Noah Richler
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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What We Talk About When We Talk About War |
An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and … | Noah Richler | 376 | 2012 | View |
From Introduction |
The author introduces the book’s subject, discussing war, militarism, masculinity, nationalism, and Canadian perceptions/depictions of war in literature, media, and popular culture. | Noah Richler | 35 | 2012 | $3.50 Add |
From The Vimy Effect |
The author discusses militarism and nationalism in Canada, exploring Canadian military history, Vimy Ridge’s special role in Canadian culture, and perceptions of war and military culture. … | Noah Richler | 77 | 2012 | $7.70 Add |
From Warrior Nation |
The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic … | Noah Richler | 80 | 2012 | $8.00 Add |
From Building Schools for Girls |
This chapter discusses Canada’s involvement in the "War on Terror" and the rise of nationalism and militarism that it has inspired. The Canadian government and media’s role … | Noah Richler | 50 | 2012 | $5.00 Add |
From The War Becomes a Mission (Impossible) |
This chapter focuses on Canadian public and military policy and the mythologisation of military history versus the reality of war. It discusses violence in our media and culture, "warrior … | Noah Richler | 61 | 2012 | $6.10 Add |
From What is to be Done? |
The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … | Noah Richler | 46 | 2012 | $4.60 Add |
From Notes and Sources |
Notes and Sources. | Noah Richler | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |