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Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers' First World War Letters
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Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers' First World War Letters
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The author compares the lives and letters home of two officers serving during the First World War -- English Montrealer Talbot Papineau and British naval reservist Willie Firth. The author writes that "...by the time Papineau anf others of his generation found themselves on the battlefields of Flanders and Northern France, the imperial framework on which was built [Montreal's] the Square Mile's identity and hegemony was caving." P. 354
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Montreal’s Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole
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Toronto, ON
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University of Toronto Press
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2024
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353-379
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en
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978-1-4875-2569-9
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Kenny, Nicolas. “Crossing Imperial Boundaries and Constructing Intimate Linkages: Reading Soldiers’ First World War Letters.” In Montreal’s Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole, edited by Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don Nerbas, 353–379. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2024.
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