{"product_id":"wars-of-conviction-a-history-of-canadian-transnational-fighters-hardback-9780228027829","title":"Wars of Conviction; A History of Canadian Transnational Fighters (Hardback) 9780228027829","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWars of Conviction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Canadian Transnational Fighters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTim Cook (Edited by), Adrian Shubert (Edited by), Marcel Martel (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780228027829\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 July 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages, 15 photos, 2 diagrams\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.568 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This volume is fantastic. It marshals an excellent cast of contributors and will appeal broadly to Canadian, military, and public historians, as well as those studying transnational movements.” - Asa McKercher, co-author of \u003ci\u003eCanada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the more remarkable strengths of this ambitious book is how it explores the great variety of motivations and experiences of Canadian individuals involved in transnational fighting.” - John MacFarlane, author of \u003ci\u003eTriquet’s Cross: A Study of Military Heroism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This original volume is the first to draw together the histories of Canadian transnational fighters across numerous conflicts. It will interest those curious about Canadian history, the history of modern warfare, and how states and non-state fighters interact.” - Jennifer Wellington, author of \u003ci\u003eExhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1867 Alfred LaRocque, a young Quebecker, left home to defend the papacy in Rome. In 1937 journalist and communist Jean Watts travelled to Spain to cover the civil war. In 2023 former corporal Kyle Porter took up arms in Ukraine. Separated by time and cause, the three share a bond with tens of thousands of Canadians who fought, assisted, or died defending other nations or oppressed peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories of transnational fighters complicate Canada’s familiar war narrative, illuminating the motivations and passions that drove people to fight abroad and the legal and political legacies that followed them home. Spanning 150 years, \u003ci\u003eWars of Conviction\u003c\/i\u003e explores who fought, why they did so, and what they experienced during and after battle. Canadians’ decisions to take up arms in the Papal Zouaves, the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, Vietnam, Syria, and Ukraine provoked both admiration and outrage, invited state scrutiny, and sparked enduring debate over how such fighters should be commemorated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deftly sketched portrait of the fighters that committed to making foreign wars their own, this volume unsettles military history to better understand an uncertain present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures vii\u003cbr\u003eTribute and Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWars of Conviction: A History of Canadian Transnational Fighters, an Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003eTim Cook, Adrian Shubert, and Marcel Martel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Getting Started\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 A Tradition Without National Boundaries: The Legacy of Foreign War Volunteering 27\u003cbr\u003eDavid Malet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Canada’s Transnational Fighters 45\u003cbr\u003eTim Cook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Fighting Abroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Fighting in His Father’s Shadow: Lance Corporal Richard Paul Dextraze, Canada’s Highest-Profile Foreign Volunteer Casualty in the Vietnam War 79\u003cbr\u003eSean J. McLaughlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 A Revolutionary in Spite of Herself: Jean Ewen in China, 1938–1939 94\u003cbr\u003eLarry Hannant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Feminizing Foreign Fighters? Canadian Nurses Serving Foreign Forces 111\u003cbr\u003eKathryn McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Canada’s Foreign Fighter Laws in Historical Perspective 130\u003cbr\u003eTyler Wentzell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 God’s Army: The Story of the Canadian Pontifical Zouaves 146\u003cbr\u003eJean-Philippe Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Orwell’s Children: Canadian Volunteers Who Fought Fascism in Spain and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq 160\u003cbr\u003eMichael Petrou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Canadian Jihadist Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: What Happened, Who Are They, and What Now? 176\u003cbr\u003eAmarnath Amarasingam and Morgan Fox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Remembering and Commemorating\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 “A Struggle Between Beautiful Right and Ugly Wrong”: How Its Canadian Veterans Viewed the American Civil War 193\u003cbr\u003eScott A. MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 We Were Not Mercenaries; We Were Fighting for Democracy: Canadian Veterans of the Spanish Civil War and Their Long Quest for Public Recognition 208\u003cbr\u003eMargrethe McKoen and Marcel Martel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 Remembering the “Forgotten Wars”: An Experimental Survey on Canadian War Memorials 226\u003cbr\u003eEun Seon Bae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 Telling Canadian Stories of the American Civil War: Exhibition Development at the Canadian War Museum 243\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Foran and Claire Champ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 A Virtual Museum for the Spanish Civil War, and Beyond 260\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Adrian Shubert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors 277\u003cbr\u003eIndex 283\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676620255512,"sku":"9780228027829","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wars-of-conviction-a-history-of-canadian-transnational-fighters-hardback-9780228027829","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}