Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
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In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of history than they reflected historical fact. These museums became important components of postwar government economic growth and employment policies...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0774831545
ISBN13:9780774831543
Release Date:January 2017
Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
Length:372 Pages
Weight:1.26 lbs.
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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