Remembering 1759 : : The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory / / Phillip Buckner, John G. Reid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Buckner, Phillip,; Reid, John G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 10 illustrations

This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes.The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined with Revisiting 1759, this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive, wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'The Immortal Wolfe'? Monuments, Memory, and the Battle of Quebec -- 3. 'Where Famous Heroes Fell': Tourism, History, and Liberalism in Old Quebec -- 4. In Search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian Views of a Symbolic Landscape, 1793-1913 -- 5. History, Historiography, and the Courts: The St Lawrence Mission Villages and the Fall of New France -- 6. Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future: Remembering the Conquest in Nineteenth- Century Quebec -- 7. Overcoming a National 'Catastrophe': The British Conquest in the Historical and Polemical Thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx -- 8. Intervening with abandon: The Conquest's Legacy in the Canada- Quebec-France Triangle of the 1960s -- 9. A Nightmare to Awaken from: The Conquest in the Thinking of Québécois Nationalists of the 1960s and After -- 10. Below the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination -- 11. Remembering the Conquest: Mission Impossible? -- 12. What Is to Be Done with 1759? -- Contributors -- Index