I, Quebec (QC)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774838825
    Publish Date
    Nov 2019
    List Price
    $89.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774838856
    Publish Date
    Nov 2019
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774838832
    Publish Date
    Apr 2020
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassa’s evolving perspective on the war’s meaning and consequences. What emerges is not a simplistic sketch of a local journalist engaged in national debates, as most English Canadians know him, but a fully rendered portrait of a Canadian looking out at the world.

About the author

Matt Symes has worked and taught extensively on the history of war and memory and is co-author of five battlefield guidebooks, including Canadian Battlefields 1915–1918: A Visitor’s Guide. Symes was co-editor (with Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold) of Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp.

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