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245 10 a| No place like home :b| enemy alien internment in Canada during the Great War /c| Bohdan S. Kordan.;

300 a| xii, 193 pages ;c| 22 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| The Trouble with Home: Canadian Internment during the Great War -- The Predicament of Belonging: The Status of Enemy Aliens in Canada, 1914 -- Security and the Outsider: Managing the Enemy Alien Problem in Canada, 1914 -- Enemy Alien Internment and the Blurring of the Military/Civilian Distinction: Rights, Treatment, Diplomacy -- "Get Out and Stay Out": British Columbia and the Social-Political Dynamics of the Enemy Alien Issue -- A Mountain Requiem: Internment in Canada's Rocky Mountains National Park, 1915-17 -- Kapuskasing: Internment on Ontario's Northern Frontier, 1915-20.;

520 a| "No Place Like Home chronicles a little-known episode in Canada's national history: when internment was first employed during the Great War under the War Measures Act. Highlighting the problem of immigrant fit and belonging, Bohdan Kordan shows how legal, political, and cultural frameworks modelled an understanding of the role and place of immigrants originating from enemy lands and how, amid the economic, social, and political uncertainties of war, internment as an instrument of security policy and a political choice altered the lives of thousands of innocent people. No Place Like Home brings to the fore new perspectives on both Canadian internment and the role and responsibility of government in war. Focusing on the status of enemy aliens and the blurring of the military/civilian distinction, the book also takes a broader social view of the period and offers a critical assessment of the various camp experiences. Kordan articulates how internment, truly known only to those who endured it, can still have deeper meaning as shared history and enlists compelling reasons to comprehend and honour it. Bohdan S. Kordan is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and the co-author of Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis."--c| Provided by publisher.;

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No place like home : enemy alien internment in Canada during the Great War / Bohdan S. Kordan.

Author/creator	Kordan, Bohdan S. author
Format	Book
Publication	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025]
Description	xii, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, Canadian. Internment camps--Canada. --History. --20th century. Prisoners of war--Canada. --History. --20th century.

Contents	The Trouble with Home: Canadian Internment during the Great War -- The Predicament of Belonging: The Status of Enemy Aliens in Canada, 1914 -- Security and the Outsider: Managing the Enemy Alien Problem in Canada, 1914 -- Enemy Alien Internment and the Blurring of the Military/Civilian Distinction: Rights, Treatment, Diplomacy -- "Get Out and Stay Out": British Columbia and the Social-Political Dynamics of the Enemy Alien Issue -- A Mountain Requiem: Internment in Canada's Rocky Mountains National Park, 1915-17 -- Kapuskasing: Internment on Ontario's Northern Frontier, 1915-20.
Abstract	"No Place Like Home chronicles a little-known episode in Canada's national history: when internment was first employed during the Great War under the War Measures Act. Highlighting the problem of immigrant fit and belonging, Bohdan Kordan shows how legal, political, and cultural frameworks modelled an understanding of the role and place of immigrants originating from enemy lands and how, amid the economic, social, and political uncertainties of war, internment as an instrument of security policy and a political choice altered the lives of thousands of innocent people. No Place Like Home brings to the fore new perspectives on both Canadian internment and the role and responsibility of government in war. Focusing on the status of enemy aliens and the blurring of the military/civilian distinction, the book also takes a broader social view of the period and offers a critical assessment of the various camp experiences. Kordan articulates how internment, truly known only to those who endured it, can still have deeper meaning as shared history and enlists compelling reasons to comprehend and honour it. Bohdan S. Kordan is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and the co-author of Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other forms	Issued also in electronic format.
Issued in other form	Online version: Kordan, Bohdan S. No place like home. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025 0228025311 9780228025313
ISBN	9780228024675
ISBN	0228024676

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