Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the last fifteen years an ideological conflict has been brewing among Canadian historians of war and culture and, more broadly, among those in Canadian politics and journalism for whom Canada's identity as a "warrior nation" -or as its opposite -is of utmost importance.Stephen Dale's Noble Illusions: Young Canada Goes to War joins a growing recent literature along with books such as Ian McKay and Jamie Swift's Warrior Nation and the recent collection, Worth Fighting For, edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney, that have critically engaged with Canada's relationship to war and conflict.This growing literature questions, both directly and indirectly, the militarization of Canadian society that has been promoted in conjunction with Canada's participation in an unending "war on terror," and the efforts of successive Canadian governments to justify this participation by linking it to Canadian histories of war.These three books, and others like them, represent an important corrective to a powerful trend in popular writing and public interventions justifying Canadian militarism by historians such as David Bercuson (The Fighting Canadians) and Jack Granatstein (Who Killed the Canadian Military?) and by public figures such as retired general Rick Hillier and broadcaster Don Cherry.Dale and others seek to remind us that the idea of Canada as a warrior nation is a construct that has found its way into both "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcasts and government policy through a very intentional and explicit process that seeks to minimize and dismiss Canadian histories of peacemaking, pacifism, and war resistance.A connection to popular culture highlights the real strength and importance of Noble Illusions in the debate.Dale, an established Ottawa writer who has written on children and youth and popular culture, implicitly connects the idea of the warrior nation today and Canadian attitudes towards war a century ago as Canada entered the First World War.Dale does this by examining Young Canada, a boys' magazine
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.055 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".