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Author Cook, Tim, 1971-

Title Clio's warriors : Canadian historians and the writing of the world wars / Tim Cook
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Series Studies in Canadian military history, 1499-6251 ; 10
Studies in Canadian military history ; 10.
Contents Documenting war and forging reputations, 1914-18 -- The war of reputations, 1918-39 -- Clio in the service of Mars, 1939-45 -- History wars and war history, 1945-48 -- Official history, contested memory, 1948-60 -- Forging the canon of Canadian World War history, 1960-2000
Summary "Clio's Warriors examines how the Canadian world war experience has been constructed and reconstructed over time. Tim Cook elucidates the role of historians in codifying the sacrifice and struggle of a generation as he discusses historical memory and writing, the creation of archives, and the war of reputations that followed each of the world wars."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-306) and index
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Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada -- Historiography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Historiography
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Historiography
Weltkrieg 1914-1918
Geschichtsschreibung
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
Weltkriege
Canada
Kanada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774855051
0774855053
1282741012
9781282741010
9786612741012
6612741015