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Unwanted warriors : The rejected volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force / Nic Clarke.
- Title
- Unwanted warriors : The rejected volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force / Nic Clarke.
- Author
- Clarke, Nic
- Publication
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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| Text | Request in advance | UB325.C2 C53 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 239 pages : black and white illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada's first casualties of the Great War--men who tried to enlist but were deemed "unfit for service." What impact did military exclusion have on these men? Nic Clarke looks for answers in the service files of 3,400 rejected volunteers and explores the mechanics of the medical examination, the physical and psychological qualities that the authorities believed made a fighting man, and how evaluations changed as the war dragged on. In the process, he exposes the deleterious effects that socially constructed norms about health and fitness had on individual men and Canadian society during the First World War."--
- Series Statement
- Studies in Canadian military history
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Canadian military history
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Armies > Canada > History > 20th century
- Canada
- Canada. Canadian Expeditionary Force > History > 20th century
- Canada. Canadian Expeditionary Force > History > World War, 1914-1918
- Canada. Canadian Expeditionary Force > Recruiting, enlistment, etc. > World War, 1914-1918
- Military service, Voluntary > Canada > History > 20th century
- Physical Examination
- Physical Fitness
- Soldiers > History
- World War, 1914-1918 > Canada
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-230) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Grading blocks of meat : the fit and the unfit -- No longer cause for rejection -- An imperfect system -- Clashing concepts of fitness -- Not visibly different : describing the rejected -- Uncounted casualties : the costs of rejection -- Claiming disability to avoid military service.
- ISBN
- 9780774828888 (bound)
- 0774828889 (bound)
- 9780774828901 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780774828918 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015490679
- OCLC
- 909085213
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library