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<p>Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Canadian volunteers came from the province of Ontario. Why were people excited by the prospect of war? What popular attitudes about war had become ingrained in the society? And how had such values become so deeply rooted in a generation of young men that they would be eager to join this 'great adventure'?</p><p>Historian Mark Moss seeks to answer these questions in <I>Manliness and Militarism: Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War</I>. By examining the cult of manliness as it developed in Victorian and Edwardian Ontario, Moss reveals a number of factors that made young men eager to prove their mettle on the battlefields of Europe. Popular juvenile literature — the books of Henty, Haggard, and Kipling, for example, and numerous magazines for boys, such as the <I>Boy's Own Paper</I> and <I>Chums</I> — glorified the military conquests of the British Empire, the bravery of military men, especially Englishmen, and the values of courage and unquestioning patriotism. Those same values were tau

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Author

Moss, Mark

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195415940

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science