Fighting with the Empire

Steve Marti is a First World War historian based in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of the forthcoming book For Home and Empire: Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War, and a co-editor of The Great War: From Memory to History.William John Pratt is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. He has published a variety of articles and book chapters on Canadian military history and Western Canadian history and co-edited several volumes of the University of Calgary History of Medicine Days conference proceedings.

• Introduction / Steve Marti and William John PrattPart 1: Mobility and Mobilization1 Fathers and Sons of Empire: Domesticity, Empire, and Canadian Participation in the Anglo-Boer War / Amy Shaw2 Daughter in My Mother's House, but Mistress in My Own: Questioning Canada's Imperial Relationship through Patriotic Work, 1914–18 / Steve Marti3 Postal Censorship and Canadian Identity in the Second World War / William John PrattPart 2: Persons and Power4 Guardians of Empire? Imperial Officers in Canada, 1874–1914 / Eirik Brazier5 Francophone-Anglophone Accommodation in Practice: Liberal Foreign Policy and National Unity between the Wars / Robert J. Talbot6 Claiming Canada's King and Queen: Canadians and the 1939 Royal Tour / Claire L. HalsteadPart 3: Hardly British7 For King or Country? Quebec, the Empire, and the First World War / Geoff Keelan8 Anti-fascist Strikes and the Patriotic Shield? Canadian Workers and the Employment of "Enemy Aliens" in the Second World War / Mikhail Bjorge9 First Nations and the British Connection during the Second World War / R. Scott SheffieldConclusion / Steve MartiSelected Bibliography; Index

Fighting with the Empire is a wonderful piece of scholarship and should appeal to a broad range of academic interests. - Katelyn Stieva, University of New Brunswick (Canadian Military History)