Boosters and Barkers

Financing Canada's Involvement in the First World War

AvDavid Roberts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Studies in Canadian Military History

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"Stick it, Canada! Buy more Victory Bonds." The First World War demanded deep personal sacrifice on the battlefield and on the home front – and it also made unrelenting financial demands. Boosters and Barkers is a highly original examination of the drive to finance Canadian participation in the conflict. David Roberts examines Ottawa's calls for direct public contributions in the form of war bonds; the intersections with imperial funding, taxation, and conventional revenue; and the substantial fiscal implications of participation in the conflict during and after the war. Canada's bond campaigns used print, images, and music to sell both the war and public engagement. They received an astounding response, generating revenue to cover almost a third of the country's total war costs, which were estimated at $6.6 billion – a dramatic charge on a dominion so far from the front. This story is one of inexorable need, shrewd propaganda, resistance, engagement, and long-term consequences.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:700 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Canadian Military History
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774869584
Utmärkelser:Winner of C.P. Stacey Award 2023 (Canada)

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David Roberts is a retired editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. In addition to writing many entries for the DCB, he is also the author of In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. He lives in Don Mills, Ontario.

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"There has been an explosion of material on Canada and the war over the past decade, but the subject of finance, critical as it is, seems to either bore or intimidate most writers and scholars. Roberts, decided to take on this knotty problem, and we're all the winners for it."- Patrice Dutil (Literary Review of Canada) "Moving through each of the war loans with forensic care, Roberts gives readers an inside-the-vault examination of how Canada accomplished the near-impossible feat of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for munitions, clothing, food, and soldiers' wages."- Ron Verzuh (Canada's History)

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart 1: Getting the Money to Finance Canada's War1 Business as Usual, 19142 Inching Toward Innovation, 1915–163 Crises and Victories, 1917–184 Legacies in Peacetime, 1919–20sPart 2: From Broadside to Vaudeville in the War-Loan Campaigns5 The Dominion War Loans, 1915–176 The First Victory Loan, 19177 Pandemic and Peace, 19188 Thrift, War Savings, Markets, and the Clean-Up Campaign of 19199 The Aftermath, 1919–20sPart 3: Newfoundland and the Canadian Connection10 Finance in Newfoundland and the Campaign of 1918Part 4: Consensus and Resistance11 The Limits of PatriotismPart 5: The Images, Sounds, and Words of the War Loans12 Selling through Posters, Cartoons, and Illustrations13 Selling through Film, Theatre, Music, and WordsConclusion Appendixes; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index