The Great Canadian Machine Gun Mania of 1915
The Public, the Press, and Government Decision Making in Procuring Machine Guns for the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6066470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cameron Pulsifer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 91 |
| Pages | 91-120 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Histoire sociale (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2257 • E-ISSN: 1918-6576 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/his.2013.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W282706589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Following the first entry of Canadian troops into battle at 2nd Ypres in April 1915, the machine gun for a time dominated public and political discussion in Canada. Both the Canadian public and the government determined that they needed to do all that they could to get as many of these weapons into the hands of Canadian troops as possible. An examination of this phenomenon reveals much about the mood of the Canadian public and the difficulties experienced by the government as both came to realize in a more urgent sense than ever before just would be involved in waging a war of a scale and intensity that few had conceived of
Battle · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |