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Duty to Dissent: Henri Bourassa and the First World War

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  • ISBN 9780774838825
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
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During the First World War, Henri Bourassa fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec took centre stage in the national debates on Canadas participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canadas place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassas voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassas evolving perspective on the wars meaning and consequences. What emerges is not a simplistic sketch of a local journalist engaged in national debates, as most English Canadians know him, but a fully rendered portrait of a Canadian looking out at the world.

By situating Bourassa within a larger panorama that connects him to prominent war resisters from around the globe, Keelan offers fresh insight into one of Canadas most influential historical figures, reshaping our understanding of why Quebecs position on the Great War differed so radically from the rest of Canada.
About Geoff Keelan
Geoff Keelan received a doctorate from the University of Waterloo, was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University, and works at Library and Archives Canada as an access archivist. He has published articles on Canada, Quebec, and the First World War in the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, and Canadian Military History.