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"The First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United States. Less often noted, however, is that it was also the cause of a great deal of friction within Canadian society. The fifteen essays contained in Canada and the First World War examine how Canadians experienced the war and how their experiences were shaped by region, politics, gender, class, and nationalism. Editor David MacKenzie has brought together some of the leading voices in Canadian history to take an in-depth look into the tensions and fractures the war caused, and to address the way some attitudes about the country were changed, while others remained the same. The essays vary in scope, but are strongly unified so as to create a collection that treats its subject in a complete and comprehensive manner. Canada and the First World War is a tribute to esteemed University of Toronto historian Robert Craig Brown, one of Canada's greatest authorities on the Great War World War One. The collection is a significant contribution to the on-going re-examination of Canada's experiences in war, and a must-read for students of Canadian history."--

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain zählt zu den schillerndsten Gestalten der Epoche um 1900: Aus einer Familie britischer Kolonialoffiziere stammend, gehörte er seit den 1890er Jahren zum engsten Kreis um Cosima Wagner und die Bayreuther Festspiele. Zur Jahrhundertwende lieferte er dem deutschen Bildungsbürgertum das Standardwerk des modernen, rassisch begründeten Antisemitismus und avancierte damit zum Star-Autor. Fortan nahm er als agiler Publizist und Einflüsterer Kaiser Wilhelms II. Einfluss auf das Zeitge schehen und trommelte im Ersten Weltkrieg für die extreme Rechte und den Sieg Deutschlands als Weltmacht. In den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik unterstützte er aktiv Hitler und die NSDAP, die Chamberlain wiederum als Vordenker der NS-Ideologie verehrten und in ihm den Propheten des "Dritten Reiches" sahen. Sven Fritz legt die bislang umfassendste Biographie dieses äußerst einflussreichen Rechtsintellektuellen vor. Dabei kann er auf Grundlage einer bisher unerreicht breiten Quellenbasis zahlreiche sicher geglaubte Forschungs befunde korrigieren.

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The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The Middle Eastern theater is, at best, considered a sideshow written from the western perspective. This book fills an important gap in the literature by giving an insight through annotated translations from five Ottoman memoirs, previously not available in English, of actors who witnessed the last few years of Turkish presence in the Arab lands. It provides the historical background to many of the crises in the Middle East today, such as the Arab-Israeli confrontation, the conflict-ridden emergence of Syria and Lebanon, the struggle over the holy places of Islam in the Hejaz, and the mutual prejudices of Arabs and Turks about each other.

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In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post-World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.

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