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One in a thousand : the life and death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps / Graham Broad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broad, Graham, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McKay, Eddie, 1892-1917.
- McKay, Eddie.
- McKay, Eddie, 1892-1917--Death and burial.
- Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps.
- Fighter pilots--Canada--Biography.
- Fighter pilots.
- Canada.
- World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations, Canadian.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations, British.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- North York, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This short microhistory details the life and death of Alfred Edwin "Eddie" McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. McKay's story touches on the fields of social, political, military, sport, and gender history, the history of science and technology, education, aviation, imperial relations, and the social memory of war. Throughout the book, Broad switches creatively from the story of Eddie McKay to valuable lessons on how to do history, for example, why the past matters, why individuals matter, why historians have different approaches, how to pose historical questions, how to identify relevant source materials, why source analysis is challenging, and the importance of thoughtful, intelligent and respectful treatment of historical subjects."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 To Western and to War: 1892-1916 1
- Historians and Fact Finding 32
- Chapter 2 Over the Somme: July-October 1916 41
- Triangulation and Reading Against the Grain 70
- Chapter 3 The Battle, October 28, 1916-March 14, 1917 77
- Mentalité and the Military Past 94
- Chapter 5 The Choice: March 15-December 28, 1917 105
- Thinking about Thoughts: The Past as a Foreign Country 121
- Chapter 5 The Letter: January 1918-July 31, 1932 131
- Historians, Historical Ethics, and the End of History 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Broad, Graham, 1970-, author. One in a thousand.
- ISBN:
- 9781487593414
- 1487593414
- 9781442607460
- 1442607467
- OCLC:
- 960840302
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