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Turning Point 1917 Turning Point 1917 The British Empire at War Edited by Douglas E. Delaney and Nikolas Gardner IN MEMORY OF OUR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE, KEITH NEILSON Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Turning Points and Tapestries Douglas E. Delaney and Nikolas Gardner 1 Never Over by Christmas: Meeting the Challenges of Interminable War William Philpott 2 The Blockade in 1917 Keith Neilson 3 The Imperial Munitions Board and Merchant Shipbuilding in Canada Chris Madsen and Michael Moir 4 A Question of Command: GHQ and the Dominions, 1917 Ian F.W. Beckett 5 The Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1917 Jeffrey Grey 6 “The Willing Horse Is Being Worked to Death”: New Zealand’s Manpower Problems and Policies during 1917 John Crawford 7 The Africanization of British Imperial Forces in the East African Campaign Tim Stapleton 8 Vimy’s Consequence: The Montreal Anti-Conscription Disturbances, May to September 1917 Serge Marc Durflinger 9 The British Media and the Image of the Empire in 1917 Mark Connelly A Few Concluding Remarks Douglas E. Delaney and Nikolas Gardner Selected Bibliography Contributors Index Acknowledgments This book would not have come to fruition without considerable assistance from numerous individuals and organizations. To start, a connection grant through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) provided the funding to assemble a distinguished group of scholars from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in November 2014, for what really amounted to a mini-workshop for the volume. At RMC, we are grateful to the head of history, Jim Kenny, for his support in this endeavour, and we would also like to thank Catherine St. Georges, Suzanne Robertson, and Mary-Anne Smith for making a myriad of administrative arrangements and navigating the sometimes treacherous shoals of RMC administration. Kevin Connolly and Robert Engen were invaluable assistants, both in planning the event and in managing work parties when we got to the execution stage. For the volume, we first must thank our contributors for the wonderful chapters they gave us and for their patience with us as editors. We are grateful to Katelyn Beaudette, who formatted the manuscript and made it ready for peer review, as we are to Mike Bechthold, who drew the maps. We also owe our thanks to the anonymous reviewers, whose insightful comments helped improve the final product, as well as those reviewers working on behalf of the Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program, who graciously recommended that this book be granted funding. At UBC Press, Emily Andrew was as helpful and encouraging as ever. So too were Holly Keller, who guided the manuscript through the production phase, and Deborah Kerr, whose copy editing was second to none. Finally, this book is dedicated to our friend and fellow contributor Keith Neilson, who passed away on 15 April 2015. Keith was a world-class scholar and a world-class colleague. He could not have been kinder to us two junior scholars who followed in his footsteps. He gave us guidance. He gave us encouragement. But, most of all, he gave us the example of his work. We miss him dearly. Turning Point 1917
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