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 partic...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 235 p. :; ill. |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774817424 (pbk.) 9780774817417 (bound) 0774817410 9780774817431 (electronic bk.) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Alan Gordon. |