Preface
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Introduction

Section One: Conscription

1. "To win, at any cost": Politics and Manpower Policies, 1917
2. Conscription in the Great War
3. The Conservative Party and Conscription in the Second World War
4. The York South By-Election of February 9, 1942: A Turning Point in Canadian Politics
5. The "Hard" Obligations of Citizenship: The Second World War in Canada
6. Conscription and My Politics

Section Two: Diplomacy

7. "A Self-Evident National Duty": Canadian Foreign Policy, 1935-1939 (with Robert Bothwell)
8. Mackenzie King and Canada at Ogdensburg, August 1940
9. The Hyde Park Declaration 1941: Origins and Significance (with R.D. Cuff)
10. The Man Who Wasn't There: Mackenzie King, Canada, and the Atlantic Charter
11. Happily on the Margins: Mackenzie King and Canada at the Quebec Conferences

Section Three: Politics

12. Financing the Liberal Party, 1935-1945
13. King and His Cabinet: The War Years
14. The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version (with Gregory A. Johnson)
15. Arming the Nation: Canada's Industrial War Effort, 1939-1945

Section Four: Reflections

16. A Half-Century On: The Veterans' Experience
17. "What Is to Be Done?": The Future of Canadian Second World War History
18. Thirty Years in the Trenches: A Military Historian's Report on the War between Teaching and Research