Manliness and Militarism : Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War /
Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Canadian volunteers came from the province of Ontario. Why were people excited by the prospect of war? Wha...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Historical foundations: imperialism and militarism
- Ideas, myths, and the 'modern' state
- The culture of reading
- The politicization of schooling
- Making boys into men
- At play in the fields of the empire
- Conclusion.