Histoire sociale / Social History
Special Issue on “Canada’s Great War: 100 Years On”

Social historians in Canada have increasingly come to see the Great War as a significant social phenomenon, nationally, imperially, culturally, politically, economically, demographically and globally. As we approach the centenary of the Great War in 2014, Histoire sociale/Social History would like to publish a special issue that integrates military studies with social history to interrogate the effects of the Great War on men, women, children, families, labourers, ethnic minorities, and Aboriginal peoples. We invite papers from any subfield of social history, whether studies of home, work, volunteerism, or life on the European battlefield, for this special issue entitled “Canada’s Great War: 100 Years On”, to be published in May 2014.

Through this special issue, we hope to revisit the complex social worlds of wartime Canada, welcoming studies on wartime mobilization, internment, reconstruction, women’s war work, Veteran’s Affairs, or the gendered underpinnings of the Military Voters and Wartime Election Acts. Any paper that is innovative in interpretation, sources, and method and that interrogates the social history of the Great War will be considered.

The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2013.

Authors are invited to visit the journal’s website for presentation guidelines and send their submissions in electronic format – an e-mail attachment in Word is preferred – to the following address:

Histoire Sociale / Social History
Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
Email: hssh@uottawa.ca
Website: http://www.hssh.uottawa.ca

Guest Editors: Jeffrey Keshen and Jarett Henderson, Mount Royal University