Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930 Volume 14

by Alan Gordon

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Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0773522549

ISBN13:9780773522541

Release Date:October 2001

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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