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The 'Spanish' influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty thousand Canadians died. In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First World War, arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history ultimately challenged traditional ideas about disease and public health governance. Using federal, provincial, and municipal archival sources, newspapers, and newly discovered military records - as well as original epidemiological studies - Humphries' sweeping national study situates the flu within a larger social, political, and military context for the first time. His provocative conclusion is that the 1918 flu crisis had important long-term consequences at the national level, ushering in the 'modern' era of public health in Canada.

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Public health --- Disease management --- Medical policy --- Influenza, Human --- Government Regulation --- Health Policy --- History, 20th Century --- Pandemics --- History --- Social aspects --- Health aspects --- Political aspects --- history --- Canada.

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More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differently than other Commonwealth soldiers? A Weary Road is the first comprehensive study to address these important questions. Author Mark Osborne Humphries uses research from Canadian, British and Australian archives, including hundreds of newly available hospital records and patient medical files, to provide a history of war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed by ordinary soldiers.

War neuroses --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Treatment. --- Medical care --- Canada. --- Canada. --- Canada. --- Canada --- Canadian army. --- Canadian military history. --- Great War. --- PTSD. --- WWI. --- World War I. --- World War One. --- combat stress. --- medical history. --- militia. --- shell shock. --- soldiers. --- trauma. --- trench warfare.

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"Der Weltkrieg" is the untold story of Germany's experience on the Western front, in the words of its official historians, making it vital to the study of the war.

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Campagnes et batailles --- Campaigns --- History