{"product_id":"9781459722828","title":"A Time Such as There Never Was Before: Canada After the Great War","description":"\u003cem\u003eOttawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|\u003cp\u003eThe years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? \u003ci\u003eA Time Such As There Never Was Before\u003c\/i\u003e describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156578582768,"sku":"9781459722828","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781459722828_p0.jpg?v=1763867365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781459722828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}