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“readers will find a wealth of information in Hometown Horizons…
Rutherdale has provided a valuable addition to
military and local history in this richly documented and nuanced study on
the multi-faceted effects of the First World War on the Canadian home
front.”
—Jeff Keshen,
University of Ottawa, Canadian Historical Review, December 2005
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Hometown
Horizons
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Local Responses
to Canada's Great War
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(University of British
Columbia Press, 2004)
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360 Pages
Robert Rutherdale (UBC
Press link)
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Reviews
“A readable and engaging
book that adds to our understanding of the impact of the First World War
on Canadian society and to the important place of social discourse,
images, rituals, and imagination in the processes of social communication
and social differentiation.”
—Norman Knowles, Associate
Professor of History, St. Mary’s College
“In the absence of the
national-spanning media of communications that we have come to take for
granted, how do national myths get shared? As Rutherdale
argues, horizons for almost all of Canadians from 1914-1918, and probably
for almost everyone in the world, were defined by their surrounding hills
or plains… A conscientious postmodern, Rutherdale
has brought a fresh perspective to interpreting a major event.”
—Desmond Morton, Department
of History, McGill University, author of Fight or Pay: Soldiers'
Families in the Great War [UBC Press 2004].
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Creating Postwar
Canada sheds light on an under-examined era in Canadian history; it also contributes to the historiography of
nationalism, gender and the family, consumer cultures, and
counter-cultures. It will appeal to historians, students, and readers
interested in postwar Canada and the history of Canadian identity and
culture.
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Creating
Postwar Canada
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Community,
Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975
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(University of British
Columbia Press, 2008)
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448 pages
Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale, Eds. (UBC Press link)
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Postwar Canada
is more complex than stereotypes of Cold War
conformity and sixties rebellion suggest. Creating
Postwar Canada showcases new research that explores how Canadian communities
were imagined and reimagined from the end of the Second World War to the
Oil Crisis of the 1970s.
Contributions
to the first half of the collection consider evolving definitions of the
nation, revealing parallels between nationalist
awakenings in Québec, Acadian New Brunswick, and English Canada.
They examined how Canada was reimagined to include both the Canadian
North and landscapes structured by trade and commerce. By analyzing
debates on shopping hours, professional striptease, the 'provider' role
of fathers, interracial adoption, sexuality on campus, and illegal drug
use, contributors to the second half examine postwar Canada's diverse
symbols and battlegrounds.
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‘Fathers in Multiple Roles:
Assessing Modern Canadian Fatherhood as a Masculine Category’ in
Christopher J. Greig and Wayne J. Martino, eds., Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
(Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2012),
76-98
‘Three Faces of Fatherhood
as a Masculine Category: Tyrants,
Teachers, and Workaholics as “Responsible Family Men” During Canada’s Baby
Boom’ in What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the
Contemporary World (Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 323-48
‘Just Nostalgic Family Men?
Off-the-Job Family Time, Providing, and Oral Histories of Fatherhood
in Postwar Canada, 1945-1975,’ Oral
History Forum d’histoire orale,
Special Issue: Remembering Family,
Analyzing Home: Oral History and the
Family, Vol. 29 (2009): 1-25.
Creating Postwar
Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975, eds., Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale (Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press, 2008)
Hometown
Horizons: Local Responses to Canada's Great War (Vancouver: University of
British Columbia Press, 2004)
'Send-offs During Canada's
Great War: Interpreting Hometown Rituals in Dispatching Home Front
Volunteers,' Histoire sociale/Social History
36 (November 2003): 425-64
'Fatherhood,
Masculinity, and the Good Life During Canada's Baby
Boom, 1945-1965.' Journal of
Family History 24 (July,
1999): 351-373. Reprinted in Readings
in Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 6e, eds., Douglas
R. Francis and Donald B. Smith (Toronto: Nelson Thompson, 2006)
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