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McGill-Queen's University Press, Published 2010. Hardcover, xv, 320 pp.; 27 cm; illustrated with black-and-white archival photographs and two folding maps.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Blue paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, light bumping to edges and corners with mild surface wear and a hint of color loss at extremities. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Color illustrated dust jacket, servicemen aboard a troop train, with a one-inch patch of damp staining at the top edge of the front panel near the spine, mainly visible from the verso; a few small edge nicks and tears, light edge creasing, mild surface wear and some color loss along edges. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.An edited collection on the social history of St John's, Newfoundland, during the Second World War, when the capital of the then-British dominion became North America's first line of defence and found itself occupied by both Canadian and American forces. Drawing on oral-history interviews and archival sources, the contributors reconstruct civilian life in a city where the home front was also the war front, covering the wartime garrison, the children's war, the "friendly invasion," Newfoundland popular culture, and the work of the Canadian Red Cross.Contents: Building a Wartime Landscape; From Defended Harbour to Transatlantic Base; The Children's War; Rethinking the Friendly Invasion; Gate Keeping and Newfoundland Popular Culture; Mona Wilson and the Canadian Red Cross; The Occupation of St John's in Global Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.