One King, One Flag, One Empire: Canada, Imperial Defense Politics and Identity, 1900-1918
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Abstract
During the Edwardian Era British and Canadian society and political circles fought a spirited battle about the nature of Canada's involvement and contributions to imperial defense. These debates were interconnected to other movements which were important during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The movements for imperial preference, tariff reform and imperial federation were the primary predecessors of the movement for greater defense unity in the period before World War I. Supporters of greater imperial defense cooperation in both Canada and in Great Britain used a language of "Britishness" to undergird their arguments. "Britishness" was used in various ways to develop an imperial identity that could be used to connect the far flung corners of the Empire. These included citizenship and Anglo-Saxon naval supremacy. Another major feature of this movement was its non-partisan and eclectic membership. One of the main ideologies developed by supporters of imperial defense cooperation was "National Efficiency." Efficiency was a new mode of organization for the British state that emphasized military preparedness as a reaction to British failures during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) These ideologies and languages of "Britishness" and "National Efficiency" did not go unchallenged. Henri Bourassa and the French Canadian Ligue Nationaliste Canadienne built their own ideology that opposed these imperialist impulses. French Canadian nationalist was primarily a rejection of centralization and of militarism based on the long history of British radical and liberal politics. Bourassa and the Ligue Nationaliste were squarely within the mainstream of British Liberal opinion in their opposition to the Second Boer War and of a naval buildup in the Edwardian Era.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".