The hero and the historians : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / Alan Gordon.
Gordon, Alan, 1968-
2010
E133.C3 G67 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The hero and the historians : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / Alan Gordon.
Author Gordon, Alan, 1968-
ISBN 9780774817424 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780774817417
0774817410
Publication Details Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E133.C3 G67 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 971.01/13092
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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