The hero and the historians : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / Alan Gordon.
"Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero - Jacques Cartier - to explore how notions about the past have been created, passed on through the generations, and used to present particular ideas about the world in English- and French-speaking Canada. He reveals that the cult of celebrity surrounding Cartier by the mid-nineteenth century reflected a particular understanding of history, one which accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This new sensibility shaped the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier was a point of contact between English and French Canadian nationalism, but the nature of that contact had profound limitations."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN: 9780774817417
- ISBN: 0774817410
- Physical Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. sixteenth-century world and Jacques Cartier -- 2. Forgetting and remembering -- 3. invention of a hero -- 4. Cartiermania -- 5. Common sense -- 6. many meanings of Jacques Cartier -- 7. Decline and dispersal -- 8. Failure and forgetting. |
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Topic Heading: | First Nations. Indigenous. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | E 133. C3 G67 2010 (Text) | 58500000050526 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |