"Introduction" by Mark G. McGowan in The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott / Canada's Great War, 1914–1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation by Brian Douglas TennysonThe Great War As I Saw It. Frederick George Scott. Introduction by Mark G. McGowan. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Pp. xliv + 327, $24.95 paperCanada's Great War, 1914–1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation. Brian Douglas Tennyson. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. Pp. xvi + 233, $75.00 cloth

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Jean-Guy Lalande
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
North American ◽  
Great War ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
The Great War ◽  
American Nation

The Nature and Legacy of British Imperial Internment

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-314
Author(s):  
Stefan Manz ◽  
Panikos Panayi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins by highlighting the main findings of the book, including the globalization of internment by the Empire during the Great War and the consequences for individuals and their families, but also the fact that Britain treated those it had incarcerated in a humane way. The chapter examines the return to Germany, its consequences for individuals, and the way in which the German authorities dealt with the former residents of the British Empire. These people, who may not have seen their homeland for decades, made efforts to preserve the memory of their experiences, along with former civilian and military prisoners who came from other states at war with Germany. While the memory of internment may have survived into the interwar years, it disappeared in the second half of the twentieth century, but came back to life in the early twenty-first century, inspired by the centenary of the Great War.

Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Geoff Hayes ◽  
Shane Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Great War ◽  
Canadian Corps ◽  
The Great War

An Anglican Odyssey: The Ecumenical Vision of Canon David John Garland (1864–1939) OBE and his Hidden Christian Agenda for Anzac Day

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
John A. Moses
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Great War

Abstract There is still much unclear about the nature of the origins of Australia’s most respected and hallowed national day, namely Anzac Day, 25 April, and about who was primarily responsible for instituting a day of solemn commemoration for the fallen in the Great War of 1914–18. Much has been written by mostly unqualified would-be ‘authorities’ that is either patently false, uninformed or hostile to the commemoration. This is either because of resentment in some quarters of the distinctly Anglican contribution to the nature of the commemoration or pacifist misunderstanding that the celebration of Anzac Day is somehow a glorification of war. This paper based on original research into the files of the Queensland Anzac Day Commemoration Committee establishes the key role of Canon David John Garland (1864–1939) in shaping a liturgy of civic religion for the day which he hoped would become a means of reminding the population of their calling as part of the British Empire to emphasize the reign of Almighty God over all nations of the earth. That was the hidden Christian agenda in the mind of Canon Garland. Naturally he had his opponents to this objective.

IX. The Seventh Dominion

1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Rose
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Great War ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Seal Of Approval

As a result of the Great War, the Zionist movement came of age. For the first time since its inception as a political organization, Zionism gained a backer of international and worldwide repute. The political charter which Herzl had hawked around the chancelleries of Europe found its consummation in the Balfour Declaration. The British Empire, in its moment of supreme crisis, stamped its seal of approval on the concept of a Jewish National Home in Palestine.

Sydney Professor G.A. Wood and the Great War 1914-1918

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Moses
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Great War ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sermon On The Mount ◽  
The Core ◽  
War Aims ◽  
The University ◽  
The Great War

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a leading Australian scholar at the University of Sydney, concerning the involvement of the British Empire in the Great War of 1914-1918. Design/methodology/approach The author has examined all of Professor Wood’s extant commentaries on the Great War which are held in the archives of the University of Sydney as well as the biographical material on Professor Wood by leading Australian scholars. The methodology and approach is purely empirical. Findings The sources consulted revealed Professor Wood’s deeply held conviction about the importance of Christian values in the formation of political will and his belief that the vocation of politics is a most serious one demanding from statesmen the utmost integrity in striving to ensure justice and freedom, respect for the rights of others and the duty of the strong to protect the weak against unprincipled and ruthless states. Originality/value The paper highlights Professor Wood’s values as derived from the core statements of Jesus of Nazareth such as in the Sermon on the Mount. And as these contrasted greatly with the Machiavellian practice of the imperial German Chancellors from Bismarck onwards, and of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was necessary for the British Empire to oppose German war aims with all the force at its disposal. The paper illustrates the ideological basis from which Wood derived his values.

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