Canada's Cultural Mobilization during the First World War and a Case for Canadian War Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20609916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoff Keelan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 377-403 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3755 • E-ISSN: 1710-1093 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/chr.97.3.keelan |
| OpenAlex | W2522424177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article examines Talbot Mercer Papineau's letter to Henri Bourassa and Papineau's impact on Canadian cultural mobilization and its war culture. European historians of the First World War have used the concept of cultural mobilization to understand the lines that connected battlefront and home front and their impact. As evidenced by the recent historiographical review of First World War literature in the pages of the Canadian Historical Review, Canadian scholars ought to adopt a similar framework to unite two literatures that separately focus on the military history and social history of the war. Papineau's 1916 letter provides a glimpse into how a soldier expressed his perspective of the war from the frontlines and participated in the mobilization of Canada's war culture. His writing was a result of his war experience, but Papineau wrote it for a Canadian audience at home, and its wide publication exposed his views to millions across Canada and Britain. Papineau urged Canadian citizens (specifically French Canadians) to support the purpose and value of the war as understood by Canadian soldiers. This article offers Papineau as a case study to encourage a new direction for the Canadian history of the First World War and further work on cultural mobilization and war culture
Economic history · Historiography · Media studies · Mobilization · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The sense of power
The Tragedy of Quebec
The National Press during the First World War
La participation des francophones dans le Corps expéditionnaire canadien (1914–1919)
‘The Great Adventure’
Between Commemoration and History
Expanding the Narrative
Historiographie francophone de la Première Guerre mondiale
Battles of the Imagined Past
Our Glory and Our Grief
State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
Great War, Total War
A righteous cause
Documenting War and Forging Reputations
For All That Was Good, Noble and True’
The Problem of “Nationalism” and “Imperialism” in British Settlement Colonies
Canada and the First World War
Canada 1896-1921
Sabotage, Security, and Border-Crossing Culture
For Kin and County
Be British or be d–d
Presse, censure et propagande en 1914-1918
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |