The Hero and the Historians: Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier

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Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and national identity. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero - Jacques Cartier - to explore how notions about the past have been passed from generation to generation in English- and French-speaking Canada and used to present particular ideas about the world. Nineteenth-century celebrations of Cartier reflected a new understanding of history that accompanied the arrival of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0774817429

ISBN13:9780774817424

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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