The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Cook, Tim
The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Cook, Tim

The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by...
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The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Cook, Tim

The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

$278.76
The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Cook, Tim

The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War

$278.76
Author: Tim Cook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years.

The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony.

The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in society--more so than in the previous war--as well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance.

The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events.

Author: Tim Cook
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780735238374

About the Author
TIM COOK is the Great War historian at the Canadian War Museum, as well as an adjunct professor at Carleton University. In 2008 he won the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End and again in 2018 for Vimy. Shock Troops won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. In 2013, Cook received the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history. He is a Member of the Order of Canada.
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