Canadians and Their Pasts / / Jocelyn Létourneau, David Northrup, Margaret Conrad, D.A. Muise, Gerald Friesen, Kadriye Ercikan, Peter Seixas.

• VerfasserIn: Conrad, Margaret,; Ercikan, Kadriye,; Friesen, Gerald,; Muise, D.A.,; Northrup, David ,; Seixas, Peter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ercikan, Kadriye,; Friesen, Gerald,; Muise, D.A.,; Northrup, David ,; Seixas, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 10 figures

What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today's world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with his...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Canadians and Their Pasts
• 1. History in Public
• 2. Everybody's Doing It
• 3. The Problem of Trust
• 4. Family History in a Globalizing World
• 5. Collective Remembering in Three Canadian Communities
• 6. Places and Pasts
• 7. Immigration and Historical Memory
• 8. The Presence of the Past in International Perspective
• Conclusion: Making History
• Appendix 1: Short Form Questionnaire
• Appendix 2: How We Did the Survey
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Contributors: Canadians and Their Pasts
• Index