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Author: William Beeching
Publisher: [Regina] : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproximately 40,000 women and men from many countries went to Spain in 1936 to join the Spanish Republican army. About 1,440 Canadians formed part of the International Brigade. This document presents an account of the participation of Canadian volunteers in the Spanish civil war.
Author: Marc A. Musick
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007-11-28
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 0253116864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho tends to volunteer and why? What causes attract certain types of volunteers? What motivates people to volunteer? How can volunteers be persuaded to continue their service? Making use of a broad range of survey information to offer a detailed portrait of the volunteer in America, Volunteers provides an important resource for everyone who works with volunteers or is interested in their role in contemporary society. Mark A. Musick and John Wilson address issues of volunteer motivation by focusing on individuals' subjective states, their available resources, and the influence of gender and race. In a section on social context, they reveal how volunteer work is influenced by family relationships and obligations through the impact of schools, churches, and communities. They consider cross-national differences in volunteering and historical trends, and close with consideration of the research on the organization of volunteer work and the consequences of volunteering for the volunteer.
Author: J. L. Hubert Neilson
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 5871806473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Compton Brouwer
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0774826053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEstablished in 1961, the same year as the US Peace Corps, Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) became the first Canadian NGO to undertake development work from a secular stance and in a context of rapid decolonization. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Ruth Compton Brouwer tells the story of a group of young women and men who confronted the complexities of "underdevelopment" in countries such as India and Nigeria and who overcame their initial navet as they sought to fit into their host communities. Later, as returned volunteers, they brought unique skills to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and other development organizations and a new level of global consciousness and cultural diversity to Canadian society.
Author: Tyler Wentzell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-01-31
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1487522886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. He is most well-known for commanding the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion during the Spanish Civil War.
Author: Nic Clarke
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0774828919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada’s first casualties of the Great War – men who tried to enlist but were deemed “unfit for service” by medical examiners. Condemned as shirkers for not being in uniform, rejected volunteers faced severe ostracism. Nagging guilt, coupled with self-doubt about their social and physical worth, led many of these men to divorce themselves from society ... or worse. Nic Clarke draws on the service files of 3,400 rejected volunteers to examine the deleterious effects that socially constructed norms of health and fitness had on individual men and Canadian society. He considers the mechanics of the military medical examination, the psychical and psychological characteristics that the authorities believed made a fighting man, and how evaluations changed as the war dragged on. He also brings to light the experiences of those who deliberately claimed disability to avoid service – a minority within the large population of rejected volunteers who felt denigrated, if not emasculated, by their exclusion from duty.
Author: Michael Petrou
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2008-03-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0774858281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1936 and 1939, almost 1,700 Canadians defied their government and volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. They left behind punishing lives in Canadian relief camps, mines, and urban flophouses to confront fascism in a country few knew much about. Michael Petrou has drawn on recently declassified archival material, interviewed surviving Canadian veterans, and visited the battlefields of Spain to write the definitive account of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. Renegades is an intimate and unflinching story of idealism and courage, duplicity and defeat.
Author: Bernd Horn
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1550026127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays underlines the reality that the "Canadian way of war" is a direct reflection of circumstances and political will.
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Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9781857039108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates the enormous range of opportunites that exist around the world. There is something for everyone. - from the Foreword by Richard Branson
Author: Raanan Rein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9004462546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together some of the best new works on armed Jews in the Americas. Links between Jews and their ties to weapons are addressed through multiple cultural, political, social, and ideological contexts, thus breaking down longstanding, stilted myths in many societies about Jews and weaponry.
